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How to access POLISH AMERICAN STUDIES

For PAHA members

Membership in Polish American Historical Association comes with an automatic subscription to the scholarly journal Polish American Studies. If you wish to become a PAHA member, please go to PAHA’s website and follow directions for membership https://polishamericanstudies.org/text/5/membership.html

Membership in PAHA and journal subscriptions are handled by the University of Illinois Press, the publisher of the journal. The membership has three options for journal subscription: print; print and online; and online only.

If you choose a print option, the hard copy of each new issue of Polish American Studies will arrive in your mailbox.

If you choose an online option, you can access the journal by clicking on the link of the University of Illinois Press Journals, which is available under the Publisher Tab on the PAHA/PAS website https://order.press.uillinois.edu/pas/access.html  This page will ask you to enter your email address associated with your subscription. After your login is successful, you will be able to select either the “current content” or the “back content.”

The “current content” will take you to https://scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/pas

which holds issues of Polish American Studies from 2000 to the most current issue.

The “back content” will take you to  https://www.jstor.org/journal/poliamerstud which is a complete repository of PAS archives from its inception in 1944 through Volume 75 (2018). The content on the JSTOR platform will expand as the “moving wall” advances; new issues will appear three years after publication.

For non-members

Researchers without PAHA memberships can access the journal’s content in one of the following ways. 1)  Libraries that subscribe to the print edition of Polish American Studies have copies available for use in their collections.

2) Back issues can be purchased at $22 per issue from the University of Illinois Press (journals@uillinois.edu).

3) If your institution (e.g.,  university library):

  1. a) subscribes to a JSTOR package that includes Polish American Studies, you can browse by title to access Polish American Studies 1944-2021;
  2. b) subscribes to EBSCO America: History and Life database, you can search for individual articles from Polish American Studies, but not the content of the entire issues;
  3. c) has a direct subscription to Polish American Studies or subscribes to a Scholarly Publishing Collective package containing the journal, you can access Polish American Studies issues published after 2000.

4) Unaffiliated researchers may purchase a PDF of an article or issue from the Scholarly Publishing Collective at https://scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/pas