JSTOR

Platform: JSTOR

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Ithaka is a not-for-profit organization which provides electronic access to many journals (many of which date back to the 1800s), primary sources, and electronic books on its JSTOR platform.

Content can be browsed by subject, title, and publisher. There is also a basic keyword search, and an advanced search function that allows combining multiple fields with Boolean operators, and limiting to content available to your institution, item type, date range, language, and discipline.

Laurier Library subscribes primarily to backfiles or archives of these journals so the most recent few years of articles are not typically not available. Here's the list of the journal archive collections available to us:

Arts & Sciences I Collection
Arts & Sciences II Collection
Arts & Sciences III Collection
Arts & Sciences IV Collection
Arts & Sciences V Collection
Arts & Sciences VI Collection
Arts & Sciences VII Collection
Arts & Sciences VIII Collection
Arts & Sciences IX Collection
Arts & Sciences X Collection
Arts & Sciences XI Collection
Business I Collection (part of some of the Arts & Sciences Collections above)
Business II Collection (part of some of the Arts & Sciences Collections above)
Business III Collection
Life Sciences Collection

We previously had individual journal subscriptions on this platform. There are also many books we've purchased on the platform, either individually or in subject and year collections. The collections are: