Getting Started in JSTOR Forum

 To request a JSTOR Forum account, follow the steps below:

1. Verify that your repository is already represented in JSTOR Forum.

2. Notify your JSTOR Forum liaison with your request for a new account.

3. The JSTOR Forum liaison will contact the Image Cataloging and Access Working Group at ICAWG@HU.onmicrosoft.com and a member of the group will give you access to JSTOR Forum production and Demo sites.

4. After access has been granted, you should receive an email from JSTOR Forum with a link to set up your password.

5. Join the harvard-JSTOR-Forum-users mailing list to receive communications regarding JSTOR Forum. 

Please note: All accounts in JSTOR Forum must be associated with a validly affiliated individual. No "generic" accounts can be created for use by multiple users (such as student workers).

Steps for Admin Users only to create account: 

1. After a new Forum account has been requested, go to Admin > Users

2. Search for new user’s email address under Search users, if no results, then click Add Users button

3. In resulting screen, enter users’ email address. Do not check Institutional Admin box

4. In step 2, select the project(s) that the user should have access to

5. In step 3, assign the role as “Cataloger.” Affirm with requestor which cataloging forms to give access to (if there is more than just the Full Record) and whether they want to assign a Base Filter (limits what the cataloger can see within the project).

After you have established your account, you may want to review JSTOR's documentation on Forum here: JSTOR Forum documentation. As you read JSTOR Forum documentation, remember Harvard does not use JSTOR Forum to store image files, our images are stored in the DRS, so ignore any mentions of “media” or “media files.” Please also review the local Harvard Best Practices. 

JSTOR also has a mailing list for users that you can sign up for here: Join the JSTOR Forum mailing list.