Tuesday, October 18, 2011

Do You Have Access to JSTOR?

 [This question was posed on 18 October 2011, and the poll closed on 30 October 2011.  The results of the poll are discussed here.  Thanks for your participation!]

On AWOL's the right hand sidebar, I have added a poll to see what proportion of AWOL readers report having access to JSTOR through affiliation with an institution. If you are not sure, you can click through and try to read one of the journals listed yesterday in New Ancient World Content in JSTOR, or in The Ancient World in JSTOR, AWOL's full list of journals in JSTOR with substantial representation of the Ancient World.

I will be grateful for your participation.  If your response requires more than a yes or no answer, feel free to use the comments function at the bottom of this page for all the free text space you need.

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Thanks.

12 comments:

  1. One thing to remember is that institutions can subscribe to chunks of Jstor ("collections", I think they are called), so it's possible that one's institution subscribes to part but not all of Jstor. When I was at UGA a Classics grad student found an article using Google Scholar that was available via Jstor, but not in one of the collections we subscribed to (it was not a core Classics journal).

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  2. Phoebe is of course correct. It is also important to recognize that JSTOR's taxononmy of subjects is occasionally a little odd, especially at a granular level, and that not all periodicals of any given field of study appear in any particular market oriented sub-collection.

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  3. I am supposed to be able to access JSTOR as a member of CANE, but it has never worked. Those who tried to help me couldn't. I've answered neither "Yes" nor "No".

    John Isles

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  4. CANE being Classical Association of New England I take it? And this page doesn't work?
    http://caneweb.org/CANEwp/?page_id=72

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  5. I will be curious to see the results. Just last week I read about Princeton giving its alumni access to JSTOR which I thought was a great move. I wish my school did something similar; my motivation to teach my students how to use JSTOR is admittedly low because so few of them will have access to it again, even the K-12 teachers, which I think is a real shame.

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  6. Whoops - that would be YALE, not Princeton. I read about it in Audrey Watters' very useful education technology round-up last week.

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  7. I have access through the New York Society Library, for which I pay an annual subscription fee, not through affiliation with an institution.

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  8. One possibility for those who don't have access would be to contact the Alumni Association of your college or university and ask them to participate in JSTOR's Alumni Access Pilot:
    http://about.jstor.org/participate-jstor/libraries/alumni

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  9. In the six months between finishing my M.A. and starting my PhD my institution cut off my JSTOR and other database rights through their ezproxy, even though I could still borrow from the library and supposedly use the databases from terminals in the library itself. But it was OK for me at the time, I just pinched my wife's credentials (she's academic staff at same).

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  10. I don't belong to an institution. I tried to join as an individual following their instructions, but got nowhere. Can an individual join in any way.

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  11. I think the only individual access to JSTOR is on a title by title basis:
    http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/indivAccess.jsp

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  12. Have never had access to JSTOR (or the Sackler Library), despite taking many "Continuing Education" archaeology courses at Oxford Uni.
    However, many active Oxford Brookes Uni students are kind enough to loan me their passwords, especially when a bottle of wine changes hands..
    Problem solved!

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