JSTOR Offers Early Journal Content for Free
JSTOR, a not-for-profit scholarly digital archive which primarily serves libraries and academic institutions, has announced it will make its “journal content published prior to 1923 in the United States and prior to 1870 elsewhere freely available to anyone, anywhere in the world. This Early Journal Content includes discourse and scholarship in the arts and humanities, economics and politics, and in mathematics and other sciences. It includes nearly 500,000 articles from more than 200 journals . . . Making the Early Journal Content freely available is a first step in a larger effort to provide more access options to the content on JSTOR for these individuals.”
http://about.jstor.org/participate-jsto ... al-content
To access the journals:
From the JSTOR home page go to advanced search. Check the box to search "only content I can access," put in your search terms and away you go! I searched for Art and Belfast and am currently reading the Dublin Penny Journal from 1833 and the Belfast Monthly Journal from 1814 after that
there is also an article (with map) called "Surnames in the County of Antrim" in the Ulster Journal of Archaeology, etc etc.Enjoy!
Sarah
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