JSTOR

JSTOR includes the complete runs of significant journal titles in several disciplines. JSTOR's focus is on becoming a trusted archive and does not publish current issues of the journals. The JSTOR database is unique because the complete backfiles of these core scholarly journals have been digitized, starting with the very first issues, many of which date from the 1800's. New titles and fields are being added constantly. JSTOR's agreements with publishers include an updating provision referred to as a "moving wall." The purpose of the moving wall is to ensure that participants can rely on JSTOR to be the trusted archive for the journal backfiles, while also giving publishers protection from the threat of lost revenues if recent issues were available in the database. The moving wall is a fixed period of time ranging, in most cases, from 2 to 5 years, that defines the gap between the most recently published issue of any journal and the date of the most recent issue available in JSTOR. As each year passes, another year is added to the archive, thus guaranteeing that the archive is being constantly updated and refreshed.

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