Our mission

JSTOR’s mission is to expand access to knowledge and education for people around the world. Using advanced technology, we bring to life scholarly materials from the world’s libraries, museums, and publishers. We make access affordable and sustainable, and provide long-term preservation, so JSTOR supports research, teaching, and learning today and in the future.

Our core products and services supporting this mission include:

Our core products and services supporting this mission include:

JSTOR platform

A digital platform for research, teaching, and learning—including advanced discovery, research management, and teaching tools available through Workspace—housing a vast collection of open access and licensed primary and secondary sources from around the world.

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Content solutions

Trusted, scholarly journals, books, images and other primary sources from the world’s libraries, museums, and publishers that are affordable and sustainable, made available through innovative models like Path to Open, Reveal Digital, JSTOR Access in Prison, and more.

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JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services

A seamless solution for managing digitized archives and special collections, featuring AI-powered tools like JSTOR Seeklight for long-term preservation and discovery—with the option to share collections on JSTOR.

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Collaborating closely with our community

We work hand in hand with libraries, publishers, and educators to enhance our services, grow the scholarly record, and ensure equitable access to knowledge—today and for the future.

The latest from JSTOR

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Funding stewardship, not just scanning: How Hofstra University secured a grant to build long-term access with JSTOR​​

How Hofstra University is turning a federal grant into lasting access—using JSTOR Stewardship to digitize, describe, preserve, and share Long Island history.

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Mount Holyoke College joins JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services to modernize digital collections management

Mount Holyoke College joins JSTOR Stewardship, migrating from Islandora to an integrated platform that unifies digital asset management, preservation, and access.

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Event

Turning the Page on Path to Open: From Pilot to Program

Hear JSTOR leaders and community members reflect on key learnings, impact, and what’s next for Path to Open.

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Building accessibility into every article, on demand

JSTOR is rethinking accessibility at scale by shifting from static remediation to an on-demand model, creating accessible PDFs and image descriptions the moment they’re needed. This approach expands access across centuries of materials while ensuring usability for all.

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What’s new in JSTOR Stewardship: April 2026

This month’s JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services update highlights a growing network of libraries, archives, and cultural heritage organizations working to expand access to digital collections. Featured materials include photographs of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. at Occidental College, a collection of mid-century Malibu matchbooks, and visual records documenting the development of Brasília.

A graphic collage on a red background shows a mix of archival materials and a digital interface. Items include a fan-shaped object made of feathers on a stand, handwritten manuscript pages, a vintage group photograph, and a printed poster about wartime allowances. Overlaid on the right is a rounded card labeled “Project Summary” with fields for scope and content note, extent of the collection, and languages. At the bottom left, a “Download Summary” button with a downward arrow icon is shown with a cursor hovering over it, suggesting interaction.
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How collaboration with Eastern Michigan and the archival community shaped AI for archival workflows

Working with Eastern Michigan University and archivists across institutions, JSTOR explored how AI can support collections processing. The project focused on generating metadata drafts and building workflows that center review, context, and archival standards.

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From model to practice: Evaluating Publisher Collections in academic libraries

How are academic libraries assessing new approaches to ebook acquisition, and what early signals help determine their value?

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JSTOR ranks in top 1% of most accessible home pages worldwide

JSTOR ranks in the top 1% of most accessible home pages worldwide in the 2026 WebAIM Million report, achieving zero automated accessibility errors.

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From jailhouse lawyer to fellow: How legal literacy at work is changing what I thought was possible

In “From jailhouse lawyer to fellow,” Joseph Sanchez reflects on how learning the law to navigate his own case became a way to support others and ultimately led to his work with the Legal Literacy at Work fellowship.

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Historical handwritten letter displayed with editable metadata fields labeled Title, Creator, and Date, plus a transcript excerpt reading “Sir I have the pleasure to acknowledge the favor of yr letter dated 3d inst…”.

John Gibson. Letter from John Gibson to John Udny, Containing Information for Henry Farnum. January 9, 1850. Part of Open: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Artstor. https://www.jstor.org/stable/community.18604581.

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Alexander Key. “Front Matter.” In Language between God and the Poets: Ma‘na in the Eleventh Century, 1st ed., i–viii. University of California Press, 2018.

Veysel Apaydin. “Introduction: Why Cultural Memory and Heritage?” In Critical Perspectives on Cultural Memory and Heritage: Construction, Transformation and Destruction, edited by Veysel Apaydin, 1–10. UCL Press, 2020.

Louise Lewis. Riverbank Painting, Series 7. 1969. Part of Open: Museum of New Zealand – Te Papa Tongarewa, Artstor. https://jstor.org/stable/community.27023635.

Doubleday, Page & Company. An Academic Class; A Problem in Brick Masonry; Mr. Washington Always Insisted upon Correlation: That Is, Drawing the Problems from the Various Shops and Laboratories. Published: Garden City, N.Y., Issued: 1916. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division. Part of Booker T. Washington, builder of a civilization, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture (New York Public Library), Artstor.

The Movement. January 1970. Vols. 5–12. The Movement Press. Periodical, The Movement Newspaper collection. The Freedom Archives.