Books at JSTOR

  • Unveiling the critical role of trust in open access publishing, highlighting the DOAB Trusted Platform Network’s mission to combat predatory practices and uphold quality. Learn how initiatives like JSTOR ensure the integrity of scholarly works, facing challenges from perceptions of quality to generative AI, and fostering a sustainable open access ecosystem.

  • JSTOR recently joined the Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) Trusted Platform Network, a global initiative bringing together platforms committed to maintaining the highest standards in open access (OA) book publishing. The DOAB Trusted Platform Network creates a more seamless process for platforms and publishers, including JSTOR, to index their OA books in DOAB by…

  • Florida Virtual Campus (FLVC), a centralized service supporting the shared needs of Florida’s 40 public colleges and universities, has joined Path to Open, a pilot program to support the open access publication of new groundbreaking scholarly books that will bring diverse perspectives and research to millions of people. Path to Open launched in 2023 as…

  • Learn how presses, libraries, and authors are tackling the challenges of open access publishing by exploring JSTOR’s Path to Open program.

  • Make smarter ebook investments with JSTOR’s Evidence-Based Acquisition—unlimited access to 87,000+ scholarly titles and the data to choose what matters most to your readers.

  • Path to Open is hitting its stride with some exciting developments in the past few weeks. Here are highlights since we released the list of the first 100 books on October 4th: One of the first Path to Open books released, On Music Theory and Making Music More Welcoming for Everyone by Philip Ewell, is…

  • The emergence of open access is reshaping the way scholarly information is disseminated and consumed. In this comprehensive exploration, we will delve into what open access is and how JSTOR, our renowned digital library, is playing a crucial role in facilitating open access for academic journals, books, art, and research reports.

  • JSTOR, part of the non-profit ITHAKA, announced today the release of the first books in Path to Open, a new program designed to affordably and sustainably support the open access publication of new groundbreaking books in the humanities and social sciences. Launched as a pilot in January 2023, Path to Open is a delayed open…

  • JSTOR will make a new 100-title open access book collection available as part of the Big Ten Academic Alliance’s latest open access initiative. Centered on Gender and Sexuality studies, this collection is the first in a series of collections from Big Ten Open Books, a collaboration between the university presses and libraries of the Big…

  • Brings JSTOR to 10,000 Open Access Books punctum books, an independent scholar- and queer-led open access publisher, and JSTOR recently released punctum’s entire backlist of 250 open access academic books on JSTOR. punctum books is dedicated to radically creative modes of intellectual inquiry, publishing works that take experimental risks with the forms and styles of…

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    Explore the growing collection of Path to Open titles—peer-reviewed books from nearly 50 university presses that showcase diverse voices and groundbreaking research across the humanities and social sciences.

  • The research libraries of the Big Ten Academic Alliance (BTAA) have entered into a multi-year pilot agreement with JSTOR to support Path to Open, a new cost-effective, sustainable publishing model for supporting frontlist university press monographs and making them open access after three years. More than 30 university presses and hundreds of authors are part…

  • JSTOR, part of the non-profit ITHAKA, and a cohort of leading university presses announced today Path to Open, a program to support the open access publication of new groundbreaking scholarly books that will bring diverse perspectives and research to millions of people. Launching as a pilot, Path to Open libraries will contribute funds to enable…

  • Explore the global community of university presses participating in JSTOR’s Path to Open, advancing access to high-quality monographs and supporting sustainable, equitable scholarly publishing.

  • Explore the global network of libraries partnering in Path to Open, institutions committed to expanding access to high-quality, open access scholarly books.

  • Discover how Path to Open, a Books at JSTOR initiative, brings libraries, publishers, and authors together to make open access for scholarly books sustainable, equitable, and scalable.

  • JSTOR and ProQuest extend partnership to offer libraries new options for ebook acquisition JSTOR’s Demand-Driven Acquisition (DDA) program is now available through ProQuest Rialto and ProQuest OASIS, providing a new option for academic libraries to participate in JSTOR’s ebook program while managing acquisitions through their preferred workflows. Audrey Marcus, Senior Vice President, ProQuest Books at…

  • JSTOR has joined the Opening the Future program as a hosting partner for Open Access ebooks published by Central European University Press and Liverpool University Press. These ebooks will be freely available on JSTOR, in addition to the publishers’ websites and other platforms offering Open Access ebooks. Making the titles available on multiple platforms ensures…

  • As we celebrate the 10th anniversary of ebooks on JSTOR, ITHAKA AVP of Published Content John Lenahan describes in Against the Grain the evolution of the program and how we have collaborated with the community to develop innovative, cost-effective models to increase access to academic books. The article provides background on our collective efforts to…

  • Build tailored ebook collections with JSTOR’s subject packages and individual title selections—flexible, budget-conscious options that deliver perpetual access and support diverse teaching and research needs.

  • LARRP, CLACSO, JSTOR, and García Cambeiro ebook project now includes over 280 titles A partnership led by the Latin Americanist Research Resources Project (LARRP) in collaboration with the Latin American Council of Social Sciences (CLACSO), JSTOR, and Latin American bookseller García Cambeiro has expanded a sustainable Open Access pilot (Publish as Open) for monographs developed…

  • Librarians can now acquire titles from JSTOR’s collection of more than 100,000 ebooks from 275+ academic publishers through the Rialto and OASIS marketplaces. JSTOR’s unlimited, digital rights management (DRM)-free access model and integration with journals and primary sources creates an easy and familiar user experience for researchers around the world. Title-by-title ordering is now available…

  • More than 500 titles available on an array of psychological topics JSTOR is partnering with the American Psychological Association (APA) to offer academic monographs through JSTOR’s ebook program. More than 500 titles are available now, and APA will continue to add new academic titles as they are published. “Our partnership with the APA significantly expands…

  • The University of Toronto Press, a longtime partner in the Books at JSTOR program, has joined JSTOR’s Evidence-Based Acquisition (EBA) model. It is contributing more than 4,400 backlist ebooks to EBA. Founded in 1901, University of Toronto Press is one of the largest university presses in North America, with particular strengths in the social sciences,…

  • The Books at JSTOR program has reached a new milestone: 100,000 ebooks. Introduced in 2012, the program now boasts 279 publisher partners and includes titles libraries can license in our unlimited, DRM-free model as well as Open Access titles that are freely available to everyone. Our 100,000th book is Ableism in Academia: Theorising experiences of…

  • The Books at JSTOR program has grown to more than 90,000 titles from 279 scholarly publishers.  We’re delighted to announce that three additional leading presses have recently joined the program: Vanderbilt University Press: Established in 1940, Vanderbilt University Press publishes across most areas of the humanities and social sciences, with strengths in anthropology, Latin American…

  • JSTOR’s Demand-Driven Acquisition program is now available through GOBI Library Solutions from EBSCO, helping libraries streamline their ebook acquisition workflows. GOBI’s multi-vendor DDA service prevents content gaps by cascading the DDA option to an available platform based on the library’s preferences. It provides trusted technical services, deduplication, and collection development support. JSTOR’s ebook program offers…

  • Build smarter ebook collections with JSTOR’s Demand-Driven Acquisition—pay only for the titles your users actually read, ensuring efficient, data-driven, and cost-effective collection growth.

  • Dear colleagues, As education institutions around the world continue to grapple with the momentous impact of COVID-19, libraries and publishers must cut budgets while continuing to support the needs of students, researchers, and their colleagues. We have talked with many of you about your needs, and we appreciate that JSTOR and Artstor are more important…

  • New offering provides libraries more choice to acquire and manage DDA programs via preferred workflow solution GOBI® Library Solutions from EBSCO is providing choice for libraries by extending its Demand Driven Acquisition (DDA) services to include Books at JSTOR. This arrangement offers libraries more options to acquire and manage their DDA program via their preferred…