Below are some guides and videos to help you effectively search the JSTOR database.
How to Use JSTOR (for Students)
Video: Building Search Skills with JSTOR How to use the basic search, advanced search, and text analyzer (which is awesome!) You can start watching at 2:30 and skip the intro.
Smart Searching A series of short videos with tips on how to effectively search JSTOR. These tips can be applied to searching any database.
Text Analyzer (Beta) A new way to search JSTOR. Upload a document or text, and JSTOR processes the text to find the most significant topics and then recommends similar content on JSTOR. You can then make changes to the topics to refine your results.