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Description

JSTOR is a not-for-profit organization with a dual mission to create and maintain a trusted archive of important scholarly journals, and to provide access to these journals as widely as possible. JSTOR offers researchers the ability to retrieve high-resolution, scanned images of journal issues and pages as they were originally designed, printed, and illustrated. The journals archived in JSTOR span many disciplines.

The Arts & Sciences Collections represent the building blocks of an interdisciplinary archive of over six hundred journals in the arts, humanities, and social sciences. Each of the four core Arts & Sciences Collections introduces new academic disciplines into the archive. The Biological Sciences Collection is an interdisciplinary archive of journals covering the life sciences. The Biological Sciences Collection will include at least one hundred titles when it is completed in 2007. This collection brings together the twenty-nine journals available in the existing Ecology & Botany Collection with more than seventy titles new to JSTOR. Coverage in this collection offers greater depth in fields such as biodiversity, conservation, paleontology, and plant science, in addition to introducing new areas such as cell biology and zoology. The British Medical Journal ( from 1840--) and Science News (from 1922--) are included in this collection.

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Ecology & Botany. The Ecology & Botany Collection contains twenty-nine titles in the biological sciences. Topics covered by the ecology journals are wide-ranging, from biodiversity and climate change to conservation and experimental biology. The botany titles—including the oldest botanical journal in the Americas—encompass a range of subjects such as plant biology, systematic botany, and taxonomy.
Health & General Sciences. The Health & General Sciences Collection currently contains ten titles, including several of the most important historical scientific journals published: Science, PNAS, and the publications of the Royal Society of London. The material included in this archive reaches back to the seventeenth century and in total covers more than eight hundred years of journal publication.
Language & Literature. The fifty-eight titles in the Language & Literature Collection span the literary cultures of many different countries, and contain articles in several languages, including Arabic, Italian, and German. Developed with the help of the Modern Language Association, this collection includes PMLA and a range of core journals in the diverse fields of literary criticism that have emerged in the last thirty years.
Mathematics & Statistics.The Mathematics & Statistics Collection unites over forty titles in the mathematical and statistical sciences from existing JSTOR collections.
Music The Music Collection contains the complete back runs of thirty-two titles dedicated to scholarly research and theory in the field of music. This international collection includes journals published in the Netherlands, Croatia, Hungary, Germany, and France.

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Coverage

JSTOR offers coverage of included journals from the initial date of publication. Because of JSTOR's archival mission, there is a gap, typically from 1 to 5 years, between the most recently published journal issue and the back issues available in JSTOR. This is referred to as the "moving wall."

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