 Welcome to the Library Media Center's JSTOR tutorial. In this tutorial, you'll learn how to conduct a basic search within JSTOR's collection of academic journal articles, books, and primary sources. You might be wondering, what is JSTOR? JSTOR is a database of academic content, including peer-reviewed scholarly journals, respected literary journals, academic monographs, research reports from trusted institutes, and primary sources. JSTOR contains more than 2,600 scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. In addition, JSTOR provides access to 70,000 DRM-free e-books from scholarly publishers. DRM-free means that there are no limitations on the number of uses or downloads for these e-books. Let's imagine you're writing a paper on the topic of fairy tales, and you want to find academic articles for your paper by searching in JSTOR. From the home page, type your search word, fairy tales, into the main search bar in the center of the page. Then hit the blue magnifying glass icon to the right of the search bar, or tap the Enter key to get your search results. The number of search results shows up at the top center of the results page. In this case, over 16,000 resources. In order to narrow down the results, you can choose additional keywords to search. If you typed Irish fairy tales into the main search bar and hit Enter, the number of search results drops to under 3,000. You can also use the filters on the left-hand side of the search results page to narrow your results further. For help finding new search words, check out the topics cards. These are the words listed under every item on your results page. For a more complex search, use the Advanced Search option, linked under the main search bar on the home page and on the search results page. This will break up a big search into smaller sections and let you get more specific about the content you want to retrieve. Looking at the search results for Irish fairy tales, notice that each item generally includes the following information. The type of resource, such as a journal article or book chapter, the title of the resource, the author or editor, the publication information, such as journal title and volume number, data publication, and a list of topics words. To the right side of each list item is a column of three rectangular buttons. The first will download a PDF of that resource. The second saves the resource within JSTOR. The third generates a citation of the resource. If you want to know more about a specific item, click on the title. This redirects to the item page, where you can read the full text of that item online. The buttons for downloading a PDF, saving, and sharing are located along the top right side of the page. The button to site is now located on the left side of the page. For additional help while using JSTOR, check out the support page which is always linked in the upper right-hand side of a page in JSTOR. You have now learned about JSTOR, what this database contains, and the basics for searching. If you have any additional questions, please contact the Library Media Center.