Data for Research (DfR)
The Data for Research (DfR) service is provided by JSTOR for use by the research community. It provides a set of web-based tools for selecting and interacting with content from the JSTOR archive, an archives that spans hundreds of years and billions of words of text. The service also provides the ability to obtain data sets via bulk downloads or using a REST API. The DfR service is completely free and available to the public.
Features provided by the site include:
- Full-text and fielded searching of the entire JSTOR archive using a powerful faceted search interface. Using this interface one can quickly and easily define content of interest through an iterative process of searching and results filtering.
- Online viewing of document-level data including word frequencies, citations, key terms, and ngrams.
- Request and download datasets containing word frequencies, citations, key terms, or ngrams associated with the content selected.
- API for content selection and retrieval.
To learn more, see the Data for Research (DfR): Key Terms tutorial.
Data for Research has been developed by JSTOR's Advanced Technology Research (ATR) group. The Advanced Technology Research Group is dedicated to discovering and using relevant technologies in support of JSTOR and the broader scholarly community. To view other projects, built by ATR and the greater scholarly community, please visit us at http://showcase.jstor.org.