Art 4402 Advanced Printmaking (Deifik)

There used to be two separate databases called JSTOR and Artstor, but they have now merges and can be searched together through the JSTOR interface. this is unique because now you can search for scholarship and images on the same topic at once. 

Also, the images available through Artstor are often the highest quality you can find online and they include full metadata and usage rights. This is important to identify where the image is coming form, who owns the rights to it, and what you're allowed to do with the image as a researcher. That information is located in the JSTOR Terms and Conditions.

You can also create a JSTOR account that allows you to download high quality images ad articles to create a personal library within the database. You can share this content with a group if you're collaborating and create a Power Point presentation as well.

Here's a direct link to JSTOR / Artstor:

This section covers several database search tips, including Boolean Operators, wildcards, and shortcuts, that will make your research more efficient.

Quotation Marks: To search for a phrase, use quotation marks around the words that make up the phrase. For example, instead of putting in Olympic and gymnast as separate terms, put them together like this: “Olympic gymnast.” Doing so helps narrow down your search.

Boolean Operators: Strategically incorporating And, Or, and Not into your searches will help you get better results by narrowing or expanding your search and by eliminating unnecessary terms from your results.

Example:

• And: You can narrow your results by adding AND to your search. If you combine “Bauhaus” AND “Paul Klee,” your results will contain both terms.
• Or: Conversely, searching Bauhaus OR Paul Klee will expand your search by retrieving results with either one of those terms.
• Not: This will narrow your results by excluding a term that is irrelevant to you. For example, searching Bauhaus NOT Paul Klee will eliminate a term that occurs frequently in searchers. If that’s not the focus of your research, excluding it from your results can help streamline the search process.

The Boolean operators will be located in the drop down menu within a database’s advanced search options. For example, this is what they look like in Academic Search Premier:

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Truncation Symbols: Including asterisks, question marks, and exclamation points can help streamline your searches by ensuring that you are capturing word variations and alternate spellings.

Example:

• Asterisks: Placing an * at the point where the spelling of a word could change will search for every variation of that word. For example, placing an asterisk at the end of wom* will search for every variation of that word at once.
• Exclamation Points: Used for searching variations of the same word with alternative spellings. For example, wom!n = women or woman.
• Question Marks: Useful for searching words and names with alternate spellings, such as British and American variants or words that are translated in slightly different ways. For example, colo?r = color and colour.

For more on on truncation symbols and boolean operators, see this handy guide from Wellesley University.