Database of the Month: JSTOR

is like exploring your grandpa’s attic and finding a corner under the eaves stacked high and deep with letters, diaries, old photographs, military histories, an 1878 issue of the American Journal of Mathematics, and a review of Corporation Finance and Accounting by Harry C. Bentley. Searching through JSTOR’s Arts & Sciences Collections will also unearth an article on the various dialects of slave workers on a Cuban coffee plantation in 1790, an image of a woman traveler and geographer in 1897, or the rate of turnover in the American labor force of the 1960s. JSTOR is one of the premier databases for research in the humanities, and now with JSTOR’s Business Collection, you have access to 68 scholarly business journals, too. In all, Bentley faculty and students may peruse over 620 full-text journals in more than 50 disciplines, including:

• African Studies
• Archaeology
• Business
• Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
• Feminist & Women’s Studies
• History
• Irish Literature
• Law
• Mathematics
• Middle East Studies
• Political Science
• Public Policy and Administration
• Zoology

Calling all researchers and authors! As you know, JSTOR offers some of the world’s most reliable sources for academic content. Interacting with that content has just gotten easier using JSTOR’s powerful Data for Research (DfR) faceted search interface. Using Data for Research allows you to quickly and easily define content of interest through an iterative process of searching and filter results from approximately 1.25 million articles. More about this service may be found here - http://dfr.jstor.org/info/about/.

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Database of the Month provides a very brief introduction to an important research database, highlighting key features of the database that you should know about. If you would like more information about this database (or any of the library’s databases) please contact the Reference Desk.  If you would like a demonstration of this database for a class, please contact our Coordinator of User Education, Elizabeth Galoozis.