More than 30 university presses and hundreds of authors are part of Path to Open, a new program that supports the publishing of open access scholarly monographs. The first 100 books will be released on JSTOR in the fall of 2023, with an additional 300 titles being published annually during the term of the pilot, 2024-2026.

The first 100 titles feature peer-reviewed monographs in disciplines across the humanities and social sciences, with an emphasis on works that bring forward diverse perspectives and ideas.

To help in identifying titles that would be most impactful for libraries and scholars, titles were selected that were associated to disciplines with the highest overall usage and were associated to the highest used search terms on JSTOR.

This process allowed for titles to be published from 33 presses who submitted titles in 2023 and across 36 JSTOR disciplines.

Path to Open books will be available DRM free with unlimited user access and integrated with other scholarly content on the JSTOR platform, including thousands of books, journals, and primary source collections.

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Abraham Lincoln and the Bible: A Complete Compendium
Author(s): Gordon Leidner
Press: Southern Illinois University Press
Discipline(s): Language & Literature; Religion
An Appeal in Favor of That Class of Americans Called Africans, Revised and Updated Edition
Author(s): Lydia Maria Child; edited by Carolyn Karcher
Press: University of Massachusetts Press
Discipline(s): African American Studies; Language & Literature
Apartheid’s Leviathan: Electricity and the Power of Technological Ambivalence
Author(s): Faeeza Ballim
Press: Ohio University Press
Discipline(s): Sociology; Technology
As Legend Has It: History, Heritage, and the Construction of Swedish American Identity
Author(s): Jennifer Eastman Attebery
Press: University of Wisconsin Press
Discipline(s): Sociology; Folklore; Cultural Studies
Awakening the Ashes: An Intellectual History of the Haitian Revolution
Author(s): Marlene L. Daut
Press: University of North Carolina Press
Discipline(s): Latin American Studies; History
Beyond Othering: A Gandhian Approach to Conflict Resolution in India and Pakistan
Author(s): Debidatta Aurobinda Mahapatra and Seema Shekhawat
Press: Syracuse University Press
Discipline(s): Political Science; Peace & Conflict
Blood and Ink: The Barbary Archive in Early American Literary History
Author(s): Jacob Crane
Press: University of Massachusetts Press
Discipline(s): Language & Literature; History
Book Anatomy: Body Politics and the Materiality of Indigenous Book History
Author(s): Amy Gore
Press: University of Massachusetts Press
Discipline(s): American Indian Studies; Language & Literature
Cantonese Since the Nineteenth Century
Author(s): Hung-nin Samuel Cheung
Press: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press
Discipline(s): Linguistics
Captivity’s Collections: Natural History and the British Transatlantic Slave Trade
Author(s): Kathleen S. Murphy
Press: University of North Carolina Press
Discipline(s): History; Environmental Science
Central American Migrations in the Twenty-First Century
Author(s): Mauricio Espinoza, Miroslava Rosales Vasquez, and Ignacio Sarmiento
Press: University of Arizona Press
Discipline(s): Population Studies; Sociology
Christan Colleges and Universities: An Empirical Guide
Author(s): Perry L. Glanzer, Theodore L. Cockle, and Jessica Martin
Press: ACU Press
Discipline(s): Religion; Education
Composting Utopia: Experimental Infrastructures for Organics Recycling in New York City
Author(s): Guy Schaffer
Press: University of Massachusetts Press
Discipline(s): Science & Technology Studies; Environment Studies
Continuous Pasts: Frictions of Memory in Postcolonial Africa
Author(s): Sakiro Adebayo
Press: University of Michigan Press
Discipline(s): Sociology
Covid and…: How to Do Rhetoric in a Pandemic
Author(s): Edited by Emily Winderman, Allison L. Rowland, and Jennifer Malkowski
Press: Michigan State University Press
Discipline(s): Communication Studies; Health Sciences
Creating a More Perfect Slaveholders’ Union: Slavery, the Constitution, and Secession in Antebellum America
Author(s): Peter Radan
Press: University Press of Kansas
Discipline(s): Law; Political Science
Cultural History of British Alternative Cabaret (1979-1991)
Author(s): Ray Campbell
Press: Liverpool University Press
Discipline(s): Cultural Studies; History
Disrupting Colonial Pedagogies: Theories and Transgressions
Author(s): Ford and Jaramillo
Press: University of Illinois Press
Discipline(s): African American Studies; Feminist & Women’s Studies
Ecologies of Imperialism
Author(s): Brock Cutler
Press: University of Nebraska Press
Discipline(s): Environmental Studies; African Studies
Ethnicity, Identity, and Conceptualizing Community in Indian Ocean East Africa
Author(s): Daren E. Ray
Press: Ohio University Press
Discipline(s): African Studies; Anthropology
Faking It: Victorian Documentary Novels
Author(s): Ellen Stockstill
Press: Clemson University Press
Discipline(s): Language & Literature
Fantasies of Music in Nostalgic Medievalism
Author(s): Helen Dell
Press: Manchester University Press
Discipline(s): Music
Ferenczi Dialogues: On Trauma and Catastrophe
Author(s): Raluca Soreanu, Jakob Staberg, and Jenny Willner
Press: Leuven University Press
Discipline(s): Psychology; Language & Literature; Cultural Studies
From Jesus to J-Setting: Religious and Sexual Fluidity among Young Black People
Author(s): Sandra L. Barnes
Press: University of Georgia Press
Discipline(s): Religion; Sociology; Gender Studies
Genre Networks and Empire: Rhetoric in Early Imperial China
Author(s): Xiaoye You
Press: Southern Illinois University Press
Discipline(s): Language & Literature; Communicaton Studies
Graceful Resistance: How Capoeiristas Use Their Art for Activism and Community Engagement
Author(s): Griffith
Press: University of Illinois Press
Discipline(s): Anthropology; Performing Arts
Han Heroes and Yamato Warriors: Competing Masculinities in Chinese and Japanese War Cinema
Author(s): Amanda Weiss
Press: Hong Kong University Press
Discipline(s): Film Studies; Asian Studies
Hillary Clinton’s Career in Speeches: The Promises and Perils of Women’s Rhetorical Adaptivity
Author(s): Shawn J. Parry-Giles, David S. Kaufer, and Xizhen Cai
Press: Michigan State University Press
Discipline(s): Communication Studies; Political Science
Hong Kong Public and Squatter Housing: Geopolitics and Informality, 1963–1985
Author(s): Alan Smart and Fung Chi Keung Charles
Press: Hong Kong University Press
Discipline(s): Asian Studies; Developmental Studies; Political Science
Hottest of the Hotspots: The Rise of Eco-precarious Conservation Labor in Madagascar
Author(s): Benjamin Neimark
Press: University of Arizona Press
Discipline(s): Development Studies; Sustainability
Imagining Musical Pasts: The Queer Literary Musicology of Vernon Lee, Rosa Newmarch, and Edward Prime-Stevenson
Author(s): Kristin M. Franseen
Press: Clemson University Press
Discipline(s): Music
Influential Machines: The Rhetoric of Computational Performance
Author(s): Miles C. Coleman
Press: University of South Carolina Press
Discipline(s): Communication Studies; Technology
Irish Fever: An Archaeology of Illness, Injury, and Healing in New York City, 1845–1870
Author(s): Meredith Linn
Press: The University of Tennessee Press
Discipline(s): Public Health; Anthropology
J. A. Rogers: Selected Writings
Author(s): Edited by Louis Parascandola
Press: The University of Tennessee Press
Discipline(s): African American Studies
Lacandón Maya in the Twenty-First Century: Indigenous Knowledge and Conservation in Mexico’s Tropical Rainforest
Author(s): James D. Nations
Press: University Press of Florida
Discipline(s): Anthropology; Sustainability; Cultural Studies
Lagos Never Spoils: Nollywood and Nigerian City Life
Author(s): Connor Ryan
Press: University of Michigan Press
Discipline(s): African Studies; Film Studies
Lieder in America: On Stages and In Parlors
Author(s): Heather Anne Platt
Press: University of Illinois Press
Discipline(s): Music; History
Limiting Privilege: Upward Mobility Within Higher Education in Socialist Poland
Author(s): Agata Zysiak
Press: Purdue University Press
Discipline(s): Education; Political Science
Living Ceramics, Storied Ground: A History of African American Archaeology
Author(s): Charles E. Orser Jr.
Press: University Press of Florida
Discipline(s): Archaeology; American Studies
Living Politics in the City: Architecture as Catalyst for Public Space
Author(s): Marion Hohlfeldt; edited by Carmen Popescu
Press: Leuven University Press
Discipline(s): Urban Studies; Political Science
Local Government and Democracy in the United Kingdom
Author(s): Neil Barnett and J. A. Chandler
Press: Manchester University Press
Discipline(s): Political Science; Public Policy & Administration
Mapping the Stars: Celebrity, Metonymy, and the Networked Politics of Identity
Author(s): Claire Sisco King
Press: The Ohio State University Press
Discipline(s): Film studies; Communication Studies
Masculine Pregnancies: Modernist Conceptions of Creativity and Legitimacy, 1918-1939
Author(s): Aimee Armande Wilson
Press: SUNY Press
Discipline(s): Gender Studies
Maya-British Conflict at the Edge of the Yucatecan Caste War
Author(s): Christine Kray
Press: University Press of Colorado
Discipline(s): Anthropology; History
Middlebrow 2.0 and the Digital Affect: Online Reading Communities of the New Nigerian Novel
Author(s): Hannah Pardey
Press: Liverpool University Press
Discipline(s): Cultural Studies; Language & Literature
Migrant World Making
Author(s): Edited by Sergio Fernando Juárez, Julia Khrebtan-Hörhager, Michael Lechuga, and Arthur D. Soto-Vásquez
Press: Michigan State University Press
Discipline(s): Communication Studies; Sociology
Monsters on Maple Street: The Twilight Zone and the Postwar American Dream
Author(s): David J. Brokaw
Press: University Press of Kentucky
Discipline(s): Film Studies; American Studies
Neobugarrón: Heteroflexibility, Neoliberalism, and Latin/o American Sexual Practice
Author(s): Ramon Soto-Crespo
Press: The Ohio State University Press
Discipline(s): Anthropology; Gender Studies; Latin American Studies
New Deal Archaeology in the West
Author(s): Edited by Kelly J. Pool and Mark L. Howe; Contributors: Darby C. Stapp and Robert R. Mierendorf, Nancy Mahoney, Danny N. Walker, Steven R. James, Todd W. Bostwick, Jeanne S. Stephens and Peter J. Pilles Jr., John D. Schelberg, Thomas C. Windes, and Carla R. Van West, Timothy K. Perttula, and Bernard K. Means
Press: University of Utah Press
Discipline(s): Archaeology; American Studies; History
Nuclear Decolonization: Indigenous Resistance to High-Level Nuclear Waste Siting
Author(s): Danielle Endres
Press: The Ohio State University Press
Discipline(s): Communication Studies; American Indian Studies
On Music Theory and Making Music More Welcoming for Everyone
Author(s): Phil Ewell
Press: University of Michigan Press
Discipline(s): Music; African American Studies
Our Hidden Landscapes: Indigenous Stone Ceremonial Sites in Eastern North America
Author(s): Lucianne Lavin and Elaine Thomas
Press: University of Arizona Press
Discipline(s): Anthropology; American Indian Studies
Our People Are Warlike: Civil War Pittsburgh and Home-Front Mobilization
Author(s): Allen York
Press: The University of Tennessee Press
Discipline(s): History
Outcasting Armenians: Tanzimat of the Provinces
Author(s): Talin Suciyan
Press: Syracuse University Press
Discipline(s): Middle East Studies; History
Paradoxes of Emancipation: Radical Imagination and Space in Neoliberal Greece
Author(s): Dimitris Soudias
Press: Syracuse University Press
Discipline(s): Political Science
Phenomenology in an African Context: Contributions and Challenges
Author(s): Edited by Abraham Olivier, M. John Lamola, and Justin Sands
Press: SUNY Press
Discipline(s): Philosophy
Power and Place: Preservation, Progress, and the Culture War over Land
Author(s): Melinda Bollar Wagner
Press: University Press of Kentucky
Discipline(s): Anthropology; Cultural Studies; Economics
Prison Capital: Mass Incarceration and Struggles for Abolition Democracy in Louisiana
Author(s): Lydia Pelot-Hobbs
Press: University of North Carolina Press
Discipline(s): Sociology; Criminology & Criminal Justice
Publishing Contemporary Foreign Poetry: Transnational Exchange in the Italian Publishing Field
Author(s): Mila Milani
Press: Liverpool University Press
Discipline(s): Linguistics
Reclaiming Time: The Transformative Politics of Feminist Temporalities
Author(s): Tanya Ann Kennedy
Press: SUNY Press
Discipline(s): Feminist & Women’s Studies; Gender Studies; Cultural Studies
Reconstructive Memory Work: Trauma, Witnessing and the Imagination in Writing by Female Descendants of Harkis
Author(s): Clíona Hensey
Press: Liverpool University Press
Discipline(s): Cultural Studies; Ethnic Studies
Recovering Women’s Past: New Epistemologies, New Ventures
Author(s): Severine Genleys-Kirk
Press: University of Nebraska Press
Discipline(s): Feminist & Women’s Studies; Gender Studies; History
Reimagining the Educated Citizen: Creole Pedagogies in the Transatlantic World: 1685-1896
Author(s): Petra Hendry
Press: University of Michigan Press
Discipline(s): History; Education
Remaking the World: Decolonization and the Cold War
Author(s): Jessica Chapman
Press: University Press of Kentucky
Discipline(s): Peace & Conflict Studies; International Relations
Research as More Than Extraction: Knowledge Production and Gender-Based Violence in African Societies
Author(s): Annie Bunting
Press: Ohio University Press
Discipline(s): Sociology; Gender Studies
Serial Mexico: Storytelling across Media, from Nationhood to Now
Author(s): Amy E. Wright
Press: Vanderbilt University Press
Discipline(s): Communication Studies; Folklore
Sonic Strategies: Performing Mexico’s War on Drugs, Mourning, and Feminicide
Author(s): Christina Baker
Press: Vanderbilt University Press
Discipline(s): Performing Arts
Southern Enclosure: Settler Colonialism and the Postwar Transformation of Mississippi
Author(s): John H. Cable
Press: University Press of Kansas
Discipline(s): History; American Indian Studies
Staging Existence: Chekhov’s Tetralogy
Author(s): Svetlana Evdokimova
Press: University of Wisconsin Press
Discipline(s): Performing Arts; Language & Literature
Stories of Our Living Ephemera: Storytelling Methodologies in the Archives of the Cherokee National Seminaries, 1846-1907
Author(s): Emily Legg
Press: Utah State University Press
Discipline(s): Communication Studies; American Indian Studies
Surgery and Salvation: The Roots of Reproductive Injustice in Mexico, 1770–1940
Author(s): Elizabeth O’Brien
Press: University of North Carolina Press
Discipline(s): Gender Studies; Latin American Studies; Public Health
The Cost of Voting in the American States
Author(s): Michael J. Pomante II, Scot Schraufnagel, and Quan Li
Press: University Press of Kansas
Discipline(s): Political Science
The Coup and the Palm Trees: Agrarian Conflict and Political Power in Honduras
Author(s): Andrés León Araya
Press: University of Georgia Press
Discipline(s): Peace & Conflict Studies; History
The Cretan Collection in the University of Pennsylvania Museum, Volume III: Metal Objects from Gournia
Author(s): Philip P. Betancourt, Susan C. Ferrence, and Alessandra Giumlia-Mair
Press: INSTAP Academic Press
Discipline(s): Archaeology; Anthropology
The End of the Future: Trauma, Memory, and Reconciliation in Peruvian Amazonia
Author(s): Bartholomew Dean
Press: Vanderbilt University Press
Discipline(s): Peace & Conflict Studies
The Hispanic Faculty Experience: Opportunities for Growth and Retention in Christian Colleges and Universities
Author(s): Benjamin Espinoza and Octavio Esqueda
Press: ACU Press
Discipline(s): Religion; Education
The Lost Texts of Confucius’ Grandson: Guodian, Zisi, and Beyond
Author(s): Kuan-yun Huang
Press: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press
Discipline(s): Language & Literature; Philosophy
The New Star Chamber and Other Essays: Annotated Edition
Author(s): Edgar Lee Masters; edited by Jason Stacy
Press: Southern Illinois University Press
Discipline(s): Political Science; American Studies
The Race for America: Black Internationalism in the Age of Manifest Destiny
Author(s): R. J. Boutelle
Press: University of North Carolina Press
Discipline(s): African American Studies; Language & Literature
The Rise of Central American Film in the Twenty-First Century
Author(s): Edited by Mauricio Espinoza and Jared List
Press: University Press of Florida
Discipline(s): Film Studies
The Souls of Jewish Folk: W. E. B. Du Bois, Anti-Semitism, and the Color Line
Author(s): James M. Thomas
Press: University of Georgia Press
Discipline(s): Sociology
The Urgency of Indigenous Values
Author(s): Philip P. Arnold
Press: Syracuse University Press
Discipline(s): American Indian Studies; Religion; Environmental Studies
The Visible Hands That Feed: Responsibility and Growth in the Food Sector
Author(s): Ruzana Liburkina
Press: University of Nebraska Press
Discipline(s): Food Studies
The Vulnerability of Public Higher Education
Author(s): Michael Bernard-Donals
Press: The Ohio State University Press
Discipline(s): Education; Communication Studies
Toward a Gameic World
Author(s): Ben Whaley
Press: University of Michigan Press
Discipline(s): Cultural Studies; Technology
Transnational Families in Africa: Migrants and the role of Information Communication Technologies
Author(s): Maria Marchetti-Mercer, Leslie Swartz, and Loretta Baldassar
Press: Wits University Press
Discipline(s): Technology; Sociology; Communication Studies
Tuberculosis Control and Institutional Change in Shanghai, 1911–2011
Author(s): Rachel S. Core
Press: Hong Kong University Press
Discipline(s): Public Health; Anthropology; Public Policy & Administration
Understanding Agatha Christie
Author(s): Tison Pugh
Press: University of South Carolina Press
Discipline(s): Language & Literature
Uniting Against the Reich: The American Air War in Europe
Author(s): Luke W. Truxal
Press: University Press of Kentucky
Discipline(s): Peace & Conflict Studies; History
Unsettling Agribusiness: Indigenous Protests and Land Conflict in Brazil
Author(s): LaShandra Sullivan
Press: University of Nebraska Press
Discipline(s): Environmental Studies; Agriculture
Unsettling Archival Research: Engaging Critical, Communal, and Digital Archives
Author(s): Edited by Gesa E. Kirsch, Romeo García, Caitlin Burns Allen, and Walker P. Smith
Press: Southern Illinois University Press
Discipline(s): Communication Studies
Unwilling to Quit: The Long Unwinding of American Involvement in Vietnam
Author(s): David L. Prentice
Press: University Press of Kentucky
Discipline(s): Peace & Conflict Studies; Political Science
Urban Indigeneities: Being Indigenous in the Twenty-First Century
Author(s): Edited by Dana Brablec and Andrew Canessa
Press: University of Arizona Press
Discipline(s): Development Studies; Anthropology
Violence and Inequality: An Archaeological History
Author(s): Edited by Thomas Leppard and Sarah C. Murray
Press: University Press of Colorado
Discipline(s): Archaeology; Cultural Studies
Violence and the Mimetic Unconscious: Vol. 2 The Affective Hypothesis
Author(s): Nidesh Lawtoo
Press: Michigan State University Press
Discipline(s): Philosophy
Violence and the Oedipal Unconscious: Vol. 1, The Catharsis Hypothesis
Author(s): Nidesh Lawtoo
Press: Michigan State University Press
Discipline(s): Philosophy
Voices of Indigenuity
Author(s): Michelle Montgomery
Press: University Press of Colorado
Discipline(s): Anthropology; Environmental Studies; American Indian Studies
Waterhouses: Landscapes, Housing, and the Making of Modern Lagos
Author(s): Mark Duerksen
Press: Ohio University Press
Discipline(s): Architecture; Urban Studies
Womb Work: Womb-Centered Health Narratives as Reparative Praxis in Black Women’s Fiction
Author(s): Belinda Monique Waller-Peterson
Press: Clemson University Press
Discipline(s): Feminist & Women’s Studies
Women, Nationalism, and Social Networks in the Habsburg Monarchy, 1848-1918
Author(s): Edited by Marta Verginella
Press: Purdue University Press
Discipline(s): Gender Studies; Political Science

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