JSTOR Labs recently announced Text Analyzer. If you have access to the JSTOR database, you’ll want share this new search strategy with your students and faculty. Upload or drag a document–an article, a Google document, a paper you are writing, a PDF or even an image–into what JSTOR is calling its magic box, and Text Analyzer will analyze it to […]
JSTOR teaching resources (with way more Understanding Shakespeare!)
July 15, 2015 by Leave a Comment
Back in November I wrote about JSTOR becoming even more librarian- and classroom-friendly. This morning JSTOR significantly beefed up its bardiness. Understanding Shakespeare, the collaborative project between JSTOR Labs and the Folger Shakespeare Library increased its coverage from six to 38 plays. This research tool facilitates discovery of scholarship. It allows students, teachers and scholars […]
JSTOR is even more librarian- and classroom-friendly
November 14, 2014 by Leave a Comment
This news from JSTOR makes me want to be a high school librarian again! If like me, you work or have worked with high school students and teachers who crave a challenge or lean toward the scholarly, you’ll be interested in the new developments from our friends at JSTOR. Officially launched in September, Research Basics […]
Wikipedia and JSTOR partner
November 21, 2012 by 2 Comments
In a Wikimedia blog post this week, Steven Walling shared news of an exciting partnership. JSTOR, that non-profit consortium-based database, beloved by high school and college students everywhere for its scholarly, authoritative content, will now provide the 100 most active Wikipedia editors with free access to the complete archive collections on JSTOR, including more than […]
Scholarship gets democratic: JSTOR launches register and read
March 8, 2012 by Leave a Comment
JSTOR is one of my students’ favorite databases. They are kinda JSTOR junkies. But not every high school can afford to subscribe to this not-for-profit full-text resource, offering access to scholarly content from more than 1300 journals and thousands of primary sources. And then, so many individual researchers and young scholars don’t happen to be […]
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