The Basic Search box is available from the JSTOR homepage.  Basic search is useful for general searching or scoping a topic.  

1. Enter your search terms into the search box.

2. You can choose to do a broad search or limit your search to looking at the author or creator, title, publication or image fields.

3. Click the Search icon (magnifying glass) 

JSTOR will display a list of results that match your search query.

Search Tips:

    Use Boolean Operators (AND OR and NOT ) to connect your keywords together and narrow or broaden your search

• AND finds results containing both keywords e.g.badgers AND tuberculosis.  
• OR finds results containing either one or both keywords e.g. badgers AND (tuberculosis OR TB) 
• NOT excludes a keyword from your search results e.g. badgers AND tuberculosis AND vaccination -oral.  Warning: using - can result in your search not returning  some results that are relevant.
• Use quotation marks (" ") to search for a phrase or words together in an exact order e.g. badgers AND "bacterium bovis"