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Articles & Images at NYSID: Jstor

Using Jstor

JSTOR database offers full text scholarly articles in the subjects of design, art, architecture and the general humanities.

Quick tip for narrowing down your results in JSTOR:  

  • From the library home page, go directly to the Advanced Search option.  Towards the bottom of the page, find the "Narrow By" and "Item Type" and click on "Articles".   From here you can enter a keyword to complete your search.  This will ensure that your results will only be journal articles, as opposed to other parts of the digitized journals such as Tables of Contents, and short book reviews.  

Searching in Jstor

In the example below, we see that a search for "Fallingwater plans" brought back an article with interior images of Fallingwater. It did have plans, but from other Frank Lloyd Wright houses and buildings. However, this was an excellent article for background on Wright and how he applied his theories of design to Fallingwater.