JSTOR – “Journal Storage”
JSTOR remains one of the most comprehensive electronic resources available for scholarly research. There are over 80 full text journals related to History in JSTOR–all with extensive coverage that often extends back to the title’s first publication year. All articles are reproduced as PDF image scans that capture the original appearance of the document.
However, JSTOR is not a “current issues” database!!! There usually is a 1-5 year publication lag before an article is made available in JSTOR. If you are looking for articles published within the past month… or year, JSTOR is not a suitable resource.
JSTOR aims to function more like a library shelf of old journals rather than a typical search database. JSTOR was created so libraries would not have to worry about maintaining space for hundreds of journals from the 19th century. That is, JSTOR is not intended to be a Google-like tool for searching older issues. For that reason, JSTOR can prove frustrating if you insist on performing open ended subject related searches (“What does JSTOR offer related to Abraham Lincoln?”) because the articles are not organized by subject, abstract or keywords. Searching JSTOR can yield positive results, but
