What is JSTOR? How does one access it? Does one have to be a member of NGS to access it? Where is the "quick video tutorial?" On 10/25/2011 5:19 PM, L. L. Scott wrote: > A quick video tutorial about how to access this content is also available.”

JSTOR is a electronic journal storage database. It comprises thousands of periodicals, magazines, journals, serials, etc. It is available at the UWF Library to anyone using the computers and it is searchable. Because of its pernanency and size, all of the 10 state university libraries have decided to have one "JSTOR" collection housed at Gainesville, and as a result are weeding and discarding hundreds of thousands of volumes of magazines, journals, and the like. The "Florida JSTOR" is a physical backup to the electronic JSTOR that we have. UWF Libraries subscribe to some 300 databases now and they can be used by anyone who comes to the library. All of the database vendors charge us based on student enrollment so it is impossible for us to make this available online outside of the university library. With JSTOR, it means that we don't have to save all the years of Consumer Reports or computer journals as well as thousands of other similar publications. JSTOR also permits printing or sending to your e-mail so any article found can be printed or saved for later reading. In addition, we have Proquest Direct (another database) that provides access to newspapers and periodicals. For example, it provides next day access to thousands of newspapers, including a number of Florida newspapers. Another database online now is the Biographical and Genealogical Master Index which indexes biographies; I used to teach this index in my genealogy classes but now it is electronic and we don't have to purchase a new supplement volume or volumes every year. Dean On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 7:00 AM, C. G. Dean <cgdean@bellsouth.net> wrote: > What is JSTOR? > How does one access it? > Does one have to be a member of NGS to access it? > Where is the "quick video tutorial?" > > On 10/25/2011 5:19 PM, L. L. Scott wrote: > > A quick video tutorial about how to access this content is also > available.” > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > FL-WFGS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message -- Dean DeBolt, University Librarian/University Archivist University Archives and West Florida History Center University of West Florida Library 11000 University Parkway Pensacola, FL 32514-5750 ddebolt@uwf.edu; 850-474-2213