Online Access to Political Science Journal Archives

Since the launch of the Journal Storage Project (JSTOR) in 1995, APSA has played an active role to increase access to political science scholarship.

JSTOR, a not-for-profit organization headquartered in New York City, was established to improve access to publications for the scholarly community using recent advances in information technology. Originally an initiative to solve library space and budget problems, JSTOR now strives to meet the needs of both scholars and libraries. Participating in JSTOR allows libraries to assemble and expand their collections and increase access to the journals while centralizing storage and delivery of those journals. JSTOR relieves the libraries of preservation and archiving duties while providing access to a number of journals unavailable in any other form. The database contains a thorough and accurate publication record for each journal included, giving the academic community access to full runs of important journal literature, within and across disciplines. The database is accessible 24 hours a day to students and faculty at participating institutions from any networked location, including offices and dorms; journals are never “out,” and there are no missing pages or articles as there sometimes are in the stack copies of journals.

Using JSTOR

JSTOR’s search engine allows users to browse and search individual journals, or perform cross-disciplinary searches of multiple journals in multiple disciplines. Users can search the full text of materials or search by topic, author or key words. With JSTOR, research and literature that have been difficult to locate and retrieve are now easily accessible.

The image of the article appearing in JSTOR is a scanned image of the original journal. Scanning enables JSTOR to provide an exact replica of the original article both on screen and in print. Due to the scanning, it is not possible to cut and paste text from older JSTOR articles. However, full articles can be printed from any desktop computer.
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