New Research Possibilities with JSTOR’s Interactive Research Tool

The McDermott Library is excited to share that our institution now has early access to JSTOR’s new interactive research tool. Developed in collaboration with the scholarly community, this innovative tool uses advanced technologies, including AI, to empower people to deepen and expand their research with JSTOR’s trusted corpus.

What is JSTOR’s interactive research tool?
The tool empowers UTD students, faculty, librarians, and researchers to expand their research and unearth new avenues for discovery within JSTOR’s extensive collection of millions of academic journal articles and thousands of books. It helps researchers identify relevant materials faster by summarizing key points and arguments from a text, discover new topics and texts within the JSTOR, engage conversationally by asking questions about the text, and search more effectively with semantic, natural language queries.

How to access the interactive research tool: The 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:

Go to JSTOR (also available under the “Databases” tab on the library homepage).
Create a JSTOR personal account or sign in to your existing personal account.
Ensure you have institutional access through our institution (visible at the top of your JSTOR screen as the text, Access Provided by the Libraries of the University of Texas at Dallas).
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 is 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!

Questions, concerns, or comments? Feel free to Ask a Librarian for more information.