Never pay for articles in JSTOR

Date created: Feb 2020

Duration: 2:12

Never pay for online journal articles when you are in university. Don’t do it!
This video will show you how to find an article for free through the libraries, even if
you’re being prompted to pay money through google or another search engine.
JSTOR might look familiar to you. It’s easy to encounter JSTOR when you’re searching
google for information for your research papers. Problem: usually when you’re
searching google, you’re not logged into the library, which is why you’re being asked to
pay for articles you shouldn’t be paying for.
If you come across an article you would like in JSTOR and you see that you need to pay
for a download or need an account to read online, stop.
Here is where you check library resources to find your article for free. Go to the dal
libraries home page, libraries.dal.ca, and type the title of your article into the search bar.
Quotation marks can be used to search for exact wording. Here we have searched for
“Competing technologies, national(ist) narratives, and universal claims: Toward a global
history of space exploration.”
Once you have found the article you’re looking for, click the full text available link. On
the next screen, click on one of the access points to link to the full text. At this point, if
you’re off campus and are not logged in, you will be asked to login with your netID and
password. Since you signed in through Dalhousie, you will be able to access the article
and download it directly for free.

Pro tip: if you want to directly search JSTOR for more articles that you don’t have to pay
for, you can access JSTOR directly as follows: from the library’s homepage,
libraries.dal.ca, click the databases tab under Search Library Resources and type
JSTOR into the search bar. Then hit enter or click the magnifying glass icon. Click on
the first link provided in the results, login with your netID and password, and search for
your topic.
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