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Your personal account may support your research in a variety of ways depending on your role and affiliations, including:</p> <ul> <li>Access to free, read-online content for participating publishers for all registered personal accounts.</li> <li>Additional content access and account admin permissions for individuals who manage JSTOR for subscribing institutions, such as librarians.</li> <li>The option for faculty, students, and staff to connect your personal account to the institution's subscription for matching access remotely, if you are affiliated with a subscribing school, university, or library.</li> </ul> <p>Learn more about the <a href="https://support.jstor.org/hc/en-us/articles/360046231254">Benefits of a Personal JSTOR Account</a></p> <h2 id="whoregisters">Who uses a personal registered account?</h2> <p><strong>Anyone with an e-mail address may register for a personal account.</strong></p> <p>For independent researchers and individuals who aren't affiliated with a school, organization, or library, a personal account provides citation management and research tools for all kinds of researchers.</p> <p>Students, scholars, and independent historians may use a personal account to conveniently save, manage, and organize citations for projects, articles, and papers directly on JSTOR.</p> <p>Already registered? Learn more about <a href="https://support.jstor.org/hc/en-us/articles/360000585347">How to Use Your Free Reads with a Personal Account</a>.</p> <p>If you're a librarian or administrative member of your school, library, or organization, you must first have a registered personal account before you can be granted admin permissions for the institutional account.</p> <p>For individuals requiring admin permissions, through your personal account you will also be able to review and manage:</p> <ul> <li>Usage statistics</li> <li>Holdings</li> <li>Account information</li> </ul> <p>Learn more about <a href="https://support.jstor.org/hc/en-us/sections/115001492608-Librarians-and-Administrators">what Librarians and account Administrators can do with admin permissions.</a></p> <h2 id="register">How do I register for a personal account?</h2> <figure><iframe title="How to register for a personal JSTOR account" src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/FruKv1lvn8I" width="560" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></figure> <p>To register for a new free account:</p> <ol> <li>Visit the JSTOR <a href="https://www.jstor.org/register" target="_blank" rel="noopener">registration page</a>.</li> <li>Provide an email address. <ul> <li>The email address you choose to register with will be your default username.</li> </ul> </li> <li>Confirm your email address.</li> <li>Select a strong password. Passwords must:<br> <ul> <li>Contain at least one (1) upper or lowercase character.</li> <li>Contain at least one (1) number or special character.</li> <li>Be a minimum of six (6) characters in length.</li> <li>No spaces or whitespace are permitted.</li> </ul> </li> <li>Confirm your password.</li> <li>Optionally, provide any additional information you would like to share (role, area of study, etc.).</li> <li>Review the Terms and Conditions of use and select the checkbox.</li> <li>To stay logged in, select <strong>Keep me Logged In</strong>.</li> <li>To opt into updates from JSTOR and/or JSTOR-participating publishers, select <strong>JSTOR Updates</strong>.</li> </ol> <h2 id="myjstoraccount">What can I do with a Personal account?</h2> <p>Personal accounts can help with your research, whether you are a student with access to an institutional subscription or an independent researcher:</p> <ul> <li> <a href="https://support.jstor.org/hc/en-us/articles/360000585347">Read up to 100 articles every 30 days</a> online for free.</li> <li>Save your citations to your personal <a href="https://support.jstor.org/hc/en-us/articles/360007226454" target="_self">Workspace.</a> </li> <li>Students who have access to JSTOR through their school can use <a href="https://support.jstor.org/hc/en-us/articles/360002001593-Using-JSTOR-to-Start-Your-Research#h_50330497551523990868638">a personal account to save their work.</a> </li> <li>If you're a librarian or account administrator, a registered personal account is required in order to gain <a href="https://support.jstor.org/hc/en-us/sections/115001492608-Librarians-and-Administrators" target="_self">institutional Admin access</a>. Institutional Admin access lets you access to manage the institution's usage statistics, holdings, and account information.</li> <li>If you ever decide you want to buy a JPASS or an individual article, you can use the same personal account to manage and view your purchases.</li> </ul> <p>Learn more about the <a href="https://support.jstor.org/hc/en-us/articles/360046231254">Benefits of a Personal JSTOR Account</a></p> <p>Already registered? 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