JSTOR and Project MUSE are full text collections of certain scholarly journals spanning the disciplines and not comprehensive or specialized (discipline-specific) bibliographic databases.
What does this mean for me?
- (Almost) All of the articles are full text--and you can search the full text!
- You can search across disciplines, but be aware that you are searching a selected number of journals. It is important to use subject-specific bibliographic databases, where there may be more citations for your subject. They also have better indexing.
- JSTOR provides full text keyword searching only. This means that you can not search by subject in a designated subject field. Therefore, you may wade through hundreds of results that are not relevant. Your results will be as good as your query. For effective searching in JSTOR, visit Help and read “Searching JSTOR” to learn power commands and operators to increase relevancy.
- Project Muse offers faceted browsing (browsing by category) of results, to further refine your search.
Project Muse and JSTOR also index ebooks, but Rider University Libraries may not have access to these titles as ebooks.