Speaker 1: This video will show you how to search the JSTOR database to find articles containing literary criticism. Start at the library homepage at library.pace.edu. In the search widget in the middle of the page, click on the Databases button. Then click on the letter J. This will take you to the databases that begin with the letter J. Click on JSTOR, the title of the database. JSTOR gives you a few different search options that you can use. We find that searching for articles about literary criticism, the most effective way to do this is to do a combined search of the author's last name and the title of the work. So I'm going to type in The Bluest Eye, which is the title of the work. I'm going to put that in quotation marks, which looks for that exact phrase. In the second search box, I will put the author's last name. And then you can add a search box if you'd like and add a third search. This is where you could add maybe a keyword or a topic. So for example, feminism or racism or whatever theme you might be researching in your particular work. If you scroll down, there are some other options I recommend. I think it's helpful to limit your search to articles. Otherwise, you end up with some movie and book reviews that are not really considered scholarly research. Also, JSTOR is an international database, so I find it's helpful to limit to English language articles. Once you've entered your search terms and applied your limiters, you can then click the Submit Advanced Search button. And this will show you your search results. In this case, you can see we have 255 results. They are sorted in what's called relevance order. So that means JSTOR is trying to bring what it thinks are the best results to the top of the list. So these articles have been published at all different times. They are not in date order, which is usually okay for this kind of research. As we start to scroll through, you can see the kind of results that we're getting. And you can see that our search terms are highlighted in yellow. And the little snippet of text that's given to us on the results page, we'll see more of that when we click on an individual title. Something else that you can do to further narrow down your results if you need to, is over on the left you see a list of subject areas. So these are the different subject areas in JSTOR. So they put their journals into different subject collections. And you can choose from this menu as well if you'd like to perhaps focus your search in a different way. So maybe we searched for the keyword feminism, but maybe we want to only look at journals in the African American Studies area. We can click on that subject, and now it's showing us 41 results. And these are all considered in that category of African American Studies. So it still held on to our search terms that we typed in, but now it's only showing us the results from that section of the JSTOR database. So over on the left, again, you have all those different options for broad subject areas. I'll uncheck that. And we're back at our original list of results. As we go in and start to look at any of these, we would click on the article title in order to enter into the actual article. So if we click on an article title, it will start to display the article. You'll see some information about the article on the left. And then you can see that you can actually start paging through the article here. You can download the entire article as a PDF. So if the download button is available, you can click to download the article. And this will take us to a page where we can actually get the entire article as a PDF file. And you can save it. You can read it on your own device. On the top left, there's a link to go back to your results. So again, we can go back and we can look at some of the other items that are here in our list of results. So if we click on another journal article, and you can see in this one, we didn't get this option in the previous example. You can actually page through the article right here on this screen. Maybe you want to start skimming it. And then if you want to, you can use that download button at the top right and download the PDF of the full article. That's the nice thing about the JSTOR database is it contains all full text to the scholarly journals that are contained within it. So you should always be able to access the full article. Also above the article view, you see some options there to save it, to share it, and to also get the citation. So if you click on cite, you can see that it's giving you a few different styles and MLA is right at the top. So you can copy that. If you click on copy, it copies it to your clipboard. And then you could paste that citation into your presentation or your document, whichever it is that you're putting together. And if we go back to our list of results, we can continue to browse. Also at the top right of our results, you see a link that says modify search. That takes you back to the search page. And maybe here you want to change your search. Maybe you have a different topic or a different theme that you want to try. You can certainly change your search terms and then you get different results. I switched from feminism to racism and you can see now I have 412 results. I still have that option on the left. If I wanted to also narrow down by broad subject area, I could choose one of the subject areas on the left. Or I could just begin clicking through and browsing, skimming article abstracts, reading articles, downloading articles. And again using that cite button to grab the MLA citation for the article. And I go back to my results and I can always go back and modify my search if I need to from there. If you have any questions about using the JSTOR database, just go to library.pace.edu and click on the Ask a Librarian button.