JSTOR Upgrades

Dear JSTOR Participant:

We are glad to announce two JSTOR search engine developments that were released Wednesday, August 31.


Article Locator

The Article Locator is a new search form that allows you to find a specific article with an easy, fill-in-the-blank form. To locate a single article, enter as much information as you have from an article reference or citation. The form will search multiple fields of a citation simultaneously, such as author name, article title, journal title, volume/issue information, year, etc.

The Article Locator was available for preview from June 2005 to August 2005 as the JSTOR “Citation Search.” During the preview period, we received over 150 messages from JSTOR users who had tested the form. Based on this feedback, we made several improvements to the form, including:

- Renaming the form to “Article Locator” to better reflect the functionality. - Refining the “near match” capability to result in closer matches when no exact match is found. - Returning more detailed information to better indicate the nature of any errors encountered.

The Article Locator may be accessed directly at:

http://www.jstor.org/search/ArticleLocatorSearch


JSTOR XML Gateway

As part of our continued effort to increase the convenience of access to the archive, we have developed an XML gateway to better facilitate metasearching of JSTOR content. As some of our participating institutions have chosen to implement a metasearch engine for their users, we recognized the need to provide both a stable, standardized method for querying the JSTOR archive and also a manner of returning results that could be easily utilized by a metasearch program.

More information about the JSTOR XML gateway may be found at:

http://www.jstor.org/about/xml_gateway.html

JSTOR has metasearching agreements with a number of partners, several of whom assisted us in testing the new gateway, including: Auto-Graphics Inc., Endeavor Information Systems Inc., ExLibris, and WebFeat. For a complete list of all of our current partners, please see the Metasearch Partner Contact Information page:

http://www.jstor.org/about/metasearch_partners.html

If you have any questions about these new developments, please do not hesitate to contact JSTOR User Services (support@jstor.org ).