Scale your ebook collection with ease
Publisher Collections is an innovative Books at JSTOR model designed with academic libraries and publishers, and built to simplify workflows and lower operational burden for libraries while broadening access to knowledge in equitable and scalable ways.
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Publishers
~1,545
Titles per collection
~53%+
Lower cost for current-year titles
A mission-driven, nonprofit led model
Publisher Collections offers a new way to acquire and access high-quality scholarly ebook collections from trusted academic publishers, with a growing list of 20+ participating presses.
Each publisher collection includes:
- A perpetual JSTOR license to current year title sets from a publisher
- Access to all of the publishers’ backlist titles on JSTOR for active participants
- An equitable, tiered fee structure based on your institution’s JSTOR classification
What Publisher Collections do:
- Make ebook access more equitable for institutions of all sizes worldwide
- Simplify library workflows with automated holdings in Alma, availability in discovery systems, and acquisitions through JSTOR, GOBI Library Solutions/Mosaic, or select local subscription agents
- Support researchers by making ebooks fully searchable alongside scholarly journals, primary sources, images, and multimedia on JSTOR
- Advance open access (OA) by partnering with 100% of publishers committed to making scholarly books freely available worldwide, with 1,600+ of their OA titles on JSTOR
- Secure long-term preservation of ebooks via Portico
- Help publishers and authors reach a global audience
Our publishing partners
Explore our growing list of 20+ collections from these participating presses:
Berghahn Books
Cornell University Press
Duke University Press
Fordham University Press
Indiana University Press
Leuven University Press
Liverpool University Press
NYU Press
Pluto Books
SUNY Press
Syracuse University Press
University of Arizona Press
University of Illinois Press
University of Nebraska Press
University of North Carolina Press
University of South Carolina Press
University of Utah Press
University of Wisconsin Press
University Press of Florida
University Press of Kansas
University Press of Kentucky
University Press of Mississippi
Community voices
The most compelling part of Publisher Collections is that it directly addresses the challenges libraries are facing.
As longtime partners, Indiana University Press values the nonprofit, non-commercial ethos that JSTOR brings to the table in the current library market environment.
When JSTOR approached us with an offer to participate in their new Publisher Collections program, we saw it as an opportunity to offer libraries more choices. We were impressed with the care, collaboration, and commitment they brought to construct a solution that benefits both publishers and libraries.
This initiative has been carefully designed to meet the needs of both libraries and presses, and should result in a significant expansion in the accessibility of our scholarship for students, researchers, and institutions.
I appreciate that JSTOR consulted with libraries and university presses on the design of Publisher Collections, ensuring that the program is based on our shared values—including transparency, support for trustworthy knowledge creation and dissemination, and responsible stewardship of our institutions’ resources. It’s exciting to know that this program will increase the number of unlimited, DRM-free ebooks available and provide greater access to the materials to libraries around the world.
Collaborating to build a sustainable future for scholarly books
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.
Books at JSTOR: Our commitment to supporting community-driven, flexible, and sustainable business models
Since 2012, Books at JSTOR has expanded to include over 146,000 scholarly ebooks from 345 global publishers, supporting diverse library needs through flexible acquisition models like Demand Driven Acquisition (DDA) and Evidence Based Acquisition (EBA).
Publisher Collections: A community-driven model for scholarly ebooks
This Library Journal webinar featured the Big Ten Academic Alliance, UNC Press, Liverpool University Press, and JSTOR discussing how Publisher Collections supports sustainable, equitable access.
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Integrated with Books at JSTOR
Publisher Collections is part of Books at JSTOR, which helps libraries streamline acquisition, expand access and discovery, and maximize the value of their collections. Books at JSTOR offers reliable, barrier-free access to ebooks—unlimited, DRM-free, and perpetual use—across flexible acquisition models, and a partnership with OCLC provides high-quality MARC records.
Interested in ebook acquisition and access beyond Publisher Collections? Books at JSTOR offers a variety of models to meet your needs, including Path to Open, Evidence-Based Acquisition, Demand-Driven Acquisition, and subject packages, alongside open access.
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