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JSTOR is a mission-driven nonprofit working hand-in-hand with 14,000+ libraries worldwide to expand access to knowledge. Together, we make research, teaching, and digital collection stewardship more affordable, sustainable, and impactful for your community.

Explore resources, tools, and services designed to help you strengthen collections, support faculty and students, and steward your institution’s distinctive materials.

Painting by Jacob Lawrence titled "The Library" (1960), depicting a vibrant, abstracted scene of individuals reading and studying in a library. Figures are scattered across the composition, absorbed in books and materials, with warm tones of orange, yellow, purple, and red dominating the color palette, giving a sense of focus and intellectual engagement.

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New and noteworthy

Handwritten letter on blue paper dated “Rome 9th Jan.y 1850” from sculptor John Gibson. He acknowledges a prior letter and quotes prices for his statues of Aurora (£450) and Cupid disguised as a shepherd (£300). The page shows brown stains and folds and is signed “John Gibson.” At the bottom is a pen sketch of a standing male figure with dotted measurement lines and notes about height and a dark line in the marble.
Blog Digital stewardship

Beyond description: Introducing transcript generation in JSTOR Seeklight

JSTOR Seeklight now generates transcripts for typed and handwritten items, making every word searchable and accessible while keeping editors in control. Available now for Tier 3 participants.

A black-and-white photograph of a man speaking passionately through a megaphone at an outdoor gathering. He wears a light shirt under a dark sweater and stands above a crowd, with trees visible in the background. Several people in the foreground, some with light-colored hair and glasses, listen closely and raise their hands.
Blog Open and free content

Behind the scenes of Reveal Digital: An open-access primary source collection on JSTOR

Discover the story behind Reveal Digital, an open access primary source collection on JSTOR highlighting underrepresented 20th-century voices of dissent. Learn how library crowdfunding, collaboration, and preservation have built a resource of over 70,000 items.

Detail of a modern, colorful icon-style painting depicting the Virgin Mary and infant Jesus with stylized geometric shapes and bright reds, yellows, greens, and blues from the cover of Women in the Orthodox Tradition: Feminism, Theology, and Equality by Ashley Marie Purpura.
Blog Teaching

What scholars are reading: Top-read JSTOR ebooks and editor picks

Discover what’s captivating scholars across disciplines on JSTOR. From art and history to sociology and political science, we’re spotlighting the most-read academic ebooks—plus editor-recommended titles shaping today’s academic conversations.

A presenter stands at a conference booth giving a live demo of the JSTOR AI-powered research tool. He gestures while speaking, with a large screen behind him displaying the tool's interface. A red backdrop, informational signage, and a group of attendees in the background suggest an active and engaging conference environment.
Blog AI and advanced technologies

A new chapter for JSTOR’s AI research tool: Reflections on community engagement, insights from ALA, and what’s next

JSTOR’s AI research tool (formerly known as the Interactive Research Tool) has officially launched for all JSTOR-participating institutions. In this blog post, explore the tool’s development history, recent updates, and community insights JSTOR team learned from this year’s American Library Association conference.

A satirical 17th-century French engraving depicting women’s heads being reforged in a seaside workshop as a supposed cure for madness. Men hammer, heat, and reshape women’s heads while ships and gallows appear in the distance; two dogs labeled “la finesse” look on. The print references the ‘Lustucru’ satires mocking women’s intellect and emerging feminism in Parisian salons.
Case study Research

From isolation to connection: Maria Rovito’s journey with JSTOR

For educator and researcher Maria Rovito, JSTOR became more than a research tool—it became a bridge from isolation to connection. Drawing on JSTOR’s interdisciplinary collections, Maria helps students trace the evolution of medical and cultural ideas while reimagining research as a collective act of care.

A 17th-century engraving depicting a bustling print shop where workers set type, ink presses, and inspect printed pages, illustrating the bookmaking process in early modern Europe.
Blog Access

A new model for scholarly ebooks: Publisher Collections built with, and for, librarians and publishers, to serve readers today and tomorrow

A new nonprofit-led model from JSTOR offers libraries and publishers a more sustainable, equitable, and integrated ecosystem for scholarly ebooks.

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Bring trusted scholarly resources to your institution

Journals

Provide your community with long-term access to a vast archive of 2,800+ academic journals spanning the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. Collections include coverage back to first issues, stable URLs for persistent linking, and high-quality metadata to support discovery, course adoption, and citation.

License journal collections
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Primary sources

Power rigorous inquiry with access to millions of primary sources spanning centuries and cultures. From manuscripts, newspapers, and letters to photographs, posters, and political ephemera, JSTOR’s curated materials support original scholarship and strengthen contextual understanding across the humanities and social sciences.

A red-and-white illustrated poster showing women engaged in domestic and factory work. The central figure stands between scenes of housework and assembly-line labor, surrounded by dishes, laundry, and tools, with large text reading “A Woman’s Work Is Never Done.”

Licensed primary source collections

Equip researchers and students with millions of rare and unique primary sources—from manuscripts and newspapers to photographs, ephemera, government documents, and more. All materials are fully integrated with JSTOR’s secondary literature to support deep, contextual inquiry.

License curated primary source collections
A young Black boy sits beside a statue of Abraham Lincoln, holding a protest sign reading “The Law” with a drawing of a Ku Klux Klan hooded figure. The handwritten caption below reads “Support Alabama 1963.”

Reveal Digital

Build and sustain open access primary source collections that center historically underrepresented voices. Reveal Digital’s library-funded model ensures equitable access, collaborative development, and long-term preservation.

Get involved with Reveal Digital
Books

Support teaching and research with 168,000+ DRM-free scholarly ebooks from 340+ academic publishers—including 13,000+ open access titles. Chapters appear directly in JSTOR search results alongside journals and primary sources, streamlining course integration and student research.

Explore acquisition models
Three bound volumes of The Comic Almanack with red leather spines and marbled covers stand upright beside an open book showing a colorful illustrated page. The page depicts a lively 19th-century crowd scene with banners and caricatured figures, featuring ornate period costumes and detailed linework.
Images

Provide access to 3+ million high-quality images from museums, archives, and scholarly collections worldwide. Detailed rights and source information make them easy to use in instruction, digital exhibits, and research.

Get Artstor on JSTOR
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Open and free content

Share and teach with open access journals, books, primary sources, research reports, and nearly one million public images—freely available to anyone and supported by stable links ideal for syllabi, guides, and outreach.

Explore open content
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Preserve and share your special collections

Digital Stewardship Services

Digitize and share your institution’s distinctive collections with more than 104 million visitors each year. Preserve your collections with Portico and use JSTOR Seeklight to rapidly generate descriptive metadata at scale.

Learn more about stewardship services
Diagram showing interconnected steps of JSTOR Stewardship: creating transcripts, generating metadata, building collections, preserving content, and sharing on JSTOR—all within one unified, cloud-hosted platform.

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For classrooms and instruction

Support faculty with resources that make it easier to integrate high-quality scholarly content into their courses. JSTOR offers instruction-ready materials that cut prep time, foster research skills, and help students connect classroom learning with real-world evidence.

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Ready-to-use materials to support your faculty

Provide faculty with curated, instruction-ready materials—including lesson plans, classroom activities, and assignments—each aligned with JSTOR content and designed to build research skills, critical thinking, and subject fluency.

Explore teaching resources
A collage of rare historical book pages, including an illuminated manuscript, handwritten letters, marbled paper, and a 1603 title page of The Tragicall Historie of Hamlet. From the Johns Hopkins University Stern Center’s Bibliotheca Fictiva collection on JSTOR.

Engaging articles to spark discussion and deepen inquiry

Equip faculty with engaging articles that connect current events, cultural moments, and big ideas to peer-reviewed research. JSTOR Daily’s accessible writing and built-in links to free JSTOR sources make it ideal for assignments, discussions, and community programming.

Browse classroom-friendly articles
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Build confident researchers with Research Basics

Help students master the foundations of academic research with Research Basics—JSTOR’s free, self-paced online course designed for learners new to scholarly inquiry. Through short, interactive lessons and practice activities, students build essential skills in searching effectively, evaluating sources, and using information ethically.

Share the free course with your students
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Interactive annotation that turns reading into conversation

Give faculty and students a powerful way to engage with JSTOR content using Hypothesis social annotation. Foster close reading, spark peer dialogue, and build stronger information literacy skills—all directly within your LMS.

Make margins matter

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Tools for librarians

Admin portal

Manage holdings and entitlements, review settings, and access reports all in one place.

Log in

Support and training

Step‑by‑step guidance for setup, troubleshooting, and instruction.

Get support

Promotional toolkits

Ready-to-use web copy, social graphics, and email templates to help you share and promote library-provided access.

Spread the word

LibGuides

Learn how to best use the content and features JSTOR has to offer.

Access

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Share your expertise

Your experience matters. Partner with JSTOR to share practical insights, teaching strategies, and collection stewardship knowledge with the wider academic library community through the JSTOR Blog and JSTOR Daily. Honoraria are available.

Submit your proposal

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Community voices

JSTOR has a great, reliable reputation. The fact that they’re a nonprofit resonates with librarians like me—we support our own.

Lynn Klundt, Reference and Instruction Librarian, Electronic Resources Manager

Northern State University

JSTOR was a partner I could trust, that was not beholden to paying stockholders or making a profit off of me, but actually partnering with me.

Gwen Erickson, Archivist and Special Collections Librarian

Guilford College

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Painting by Jacob Lawrence titled "The Library" (1960), depicting a vibrant, abstracted scene of individuals reading and studying in a library. Figures are scattered across the composition, absorbed in books and materials, with warm tones of orange, yellow, purple, and red dominating the color palette, giving a sense of focus and intellectual engagement.

Jacob Lawrence. The Library. 1960. Part of Smithsonian American Art Museum, Artstor.

A Cubist painting composed of overlapping geometric planes in green, blue, beige, and red, forming a fragmented breakfast scene with recognizable elements such as cups, a coffee pot, and a newspaper labeled Le Journal.

Juan Gris. Detail: Breakfast (Le Petit Déjeuner). October 1915. Part of Réunion des Musées Nationaux (RMN), Artstor.

A red-and-white illustrated poster showing women engaged in domestic and factory work. The central figure stands between scenes of housework and assembly-line labor, surrounded by dishes, laundry, and tools, with large text reading “A Woman’s Work Is Never Done.”

A Woman’s Work Is Never Done. n.d. Part of South African History Archive Posters, Struggles for Freedom: Southern Africa.

A young Black boy sits beside a statue of Abraham Lincoln, holding a protest sign reading “The Law” with a drawing of a Ku Klux Klan hooded figure. The handwritten caption below reads “Support Alabama 1963.”

Phiz Mezey. Child Holding Picket Sign While Sitting on the Lap of Lincoln Monument Outside City Hall. January 1, 1963. Part of Phiz Mezey Photographs and Papers (San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library), Behind the Scenes of the Civil Rights Movements, Reveal Digital.

Three bound volumes of The Comic Almanack with red leather spines and marbled covers stand upright beside an open book showing a colorful illustrated page. The page depicts a lively 19th-century crowd scene with banners and caricatured figures, featuring ornate period costumes and detailed linework.

George Cruikshank. Comic Almanack : An Ephemeris in Jest and Earnest, Containing “All Things Fitting for Such a Work.” 1835-1853. Part of George Cruikshank (from the Norman M. Fox Collection of Illustrated Books), Skidmore College.

Still life of assorted ceramic and metal vessels arranged on a wooden shelf against a warm orange background, including cups, bowls, jugs, and vases in muted earth tones and blues.

William Bailey. Mercatale Still Life. 1981. Part of The Museum of Modern Art: Painting and Sculpture, Artstor.

A drawing of an open sketchbook and a folded technical blueprint. The book’s pages are rough and brown-edged, while the unfolded sheet shows a detailed mechanical diagram with circular grids and curved lines, resembling machinery or an engine part, rendered in fine pencil and shaded tones of beige and gray.

Ion Bitzan. Carte Cu Desen Tehnic. 1993. Part of Open: Ion Bitzan, Artstor.

Diagram showing the steps of a digital stewardship workflow—generate metadata, build collections, edit metadata, create transcript, summarize project, review preserved content, send to Portico, and share on JSTOR—surrounded by historical images including a marble bust, an early telegraph device, a landscape painting, and a manuscript page.

John Gibson. Bust of a Gentleman. ca. 1830–40. Part of Open: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Artstor.

Unknown maker. Bain’s Chemical Telegraph, 1850. 1850. Part of Open: Science Museum Group, Artstor.

William Stanley Haseltine. Baths of Trajan (Sette Sale, Villa Brancaccio, Rome). ca. 1882. Part of Open: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Artstor.

F., A. B. Durand, Gulian C. Verplanck, J. E. Freeman, and John Gibson. “Sketchings.” Thomas J. Watson Library, The Metropolitan Museum of Art. The Crayon 5, no. 1 (1858): 23–27.

A still-life painting of bright red apples tightly packed in a clear plastic tray with a yellow-and-white label on top, the glossy wrapping creating reflections and highlights across the fruit.

Janet Fish. Apples. 1970. Part of Visual Arts Legacy Collection, Artstor.

A collage of rare historical book pages, including an illuminated manuscript, handwritten letters, marbled paper, and a 1603 title page of The Tragicall Historie of Hamlet. From the Johns Hopkins University Stern Center’s Bibliotheca Fictiva collection on JSTOR.

A selection of pages from the the Johns Hopkins University Stern Center for the History of the Book Bibliotheca Fictiva collection available on JSTOR.

Thermal image showing two hands, one heat-mapped in bright yellow, orange, and red tones, and the other in cooler blue and purple tones, set against a blue background.

Thermal Vision Research. Raynaud’s Phenomenon. n.d. Part of Open: Wellcome Collection, Artstor.

Colorful painted design featuring repeating spirals and stylized cow heads in red, black, and white. The geometric pattern is bordered by layered stripes in red, blue, and beige, with visible wear and cracks throughout the artwork.

William J. Palmer-Jones. Ceiling Decoration, Palace of Amenhotep III. ca. 1390–1352 B.C. Part of Open: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Artstor.

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