Publishers
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A highly influential event known for candid, cross-sector dialogue on acquisitions, collection strategy, and the evolving scholarly publishing landscape.
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A community-designed model on JSTOR that helps publishers streamline distribution, increase discoverability, and reach thousands of libraries worldwide.
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Browse academic publishers contributing to Books at JSTOR. Explore disciplines, acquisition models, and open access titles to support data-driven, sustainable collection development.
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Publisher Collections are now live on JSTOR, marking a new milestone for scholarly ebooks. Developed collaboratively with libraries and academic publishers, this new model offers perpetual access to a publisher’s current-year output alongside seamless access to backlist titles on JSTOR.
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Path to Open has reached a major milestone: the first 100 scholarly books have officially flipped to open access on JSTOR. This post celebrates what that moment represents for libraries, publishers, and authors working together to expand global access to high-quality academic monographs.
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Access ready-to-use messaging, social media assets, and outreach guidance to help university presses and scholarly publishers promote their participation in Path to Open and highlight their open access impact.
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A practical communications toolkit to help Publisher Collections partners promote their participation, engage librarians, and amplify the reach and impact of their scholarly ebooks on JSTOR.
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Explore tools, guidance, and practical support for publishers partnering with JSTOR. Access resources for onboarding, reporting, communications, and sustainable collaboration.
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This Library Journal webinar featured the Big Ten Academic Alliance, UNC Press, Liverpool University Press, and JSTOR discussing how Publisher Collections supports sustainable, equitable access.
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Path to Open is a community-driven model bringing 240+ libraries and nearly 50 publishers together to fund new monographs, provide early campus access, and then flip titles open. The first 100 books will become open access on JSTOR in January 2026.
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A new nonprofit-led model from JSTOR offers libraries and publishers a more sustainable, equitable, and integrated ecosystem for scholarly ebooks.
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At ACRL 2025, JSTOR marked its 30th anniversary while unveiling JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services—built to support libraries in managing and preserving digital collections using AI-assisted metadata creation and community-driven collaboration.
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JSTOR has partnered with Pluto Journals and the African Books Collective to launch six open access African journals as part of a new pilot program supporting diamond open access publishing.
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Effective December 31, 2024, JSTOR will retire its Publisher Sales Service, a program that enables publishers to sell, and individuals to buy, single articles and issues from the journals preserved and hosted by JSTOR. JSTOR began the Publisher Sales Service in the early 2000s to provide access to research to people finding articles on JSTOR…
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Celebrating 20 years of digital image access at UC San Diego Library through Artstor. Explore the transformation in utilizing visual resources for teaching and research, now transitioning to JSTOR. Join us in uncovering UC San Diego’s collection legacy and future.
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Assessing the Path to Open initiative in a recent webinar by Library Journal and JSTOR. Learn about the collaborative funding model for open access academic monographs developed with ACLS, University of Michigan Press, and The University of North Carolina Press. Key points, updates, and future directions discussed.
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Learn how presses, libraries, and authors are tackling the challenges of open access publishing by exploring JSTOR’s Path to Open program.
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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…
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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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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…
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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.
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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…
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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…
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LARRP, CLACSO, JSTOR, and García Cambeiro launch pilot 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 is working toward introducing a sustainable Open Access model for monographs to be developed and supported by the…
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JSTOR has long participated as a Crossref affiliate, and now our digital content manager Lauren Lissaris has expanded that relationship by becoming a Crossref Ambassador. Crossref advocates persistent cross-publisher citation linking using Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) in online academic journals, and its new Crossref Ambassadors program brings together volunteers from the international scholarly research community…
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On October 30, Alex Humphreys of JSTOR Labs participated in a Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP) regional event focused on innovative methods of scholarship. Joining Jen Grayburn (Temple University) and Kathi Martin (Drexel University) in a panel presentation, Alex discussed how JSTOR is experimenting with design thinking and lean development techniques to build tools that enhance…
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KU Research has released a study of Open Access ebook usage on JSTOR, commissioned and funded by four publishers: UCL Press, University of Michigan Press, Cornell University Press, and University of California Press. The full report is now available as a PDF download. Among the findings are that the JSTOR platform accounts for the largest…
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A white paper released by Cornell University Press reviewing their NEH Humanities Open Book Program notes exceptionally high levels of discovery and usage on JSTOR. The paper states that the 20 titles Cornell University Press is making available on JSTOR saw a total of more than 15,000 chapter downloads in less than six months—more than in all the…
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JSTOR and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) are pleased to announce they have renewed their longstanding agreement to preserve and make available over 100 years of Science via the JSTOR platform. JSTOR and AAAS first began working together in 1998 when Science was among the earliest journals converted from print to…
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Among the new users now adopting JSTOR with a JPASS plan, genealogists have established a strong foothold. Often working independently, they cite JSTOR’s range of disciplines, historical depth, and reliability as valuable for their work. Thomas MacEntee, of the website GeneaBloggers, calls JPASS “easy to use and hard to stop.” Don’t forget: scholarly societies whose…
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