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Advancing bibliodiversity with Path to Open

Hundreds of new, peer-reviewed titles are added to Path to Open each year. Participating libraries receive exclusive early access before the books transition to open access. The first 100 titles from 2023 reached that milestone in January 2026, becoming freely available to all.

Selected using a combination of JSTOR data and community review, the titles showcase impactful research, diverse scholarly perspectives, and timely topics across the humanities and social sciences. 

All Path to Open titles are DRM-free, offer unlimited user access, and are fully integrated with scholarly journals, research reports, images, and multimedia on JSTOR. 

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Heritage in the Body by Kristina Baines — blue cover featuring a silhouette filled with colorful plants and tropical imagery.
Experiments in Silence by Sana R. Chaudhry — cover depicting a collage of flowers, hands, butterflies, and a black crow.
Patterns of Sustaining Peace by Julia Leib — book cover featuring colorful geometric tiles with a blue title box overlay.
Women in the Orthodox Tradition by Ashley Marie Purpura — colorful painted icon of a woman holding a child, rendered in vivid reds, blues, and golds.
Phonographic Modernity edited by Fumitaka Yamauchi and Ying-Fen Wang — collage of colorful vintage record labels with a central black record label title.
Hip-Hop Civics by Jabari M. Evans — black cover featuring a diverse group of illustrated students in colorful clothing.
On Music Theory and Making Music More Welcoming for Everyone by Philip Ewell — minimalist black cover with pastel text and a colorful soundwave line.
The Vulnerability of Public Higher Education by Michael Bernard-Donals — book cover showing a murmuration of birds forming an abstract shape against a blue sky.
Maya Blue by Dean E. Arnold — close-up of a weathered blue-and-red ceramic bowl on a teal background.
Lost Literacies by Alex Beringer — book cover with teal background and vintage comic strip illustrations of a man and a dog.
Influential Machines: The Rhetoric of Computational Performance by Miles C. Coleman — geometric yellow and white book cover with large overlapping text.
Subjunctive Aesthetics by Carolyn Fornoff — pale green and gray cover with silhouettes of fish swimming overhead.
Violence and Inequality: An Archaeological History edited by Thomas P. Leppard and Sarah C. Murray — illustrated cover with a large fish swallowing smaller fish and a person fishing.
The Climate Crisis and Other Animals by Richard Twine — cover showing a lone lamb standing on a foggy road at sunrise.

The titles above showcase a growing collection of open access books now available on JSTOR. Download the full 2023 title list to discover all open titles, and explore the 2024 and 2025 lists, as well as 2026 releases, organized by  publisher, discipline, and more.

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