Discovery Task 5: Using JSTOR, A Treasure Trove Of Scholarly Riches

JSTOR (Journal Storage) is a not-for-profit organization that creates and maintain a trusted archive of important scholarly journals, and provides access to these journals as widely as possible. The journals archived here are from many disciplines, and many date back to their inception—the oldest to its first issue in 1665. Because JSTOR is an archival database, it is not a current issues database. For many journals archived here there is a gap, from 1-5 years depending on the publisher, from the time the journal is published until the issues are available on JSTOR.

You will use JSTOR to read and analyze an article assigned to you by your instructor. Print out the worksheet for questions to keep in mind as you read the article. Follow the links below to access the article that was assigned. To print the article use the print button on the JSTOR page, rather than print from the browser window.

**If you use a computer that is not located on campus, you must connect to the Libraries’ resources through a VPN; see Connect From Off Campus for information on connecting from off campus.

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" Sophocles’ Antigone and Funeral Oratory"
Larry J. Bennett; Wm. Blake Tyrrell
The American Journal of Philology, Vol. 111, No. 4. (Winter, 1990), pp. 441-456.

"The Imprisonment of Women in Greek Tragedy"
Richard Seaford
The Journal of Hellenic Studies, Vol. 110. (1990), pp. 76-90.

"Assumptions and the Creation of Meaning: Reading Sophocles’ Antigone"
Christiane Sourvinou-Inwood
The Journal of Hellenic Studies, Vol. 109. (1989), pp. 134-148.

"From Formalism to Inquiry: A Model of Argument in Antigone"
James L. Kastely
College English, Vol. 62, No. 2. (Nov., 1999), pp. 222-241.

"The Single Burial of Polyneices"
Richard M. Rothaus
The Classical Journal, Vol. 85, No. 3. (Feb. – Mar., 1990), pp. 209-217.

"The Antigone as Cultural Touchstone: Matthew Arnold, Hegel, George Eliot,
Virginia Woolf, and Margaret Drabble"
Gerhard Joseph
PMLA, Vol. 96, No. 1. (Jan., 1981), pp. 22-35.

Searching JSTOR

JSTOR is a rich repository of material to search for sources for your research papers, bearing in mind the gap of 1-5 years. Many current issues of journals are not yet available in JSTOR, but may be accessible via subject specific databases such as MLA International Bibliography or America: History and Life which you used in a previous discovery task.

JSTOR is accessible via the Find Online Resources page from the Libraries’ homepage, www.lib.uci.edu . Type JSTOR into the search box. Use this search screen in your future research to find specific databases by typing in the titles, or to find a database in a particular field (ie type in "biology" or "psychology".) Do not use this search page to look for articles on your topic, but rather to find the databases that will lead you to articles on your topic.
For a direct link to JSTOR: http://www.jstor.org/

You are given the option to "Search" or "Browse". Choose the "Search" option and do a search for articles for your research paper, or if you haven’t yet chosen a topic, do a search to poke around and see what is available for a topic that you may be considering.

Doing a basic search in JSTOR searches across hundreds of journals in every discipline. You can use the Advanced Search feature to limit your search to a particular subject area. You can also limit the language, the publication date and the type of article. Repeat your search limiting it to articles in just one or two relevant subject areas. Print out the first page of one of the articles that you might use for your paper.

Further Research Tips:

Project Muse (http://muse.jhu.edu/) is another full-text journal collection, with access provided by the UCI Libraries. It has content from over 300 journals in the Humanities, Arts, and the Social Sciences.

will connect you from the subject databases into the full-text of the articles if they are available in JSTOR or Project Muse.

To access the Humanities Core Course Library web page for all the Discovery Tasks and other important links, go to http://course.lib.uci.edu/hu/writing/humcore/ .

Questions, comments, problems? Contact Cathy Palmer, UCI Libraries (cpalmer@uci.edu)