PIEDMONT COLLEGE GAINS ACCESS
TO SCHOLARLY JOURNALS ARCHIVE
JSTOR Archive Increases Research Capabilities of Faculty and Students;
Saves Library Space
Arrendale Library is pleased to announce the addition of JSTOR to the array of research resources available through the Library’s web site. Starting in early July, faculty and students at Piedmont College gained access to the complete archive of leading academic journals when the Library became a participating institution in JSTOR (www.jstor.org).
Through JSTOR’s five Arts and Sciences Collections, students and faculty will be able to retrieve all the issues and articles from more than 600 journals in 38 disciplines, dating back to the 18th century. Researchers at Piedmont College also have access to JSTOR’s General Science Collection and Biological Sciences Collection. The General Science Collection contains seven titles and approximately 1.4 million pages of scientific journal literature covering more than 800 journal years. Sir Isaac Newton’s earliest published papers are among the treasures of scholarly literature that will be available to the Piedmont community through this collection. JSTOR’s Biological Sciences Collection gives students and faculty access to an electronic archive of nearly 100 important journals in the biological sciences.
JSTOR will allow Arrendale Library to ensure that complete sets of these journals are available at all times (even when the library is closed). It helps the Library save increasingly limited shelf space, and provides powerful tools for creating the digital library of the future.
JSTOR provides access to research journals that may not be available in paper at an institution’s library. JSTOR offers researchers the ability to retrieve a high-resolution, scanned image of each journal page as it was originally designed, printed, and illustrated. Users may search for articles by author, title, abstract fields, and keywords and phrases in the article text, and can search for information across disciplines. JSTOR can be found on the Research Resources page of the Library’s home page. For assistance or information about JSTOR, use the Ask a Librarian! link on the Library’s home page, or call the Library at 706-776-0111.