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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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