JSTOR offers flexible acquisition options to suit your collection strategy and budget. We can provide holdings comparisons and recommendations based on your institution’s usage data for journals and Open Access ebooks. Savings discounts are available and are calculated annually based on your institution’s JSTOR Archive Collection participation level, plus your annual books spend in the prior year. Since ebooks are integrated with journals and primary sources on our popular platform, libraries typically see high usage and a low-cost per use for ebooks on JSTOR.

Evidence-Based Acquisition (EBA)

Evidence-Based Acquisition offers unlimited access to 76,000+ high-quality backlist scholarly ebooks from 100+ publishers in the 2024 program for a set upfront fee. After one year of unlimited access, you can select titles to acquire using the usage data as a guide. This model can help you meet the research needs of your patrons while controlling costs, simplifying workflows, and incorporating both usage data and librarian expertise in your acquisition strategy.

EBA Titles (xlsx)

Demand-Driven Acquisition (DDA)

Demand-Driven Acquisition offers access to a large set of titles for discovery and use, but your library only pays for those that reach a threshold of usage. This model allows libraries to align purchases of ongoing access more closely with patron needs, and ensures that you’ll never pay for titles that go unused. Libraries can manage their DDA workflows through GOBI Library Solutions from EBSCO, or through ProQuest, part of Clarivate (Rialto and OASIS) library suppliers.

DDA Book Titles (xlsx)

Ebook subject packages

Our ebook subject packages is an easy way to acquire frontlist and backlist ebooks in over 60 disciplines. Offering significant savings on unlimited-access, DRM-free content from more than 200 scholarly publishers, including university presses like Princeton, Yale, and California as well as respected independent publishers.

Packages have been built from 2014 through 2023 and includes English-language ebooks in these popular subject areas:

  • Anthropology
  • Art & Art History
  • Education
  • History
  • Language & Literature
  • Law
  • Philosophy
  • Political Science
  • Religion
  • Sociology

SDG-aligned ebook packages

The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, adopted by all United Nations Member States, provides a shared blueprint for peace and prosperity for people and the planet, now, and into the future.

To amplify the UN’s goals, JSTOR is offering standout ebook packages curated to align with each of the SDG goals. Pick an SDG-aligned package or choose the entire set.

All of JSTOR’s ebook packages provide substantial savings, simple acquisition workflows, and DRM-free, unlimited-user access with no recurring fees.

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion ebook content: Savings available on customized collections

To support libraries that are selecting ebooks for courses related to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, we have curated a list of academic titles aligned with the following topics:

  • Asian Studies
  • Black Studies
  • Civil Rights, Human Rights, & Social Justice
  • Disability Studies
  • Discrimination & Racism
  • Gender Studies
  • Gerontology Studies
  • Hispanic Studies
  • Immigration & Refugee Studies
  • Indigenous Studies
  • Islamic Studies
  • Jewish Studies
  • LGBTQ+ Studies
  • Poverty & Economic Disparity
  • Women’s Studies

The titles were contributed by university presses and other leading scholarly publishers, ensuring that the list is composed of high-quality scholarship on these important topics. Titles in high demand across our participating institutions include As We Have Always Done: Indigenous Freedom through Radical Resistance (University of Minnesota Press), Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism (NYU Press), and From Here to Equality: Reparations for Black Americans in the Twenty-First Century (UNC Press).

You can review the titles and narrow by area of focus, publication year, publisher, and price to create a collection customized to the curriculum needs of your institution.

Use the form on this page to request the title list in your areas of interest as well as the savings available to your institution.

Title-by-title selection

You can build a customized collection by selecting ebooks from our full title list or by using criteria such as publisher, discipline, and copyright year. We can work with you to provide holdings comparisons or recommendations based on turnaway data.

All Book Titles (xlsx)

Workflow options to meet your library’s needs

To support our participants’ established workflows, we have partnered with the following library suppliers.

GOBI Library Solutions from EBSCO offers JSTOR ebooks through eApproval programs, new title notifications, title-by-title firm orders, or Demand-Driven Acquisition.

ProQuest’s Rialto and OASIS marketplaces offer JSTOR ebooks for title-by-title ordering, slip notifications, approval programs, selection plans, and Demand-Driven Acquisition. Learn more.

Schweitzer Fachinformationen offers JSTOR ebooks for title-by-title ordering to academic and public libraries in Germany. Learn more.

Join Path to Open

More than 40+ university presses and hundreds of authors are part of Path to Open, a new pilot program that supports libraries’ efforts to increase cultural diversity and invest in sustainable OA solutions while reducing financial risk for academic publishers to invest in authors and their scholarship.