JSTOR (short for Journal Storage) is a United States-based online system for archiving academic journals, founded in 1995. It provides full-text searches of digitized back issues of several hundred well-known journals, dating back to 1665 in the case of the Philosophical Transactions.
JSTOR is slightly different from other electronic resources that we have; it's a not-for profit service and more pertinently for our students, access to journals is embargoed, which means there's a significant time delay on access to full-text of nearly all JSTOR journals, agreed upon with individual publishers, but normally 3-5 years. Most journals have a "moving-wall" embargo, which is a delay between what's on JSTOR and the current issue of the journal, but 3 publishers operate a fixed-wall, with no new content being added to JSTOR after a certain date.
JSTOR has an arts-based bias, with arts here being a catch-all term for social sciences, humanties and law. It has a good reputation and provides some social cachet. We might be, thus far, the only private college in Ireland, if not the world with a subscription to JSTOR.
For now access is restricted to on-campus only until we sort out off-campus authentication issues. When that happens we'll inform you.
* Actually since I'm quoting the source and linking to it, this doesn't qualify as plagiarism, but I digress...
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