EIU Booth Library

Upgrade your searching with JSTOR’s interactive research tool

Posted on January 23rd, 2025

Booth Library now has early access to JSTOR’s cutting-edge interactive research tool.  This new JSTOR feature uses advanced technologies, including AI, to help you expand your research within JSTOR’s large collection of journal articles and ebooks.  It helps you find relevant materials faster by surfacing key points and arguments from the text you want to read, discover new topics and results within JSTOR, engage conversationally by asking questions about the text, and search more effectively using everyday language queries.

The interactive research tool is available on content pages for journal articles, book chapters, and research reports, and as an alternative to JSTOR’s standard keyword search.

Here’s how to get started:

1.            Go to jstor.org.

2.            Create a JSTOR personal account or sign in to your existing personal account.

3.            Ensure you have institutional access through EIU (look for the banner at the top of your JSTOR screen).

4.            Run a search and open any journal article, book chapter, or research report to start using the tool.

Get involved!  As an early user, you’ll have the opportunity to provide valuable feedback that will help shape the tool’s development. Remember, it’s a work in progress and will evolve. Because the tool is still in rapid development, JSTOR is requesting feedback, either in the tool via prompts to give interactions thumbs-up or thumbs-down ratings, or you can email JSTOR’s beta team. Your insights will play a key role in refining this exciting new feature!

Explore the interactive research tool today and take your research to the next level!  Please ask a librarian if you have any questions.