JSTOR’s interactive research tool: Home
Nash Library is excited to share that our institution now has early access to JSTOR's new interactive research tool.
Developed in collaboration with the scholarly community, this innovative tool uses advanced technologies, including AI, to empower people to deepen and expand their research within JSTOR’s trusted corpus.
What is JSTOR’s interactive research tool?
The tool empowers students, faculty, researchers, and librarians to expand their research and unearth new avenues for discovery within JSTOR's extensive collection. It helps researchers identify relevant materials faster by surfacing key points and arguments from a text being viewed, discover new topics and texts within the JSTOR corpus, engage conversationally by asking questions about the text, and search more effectively with semantic, natural language queries.
How to access the tool:
The interactive research tool is available on content pages for journal articles, book chapters, and research reports, and as an alternative to JSTOR’s standard keyword search. The new tool requires all users to have a personal JSTOR account.
How to get started:
- Go to jstor.org
- JSTOR Personal account
- Existing JSTOR accounts - Close the popup window and sign in to begin utilizing the new tool
- New users are able following the instructions on the automatic pop up to Create/Register a personal JSTOR account
- Run a search and open any journal article, book chapter, or research report to start using the tool.
Additional Support materials:
- Introduction and FAQ: An overview of the tool’s capabilities and common questions.
- Support article: A step-by-step guide on accessing and exploring the tool’s features
Get involved: As an early user, you’ll have the opportunity to provide valuable feedback that will help shape the tool’s development. Remember, it’s a work in progress and will evolve. Because the tool is still in rapid development, JSTOR is requesting feedback, either in the tool via prompts to give interactions thumbs-up or thumbs-down ratings, or you can email JSTOR’s beta team. Your insights will play a key role in refining this exciting new feature!
Explore the interactive research tool today and take your research to the next level!