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How to Use JSTOR

How to use JSTOR to access thousands of high quality academic journals, primary sources, eBooks and images 24/7 on or off campus.

Artstor Collection

The Artstor collections’s breadth of content supports study across disciplines, including anthropology from Harvard’s Peabody Museum, archaeology from Erich Lessing Culture and Fine Art Archives, and world events from Magnum Photos, making it a resource for your whole institution. In addition to its licensed content, Artstor offers hundreds of thousands of freely accessible museum, library, and archive images for everyone.

The images in Artstor are curated from reliable sources and have been rights-cleared for use in education and research — you are free to use them in classroom instruction and handouts, presentations, student assignments, and other noncommercial educational and scholarly activities.

JSTOR Journals

Journals

JSTOR contains the full-text of more than 2,600 journals from 1,200 publishers, with publication dates ranging from 1665 to 2015 (for certain titles). Journals are available in more than 75 disciplines in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences and mathematics. 

JSTOR Open Access eBooks

More than 9,000 Open Access books from 100+ publishers, including Brill, Cornell University Press, De Gruyter, and University of California Press, are available.

JSTOR Primary Sources

Explore millions primary sources supporting the humanities, social sciences, and sciences from libraries, museums, archives, and historical societies around the world. Includes artworks, photographs, publications, recordings, and other artifacts. 

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