Participating publishers and their collections

Publisher Collections offer an efficient, sustainable way to acquire and access high-quality scholarly ebooks from 20+ trusted academic publishers at scale. Each collection provides a perpetual JSTOR license to current-year titles, along with seamless access to the backlist for active participants.

Below, you’ll find details on each publisher’s offering, including title counts, subject strengths, and links to title lists.

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Berghahn Books Publisher Collection

New: ~100
Backlist: 2,200+
Subjects covered: Anthropology, Archaeology, Environment, Film, Gender, German and Jewish Studies, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Migration, Modern European History

The Berghahn Books Publisher Collection, available through Books at JSTOR, offers perpetual access to ~100 new releases in 2026 and 2,200+ backlist titles while participating, including 160 open access works. The collection spans Modern European History, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, German and Jewish Studies, social and cultural anthropology, migration, environmental studies, archaeology, gender studies, and film studies. Specializing in anthropology and sociology, new additions include: Investigating Online Heritage Crime by David Huffer and Evie Handby; Small Adults or Big Kids? by Christopher Avery and David Thacher; Death, Commemoration, and Cultural Meaning by Raffaella Spinelli and Richard Lacy, and more. Key series include Forced Migration–Multidisciplinary research on migration, refugees, and displacement; EASA Series: contemporary social-anthropology topics including queer & trans lives, inequality, education.

Book cover for An Anthropology of Global Immunization: Vaccine Politics and Realities in Ethnographic Perspective, showing an abstract illustration of two faces with a syringe between them.

Cornell University Press Publisher Collection

New: ~150
Backlist: 3,700+
Subjects covered: Area Studies, Humanities, Labor and Employment Relations, Life Sciences, Literature, Medieval History, Natural Sciences, Politics, Social Sciences

The Cornell University Press Publisher Collection, available through Books at JSTOR, offers perpetual access to ~150 new releases in 2026 and 3,700+ backlist titles while participating, including 300+ open access works. As the first university press established in the United States, CUP publishes authoritative and forward-looking scholarship that spans the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences. Cornell is also one of the leading publishers in medieval history, with a distinguished list that complements its strengths in literature, politics, and area studies, including notable depth in Asian, Russian, and New York State topics. The press’ life sciences and natural history titles—including acclaimed field guides—are issued under the Comstock Publishing Associates imprint, while ILR Press offers a distinguished list in labor and employment relations, health care professions, and human resources.

Beige background with a decorated medieval initial letter “L” featuring interwoven patterns and animal heads. Text reads “Monasticism and Manuscript Culture in Medieval Europe: Studies in Cluniac History, c. 900–1200” by Scott G. Bruce.

Duke University Press Publisher Collection

New: ~120
Backlist: 3,200+
Subjects covered: Anthropology, Art History, Asian Studies, Cultural and Ethnic Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Latin American Studies, Political Theory, Queer Studies

The Duke University Press Publisher Collection, available through Books at JSTOR, offers perpetual access to ~120 new releases in 2026 and 3,200+ backlist titles while participating, including 100+ open access works. Key subject areas span anthropology, Art History and theory, Asian studies, cultural studies, ethnic studies, gender and sexuality studies, Latin American studies, and political theory. Celebrating 100 years of publishing in 2026, DUP is a premiere publisher of pathbreaking subject areas including queer and trans studies and critical theory—centering marginalized voices and expanding global societal discussions.

Vibrant abstract illustration in red, pink, teal, and black shapes forming human and organic silhouettes. Text reads “Insurgent Visions: Feminism, Justice, Solidarity” by Chandra Talpade Mohanty.

Fordham University Press Publisher Collection

New: 60+
Backlist: 1,250+
Subjects covered: American Studies, Anthropology, Cinema and Media Studies, Cultural Studies, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Literature, Philosophy, Religion, Theology, Urban Studies

The Fordham University Press Publisher Collection, available through Books at JSTOR, provides perpetual access to 60+ new releases in 2026 and 1,250+ backlist titles, including 60+ open access works. FUP publishes rigorously reviewed, creatively interdisciplinary scholarship across the humanities and social sciences, with strengths in anthropology, American studies, cinema and media, cultural studies, gender and sexuality studies, history, literature, philosophy, poetry, race and ethnic studies, religion, theology, and urban studies. Featured series and imprints include Polis: Fordham Series in Urban Studies; Perspectives in Continental Philosophy; Verbal Arts: Studies in Poetics; Lit Z; World War II: The Global, Human, and Ethical Dimension; Orthodox Christianity and Contemporary Thought; the NYC-focused Empire State Editions; and Cutaways (film & media studies).

Vintage-style design with faded handwritten text and color blocks in pink, green, and blue. Text reads “Peculiar Satisfaction: Thomas Jefferson and the Mastery of Subjects” by Melissa Adler.

Indiana University Press Publisher Collection

New: ~75
Backlist: 2,650+
Subjects covered: African American Studies, African Studies, Anthropology, Asian Studies, Film, Jewish and Holocaust Studies, Middle East Studies, Philosophy, Religion, Russian and East European Studies

The Indiana University Press Publisher Collection, available through Books at JSTOR, offers perpetual access to ~75 new releases in 2026 and 2,650+ backlist titles while participating, including 30+ open access works. The collections span the humanities and social sciences, with major subject areas including African, African American, Asian, cultural, Jewish and Holocaust, Middle East, Russian and East European, and women’s and gender studies, as well as anthropology, film, history, bioethics, music, philanthropy, philosophy, and religion. IUP emphasizes scholarship but also publishes trade and reference titles.

Photograph of silhouetted figures walking down a dimly lit street at night. Text reads “Negotiating Power and Inequality in Ghana: Electricity and Citizenship as Reciprocity” by Lauren M. MacLean.

Leuven University Press Publisher Collection

The Leuven University Publisher Collection, available through Books at JSTOR, offers perpetual access to ~10 new releases in 2026 and 350+ backlist titles while participating, including 160+ open access works with ~20 Path to Open titles. Active in scholarly publishing for over 50 years, Leuven UP has built up a strong book collection in the arts, humanities and social sciences, featuring long-running series such as Ancient and Medieval Philosophy, Mediaevalia Lovaniensia, Studies in Medieval History, Society, and Culture, Studies in Archaeological Sciences, the Lieven Gevaert Series, KADOC-Studies, and Figures of the Unconscious. Leuven UP also publishes art and artists’ books in collaboration with international museums and galleries.

Book cover for Urban Women: Life, Love, and Work in the Medieval Low Countries, edited by Jelle Haemers, Andrea Bardyn, and Chanelle Delameillieure, depicting a drawing of a medieval woman writing.

Liverpool University Press Publisher Collection

The Liverpool University Press Publisher Collection, available through Books at JSTOR, offers perpetual access to ~120 new releases in 2026 and 1,900+ backlist titles while participating, including 100 open access works with ~50 Path to Open titles. LUP’s offering through Publisher Collections has been expanded to include ~1000 more ebooks, showcasing a broader selection of subject areas including Irish studies, medieval studies, ancient history, classics, and earth and climate sciences. New series exclusively available to Publisher Collections users include Writers and Their Work, Exeter Medieval Texts and Studies, LSE Studies in Spanish History, Constellations, and forthcoming titles include Viking Connections, 28 Years a Slave – Or, the Story of My Life in Three Continents, and Irish Joy: Resistant Affects in Contemporary Irish Literature and Culture.

Abstract painting with layered geometric shapes in blue, green, and beige. Text reads “Literary Coteries and the Irish Women Writers’ Club (1933–1958)” by Deirdre F. Brady.

New York University Press Publisher Collection

The New York University Press Publisher Collection, available through Books at JSTOR, offers perpetual access to ~115 new releases in 2026 and 2,200+ backlist titles while participating, including 300+ open access works. The collection spans sociology, American studies, history, and religion, featuring groundbreaking titles on gender studies, queer theory, and sociology of religion, as well as award-winning titles on New York City. NYU Press titles amplify voices and tell stories—from disability and media studies to history and Jewish studies—offering fresh, original scholarship that will define the academy in the future.

Teal background with a painted portrait of a woman wearing a bright floral crown. Text reads “Mormon Barrio: Latino Belonging in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints” by Sujey Vega.

Pluto Press Publisher Collection

The Pluto Press Publisher Collection, available through Books at JSTOR, offers perpetual access to ~45 new releases in 2026 and 1,150+ backlist titles while participating, including 90+ open access works. Covering disciplines such as politics, culture, history, feminism, gender and sexuality, Middle East studies, race and ethnicity, sociology, geography, anthropology, and more, the collection has an incredibly strong backlist including The Brutish Museums by Dan Hicks, A Decolonial Feminism by Francois Verges, and 100+ titles on Palestine published over the last five decades. Frontlist highlights include The Forest Fights Back by Jessica den Outer, How to Sell a Genocide by Adam Johnson, and Decolonising Money by Julio Linares.

Botanical illustration of a strawberry plant with red fruit and green leaves on a pale background. Text reads “Radical Abundance: How to Win a Green, Democratic Future” by Kai Heron, Keir Milburn, and Bertie Russell.

SUNY Press Publisher Collection

The SUNY Press Publisher Collection, available through Books at JSTOR, offers perpetual access to ~150 new releases in 2026 and 3,900+ backlist titles while participating, including 40+ open access works. The collection features more than 70 series spanning the humanities and social sciences, with a special focus on philosophy, religious studies, Asian studies, Jewish studies, African American studies, Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx studies, gender and sexuality, political science, education, literature, film studies, music, and New York and regional topics. In time for the 250th anniversary of the American Revolution, the collection features numerous books on America and American history—from Revolutionary New York, celebrating New Yorkers who advanced freedom, to Labor Unions and American Mass Politics, and School Shootings in American Culture. Other highlights include The Campus Crisis Toolkit, Hidden Histories of the Jazz Age in New York, and Teaching Poetry Now.

Minimalist line drawing of a face in blue and black on a light background. Text reads “Prieta Is Dreaming: A Cuentos-Novela” by Gloria E. Anzaldúa, edited by Kelli D. Zaytoun, AnaLouise Keating, and Suzanne Bost.

Syracuse University Press Publisher Collection

The Syracuse University Press Publisher Collection, available through Books at JSTOR, offers perpetual access to ~30 new releases in 2026 and 650+ backlist titles while participating, including ~15 open access works. The collection features 16 series spanning the humanities and social sciences with a focus on Middle East studies, Irish studies, Jewish studies, Indigenous studies, women’s and gender studies, film and media studies, literary studies, and New York State. A pioneer in the field of Irish studies, SU Press will publish Malcolm Sen’s book Irish Anthropocene, which explores how Irish literature engages with the climate crisis. Building on its long and distinguished history of publishing in Middle East studies, the press will also release Amanda Batarseh’s book on Palestinian literature, Rooted Movements: The Radical Poetics of Palestinian Space.

Abstract painting in dark tones with bright orange and yellow brushstrokes beneath an orange header. Text reads “Heritage: Jewish Artists in America since 1900” by Matthew Baigell.

University of Arizona Press Publisher Collection

The University of Arizona Press Publisher Collection, available through Books at JSTOR, offers perpetual access to ~50 new releases in 2026 and 1,400+ backlist titles while participating, including 60+ open access works with 30+ Path to Open titles. The press is known for its works in anthropology, archaeology, border studies, Central American studies, environmental science, history, Indigenous studies, Latinx studies, Latin American studies, and the space sciences. The award-winning fiction and poetry series Sun Tracks and Camino del Sol also features authors such as Poets Laureate Joy Harjo and Juan Felipe Herrera. New works will feature poets Logan Philips, Silvia Bonilla, and Manual Iris, a core-text on tribal sovereignty, plus works addressing immigration and the immigrant experience, and collaborative archaeology projects with Indigenous communities.

Sepia-toned portrait of a Navajo man wearing traditional jewelry and long hair over his shoulders. Text reads “The Sons of Gunshooter: A Navajo Resistance Story” by Dorothy Denetclaw and Matt Fitzsimons.

University of Illinois Press Publisher Collection

The University of Illinois Press Publisher Collection, available through Books at JSTOR, offers perpetual access to ~75 new releases in 2026 and 1,600+ backlist titles while participating, including 27 open access works with 19 Path to Open titles. The collection focuses on Black studies, women’s and gender studies, music, film, labor studies, sports, Latinx studies, religion, Mormon studies, disability studies, Chicago, Midwest, Illinois, Asian American studies, folklore, migration studies, American History, Lincoln, radical history, communication, Appalachian studies, architecture, Caribbean studies, and dance. Key series include: New Black Studies Series, Music in American Life series, The Working Class in American History series, Women, Gender, and Sexuality in American History series, and Sport & Society series.

Photograph of two Black athletes raising their fists in protest on an Olympic medal podium. Text reads “The Revolt of the Black Athlete” by Harry Edwards.

University of Nebraska Press Publisher Collection

The University of Nebraska Press Publisher Collection, available through Books at JSTOR, offers perpetual access to ~85 new releases in 2026 and 1,500+ backlist titles while participating, including 40+ open access works with ~30 Path to Open titles. Key areas include Native American and Indigenous Studies, American History, Latin American History, Literary Criticism, and American Studies, featuring series such as Indigenous Education, Postwestern Horizons, and Engendering Latin America. UNP is the largest press between Chicago and California, and publishes ~100 new titles each year with notable strengths in Native American and Indigenous Studies, History, and American Studies.

Sepia-toned historical photograph of Indigenous girls and women standing in a long line outdoors. Text reads “Agents of Survivance: Indigenous Women Teachers in the Boarding School Era” by Anne Ruggles Gere.

University of North Carolina Press Publisher Collection

The University of North Carolina Press Publisher Collection, available through Books at JSTOR, offers perpetual access to ~85 new releases in 2026 and 1,900+ backlist titles while participating, including ~160 open access works with 35+ Path to Open titles. The collection spans American History, African-American History, Early American History, cultural history, religious studies, and sociology. UNC Press is proud to publish prestigious imprints like Ferris & Ferris Books, the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, and starting in 2026, its brand-new imprint, W. Hodding Carter III Books.

Book cover for The Trinity: John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, and Civil Rights in African American Memory by Sharron Wilkins Conrad, featuring black-and-white photos of Kennedy, Johnson, and civil rights demonstrations.

University of South Carolina Press Publisher Collection

The University of South Carolina Press Publisher Collection, available through Books at JSTOR, offers perpetual access to ~35 new releases in 2026 and 600+ backlist titles while participating, including 20 open access works with  five Path to Open titles. The collection features critically acclaimed, peer-reviewed books in South Carolina history and culture, Southern history, literary studies, African American studies, civil rights, Jewish studies, and rhetoric and communication. For 2026, the press is proud to present a strong selection of titles in areas of traditional strength such as Southern History, literary studies, rhetoric and communication, and African American studies.

Book cover for Wood Basket of the World: Lumbering, Commerce, and Conservation in South Carolina’s Forests, edited by Jessica I. Elfenbein and Mark Kinzer, showing a sepia photo of loggers standing before a massive stack of timber.

University of Utah Press Publisher Collection

The University of Utah Press Publisher Collection, available through Books at JSTOR, offers perpetual access to ~25 new releases in 2026 and 200+ backlist titles while participating, including 10+ Path to Open titles in 2026. The collection spans archaeology, environmental studies, Western History, and Mormon History. The press publishes and disseminates scholarly books in selected fields, as well as other printed and recorded materials of significance to Utah, the region, the country, and the world, in accordance with the mission of the University.

Stylized landscape illustration of blue mountains under a yellow-orange sky with birds and a silhouetted moose. Text reads “A Watershed Moment: The American West in the Age of Limits,” edited by Robert Frodeman, Evelyn Brister, and Luther Propst.

University of Wisconsin Press Publisher Collection

The University of Wisconsin Press Publisher Collection, available through Books at JSTOR, offers perpetual access to ~25 new releases in 2026 and 180+ backlist titles while participating, including 40 open access works with 15+ Path to Open titles. The collection spans African Studies, Asian Studies, European Studies, Jewish Studies, Slavic Studies, Art & Art History, development studies, History, classical studies, film studies, folklore, anthropology, archaeology, gender studies, geography, and International Relations. Featured book series include Critical Human Rights; New Perspectives in Southeast Asian Studies; Living Out: Gay and Lesbian Autobiography; Africa and the Diaspora: History, Politics, Culture; Sexuality, and Ideas; Wisconsin Film Studies; The Warren Moon Series in Art and Archaeology; Women and Gender in Africa; and Yoruba Worlds.

Blue-tinted historical photograph of a crowd of people raising arms in postwar Germany. Text reads “Rescue and Remembrance: Imagining the German Collective After Nazism” by Kobi Kabalek.

University Press of Florida Publisher Collection

The University Press of Florida Publisher Collection, available through Books at JSTOR, offers perpetual access to ~35 new releases in 2026 and 650+ backlist titles while participating, including ~10 open access works with 20+ Path to Open titles. The press has a large and well-known list in archaeology and anthropology, and will publish many titles in the discipline, including historical archaeology, bioarchaeology & forensic anthropology, South American archaeology, and Florida/Caribbean archaeology, plus new works in Latin American literature, culture, and environmental humanities. Other key areas of focus include History, African American Studies, Latin American and Caribbean Studies, dance studies, Medieval and Modernist Literature, environmental studies, and the intersections of space history, policy, and technology.

Green background with collage-style artwork of flowers, leaves, and a bird. Text reads “Imagining a New Natural History: Latin American Cultural Production in the Anthropocene,” edited by Nicolás Campisi and Lucas Mertehikian.

University Press of Kansas Publisher Collection

The University Press of Kansas Publisher Collection, available through Books at JSTOR, offers perpetual access to ~50 new releases in 2026 and 875+ backlist titles while participating, including ~75 open access works with 25+ Path to Open titles. The press publishes work on American politics (including the Presidency, American political thought, and public policy), military history and intelligence studies, American history (especially political, cultural, intellectual, and western), environmental policy and history, American studies, film studies, law and legal history, Native American studies, and books about Kansas and the Midwest. The collection spans Constitutional Studies, American History, Western History, Military History, law, Political Science, Presidential Studies, Native and Indigenous Studies, environmental studies, and books on Kansas and the region.

Book cover for The Real Ike: Eisenhower Fact and Fiction by Martin Mack Teasley, featuring three portraits of Dwight D. Eisenhower tinted in blue, gray, and red.

University Press of Kentucky Publisher Collection

The University Press of Kentucky Publisher Collection, available through Books at JSTOR, offers perpetual access to ~45 new releases in 2026 and 2,000+ backlist titles while participating, including ~15 Path to Open titles in 2026. The collection spans film studies, Appalachian Studies, Military History, GLBTQI+ studies, creative nonfiction/memoir, regional studies, environmental studies, sport and horse racing, American cultural studies, and contemporary poetry and fiction. In 2026, the press will launch its new imprint, Screen Door Press, edited by New York Times bestselling author, Crystal Wilkinson, which is dedicated to discovering unique, exceptional, and varied voices within Black literary traditions. New works will also highlight the best in film studies, military history, and books that amplify the voices of people from Appalachia.

Book cover for Self-Rising: The Magic Rise Behind Biscuit and Cornbread Culture by Mindy Merrell, R.B. Quinn, and Linda Carman, designed like a flour bag against a bright red background.

University Press of Mississippi Publisher Collection

The University Press of Mississippi Publisher Collection, available through Books at JSTOR, offers perpetual access to ~70 new releases in 2026 and 1,100+ backlist titles while participating. The press values and promotes equality and justice, publishing books vital to readers in African American studies, Caribbean studies, comics studies, film and media studies, folklore, history, literary studies, music, and popular culture. UPM is at the forefront of comics studies, with its Biographix and Tom Inge series on comics artists featuring well-established and emerging scholars in the field. Titles in African American studies examine African American resistance, culture, and resilience in both the past and present.

Comic-book-style illustration with a red-gloved hand holding a microphone against a yellow and red dotted background surrounded by speakers. Text reads “Hip-Hop and Comics,” edited by Sheena C. Howard, Justin D. Burton, and Brea M. Heidelberg.

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Berghahn Books
Cornell University Press
Duke University Press
Fordham University Press
Indiana University Press
Leuven University Press
Liverpool University Press
NYU Press
Pluto Books
SUNY Press
Syracuse University Press
University of Arizona Press
University of Illinois Press
University of Nebraska Press
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University of South Carolina Press
University of Utah Press
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Berghahn Books
Cornell University Press
Duke University Press
Fordham University Press
Indiana University Press
Leuven University Press
Liverpool University Press
NYU Press
Pluto Books
SUNY Press
Syracuse University Press
University of Arizona Press
University of Illinois Press
University of Nebraska Press
University of North Carolina Press
University of South Carolina Press
University of Utah Press
University of Wisconsin Press
University Press of Florida
University Press of Kansas
University Press of Kentucky
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