New Online Resource – Available for Free Only at Your Local Library
Monaghan County Library Services are please to announce a new additional online resource - Jstor.
What is Jstor?
JSTOR was founded in 1995 to build trusted digital archives for scholarship. Today, they work with the scholarly community to preserve their work and the materials they rely upon, and to build a common research platform that promotes the discovery and use of these resources.
With participation and support from the international scholarly community, JSTOR has created a high-quality, interdisciplinary archive of scholarship, is actively preserving over one thousand academic journals in both digital and print formats, and continues to greatly expand access to scholarly works and other materials needed for research and teaching globally. They are investing in new initiatives to increase the productivity of researchers and to facilitate new forms of scholarship.
In 2009, JSTOR merged with and became a service of ITHAKA, a not-for-profit organization helping the academic community use digital technologies to preserve the scholarly record and to advance scholarship and teaching in sustainable ways.
The Archives:
JSTOR offers a high-quality, interdisciplinary archive to support scholarship and teaching. It includes archives of over one thousand leading academic journals across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences, as well as select monographs and other materials valuable for academic work. The entire corpus is full-text searchable, offers search term highlighting, includes high-quality images, and is interlinked by millions of citations and references.
The archive is unique in terms of scale, content, and the significant use it receives. It is recognized specifically for:
- offering a unique, interlinked aggregation of scholarly works
- facilitating interdisciplinary and historical research
- exemplary standards for digitization and completeness
- interfaces and functionality that support academic use
- highly reliable access
- long-term preservation
The archives are being expanded continuously with a current emphasis on international publications as well as collections of other content types such as pamphlets, images and manuscripts from libraries, societies, and museums. New initiatives to support innovations in scholarship, such as using the archives for text mining and enabling the pre-publication sharing of ideas among scholars, are also underway.
The Ireland Collection
The Ireland Collection, developed in cooperation with Queen's University Belfast, is an interdisciplinary collection of journals and other materials. At its expected completion in 2009, it will contain a minimum of 75 journals, including journals with moving walls between 1 and 5 years and ceased journals from the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries. Over 200 monographs and 2,500 manuscript pages will also be included. Complementing JSTOR's existing collections, the Ireland Collection adds titles and resources across the arts, humanities, and sciences in disciplines such as music, art, history, literature, archaeology, mathematics, and biology. Materials span from the 1780s to the present. The content is international in scope, while also providing a rich focus on Ireland. The Ireland Collection was created with funding from the JISC Digitisation Programme.
Check out http://www.jstor.org/
Access to the Jstor is FREE only at your local library.
This is an initiative by An Chomhairle Leabharlanna http://www.librarycouncil.ie/
