Earlier this summer, we reported on major changes to the JSTOR interface in Weekly Online News https://staffweb.lib.washington.edu/news/won/won-archive/weekly-online-news-08-30-10

Since that time, JSTOR reports that the default option for authenticated users on all search forms has been changed to search licensed content only. Authenticated users include users on campus or users logged in via a remote access option.

For authorized users at participating institutions, the checkbox for “Include only content I can access” on the Advanced Search form will be selected by default. Individual users will be able to deselect the checkbox if they wish to search across all content.

Other JSTOR search forms (the new basic search box on each page, the Citation Locator, and search within a journal) will also default to searching only licensed content.

After receiving search results for any search, any user may still elect to view all results for all content including unlicensed content.

The second major issue is a delayed implementation of JSTOR’s open url linking. Users who do access unsubscribed content may therefore miss getting to content we do subscribe to or own via another channel. A revised date for this implementation has not been announced.

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