OCE Research: Database and Print Resources

JSTOR (short for Journal Storage) is a digital library of more than 1,500 academic journals, primary source documents, and books. Many items are full-text and peer-reviewed. 

• Do not use stop words: Ex: in, at, an, the, a...These words generally slow down a search. Only use them if you are using quotation marks.
• Use quotation marks if you want to search for a particular phrase.
• Use an asterisk (*) to search for different spellings of the same word or plurals. The asterisk will account for any letters after the *. For example, Afric* will search for Africa, African, and Africans.
• The # symbol will find variations of a word. For example: goose# will seach for goose, geese, and gosling.