Alumni get free access to JSTOR journals

Saint Meinrad alumni now have access to a wealth of new information through free access to JSTOR online journal archives.

JSTOR is an archive of articles from scholarly journals. Full-text articles are available to read online or to download and save or print. JSTOR journals have a three- to five-year blackout period in which the most recent articles are not available. For almost all journals, back issues are available.

JSTOR contains high-quality articles in humanities, arts and social sciences, and is a rich source for articles on theology, Church history, Christian art and architecture, philosophy, literature and other topics that may be of interest to alumni.

"With the addition of JSTOR to the online journals accessible to our alumni, Saint Meinrad is now able to offer a very large store of high-quality articles on religion and theology,” says Library Director Dan Kolb, who was instrumental in arranging the new service. "The articles in these databases cannot be accessed anywhere else. Someone would have to subscribe to hundreds of journals for decades to begin to get all this content.”

JSTOR journal access is in addition to ATLASerials, which have been available free to alumni for several years. ATLASerials is an archive of full-text articles from journals and magazines relating to religion and theology. It contains a wide variety of publications ranging from popular magazines to scholarly journals. ATLAS currently contains about 180 titles.

To get access to both JSTOR and ATLAS, click on "Online Resources” in the left menu. Access to the journals is password protected, so alumni who are not already members of the website will need to sign up for an account. Signing up for a new account is free and easy to do.