New: JSTOR Primary Resources

July 06, 2023

New: JSTOR Primary Resources

Recently we included several new JSTOR databases with primary resources in our database overview:

19th Century British Pamphlets
Throughout the 19th century, pamphlets were important channels of public debate, covering key political, social, technological, and environmental issues of their day. This collection contains British pamphlets from the 19th century held in seven research libraries in the United Kingdom.
Struggles for Freedom: Southern Africa
The collection focuses on the complex and varied liberation struggles in the region, with an emphasis on Botswana, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, and Zimbabwe. It brings together materials from various archives and libraries throughout the world documenting colonial rule, dispersion of exiles, international intervention, and the worldwide networks that supported successive generations of resistance within the region. With more than 190,000 pages of documents and images, including periodicals, nationalist publications, records of colonial government commissions, local newspaper reports, personal papers, correspondence, UN documents, out-of-print and other particularly relevant books, oral histories, and speeches.
World Heritage Sites: Africa
Visual, contextual, and spatial documentation of African heritage sites are assembled in this collection. It includes more than 57,000 objects, including photographs, 3D models, GIS data, site plans, aerial and satellite photography, images of rock art, excavation reports, manuscripts, traveller’s accounts, historical and antiquarian maps, books, articles, and other scholarly research

Another database included is Global Plants, focussing on botanical resources. For more information see the JSTOR website

GO TO JSTOR DATABASES AT UVA

Searching within the databases of JSTOR

The layout and search options are similar in all these databases:

Keyword search and refine results
There is a basic search option only. Searching with boolean operators (AND, OR, NOT) and wildcards (?, *) is possible.

The results of a search can be refined ('search within results') by limiting to a time period, language, type of publication, a specific subject/collection or adding new keywords.
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