JSTOR Expands to High Schools

The JSTOR program is expanding its horizons. Following a two-year pilot program, the database of scholarly journals is now available to high school students. JSTOR asserts that early training in use of the database will better prepare young students for the rigors of college-level research demands. Moreover, many high school students take advanced placement courses for college credit that require college-level work.

The database gives high schoolers access to 322 peer-reviewed academic journals in 26 disciplines. JSTOR also asserts that having students even at the precollege level use peer-reviewed journals for assignments insures the quality of their findings as opposed to searching via Yahoo or Google or on other Internet sites, which often generate low-quality resources.