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JSTOR is a non-profit digital library for the intellectually curious. We help everyone discover, share, and connect valuable ideas. Official account. JSTOR.org | About
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📢 Introducing The JSTOR Collective!

We’re thrilled to announce our new Tumblr community: The JSTOR Collective! 🎉

This is a space where faculty, librarians, students, researchers, and lifelong learners can come together to share ideas, spark conversations, and, yes, even post academic memes. 😉

Whether you’re deep in research, looking for study tips, or just want to connect with others passionate about knowledge, this is the place for you.

✨ What you’ll find:

  • Meaningful discussions and resources
  • A welcoming, inclusive space for all
  • Humor, curiosity, and plenty of memes

Join The JSTOR Collective and help us build a vibrant, self-sustaining community that celebrates the joy of learning.

Let’s connect, collaborate, and grow—together. 🌱

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Thank you to everyone who has joined the community and introduced themselves so far!

Again, while we'll pop in once in a while to share resources we think may be useful or prompt some conversations, this is foremost a space for you to find and interact with like-minded individuals. We truly hope you'll find a new... well, community here!

#jstor#the jstor collective#tumblr community#thanks to the tumblr team for adding this functionality :)
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Not sure where to start your research? On JSTOR, you can explore by subject–whether you're into folklore, finance, or feminist studies.

Browse our full list of subjects and find the perfect source.

[Video description: Screen recording of someone scrolling through JSTOR’s subject browse page, displaying a wide range of academic disciplines such as African American Studies, Art & Art History, Economics, Philosophy, and more. The page has a clean, text-based layout with grouped subject categories.]

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i dead ass thought that was the media thingy on AO3 where u can search through various forms of media in alphabetical order 💀

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Same concept, different (but many times overlapping) niches

#the people seeking academic sources and the people seeking fanfic are similar if not at times the same#we support you fanfic consumers and writers#we support you fan studies aficionados
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Not sure where to start your research? On JSTOR, you can explore by subject–whether you're into folklore, finance, or feminist studies.

Browse our full list of subjects and find the perfect source.

[Video description: Screen recording of someone scrolling through JSTOR’s subject browse page, displaying a wide range of academic disciplines such as African American Studies, Art & Art History, Economics, Philosophy, and more. The page has a clean, text-based layout with grouped subject categories.]

#get to know alllll the available journals and books for your field!#jstor#search#browsing
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You may know the Italian poet Dante Alighieri quite well, but what about Beatrice Portinari?

Beatrice was one of Dante's artistic inspirations and, in the Divine Comedy (La Divina Commedia), his divine guide. He loved her so much that he romanticized her, elevating her to a celestial and idealized being in his seminal work.

The catch? Dante and Beatrice never actually got together. She was betrothed to someone else the entire time.

Demystify Beatrice with this article from JSTOR Daily.

Image: Narcisse Lecomte, after Ary Scheffer. Dante and Beatrice, 19th century. The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

#jstor#jstor daily#national poetry month#dante alighieri#beatrice portinari#the divine comedy#la divina commedia#the metropolitan museum of art
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Hey chat, anyone else feeling like this game contributes to collective memory?

A book chapter titled "Creating Game History: Intertextuality and the Formation of a Collective Memory of Games" by Regina Seiwald, explores how video games contribute to the formation of a collective memory and the history of gaming through intertextual references. It delves into the ways in which video games embed references to older games, whether through direct gameplay, visual style, or nostalgic elements, thereby preserving and emphasizing their legacy within gaming culture.

By incorporating older games into new ones, these intertextual links not only serve as a homage but also play a significant role in shaping how certain games are remembered and valued over time. The chapter highlights examples from various gaming franchises, such as Nintendo and Sega, illustrating how these intertextual connections contribute to the ongoing narrative of video game history.

This exploration is particularly relevant for understanding how cultural memory is constructed in the digital age and how video games, as a medium, engage with their own past to create a shared history among players, developers, and critics.

Image: Nintendo Company Limited. Nintendo 64 Games Console with Accessories and Games. 1996-2003. Science Museum Group.

#good morning today we are thinking ab gaming#jstor
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Happy National Library Workers Day! 📚 🦉 Today, we salute the heart and soul of libraries everywhere: the librarians and staff who guide, educate, and inspire. At JSTOR, we deeply appreciate your dedication to making knowledge accessible and empowering communities. Here’s to celebrating your invaluable contributions today and every day. Thank you for lighting the path of learning. 🌟 Image: Voigt, J.P. Bookplate of JV. 1897. Pratt Institute.

#jstor#national library workers day#hello library workers we love you
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The JSTOR Art Project 

I’m PUMPED to share this poster with you–It’s one of my favorite pieces I’ve completed in the past year. I was asked by JStor to create an image of a student’s desk…and to, basically, have fun with it. I filled the space with treasured objects from my studio, from my memories, and from my own research projects on JStor. I included some detail shots because this poster was HUGE and I was able to get really detailed. 

Detail 1: An excerpt from a quote that is very important to me. Detail 2: Some book spines, including a sneak peak of the spine of Compass South (our first story, Hope! :)) Detail 3: A ticket stub that is very important to me. (and I only wish I owned that skull) Detail 4: Pluche, or the Love of Art–a good book and you should read it.

 This poster will be distributed to school libraries and institutions across the country.

In addition, JStor also came to my studio and filmed a little interview with me about the poster. If you are interested in seeing my adorably low-budget studio space and my pink-potato face, you can watch it here. (edit: or below)

#i'm soooo jealous of my colleagues who were around during this project i love it sm#thank you for sharing the beautiful art rebecca!#i did manage to snatch a poster from the office though 🤫#jstor#rebecca mock
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samodivas asked:

As a research nerd and a gamer, I'm really curious about the BG3-inspired grad school paper... is there anything you can say about it without the risk of exposing your identity to strangers on the internet?

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Definitely! The idea isn't fully fleshed out into a thesis yet, but I'm focusing on how a certain elven vampire subverts traditional vampire tropes and metaphors in Gothic literature.

GIF by vivern-of-nosgoth
#jstor#ask#bg3#the real question is how do i get it to larian studios when it is done. how do i mail it to neil newbon for his reading pleasure.
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I realize I have not provided an update on my BG3 adventures and a few of you seemed invested, so...

I now have around 420 hours in the game (a little over 10 work weeks full of gameplay), I have two concurrent playthroughs in progress and 6 or 7 finished, I have many mods installed, my Tavs are beautiful, I'm playing on tactician, and I keep romancing Gale and Astarion to experience various permutations of the relationship. I have also considered making a side blog for this specific interest because I have nowhere to contain my feelings about it 😭

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Have I used JSTOR to do research for a study I want to run related to BG3?

Does JSTOR now play BG3? Apparently.

This is the full-circle moment I never expected.

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Haven't talked about this in a while but yes, still going strong! Almost 900 hours now. Many failed honor mode attempts.

And your JSTOR mod is in grad school and is also focusing on BG3 for a paper 🤭

#jstor#bg3#should i make a jstor inspired tav#and on that subject does someone know how to create unique tav tattoo files i'm scheming
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JSTOR launched in 1995 with a radical idea: digitize academic journals to free up shelf space and expand access to knowledge.

A year later, our visual identity took shape. Designer Michael Mabry’s floral “J,” inspired by Renaissance-era typography, gave a face to the mission: rooted in print culture, built for the digital age.

In our new blog post, we’re reflecting on 30 years of JSTOR, including the design that helped define us and the origin story that brought it all to life.

#it's a beautiful logo if i do say so myself#jstor#30th anniversary#blog post#logo
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Searching best practices on JSTOR

Hi Tumblr researchers,

As promised, we're going to dive into some best practices for searching on JSTOR. This'll be a long one!

The first thing to note is that JSTOR is not Google, so searches should not be conducted in the same way.

More on that in this video:

Basic Search on JSTOR

  • To search for exact phrases, enclose the words within quotation marks, like "to be or not to be".
  • To construct a more effective search, utilize Boolean operators, such as "tea trade" AND china.

Advanced Searching on JSTOR

  • Utilize the drop-down menus to refine your search parameters, limiting them to the title, author, abstract, or caption text.
  • Combine search terms using Boolean operators like AND/OR/NOT and NEAR 5/10/25. The NEAR operator finds keyword combinations within 5, 10, or 25 words of each other. It applies only when searching for single keyword combinations, such as "cat NEAR 5 dog," but not for phrases like "domesticated cat" NEAR 5 dog.
  • Utilize the "Narrow by" options to search for articles exclusively, include/exclude book reviews, narrow your search to a specific time frame or language.
  • To focus your article search on specific disciplines and titles, select the appropriate checkboxes. Please note that discipline searching is currently limited to journal content, excluding ebooks from the search.

Finding Content You Have Access To

To discover downloadable articles, chapters, and pamphlets for reading, you have the option to narrow down your search to accessible content. Simply navigate to the Advanced Search page and locate the "Select an access type" feature, which offers the following choices:

All Content will show you all of the relevant search results on JSTOR, regardless of whether or not you can access it.

Content I can access will show you content you can download or read online. This will include Early Journal Content and journals/books publishers have made freely available.

Once you've refined your search, simply select an option that aligns with your needs and discover the most relevant items. Additionally, you have the option to further narrow down your search results after conducting an initial search. Look for this option located below the "access type" checkbox, situated at the bottom left-hand side of the page.

Additional resources

For more search recommendations, feel free to explore this page on JSTOR searching. There, you will find information on truncation, wildcards, and proximity, using fields, and metadata hyperlinks.

#jstor#research#for the person who asked :)

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