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Explore JSTOR’s full suite—all designed to expand access to knowledge, strengthen teaching and research, and support the stewardship of digital collections across libraries, campuses, and communities worldwide.

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Core services

View our foundational offerings—trusted, mission-driven services used by thousands of institutions worldwide.

Digital Stewardship Services

Preserve, manage, and share your institution’s unique collections with a values-aligned, scalable stewardship solution. JSTOR’s end-to-end tools help you process materials efficiently, enhance discoverability, and ensure long-term preservation.

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JSTOR research and teaching platform

A powerful, interdisciplinary research and teaching platform offering seamless access to journals, books, images, primary sources, and open content—supported by advanced tools like Workspace, text analysis, and AI-enabled features that enhance search and aid comprehension.

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JSTOR Daily

JSTOR Daily connects scholarship to the real world through engaging, accessible stories and pedagogical resources like syllabi and reading lists. Every article links to free research, helping readers make sense of current events, history, and culture through trusted academic sources.

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Content solutions

JSTOR brings together journals, books, primary sources, images, and more on one feature-rich platform that supports research, teaching, and inquiry across disciplines.

Archival journals

Get institutional access to a deep, interdisciplinary archive of peer-reviewed journals spanning hundreds of years of scholarship. These trusted, preserved collections provide essential historical context, support longitudinal research, and strengthen teaching across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences.

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Primary sources

Discover millions of primary sources—from manuscripts and newspapers to photographs, ephemera, and government documents—contributed by libraries, archives, and museums worldwide. These materials bring historical research to life, enriching classroom discussion, inquiry, and interpretation.

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Books at JSTOR

Discover a wide range of scholarly books—from DRM-free ebook collections and all-access models to rapidly growing open access titles. JSTOR’s flexible acquisition options help libraries maximize budgets and expand access.

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Artstor on JSTOR

Search, teach, and research with more than 3 million high-quality images from leading museums, archives, and artists. Artstor on JSTOR integrates visual content with journals, books, and primary sources to enrich instruction and analysis.

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Reveal Digital

Reveal Digital publishes open access primary source collections focused on marginalized and underrepresented voices. Built through library-driven funding models, these collections expand access to histories missing from the scholarly record.

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JPASS for individual access

Unlock JSTOR’s rich archive with JPASS—unlimited reading across 2,000+ journals, powerful search tools, and downloadable PDFs you can keep. Ideal for writers, learners, and lifelong researchers.

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JSTOR Access in Prison

JSTOR partners with correctional education programs to bring high-quality academic resources into prisons. This initiative supports college-in-prison programs, reduces barriers to education, and expands opportunities for learners across facilities nationwide.

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A young protester in a patterned red tunic raises her fist and shouts amid a crowd of demonstrators holding signs and balloons during an anti–war march.

Michael Chikiris. Smash the War Machine. 1970. Part of Richard F. Brush Art Gallery (St. Lawrence University), Artstor.

Collage of scholarly materials including books, journal pages, artwork, manuscripts, photographs, and historical documents from diverse cultures and time periods.

Peruvian. Female Figure. 100 BC-700. Part of Open: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Artstor. https://www.jstor.org/stable/community.24621028.

Vincent C. H. Tong, Alex Standen, and Mina Sotiriou, eds. Shaping Higher Education with Students. Published March 6, 2018. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt21c4tcm.

Lisa Marie Rhody and Susan Schreibman, eds. Feminist Digital Humanities: Intersections in Practice. University of Illinois Press, 2025.

The Invention of Musical Instruments from the Intestines of a Monkey, from a Tuti-Nama (Tales of a Parrot): Fourteenth Night. Tuti-Nama (Tales of a Parrot). c. 1560. Part of Open: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Artstor. https://www.jstor.org/stable/community.24605543.

Sari Lindblom and Jukka Kola. “The Importance of Evidence–Based Development of Teaching and Learning at University.” In Places of Engagement: Reflections on Higher Education in 2040 – A Global Approach, edited by Armand Heijnen and Rob van der Vaart, 76–81. Amsterdam University Press, 2018. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvfjd0xs.14.

Alert Americans Association Broadside “Martin Luther King…At Communist Training School”, 1963 July 8, Item 01. Documents. Alert Americans Association Broadside “Martin Luther King…At Communist Training School”, 1963 July 8, 1963. Part of Alert Americans Association broadside “Martin Luther King…At Communist Training School” (Atlanta History Center), “Series: African American,” Behind the Scenes of the Civil Rights Movements, Reveal Digital. https://jstor.org/stable/community.35562234.

Mexican. Head. c. 600–900. Part of Open: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Artstor. https://www.jstor.org/stable/community.24588724.

Richard Saller, Elaine Treharne, Franco Moretti, Joshua Cohen, and Michael A. Keller. “The Humanities in the Digital Age.” Bulletin of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 67, no. 3 (2014): 25–35. https://www.jstor.org/stable/26406523.

Tsukioka Yoshitoshi. Collection of Desires, Wish for Foreign Travel (Mitate Tai Zukushi-Yōkō Ga Shitai). January, 1878. Part of Open: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Artstor. https://www.jstor.org/stable/community.18692978.

Hilde Teerlinck, Irena Aristizabal, and Pichaya Suphavanij. “You Are Not Alone,” Exhibition Catalogue, Bangkok Arts and Cultural Centre. Catalogs. Bangkok, Thailand: Bangkok Arts and Culture Centre, 2012. https://www.jstor.org/stable/community.37908549.

Jeanne Philiberte Ledoux. Portrait of a Man. ca. 1790. Part of Open: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Artstor. https://www.jstor.org/stable/community.18629792.

“Pan-African Journal.” Pan-African Journal 9, no. 3 (January 1, 1976). https://jstor.org/stable/community.39990673.

“The Black Dispatch.” Black Dispatch, The 38, no. 4 (February 9, 1952). https://jstor.org/stable/community.38788036.

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.

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.

Astronaut in a white spacesuit standing on the moon’s surface near a lander footpad, with footprints and lunar soil illuminated against the dark sky.

Neil Armstrong. Buzz Aldrin Walking on the Surface of the Moon Near a Leg of the Lunar Module. 1969. Part of Open: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Artstor.

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 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.

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.

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Illustration courtesy of Daniel Longan, April 2022.