Tips and tricks for performing advanced searches in JSTOR:
- Use synonyms - names of places change, different terms are used in different countries
- JSTOR excludes 'stop words' such as "a", "in", "at" etc.
- Use quotation marks when performing phrase searches - JSTOR will search words in the order that they appear in a phrase
- 90% of the articles in JSTOR do not contain abstracts, so be careful when choosing this option
- When using the date range, be aware that names of places change over time - for example, Sri Lanka used to be called Ceylon, Burma is now known by its official name of Myanmar
- Use a wildcard (*) to search for different spellings of the same word, eg. counsel* will return results for 'counselling' and 'counseling'
- Narrow your search results one step at a time
- Save results in My JSTOR so that you can return to them later.
