Guidelines
for Evaluating Sources
Making
Good Use of the UCLA Libraries
Research
Resources
Using
the Web for Research
Using JSTOR
(an electronic database of academic journals)
Using
Internet Explorer or Netscape Navigator, go to the URL http://www.jstor.org.
Note that you must be using a UCLA connection. If you are coming into the
Web from AOL or some other provider, you will not have access.
Select
the ENTER JSTOR option.
Select
the SEARCH JSTOR option.
Be
as specific as you want in your search. To find the assigned article by
Louis Wirth, for example, you can enter Louis Wirth in the author field,
click on search and ultimately get a list of all of Wirth's articles in
JSTOR. Or, you can designate that you want to further limit your search
to just sociology journals (or using the expanded option, just the American
Journal of Sociology). Once you click on the SEARCH button, you will get
the results. Limiting my search to Louis Wirth as author in the American
Journal of Sociology, I found two pages of results. Included was the particular
article assigned.
To
retrieve the article, click on the ARTICLE option for that particular article.
The first page of the article will appear on the new screen.
To
print the article, click on PRINT in the leftmost frame. (Using your browser's
print will print just that one page.) Now you will be confronted with choices.
You can print the article using JSTOR's own print function, with Adobe
Acrobat, or by saving the file to your computer to print later with a postscript
printer. You can choose either option, but you must download the appropriate
plug-in to use it. If you know that you already have Adobe Acrobat on your
computer, you do not need to download it to print. Otherwise, click on
Download JSTOR or Download Adobe Acrobat Reader. (NOTE THAT YOU NEED TO
DO THIS ONLY ONCE PER COMPUTER.) Then select the print quality that you
want. (The high quality printing is slow.)
