14 Facts About JSTOR

JSTOR is a digital library founded in 1995 in New York City.

JSTOR was originally conceived as a solution to one of the problems faced by libraries, especially research and university libraries, due to the increasing number of academic journals in existence.

JSTOR access improved based on feedback from its initial sites, and it became a fully searchable index accessible from any ordinary web browser.

In 1999 JSTOR started a partnership with Joint Information Systems Committee and created a mirror website at the University of Manchester to make the JSTOR database available to over 20 higher education institutions in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.

Until January 2009, JSTOR operated as an independent, self-sustaining nonprofit organization with offices in New York City and in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

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In September 2014, JSTOR launched JSTOR Daily, an online magazine meant to bring academic research to a broader audience.

JSTOR is licensed mainly to academic institutions, public libraries, research institutions, museums, and schools.

JSTOR has been running a pilot program of allowing subscribing institutions to provide access to their alumni, in addition to current students and staff.

Rather than pursue a civil lawsuit against him, in June 2011 JSTOR reached a settlement wherein Swartz surrendered the downloaded data.

Availability of most journals on JSTOR is controlled by a "moving wall", which is an agreed-upon delay between the current volume of the journal and the latest volume available on JSTOR.

In 2010, JSTOR started adding current issues of certain journals through its Current Scholarship Program.

JSTOR stated that it had been working on making this material free for some time.

In 2012, JSTOR users performed nearly 152 million searches, with more than 113 million article views and 73.

JSTOR has been used as a resource for linguistics research to investigate trends in language use over time and to analyze gender differences and inequities in scholarly publishing, revealing that in certain fields, men predominate in the prestigious first and last author positions and that women are significantly underrepresented as authors of single-authored papers.