Organizing your research with Workspace

What's in this Article:

• What's New in JSTOR for Organizing Your Research?
• Saving Items to Your Workspace
• Saving Links from the Web
• Viewing and Organizing Your Workspace
• Sharing Content from Workspace
• Exporting Citations from Workspace

Organizing Your Research in JSTOR

We noticed that when people research, their first step is to do a search and gather as many relevant resources as possible, then go back later and organize that information according to their research.

We designed Workspace to better fit into the researcher's workflow. You can still export your citations, save your items, and add notes to your work. With Workspace, you can save your work on JSTOR, and come back to it at anytime.

Saving Items to Your Workspace

Let's say you were searching for any articles on JSTOR that have to do with "cat behavior." Enter your search terms, then you'll notice you have the option to "save" any of the search results you see. To keep this resource and come back to it later, click "Save."

Keep saving! If anything looks like it might be related to your research, just hit "Save" and come back to it later.

Saving Links from the Web

If you have a resource you've found on the web outside of JSTOR, you can add those to your Workspace too. 

Just click the globe icon, add the link title and text, then click add to be able to get to that resource from the Workspace.

Viewing and Organizing Your Workspace

Viewing Your Workspace

New to JSTOR? Haven't created an account? That's ok! We will temporarily save your Workspace for 2 days from the first time that you save an item. But remember: you'll need to create an account or log in to your existing account to save Workspace items.

To access your Workspace, you can click on any of the "Saved" buttons. The button text will change to "View Workspace" after you hover (or tab) over the button.

Click on "View Workspace" to be taken to your saved items.

Quick Tip: after you create an account, you can also find your Workspace by selecting "My Workspace" from the dropdown menu that branches off of your name at the top right of the screen.

If you started saving your sources more than 2 days ago and didn't log in to a personal account to save it, your work may have been lost. Contact us if you're not sure or need help!

Organizing Your Workspace

Once you get to your Workspace, you'll see all the articles you saved. From there, you will be able to create different folders.

Here is a quick list of all the things you can do from My Workspace:

• "Create" new folders
• "Add" links to external resources
• "Move" saved articles to folders you've created
• Create auto-formatted citations
• Delete Citations

Quick tip: To add a link to an external resource, click the "Add" icon and paste or type a link to a resource you found outside of the JSTOR website.

You can drag and drop items into your folders, or, click the check box next to each item you want to organize, then click "Move" to add them to a folder you already created.

Sharing Content from your Workspace

Now that you've saved content in your Workspace, you might want to share what you've found with someone else.

To share content in your Workspace:

• Make sure you are logged into a personal account. (Don't have an account? You can register for one on our registration page.)
• Click on folders or items in your Workspace that you would like to share. 
• Click the "Share" button toward the top-right of the Workspace.
• A new window will pop open where you can add any email addresses (limit 10) that you would like to share content with. You can include a short message about the content as well. 
• You will need to check the box agreeing to our Privacy Policy before you hit the send button.
• Click the "Send" button to send links to content.

Depending on how your are logged in to JSTOR, you may also see a box checked with the text "Use permalinks." If this box is checked, links to content will direct users to log into your institution for access before being taken to the content page on JSTOR.

Exporting Citations from Workspace

When you are done saving citations to your Workspace and you are ready to create a list of automatically-created citations, you can easily do that within any page in your Workspace: within a folder, a specific citation, or everything in your Workspace at once!

1. Start by making sure your citations you want to export are all in the same folder.
2. Select the citations you want to create by clicking the check boxes manually, or select them all by clicking the checkbox to the left of "Name" at the top of your citations.
3. Once you have selected your citations, click on "Cite" at the top of your Workspace
4. A popup window will open. 
5. Select the exportation type that works best for you. (Not using a citation manager? That's ok! Select "Export a Text File" to get a simple file that will be readable by most computers.)