JSTOR provides many full-text scholarly articles in different fields but does not provide access to the most current years; instead, coverage usually ends about 3-5 years ago, depending on the journal.
Primary sources from around the world and scholarly journal articles spanning a wide range of fields and going as far back as the 1800s. Coverage for most journals in this database ends 3-5 years ago.
Conducting a Search
The screenshot examples below search for articles about the Crusades and the Byzantine Empire.
I put my keywords into different search boxes to make the search simpler.
I used quotes to search for words together as a phrase (i.e. "byzantine empire").
I checked the box next to Articles under Item Type to show just articles in my search results.
Click the Submit Advanced Search button to start searching for articles.
Reviewing Search Results
This search found 803 articles related to my keywords.
Results are automatically sorted by relevance, so the most relevant articles are displayed first in the list of results.
To read an article, click on the Download PDF button and accept JSTOR's terms.