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JSTOR is an interactive platform that leverages advanced technology to support research and learning through a vast collection of primary and secondary sources across 70+ disciplines.
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Sustainable options for content and engagement, built to inform and inspire
JSTOR platform content includes:
- A comprehensive collection of more than 12+ million academic journal articles, and millions of primary source materials
- DRM-free, perpetual access to all 158,000+ of our ebooks from 340+ academic publishers, including open access books
- Artstor, a collection of of 2M+ images and multimedia from around the world
- Unparalleled visibility and impact for your shared collections
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Technology and tools to enhance learning and research
- Advanced search and discovery to easily locate content without complex training
- JSTOR Workspace: collaborate by saving, organizing, and sharing articles, books, images, and primary sources in one place
- AI-enabled features that help explore the credible sources on JSTOR more deeply, and in ways that reflect evolving research and discovery practices
- Text analysis support to access the metadata and full-texts available across JSTOR
- Collaborative annotation with Hypothesis, a third-party tool that integrates with JSTOR to enhance student engagement
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Open and free content designed to improve student outcomes
- Free, full-text access to scholarly journals in the humanities, arts and social sciences
- A curated set of 34,000+ research reports from 140+ policy institutes
- Books at JSTOR, which features 13,000+ rapidly growing open access titles, with 1,000 more on their way through our Path to Open initiative
- Images and media from nearly 1M open access, public, and institutional collections worldwide
- Open primary source collections from underrepresented voices, developed by Reveal Digital and crowdfunded by libraries
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Librarians
Get peer-reviewed scholarly journals, primary sources, books, and images, or explore services for maximizing the impact of your digital collections.
Educators
Get practical teaching tools, curated resources, and access to a global community working to make an impact. Streamline preparations, enhance curricula, and elevate student engagement.
Students
Dive deeper into your coursework, sharpen your research skills, and explore reliable sources you can trust. JSTOR gives you seamless access to scholarly articles, books, images, and tools that help you study smarter—not harder.
Publishers
Expand the reach and impact of your content by making it accessible to a global community of researchers, educators, and students on a trusted, sustainable digital platform.
The JSTOR platform in action
Your time constraints are our concern: How JSTOR’s AI research tool maximizes efficiency
Educators Bess Wilhelms and Steve Hermann use JSTOR’s AI research tool to save time, plan lessons, and boost student engagement through accurate, trusted insights.
Bridging access with JSTOR’s AI research tool
For Yuimi Hlasten—both a librarian and international student—JSTOR’s AI research tool became a bridge to understanding. By helping her organize and synthesize sources efficiently, it allowed her to balance work and study while empowering students to find their academic voice.
Make the most of your JSTOR experience with Workspace
When art historian and instructor Sienna Weldon discovered JSTOR’s Workspace, her research process transformed. What began as a simple bookmarking tool became a powerful, intuitive way to organize, annotate, and revisit materials—all in one place. Now, Sienna uses Workspace not only to streamline her own projects but also to empower students to approach research with confidence and curiosity.
Advancing discovery, access, and stewardship together: An ALA 2025 reflection
This year’s American Library Association (ALA) Conference in Philadelphia offered an opportunity to share how JSTOR is addressing two interconnected needs: helping researchers navigate trusted content more intuitively, and helping libraries manage, preserve, and activate distinctive collections at scale.
Research, cite, teach: One tool for every role
PhD candidate and art historian Connie Robles shares how JSTOR’s Workspace became her essential hub for organizing research, citations, and teaching materials. By integrating articles and images in one flexible, intuitive space, Workspace helps researchers and educators stay organized, save time, and inspire students to develop strong digital research skills.
Enhancing research accessibility for students
Discover how secondary school teacher Madeleine Champagnie integrates JSTOR’s research tool into her English classroom to make scholarly research more accessible, inclusive, and efficient.
Unlocking research with JSTOR’s interactive tool: How to ask questions and get more from your readings
JSTOR’s interactive research tool allows users to actively engage with texts by asking questions directly within the tool. Based on user feedback, we created this guide to help you get the most out of this feature. We’ll explore how asking the right types of questions can help you quickly find relevant content, understand complex arguments, and support your research more effectively.
JSTOR’s interactive research tool just got an upgrade
Streamline research, gain metadata insights, and boost student success with JSTOR’s interactive research tool. We’ve designed its new features and enhancements to elevate your research experience.
AI and other advanced technologies on JSTOR: What we’re learning from early usage, real-world applications, and user feedback
We are actively learning from usage, real-world applications, and user feedback in a limited beta environment to build out capabilities thoughtfully, intentionally, incrementally, and most importantly–based on evidence. This blog post delves into the rationale, construction, and current functionality of JSTOR’s beta generative AI tool, as well as the key themes and insights that have emerged from our analysis of its usage.
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Giuseppe Arcimboldi. The Librarian. ca. 1566. Part of Minneapolis College of Art and Design Collection, Artstor.
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