LINGANTH Digest - 12 Aug 2013 to 14 Aug 2013 (#2013-95)

[Erika Alpert]

As a former employee of JSTOR, I suggest both writing JSTOR customer support AND talking to whoever manages serials/electronic resources in your library, as they will likely have a contact person at JSTOR that they are probably familiar with and can approach in less of a "random feedback from users," kind of way, if they should decide to pursue it. However, I've never noticed that JSTOR has done a particularly good job of indexing or archiving linguistics journals. (When I was working there, in 2004–2005, pretty much the only thing they had was American Speech. And maybe Language.)

You might also try inquiring with the AAA; what journals are archived/indexed is a matter of the contract between JSTOR and the publisher, and if JLA isn't in there, perhaps the AAA or the SLA might have had a reason for keeping it out? Pushing the AAA/SLA to include JLA in JSTOR might even be the best thing to do, since again, someone in the publishing arm of the AAA will have a contact at JSTOR they can go to and say, "You know, let's include JLA too, what do you think?"

As for searches, honestly, I mainly use Google Scholar. Imperfect, but if I'm logged into my university's VPN, I can then go get it from whatever source is most convenient. Sometimes that's JSTOR, sometimes it's not. (I VERY STRONGLY support JSTOR as an archival project, but as an "I need this article NOW" resource, it quite often falls short.)

I hope that sheds some light on things!

Best,
Erika

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Erika Alpert
Doctoral Candidate, Linguistic Anthropology
University of Michigan
メール：ealpert at umich.edu
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> Date:    Tue, 13 Aug 2013 23:30:12 -0400
> From:    Alejandro Paz <alejandro.paz at UTORONTO.CA>
> Subject: JLA missing from JSTOR? Or recommended search aggregators?
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> Dear Colleagues,
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> I usually use JSTOR when I want to do searches within (socio-cultural) 
> Anthro journals, mostly because I find AnthroSource to be completely 
> unwieldy. I just noticed however that the JLA (SLA's flagship journal) 
> is not actually indexed by JSTOR. Perhaps I shouldn't be surprised, but 
> is there some way to suggest they do?
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> But I also wondered what aggregators/databases others use for searching 
> Anthro journals and/or journals in which many linguistic anthropologists 
> publish (JLA, Lg in Soc, Lg & Comm, etc).
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> I noticed that Anthrosource has a link to Wiley's Online Library, but it 
> doesn't seem clear to me how to narrow searches to Anthro journals, or 
> just socio-cultural Anthro journals. It is however possible to search 
> one journal fairly easily.
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> Thanks for your suggestions,
> Alejandro
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> Alejandro I. Paz
> Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Humanities
> University of Toronto Scarborough
> Graduate Depts of Anthropology and Linguistics
> University of Toronto
> alejandro.paz at utoronto.ca
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