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JSTOR encourages the use of links to facilitate access to the Content by Authorized Users and Institutional Licensees, including but not limited to links to online syllabi, bibliographies, and reading lists. All Content has a stable URL that can be found in the Browse and Search interfaces of JSTOR's website as well as on the Article Information page each discrete Content item. Further information on establishing stable links to material in JSTOR may be obtained from User Support (support@jstor.org).
Please review the JSTOR Linking Agreement or contact discoveryservices@ithaka.org for more information on generating links to the JSTOR platform.
We provide JSTOR metadata for books and journals, updated on a weekly basis, to the following organizations for indexing in their web-scale discovery platforms:
EBSCO - EDS
Ex Libris - Primo Central
OCLC - WorldCat Discovery Service
Serials Solutions (ProQuest) - Summon
TDNet - TDNet Discover
Welcome to Discovery & Linking at JSTOR! In the Discovery & Linking section, you will find information related to content discovery and linking activities at JSTOR, for both participating libraries and discovery/linking partners. Some helpful topics include:
If you have any questions about the information you see in this section, please contact discoveryservices@ithaka.org.
Institutional Holdings: download a delimited file of your journal holdings on the JSTOR platform
Quick Reference Guides to Discovery Products: libraries can download Quick Reference Guides to the indexed discovery services and link resolvers offered by EBSCO, Ex Libris, ProQuest, and (soon) OCLC.
JSTOR Fact Sheet: provides a summary of the collections/packages available for the different content types on the JSTOR platform: JSTOR Archive, Books at JSTOR, JSTOR Current Scholarship Program, and JSTOR Primary Source.
JSTOR Title Lists: download KBART compliant title lists for the collections and content packages available on the JSTOR platform.
Both participating JSTOR institutions and non-participating organizations may license JSTOR metadata for the JSTOR Archive, Current Scholarship Program, and Books at JSTOR.
Participating institutions will be required to sign a JSTOR Metadata Sharing Rider in addition to their existing license agreement.
Non-participating institutions requests will be reviewed by our Discovery & Linking staff to ensure that we are building the most appropriate relationships for our participating libraries. As a first step, to help our staff evaluate metadata requests, please complete the Metadata Sharing Questionnaire and return it to discoveryservices@ithaka.org. Non-participating institutions are required to sign a JSTOR Data License Agreement before receiving JSTOR metadata.
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.
A KBART file of your institutional journal holdings can be downloaded from Collections Avaiable at Your Institution.
We are also in the process of developing a service that will allow institutions to requests holdings files for their licensed Books at JSTOR content. An announcement will be made when book holdings files are available to request.
Participating institutions are required to sign a JSTOR Metasearch Rider in addition to their existing Institutional Participation Agreement before we will enable access to the XML Gateway. If you are a current JSTOR Participant, please complete the Metasearch Rider and return to discoveryservices@ithaka.org. The JSTOR Discovery team will then contact you with additional information about using the search API.
Requests to access the search API from non-participating institutions will be reviewed by our Discovery & Linking staff to ensure that we are building the most appropriate relationships for our participating libraries. If approved, non-participating institutions will be required to sign a JSTOR Metasearch Agreement. Please review the Agreement and contact discoveryservices@ithaka.org, including the following information in your request:
-Parent company/organization
-Name of your product/service
-Link to user interface or demo
-Primary technical contact
-Overview of your search product
Once the proper Agreement has been signed, we will provide a copy of the JSTOR XML Gateway Usage Guide and enable your IP addresses.
After the JSTOR Metadata Sharing Amendment or JSTOR Metadata Sharing License Agreement has been signed, our Discovery staff will set up a metadata deposit to be delivered via FTP. Upon completing the appropriate metadata license agreement, please review the JSTOR Metadata Recipient Information document and submit the required information to discoveryservices@ithaka.org.
You can download sample MARC records here (in .mrc format). A detailed guide to setting up OCLC Collection Manager to receive MARC records for Books at JSTOR titles is available here.
The following content is available in the XML Gateway search index:
-JSTOR Archive Collections
-Books at JSTOR
-JSTOR Current Scholarship Program Journals
-19th Century British Pamphlets
Please note that the two Aluka Collections, Cultural Heritage and Struggles for Freedom, and Global Plants content are not available in the API search index.
The XML files for each of Archives, Current Journal content, and Books were created from data JSTOR has in its delivery system. An effort has been made to both use specific tag sets (JATS 1.0 Archiving for journals, and the draft BITS 0.2 for books), and to make the data more consistent. JSTOR's journal content, and CSP content in particular, represents a variety of practice and markup philosophy across publishers and time.
The JSTOR platform supports linking to journal articles via the SICI standard. While we will continue to support SICI linking, we advise that linking partners use OpenURL syntax for the most reliable linking experience. Wikipedia provides a sufficient explanation of the SICI elements:
Details
The SICI code is composed of three segments, intended to be both human-readable and easy for machines to parse automatically. The following example SICI is explained below:
Item
The Influence of Reflection Coefficient Statistics on the Seismic Method: Scattering Attenuation and Transmission Wavelets
J. W. J. Hosken, S. K. Mayo and A. T. Walden
Proceedings: Mathematical and Physical Sciences, Vol. 439, No. 1905 (Oct. 8, 1992), pp. 1-23
Published by: The Royal Society
Article Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2646874
SICI: 0962-8444(19921008)439:1905<1:TIORCS>2.0.CO;2-D
Item segment
0962-8444
This is the ISSN for the periodical, in this case Proceedings: Mathematical and Physical Sciences.
(19921008)
The chronology part is in parentheses and identifies the date of publication. In this case, it is signified by year, month, and date: 1992, October 8
439:1905
The enumeration part signifies the volume and number; Vol. 439, No. 1905
Contribution segment
<
Signifies the start of the contribution segment
1
Location code: signifies the page number, frame number, reel number, etc. In this case, page 1
TIORCS
Title code: based on the title of the article. In this case, an initialism: "The Influence of Reflection Coefficient Statistics…"
>
Signifies the end of the contribution segment
Control segment
2
Code Structure Identifier (CSI) for the type of SICI being constructed
0
Derivative Part Identifier (DPI) identifies a part of the contribution, such as a table of contents or abstract
CO
Format identifier two-letter code signifying the way content is presented. In this case, CO = online
2-
Standard version number
D
Check Character: an alpha-numeric character calculated from the SICI string
Here is the SICI link to JSTOR for this article:
http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0962-8444(19921008)439:1905<1:TIORCS>2.0.CO;2-D
OR
http://www.jstor.org/sici?sici=0962-8444(19921008)439:1905<1:TIORCS>2.0.CO;2-D
JSTOR has released a new Archive Collection called Iberoamérica. The JSTOR Iberoamérica Collecton is a multidisciplinary collection of journals published within or about the Ibero-American world. The collection serves scholars across the humanities and social sciences in Latin America, the Caribbean, Spain, Portugal, and beyond. A title list for this collection can be found here and on our JSTOR Title Lists page. Discovery partners licensing metadata for the JSTOR Archive will receive a notification when metadata for this collection is available. Please contact discoveryservices@ithaka.org with any questions.
JSTOR has recently launched a new Archive Collection: Arts & Sciences XIII. A KBART title list for this Collection has been posted to the JSTOR Title Lists page. Additionally, metadata for ASXIII has been sent to our discovery partners set up to receive this content. Our discovery and linking partners have been notified of this new Collection. Libraries should soon see Arts & Sciences XIII available in their knowledge base management tools for A-Z lists, link resolvers, and discovery indexes.
List coming soon....
We are continuing in our efforts to make access to the JSTOR archive as convenient as possible for all of our participants. As part of this ongoing work, we are working with various organizations to enable article-level linking into JSTOR from their electronic journals, products, and databases. Institutions that subscribe to these resources may need to contact the providers directly in order to establish or "turn on" links to the JSTOR archive.
JSTOR has recently improved our search API, also known as the JSTOR XML Gateway service, in order to better facilitate metasearching (also known as federated or cross-database searching). Please refer to the Metasearching section in Discovery & Linking for more information. If you are interested in utilizing our new search API, please contact discoverservices@ithaka.org.
A KBART title list for the recently launched Hebrew Journals Collection is now available for download on the JSTOR Title Lists Page. For more information regarding the launch of the Hebrew Journals Collection, please see the press release.
JSTOR has developed a new metadata sharing service that will allow us to more flexibly and reliably distribute metadata to our various discovery and linking partners. For more information on receiving metadata for JSTOR content, please see the Metadata Sharing pages in Discovery & Linking.