The ebooks work just like journals, offering unlimited use and DRM-free chapter downloads in PDF format. For example, if the current year is 2008 and a journal has a 5 year moving wall, articles from the year 2002 are available. You can read about the history of our work in this area and a discussion of how we moved beyond access to impact.

a nonprofit organization founded in 2003 and "dedicated to helping the academic community take full advantage of rapidly advancing information and networking technologies". With the success of this limited project, Bowen and Kevin Guthrie, the then-president of JSTOR, wanted to expand the number of participating journals. Our growing collection of Open Access journals cover topical areas in sustainability and security studies, and offer broad coverage in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences.JSTOR Daily is an online magazine that provides scholarly context and background to news stories and current affairs. Participants include small institutions, large universities, secondary schools, and every type in between. If you need additional help logging in through your school, please check out How to tell if you are logged in to JSTOR. If you have logged into your Artstor account within the last 120 days, you will have access to content your institution subscribes to from JSTOR and Artstor. Registered readers may read up to six articles online every calendar month, but may not print or download PDFs.

Each year, hundreds of thousands of articles are added to the archival journal collections as the moving wall for each journal advances, at no additional cost. They are usually the username and password you use to check your university mail or log in to your courses, but if you’re still not able to log in, check with your school’s library or IT department to make sure you’re using the right login information.Most access is by subscription but some of the site is public domain, and open access content is available free of charge. As a result, many journals on JSTOR have greater coverage than what is available via other providers’ databases. Some institutions provide their entire alumni network with full access to JSTOR’s journal collections.

JSTOR is continually digitizing journal volumes and issues but you will normally find that the most recent content (up to 3 years ago) is not available. Each object is uniquely identified by an integer value, starting at 1 which is used to create a stable URL. Participating libraries may also use JSTOR for electronic interlibrary loan, providing a way for patrons to gain access even if their local libraries are not JSTOR participants.The collections feature the full-text articles of more than 2,800 academic journals across the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences. As of November2010 [update], "fixed wall" agreements were still in effect with three publishers of 29 journals made available [ needs update] online through sites controlled by the publishers. More than 1,500 institutions in Africa and in low-income nations in other continents receive access to JSTOR free of charge or for steeply reduced fees through our JSTOR Access Initiative program. Fees for JSTOR collections have remained unchanged since 1997, even though additional content is added each year with the “moving wall.

By digitizing many journal titles, JSTOR allowed libraries to outsource the storage of journals with the confidence that they would remain available long-term.We might need more technical information from your school, or they might have other access options that JSTOR doesn't have in our records. Our partnerships with libraries and publishers help us make images, articles, books, and other materials discoverable and freely accessible worldwide. Every Year, JSTOR Turns Away 150 Million Attempts to Read Journal Articles Archived November 16, 2016, at the Wayback Machine. They met with representatives of the Royal Society of London and an agreement was made to digitize the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society dating from its beginning in 1665.