An open Renaissance-era book featuring architectural illustrations and decorative typography. The right page displays the title Il Terzo Libro by Sebastiano Serlio, with an elaborate engraving of Roman ruins, including arches, statues, and scattered architectural fragments. The left page contains a detailed emblem with Latin inscriptions, framed by intricate ornamentation.

Sebastiano Serlio. Compendium of Architectural Books (Books I–V). 1544–1547. Printed books with woodcut illustrations. The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Since our initial launch in 2012, Books at JSTOR has grown and remained committed to developing and supporting sustainable business models for our publishing partners and supporting libraries. JSTOR works with over 345 publishers from across the globe to provide access to over 14,400 institutions around the world who access scholarly ebooks. There are 146,000 ebooks currently available for acquisition and over 13,000 available as open access.

In 2024 alone, these institutions made over 28 million item requests across these titles. In addition, over 1,500 of these institutions made ebook acquisitions through a variety of business models that JSTOR supports. These models include usage based acquisitions such as Demand Driven Acquisition (DDA) and Evidence Based Acquisition (EBA), in addition to subject collections and single title acquisitions. Our EBA model was built with publishers and libraries to ensure it supports library needs, while also helping to ensure it was sustainable for the publishers participating in the program. There are now over 84,000 titles available to participating libraries in our EBA program.

JSTOR is also committed to work with partners such as EBSCO (GOBI) and Clarivate (Rialto) to support the library workflows for acquiring ebooks. There will be no changes for libraries with the recent changes announced by Clarivate participating in the JSTOR DDA program or acquiring single titles on the JSTOR platform through Rialto. Clarivate has provided information about this in their FAQ. Libraries can work with either/both GOBI and Rialto in 2025 and beyond to acquire ebooks through our DDA program, or as single title acquisitions across the 345 publishers in Books at JSTOR.

JSTOR will continue to take a community approach in supporting scholarly publishing with our library and publishing partners. We know we share similar missions and goals to support knowledge and education to all users around the world—to do that, we need sustainable business models and collaboration to ensure this continues to be supported. We have taken an active role in building community initiatives such as Path to Open, which started as a concept with university presses and libraries looking to support sustainable open access publishing. This concept became a reality in October 2023, when Path to Open launched. We now have over 48 publishers in the program, which is supported by 240 libraries.

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In this challenging market, JSTOR is committed to continue working with the community to develop new business models and continue making improvements to support the need for long term sustainable models via acquisitions and subscriptions. We thank all of our library and publishing partners and we look forward to working with the community to support our joint goals and missions.

About the author

As Vice President of Published Content, John collaborates with publishers and libraries to develop products and programs that support their organizational needs and missions. He works with the more than 2,000 publishers partnered with ITHAKA to make their content available on the JSTOR platform. He also works closely with libraries to develop growth strategies for the journals and books programs to ensure we meet their research, teaching, and preservation needs.