JSTOR's New Search Engine

Dear JSTOR Participant,

For the past several months JSTOR has been developing a new search
engine in order to improve the usability of JSTOR searching. We are now
happy to announce the initial release of JSTOR’s new search engine and
search interfaces. The primary goals of this first release are to
improve the speed of a search and to introduce the ability to search all
disciplines at once without having to select each discipline individually.

Highlights of some of the other new features you will notice when using
JSTOR:

Basic Search


* By default, JSTOR’s new Basic Search allows searchers to search
all content in the archive (articles, reviews, etc.)
* The Boolean operators AND, OR and NOT are available. Words are
“anded” together by default.
* Phrase searching is available by enclosing terms in quotes (e.g.,
“punctuated equilibrium”)
* Field searching may be accomplished by using field operators
(e.g., ti:"two-person cooperative games" au:nash).

Advanced and Expert Search options, which allow users to limit their
searches by field, content type, discipline and journal title, and date
range, are also available.

To learn more about JSTOR’s search functionality, please visit:

http://www.jstor.org/help/search.html

We continue to work on our search engine, and plan to release additional
features and enhancements. We encourage you to send us feedback
regarding any additional functionality and improvements you would like
to see.

Thank you for your continued support and suggestions.

Sincerely,

Kristen Garlock

Manager of Outreach, Training, and User Assistance
301 East Liberty, Suite 310
Ann Arbor, MI 48104-2262
Phone: 1-888-388-3574, 734-998-9101
Fax: 734-998-9113
Email: kgarlock@jstor.org