Museums

JSTOR provides museums with access to nearly all archival journal collections for one set of fees: Arts & Sciences I-XV, Life Sciences, Business IV, Lives of Literature, Public Health, Security Studies, Sustainability, and 19th Century British Pamphlets.

Title List (xlsx)

Museums may also choose to add the Jewish Studies Collection, the Hebrew Journals Collection, the Ireland Collection, Struggles for Freedom: Southern Africa, World Heritage Sites: Africa, and Global Plants for a separate set of fees.

Classifications

Subscriptions fees are based on your institution’s JSTOR classification. There are five JSTOR classifications for Museums: Very Small, Small, Medium, Large, and Very Large.

Classification is based on size, budget, and library holdings at your organization. To receive your JSTOR classification, please contact us with the following information:

1. Institution Operating Budget: The overall operating budget for the latest year available
2. Library Materials Budget: The budget for library acquisitions
3. Periodicals: The number of active serial subscriptions
4. Curatorial and Library Staff: The full time employment (FTE) of assistant, associate, and full curators, and the FTE of library professionals and support staff

Artstor collection

The below annual fees for museums are based on your institution’s JSTOR classification. For more information about classifications, see above.

Artstor collection fees for Museums by classification

Very Small	Small	Medium	Large	Very Large
$330	$875	$1,295	$2,500	$4,250

ITHAKA’s infrastructure services

Through decades of offering trusted non-profit resources like JSTOR and Portico, ITHAKA has built infrastructure services that enable you to share, preserve, and build your collections. The below fees are based on your classification, which is modeled on the Carnegie Classifications.

Infrastructure services annual fees based on classification

Classification	Shared collections	Preserved collections	JSTOR Forum
Very Small	$1,200 – $4,900	$1,200 – $4,900	$2,000 – $5,700
Small	$1,200 – $4,900	$1,200 – $4,900	$2,000 – $5,700
Medium	$1,500 – $5,200	$1,500 – $5,200	$3,000 – $6,700
Large	$1,900 – $5,900	$1,900 – $5,900	$4,000 – $8,000
Very Large	$2,700 – $7,000	$2,700 – $7,000	$5,500 – $9,800

All services come with 5 TB of storage, and additional terabytes are available for $500/TB. Audio & Video and Collection Harvesting are additional options that can be purchased with each service. Contact us to find the solution that will meet your needs.