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[jstor]

Searching best practices on JSTOR

Hi Tumblr researchers,

As promised, we're going to dive into some best practices for searching on JSTOR. This'll be a long one!

The first thing to note is that JSTOR is not Google, so searches should not be conducted in the same way.

More on that in this video:

Basic Search on JSTOR

To search for exact phrases, enclose the words within quotation marks, like "to be or not to be".

To construct a more effective search, utilize Boolean operators, such as "tea trade" AND china.

Advanced Searching on JSTOR

Utilize the drop-down menus to refine your search parameters, limiting them to the title, author, abstract, or caption text.

Combine search terms using Boolean operators like AND/OR/NOT and NEAR 5/10/25. The NEAR operator finds keyword combinations within 5, 10, or 25 words of each other. It applies only when searching for single keyword combinations, such as "cat NEAR 5 dog," but not for phrases like "domesticated cat" NEAR 5 dog.

Utilize the "Narrow by" options to search for articles exclusively, include/exclude book reviews, narrow your search to a specific time frame or language.

To focus your article search on specific disciplines and titles, select the appropriate checkboxes. Please note that discipline searching is currently limited to journal content, excluding ebooks from the search.

Finding Content You Have Access To

To discover downloadable articles, chapters, and pamphlets for reading, you have the option to narrow down your search to accessible content. Simply navigate to the Advanced Search page and locate the "Select an access type" feature, which offers the following choices:

All Content will show you all of the relevant search results on JSTOR, regardless of whether or not you can access it.

Content I can access will show you content you can download or read online. This will include Early Journal Content and journals/books publishers have made freely available.

Once you've refined your search, simply select an option that aligns with your needs and discover the most relevant items. Additionally, you have the option to further narrow down your search results after conducting an initial search. Look for this option located below the "access type" checkbox, situated at the bottom left-hand side of the page.

Additional resources

For more search recommendations, feel free to explore this page on JSTOR searching. There, you will find information on truncation, wildcards, and proximity, using fields, and metadata hyperlinks.

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[hamletthedane]

*meets my plug on a street corner and he furtively glances around before passing me a baggie full of USBs, on which are dozens of paywalled research papers he downloaded using his university student research database access*

#for legal reasons this is a joke #forget weed plugs we need more ‘person with access to academic research database’ plugs #You don’t know what you have until it’s gone 😭 #shut up e #academia

[oldshrewsburyian]

Persuasion: The Paperwork Problem

I am obsessed with the fact that Captain Wentworth does Mrs. Smith’s paperwork for her, and not just because having a male romantic protagonist do paperwork as part of demonstrating his ultimate worthiness (and swoon-worthiness) proves that no one is doing it like Jane Austen. No, I am obsessed with it because Britain’s transatlantic economy is in flux in the early nineteenth century. And because this Persuasion reread has convinced me that Austen does everything in this novel on purpose to make me suffer.  Here is my theory: what Wentworth is doing is divesting from slavery. What? you may exclaim, gentle readers, and I am here to lay evidence for my tenuous little theory before you.

Point 1: Wentworth’s behavior here is explicitly contrasted with that of Mrs. Smith’s wastrel husband. These are alternate models of masculinity. And Mrs. Smith’s narrative for Anne very clearly links not only the late Mr. Smith’s moral corruption with his mismanagement of this property, but also Mr. Elliot’s lack of moral backbone with his failure to manage it for her. And this is property “in the West Indies,” which at the turn of the nineteenth century means basically one thing: sugar. And sugar, in turn, means slavery. But things are changing! From 1807, the transatlantic slave trade is illegal in Britain and its possessions. I’m not going to dwell here on the obvious ongoing horrors of slavery, but one of the relevant consequences here is that the plantation economy of the British West Indies basically tanks. ...Sort of, at least. There’s scholarly debate on the question of how much this happens, why it happens, and when it happens. Which brings me to:

Point 2: whichever combination of factors we accept for the decline of the plantation system -- Napoleonic Wars, beet farming in South America, British economic commitment (eventually, sort of) to the abolition of slavery -- it makes sense for Wentworth’s management of Mrs. Smith’s property to be part of this. Admittedly, Persuasion is a novel where, in contrast to Mansfield Park, the vast and sinister machinery of the British Empire is allowed to be mostly invisible, especially to the modern reader. But we are told that Mrs. Smith suffers partly because the property is “under a sort of sequestration,” in theory (or initially) to pay Mr. Smith’s debts, but now controlled by the courts because of some combination of greed, incompetence, indifference, and inertia. And Wentworth knows, he knows to his core, he knows from experience, exactly how cheaply the empire values the lives of its subjects. We, in turn, know that he knows this because of light dinner table conversation. Jane Austen, everyone.

Point 3: Jane Austen makes choices about what to emphasize in Wentworth’s naval career. There are a lot of glamorous actions that he could have been linked to. But there’s no name-dropping of the Nile or Trafalgar. No, most of what he’s been doing is chasing privateers and French ships, maintaining a balance of power favorable to the British interest, and making a lot of money while doing so. And routinely risking his life in ways that make Anne very distressed even in retrospect. The exception, the only named military endeavor to which Frederick Wentworth is linked, and which earned him a promotion, is “the action off San Domingo.” This stunning British victory was, of course, aimed at breaking French power in the Caribbean. And this is what we get told about. Among other things, this means that it’s entirely possible that Wentworth also saw action in the Haitian Revolution (again, the British involvement in this was cynical. But still.) Also relevant here, I would argue, is that we are told that the Crofts have never been in the West Indies (and Mrs. Musgrove, a perfectly nice woman but also one perfectly capable of blinding herself to unpleasantness, cannot accuse herself of having ever called Caribbean islands anything in the whole course of her life.) I am convinced that all of this, in this minor miracle of a novel, matters.

Point 4: economic logic. In 1815, there is no way for Mrs. Smith’s economic fortunes to recover and her property to start creating (rather than losing) income if she is trying to manage a sugar plantation. It’s just not going to happen. In a way, this is coming back to Point 1, but without the character-driven elements. If we take this seriously as plausible, I think we have to draw the conclusion that Wentworth has taken in hand arrangements to alter how that property is being used.

Point 5: Anne. The first thing we learn about Anne is that she is not only willing but eager to force irresponsible members of the landed gentry -- even her own family, especially her own family -- to give up luxuries which they think of as necessities. This is the context in which we are introduced to her. This is the first way we learn who Anne Elliot is. The first thing we are allowed to see Anne wanting is “indifference for everything except justice and equity.” In other words, this is a woman who refuses sugar in her tea. And however different she and Wentworth are in temperament, we are also told (from Anne’s perspective!) that there are “no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison.” So I don’t think it’s too much of a stretch to take her morality as an indicator of his probable actions.

In short: I think Persuasion’s coda can be read as anti-slavery. Because of paperwork.

#persuasion reread #persuasion #*chews glass harder* #no i will not be normal about this thanks for asking #jane austen #will not let us REST #i suffer in niche ways #maybe this is all just FAR too tenuous for a proper lit crit take #but i YEARN to see academic writing on empire and/in persuasion #(yes i looked in the databases while losing sleep over this) #eta: please debate this with me #i live alone and have no one to yell at about this

[cohlecosa]

i skim academic articles about the character and i make the most unwell expression ever known to man

#rust cohle #do NOT look up true detective academic articles in your university's database. worst mistake of my life <- wants to read all of them #my posts #scented meat #meta

[okayto]

I'm having to use Google Scholar for an assignment and my gosh it is such a PAIN to try and narrow down results or refine searches.

Don't get me wrong it's a good tool (I normally use it to see if I can find full text for something not in a library database, or for just a cursory search for a topic I'm not diving into), but it seems so annoying to refine results. I've known some people who used it as their primary research tool for grad school instead of ever opening a library database and I'm getting a headache just thinking about it.

#like trying to imagine willingly using this over a Discovery search or something like ProQuest or Academic Source X/etc. and YICK #[poking GS] GIVE ME SUBJECT HEADINGS GIVE ME MORE WAYS TO REFINE RESULTS #(yes yes the problem is that it's not a database it's an academic search engine it's fine) #(I just have to use it as such for something and I long to run into the embrace of ProQuest Central my beloved) #grad school #Kayt.txt

[whentherewerebicycles]

okay well we spent two hours doing a small group brainstorming/planning activity using projects from people’s work and that was actually fun—I love doing that kind of ideation and planning work with people. then we had to sit through 30+ min of whole-group debrief where people stood up and monologued breathlessly about feeling held by the collective as we harvested each other’s wisdom which almost ruined the experience. but luckily I came prepared with a challenge to work through in my head lol.

today’s zoning-out project is mapping out the basic research skills class I’ll be teaching in the spring quarter. one of the big problems I’ve identified in my info-gathering interviews is that students can’t do some pretty basic research things (like reading academic articles, evaluating sources, conducting lit reviews on a given topic, etc) and so faculty don’t want to take them on as summer research assistants because it’s a ton of work to train them in those skills AND familiarize them with the faculty member’s questions and methods AND give them a crash-course on the existing scholarship around this topic. so I am trying to pilot a thing where faculty get extra research funds for taking on a small group of summer students… but my office takes them for a quarter first, trains them in those basic skills and helps them build relationships with the librarians, and has them do all their major activities & assignments using real sources/data related to the faculty member’s project. that way students have 10 weeks to practice the skills and learn at least some of the research before we hand them off to the faculty mentors for the summer. I think we will also provide ongoing mentoring + student services-type support throughout the summer so we can continue working on project management and skill-building type stuff with them individually as they are conducting research… but for now I am focusing on drafting a version of the spring course to workshop with the faculty members who have expressed interest in participating. anyway I am at the very earliest stages but today while zoning out I spent some time trying to unbundle some of the skills that go into engaging with academic sources… needs refining (and maybe even some more unbundling?) but here is a first stab at it:

#what am I missing #the big bundles I think we can tackle in 10 weeks are: #strategies for deciphering academic articles #strategies for taking notes + managing citations #using library databases (and librarian support lol) to find articles #strategies for assessing credibility/validity/significance of sources #and then like #what literature reviews look like and why we do them as researchers #and then I think we can begin creating small-scale lit reviews on given topics or questions #this is prob too ambitious for 10 weeks with students this inexperienced #but I think we can make a dent in it

[qqueenofhades]

I have academic database access again 🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌

#hilary for ts #school stuff #listen i realize this is Extremely nerdy but #i have been Suffering without an active university credential #and have gotten very creative #but yes praise glory and mercy be i can READ STUFF AGAIN #and might also lose my entire mind and submit another journal article for peer review #why would i do that when i am grumbling and mumbling over having to do the last one? #who knows #but yes academic database access my beloved

[t00thpasteface]

was going to make a post goofing about how based my old community college is for not changing their academic database password so i can still read published articles for free even though i graduated from there in 2018, BUT there has been a slight detour. i beseech you to Get A Load Of This Abstract:

#shebbz shoutz #litblr #20000 leagues under the sea #why am i always looking up academic gay shit on these databases. last time i used it was for ancient roman gay shit #and before that it was oscar wilde

[vermillioncrown]

why are all my fics like

i want to be over there -> -> ->

but i'm stuck here

#and why work boring #stuck doing database creation and it is very important legwork for my experiments + paid research + capability dev for the lab #but also. no serotonin #being gushed over by your supervisor for holding down the fort and leadership skills even while subjected to menty b after menty b ✌✌✌ #that's grad life babey #academic jerky

[authorofthelabyrinth]

Every day makes it more difficult to avoid a JSTOR subscription

#I want to read the academic papers so bad #my library only has limited access to a few databases #repeating to myself that groceries are more important than historical analysis #for now

[mrtheinsatiable]

Sometimes I wonder how well I would've done in school if I'd actually studied. Like, I was in the top 1% of students nationally without studying pretty much ever, but then I dropped out of college because I'd never learned how to keep myself on task outside the classroom

Through the power of Adderall I actually study as a hobby now

If they would've put me on Adderall back in elementary school (there were Signs) I'd be working on a fucking doctorate by now

#also for the love of god i wish i had access to an academic library #the public library only carries beginner level books on my subject of choice #and the academic journals you can access through their database are pretty limited #i wonder if i could just #sneak into the University library #and read their books

[bookwyrminspiration]

oh the absolute ECSTASY of finding something to do with your special interest when you weren't expecting to it's like woag! the world is full of good things and also my bones are made of CONFETTI FIREWORKS now! another win for autism!

#actually autistic #Y'ALL #today I realized that my college's databases has access!! to ebooks!! #which is like a pretty obvious thing now that I think about it but I was always using the academic journals for what I needed #BUT! #it turns out they've got ebooks! and I found so many related to the history of medicine! #and specific to anatomy and human dissection!! #and even more specifically! #this one textbook I really wanted but wasn't going to get anytime soon because it's. a textbook #like for students #and they cost money #even though I wanted it so badly because the synopsis looks like it /perfectly/ matches the things I like learning about #BUT I CAN GET IT FOR FREE ON THE DATABASE!!!! #AND I FOUND OTHER RELEVANT TEXTBOOKS TOO!!! #rrrggoiae #so so excited #gonna download them so I have access even when I'm not a student here anymore because oairgajerga #special interest :))))))) #there is so so much informaiton in those tex tbooks oareogij #i am going to learn. so many thigns #awrogian #hehehe autism wins #tw caps in tags

[worstpunk]

For those interested in free online databases or transcription, 18thconnect.org is free to use and anyone can make an account to edit/correct the terrible ai transcriptions from the scans

Correcting the transcriptions makes each document way easier to search on the database. Plus, I may just be an insufferable academic nerd, but its actually pretty fun to translate the ye olde curvy letters!

Now you too can go forth and contribute to improving a free online databases!

#transcription #ai #database #academia #academic #18th century #scholarly #call me op #psa

[beatriz-dump]

no context but I got a 9.7/10 in the first half of the semester for my databases class and I am THE HAPPIEST PERSON ALIVE nothing can stop me after this (maybe my test tomorrow will)

#academic validation #happy af #uni life #uni student #stemblr #database

[brother-emperors]

Sorry for bothering you with this, there are some books I'm looking for that you quoted in the comment to your drawings (they seem terribly interesting and I'd love to read them), only I can't find their pdfs anywhere. Where have you found them? Or have you bought the ebooks?

it's never a bother! I include those citations to make it easy to look it up in case someone finds something interesting!

that said, there are some books that I only have physical copies of (I browse through used book stores to find out of print books or things that are just. Too Expensive to buy new.) and there are some that I have that were sent to me by friends (I love all of you with my whole life), but most of what I quote I have digital copies of! let me know which titles you were trying to find, and I'll see if I have a pdf or epub of it :)

#ask tag #academic books are expensive as hell all the time even digital copies so used book stores are my bestest friends in this #also libraries. love love love libraries and library databases so much

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