A great way to check your authentication status is to look for a line of text in the top right corner of any JSTOR page. Underneath the JSTOR logo you will see a line of text that reads

 “Your access to JSTOR provided by X.”

 If you don’t see this line of text, you are not authenticated and will need to follow the access methods established by your institution.

Some participating universities and colleges offer online access to JSTOR for alumni. Alumni from participating institutions gain full access to the same set of archive collection content available to all current students and faculty at their institutions. Find out if your alma mater participates in this program.

JSTOR works with publishers to offer access to specific titles to society members and independent researchers. Individual access to journals in the JSTOR archive is provided by participating publishers. See a list of the journals that are currently available to individuals. If you are interested in obtaining individual access to any of these titles, please contact the appropriate publisher for registration information.

Your journal access will be set up in one of two ways. Either your access is managed by JSTOR and you will receive instructions from us directly, or your access is managed by your society or the publisher. If you are not sure about how to access your subscription, please contact JSTOR Support. When you contact JSTOR Support, please include as much detail as possible about your subscription, including your membership or account ID if applicable.

In many cases when you purchase a subscription there will be a slight delay between the time you purchase the subscription and the time your access is set up. This is because most publishers and societies collect new subscribers and members and send the data over to us in batches, usually on a daily or weekly schedule. JSTOR staff then establishes access from these files the same day that they are received. Any slight delay you might experience between purchase and access is expected, but if you have any questions please contact JSTOR Support for assistance. 

http://about.jstor.org/content/access-options-0#Individual-Access#Individual-Subscribers

JPASS gives you personal access to a library of more than 1,500 academic journals on JSTOR. If you don’t have access to JSTOR through a school or public library, JPASS may be a perfect fit.

With JPASS, a substantial portion of the most influential research and ideas published over centuries is available to you anywhere, anytime. Access includes a vast collection of archival journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. Coverage begins for each journal at the first volume and issue ever published, and extends up to a publication date usually set in the past three to five years. Current issues are not part of the JPASS Collection.

Get a 1-month or a 1-year JPASS access plan and start your research today. Learn more about JPASS.

You can create a MyJSTOR account by hovering over the MyJSTOR tab in the top-center of any JSTOR page and selecting "Profile" from the drop-down menu. This page will prompt you to register if you are a new user. Once you have completed the registration information and received a confirmation email, you will be able to log in to your personalized MyJSTOR account.

In most cases, logging into MyJSTOR does not provide access to JSTOR content. For some users at small institutions and secondary schools, or alumni association members, MyJSTOR accounts may also be configured to provide JSTOR access in addition to providing the functions described above.  If you are not sure if this describes your situation, it is always a good idea to contact your librarian or electronic resources coordinator for more information.

Register & Read
MyJSTOR accounts also provide free, read-online access to individual scholars and researchers through our Register & Read beta. When you find an article that’s part of Register & Read, click on the “Read Online Free” option. Once you log into your MyJSTOR account, you can add the content to your shelf to read the full-text online. After 14 days, you may remove it and add new items to your shelf. You can access your articles by selecting “Shelf” from the MyJSTOR drop-down menu in the top-center of any JSTOR page.

Publisher Sales Service Purchases
If you are logged into your MyJSTOR account at the time of purchasing an article through our Publisher Sales Service program, your article will be attached to your account. To access your purchases, please login to your MyJSTOR account. Hover your cursor over the MyJSTOR drop-down menu at the top of the page and click "Purchase History." From this tab, click the title of the article and choose "View PDF" from the Tools box to download the article.  

In order to download or print most JSTOR PDFs, you will need to follow the prompt to accept JSTOR’s Terms and Conditions. You need to do this only the first time you interact with a PDF in any given session. If you have any additional questions not covered here, please contact JSTOR Support for assistance.

Saving + Downloading

To save and download a JSTOR PDF, click “View PDF” in the Tool box above the page view. A prompt to accept the Terms and Conditions of Use will pop up. When you click the link that says “Accept JSTOR's Terms and Conditions and proceed to PDF,” a PDF viewer will pop up. Once the article PDF is loaded in the viewer, you will have the option to save a copy by selecting the download icon in the grey navigation bar. If the item does not open in PDF format, right click (or control click for Mac) on the PDF link, and save the file. Then open it in a PDF viewer.

Note: If you have not yet accepted the Terms and Conditions of Use in a session, the download will produce a corrupted file. Simply click on the "PDF" link (which opens the Terms and Conditions of Use window), select "Proceed to PDF," and then follow the steps to save the PDF file.

Printing

Because JSTOR uses high-resolution images to store and display pages, you cannot print item pages by using the "Print" button on your web browser. To print an item, you must first open the item in your PDF reader by following the instructions above under "Saving + Downloading". Once the article PDF is loaded in the viewer, you will have the option to print a copy by selecting the print icon in the grey navigation bar.

Note: If you use your web browser to print your item, the printout will be of poor quality, parts of it may be cropped, and the printed copy will contain all of the web page objects that appear around the item.

To view the citation information for any JSTOR content, click “View Citation” in the Tool box above the page view. These citations do not adhere to any particular style manual. Instead, we provide the most complete information about the piece of content so that users may format the citations as dictated by the style to which they adhere. If you have questions about how to cite a particular article in APA style, or how to format an article in a Chicago style works cited page, we recommend that you contact your professor or ask a librarian for assistance.

While nearly all of the journals collected in JSTOR are peer-reviewed publications, our archives do contain some specific primary materials (like some journals in the Ireland Collection and the 19th Century British Pamphlet Collection). Also, some journal content is much older than today's standard peer-review process. This means that, though all the information in JSTOR is held to a scholarly standard, not all of the publications are technically "peer-reviewed." At the current time there is no way to search JSTOR for only peer-reviewed publications. We often find that if you have questions concerning the academic legitimacy of a particular journal or book, your institution's librarian or your course instructor may be best able to answer those inquiries.

It is a priority for JSTOR to ensure that our website and the content we archive is available and accessible to all of our users. We have made every effort to ensure that our image-based PDF files are accessible and can be read with screen readers like JAWS. These files are tagged at a high level using an automated process. While this method is not exact, it dramatically increases the accessibility of the files as compared to an untagged version.

In the event that the PDF tagging described above is not sufficient for your use, we can perform manual tagging on a limited number of articles for you. If this is a service you need, please contact JSTOR Support with your request. Please include the citations for the articles you need tagged.

• Limit of three articles per request
• Turn around time is three days per request

We are continually seeking to improve our website and enhance accessibility. Please let us know if you have any comments or suggestions. Read more about JSTOR accessibility policies and procedures.

All participating institutions have the option of setting up remote access to JSTOR for their users along with onsite access. Please contact JSTOR Support for assistance selecting and setting up the remote access method best fit for your institution.

In order to enable your JSTOR access via EZProxy, all we typically need from you is the IP address of your EZProxy server. Feel free to send it to JSTOR Support and we will make the necessary changes.

OCLC's support team should be able to help you with your EZProxy set-up, however the configuration we typically recommend for JSTOR access is as follows:

1. The JSTOR database definition should be:

Option DomainCookieOnly

Title JSTOR

URL http://www.jstor.org/

Domain jstor.org

Option Cookie

2. In addition, EZProxy must be explicitly configured to handle https. If https handling is not already set up, users will lose proxying when they arrive at the JSTOR login page, and the connection will be lost. If this is the case, SSL configuration must be performed using the information available on the following page.

Shibboleth is open source software that provides institutions with Single SignOn, a system of authentication procedures, protocols, and technologies that enable end users to access multiple online resources with one set of credentials. The Shibboleth system allows organizations to exchange information about users securely and privately. More detailed information may be found on the Shibboleth website.

JSTOR partners with Shibboleth-enabled institutions to allow users to access JSTOR by signing in through their institution from the JSTOR website. However, in order for an institution or organization to access JSTOR through Shibboleth, JSTOR and the organization must be a member of the same federation. A list of federations may be found on the Shibboleth Federations website.

If you would like to enable access to JSTOR through your institutional log in, please send a message to JSTOR Support that includes the following information:

• Which federation (or federations) your institution is a member of
• Your institution's Shibboleth Identity Provider ID
• The list of campuses (if more than one) the Identity Provider serves

Once this information is in our records, your Attribute Authority can authorize users into JSTOR by asserting the eduperson entitlement attribute with a value of urn:mace:dir:entitlement:common-lib-terms.

JSTOR’s Institution Finder assists unauthenticated users at your institution to access full-text content on JSTOR. Here's how it works:

1. A user arrives on a JSTOR article page from a Google search or other referring page
2. An on-campus user will get automatic access to the full-text, but users outside of the institution’s IP range will be denied access
3. When denied access to the full-text, the user is presented with options for accessing JSTOR, including a link to the JSTOR login page and the Institution Finder
4. From there she can search for their institution and follow a link to your proxy login page
5. After logging in, she is authenticated to JSTOR and will be automatically redirected to the original full-text article

If you are interested in this functionality for your library, we need only to confirm your EZProxy prefix, which should look something like this:

http://server.university.edu/login?url=

You can send this information to JSTOR Support.

For cancellations made to subscriptions ending after the start date of the Publisher's participation in the Current Scholarship Program (2011) and later, libraries will have the following Post-Cancelation Access (PCA) options:

Libraries may purchase PCA for 10% of the then-current list price of the title, and JSTOR will provision and maintain access on its platform as long as this fee, called the Annual CSP PCA fee, is paid. JSTOR will provision PCA on the JSTOR platform from the Digital Availability Date (DAD) through the last issue purchased. For Digital Availability Dates, go to the Current Scholarship Program title list.

However, if the library participates in a JSTOR archive collection that includes the title being claimed, or the library is a Portico participant, JSTOR will provision PCA on the JSTOR platform at no charge, from the DAD through the last issue purchased, as long as the library continues to participate in the collection or remains a Portico participant.

Please refer to 7.3 Section of our Terms and Conditions for full description of the policies.

Journals + Primary Source Content
JSTOR creates and enters new cataloging records or updates existing cataloging records in OCLC for each title, current or previous, in the archive. The records include the URL for each title in the 856 MARC field.

Currently, the only way to locate all the cataloging records for each title in a JSTOR collection is to conduct a title-by-title search in OCLC. When reviewing records for potential downloading to your local system, please ensure that there is not a MARC field indicating “Record reported for deletion.” In such cases, a different record should be located and reviewed for downloading.

Books at JSTOR
MARC Records for Books are offered free of charge in the MARC21 format. They may be downloaded from the Usage Reporting Tool of your administrator account on JSTOR. For information on setting up an administrator account, please visit our Usage Statistics Help section.

JSTOR is dedicated to providing a trusted electronic archive of scholarly journals. In balancing the interests of publishers, libraries, and users, JSTOR archival collections do not include access to the most recent issues of journals to ensure that publisher interests are not undermined. However, the digital environment offers opportunities to link together disparate and related resources, and we have been working hard to develop a program that joins the back issues with the more recent issues in a way that makes the experience for users as seamless as possible. For this reason, JSTOR supports and encourages its participating institutions’ use of link resolvers. 

In addition to accessing content directly from your library’s site, users might also find, through Google Scholar results, JSTOR content that you license. This process is possible due to a partnership between JSTOR and Google Scholar. JSTOR compiles the IP addresses and corresponding licenses of our participating institutions and makes them available in a space that Google Scholar regularly crawls. When Google Scholar sees a user coming from an IP address that is associated with a participating institution, and that user’s search returns results to which they have access on JSTOR, that user will see a link to JSTOR next to the result.

In some cases, our database may be out of sync with your institution's IP addresses. This may happen if you recently changed ISP, or if your network layout or infrastructure has changed. Please contact JSTOR Support if you have updated IP addresses, or if you have any questions about what users are or aren’t seeing based on this relationship.

JSTOR® and the JSTOR logo are trademarks of JSTOR, and are Registered in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

As requested by JSTOR participants, we have created digital logos that may be downloaded and used in print or online materials. You are welcome to use the JSTOR logo on materials distributed to your users or on your institution’s web pages to announce your participation in JSTOR. We ask that you be aware of the following restrictions on the use of the JSTOR name and logo:

• You may not use JSTOR's name or logo for any purpose other than as set forth above, except as specifically approved by JSTOR. Under no circumstance may JSTOR's name or logo be used in a way likely to cause confusion as to the origin of JSTOR's or other services.
• You may not alter the appearance of the logo. JSTOR reserves the right to review your use of JSTOR's name or logo, and you agree to provide JSTOR with access to your site to review your use of the name or logo. JSTOR may require you to discontinue any such use.

Three logo sizes are available for download:

Small Logo

Medium Logo

Large Logo

If you have any questions about this policy, please contact JSTOR Support.

JSTOR relies on a number of sources to support our goal of providing online access to a complete back run of every participating journal.

Publishers provide issues they have available and we make every reasonable effort to acquire any remaining issues through purchases from third-party vendors. However, in some instances there are still issues missing and in these cases libraries, societies, and individuals have been invaluable in helping to complete journal back runs through donations and loans.

Please download the list of "Issues Needed" (i.e., issues we have been unable to obtain from any source and are still seeking). Please let us know if you wish to receive the list in another format.

We very much appreciate the generosity of libraries and other sources willing to donate and/or lend needed materials for digitization. If you are in a position to help, or have any questions, please contact Jason Glover at issues.needed@jstor.org.

JSTOR offers several usage reports to meet your various needs as a librarian. The following reports adhere to Release 3 of the COUNTER code of Practice for Journals and Databases:

+ Journal Report 1 – This report shows the number of successful full-text article requests by month and journal for your institution.
+ Journal Report 1a – This report shows the number of successful full-text article requests of archival content by month and journal.
+ Database Report 3 – This report shows the total number of searches and sessions by month and the type of service to which your institution subscribes.

The following reports are also available to administrators:

+ Journal Report 1b – This report (not COUNTER compliant) shows the number of successful full-text article requests for current subscriptions by month and journal. This report is useful for looking at CSP title usage separately from archival usage.
+ Summary Usage Report – This report details the usage statistics specific to your institution compared to those in your category (Very Large, Large, Medium, Small, etc.), as well as to all institutions.
+ Detailed Usage Report – This report provides usage statistics with a variety of perimeters available for inclusion. You can group the report by publication or JSTOR discipline (Biological Sciences, History, Sociology, etc).

There are several book-specific reports available to JSTOR account administrators. The COUNTER compliant Book Report 2 is the standard COUNTER report for book content, and tracks the number of successful chapter requests by month and title. The COUNTER-compliant Book Report 4 shows the number of turnaways by month and the type of service to which your institution subscribes.

There is also a Books Detailed Usage Report available, which is not COUNTER compliant, but includes date range selection and can include the:

- Table of Contents: refers to the table of contents for a particular book that is accessed.
- PDFs Viewed: refers to the number of times a PDF is accessed and viewed.
- PDFs Downloaded: refers to the number of times a PDF is downloaded.

The Book Download Balance Report is also available through the JSTOR Reporting Tool. This report provides the current status of PDF downloads for your institution's single-user Books. The report is broken down by book and provides 'Downloads Remaining' counts for 'Standard' and 'Additional Packs' and also the 'Total Downloads' remaining for each book.

If your institution has any subscriptions hosted by JSTOR through our Current Scholarship Program, you will now use the JSTOR usage statistic reporting tool to track usage. JSTOR took over usage statistic tracking for our partner presses when the Current Scholarship Program began in 2011. Usage statistics for these journals are automatically included in all JSTOR reports with the exception of Journal Report 1a, which is limited to archival content accesses.

The JR1b report contains usage statistics for current content in JSTOR. This is a supplementary report (not a COUNTER report) that, along with JR1a, is useful for institutions participating in both the JSTOR archive collections and the Current Scholarship Program. JR1a shows the number of successful full-text article requests for archive content – in this case, all content that is not included in a current subscription. JR1a and JR1b are mutually exclusive reports.

The separation between current content and archive content is determined by the Digital Availability Date of each title. This is the fixed date from which current subscriptions grow. In some cases, the moving wall for titles within the JSTOR archive collections overlaps with the Digital Availability Date, so some usage from your institution may appear on the JR1b report even if your institution does not have a current subscription to these specific titles.

If you are interested in your organization's overall usage, you will likely want to continue running the JR1 COUNTER report, which will provide you with a complete view of your usage statistics that is not divided between current and archive content.

You may schedule reports to be viewed online or delivered automatically in a variety of file formats to as many people as you want. The last step of the usage statistics reporting tool before submitting a request is the Report Scheduler. This step allows you to name a report and choose a repeat option, from one time to monthly. You can also choose to view the report or have it sent in an email to yourself in HTML, tab delimited, and XML formats.