New JSTOR platform

JSTOR has sent around an announcement to everyone who's been involved in the beta testing that the new JSTOR platform will be launched on Friday April 4 beginning around 7 am and continuing throughout the day. There shouldn't be any interruptions or downtime during the transition. Some highlights:

• “MyJSTOR” is the first step in providing greater personal customization for users throughout the site.
• Searches from an individual session are saved and can be rerun from a dropdown menu at the bottom of the search forms.
• Basic searches, which search the full-text of all journals, can be entered directly from the home page by authorized users and can be limited by discipline.
• Advanced Search now has proximity searching using NEAR 5, NEAR 10, & NEAR 25 operators in Boolean pull-down menus.
• The “Images in JSTOR” and “Images in ARTstor” tabs appear in the results from all search forms.
• The new Publication Information Pages include a journal description, holdings information, cataloging information, and a list of browsable volumes, arranged in 10-year segments.

JSTOR is offering webinars later this month on several different dates- you can sign up for these webinars in the Sandbox . The topics of the webinars are "Highlights of the New JSTOR Interface" and "Using the JSTOR Interface."