Resources for secondary schools

JSTOR provides a growing amount of free content and research tools that can help you support your students under difficult remote learning circumstances.

Open Access highlights

Explore over 6,000 Open Access ebooks, including:

More than 50 Open Access journals, including:

Public collections

Artstor offers approximately 1.3 million freely accessible images and media from library special collections, faculty research, and institutional history materials, as well as hundreds of thousands of Open Access images from partner museums. Some highlights include:

A page from the Devi-Mahatmya, ca. 1640. Image and data provided by The Cleveland Museum of Art. CCO 1.0.

Cleveland Museum of Art

More than 10,000 years of history from every corner of the globe in nearly 29,000 selections from the museum’s encyclopedic collection, including precious jewels and scrolls from China, Japanese screens and kimonos, and African and Native American ritual attire and objects.

Clemente Susini, wax anatomical figure of reclining woman, 1771-1800. Science Museum Group Collection Online. CC BY 4.0.

Science Museum Group collection

A selection of nearly 50,000 images from the Science Museum Group (UK) spanning science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and medicine.

J. Willis, The lives and tragical deaths of Hamlet, prince of Denmark, and the lovely Ophelia. ca. 1823. Image and data provided by the Folger Shakespeare Library. CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.

Folger Shakespeare Library

More than 8,000 images illuminating the history and output of Shakespeare and theater in general. The perfect complement to the JSTOR Understanding Series on Shakespeare’s works.

Ethan Rilly, The Nervous Party, 2006. Image and data from the OCAD U Zine Library

The Ontario College of Art and Design University Zine Collection

A catalog of a wide range of handmade zines; each record includes an image of the cover and a description of its contents, opening up the world of small-circulation, self-published works.

Library-contributed collections

JSTOR’s growing Open Community Collections feature special collections from libraries that have been made freely accessible to everyone. Highlights include:

Classroom teaching to the class of 1954. Alumni Association of the Philadelphia General Hospital School of Nursing.

Philadelphia General Hospital School of Nursing

As seen in JSTOR Daily’s “Nurses Have Always Been Heroes,” these images from the 1880s to the 1970s offer a glimpse of the significant contributions made by the profession to the American health care system.

Presse-Photo-Syndikat, military dirigible with basket aloft (1914-1918). Webster Collection WWI Photos, Trinity College Library.

Trinity College Webster Collection WWI Photos

World War I photographs taken in Germany, including Red Cross, military, and prisoner of war activities.

Etheostoma osburni (Candy darter, Finescale Saddled darter), Roanoke College Freshwater Fish Collection

Roanoke College Freshwater Fish

Over 800 digitized photographic slides of Virginia’s freshwater fish, including geospatial data.