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Multi-discipline archival journal collections
JSTOR’s multi-discipline collections bring together 2,000+ journals across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences.
JSTOR’s 15 Arts & Sciences collections span more than 60 disciplines, from history, literature, and political science to economics, psychology, and law. The Life Sciences Collection offers exceptional depth in the field sciences, health sciences, and environmental studies, while the JSTOR Essential Collection provides foundational content for institutions seeking a balanced, cross-disciplinary library of core titles. For institutions looking for complete coverage, the JSTOR Archival Journals and Primary Sources Collection brings together every licensed journal and primary source on JSTOR in a single, comprehensive resource.
All issues, from volume 1, issue 1, are provided for every journal up to the moving wall, including all previous and related titles.
JSTOR Archival Journals and Primary Sources Collection – 2,892 head titles
Includes all 2,800+ academic journals on JSTOR that span more than 60 disciplines across the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences, along with millions of primary sources across four collections.
Arts & Sciences I – 118 head titles
Core journals in economics, history, political science, and sociology, as well as in other key fields in the humanities and social sciences.
Arts & Sciences II – 126 head titles
Adds depth to many disciplines introduced in Arts & Sciences I with core titles in new disciplines such as archaeology, classical studies, and geography.
Arts & Sciences III – 153 head titles
Draws on titles across the language, performing, and visual arts, including a large group titles from the Music collection. It also features the largest cluster of titles on Eastern and Western religions on JSTOR.
Arts & Sciences IV – 111 head titles
Expands JSTOR’s coverage in economics, law, education, sociology, psychology, and public policy and administration. It includes noteworthy student-run law reviews, featuring more than a century of top legal scholarship.
Arts & Sciences V – 138 head titles
Includes important literary reviews and state historical titles, widening the scope of core disciplines in the arts and humanities.
Arts & Sciences VI – 141 head titles
Extends coverage in disciplines across the social sciences and adds international depth to disciplines extensively covered in other Arts & Sciences collections.
Arts & Sciences VII – 184 head titles
Includes titles in more disciplines than any other JSTOR collection, and the most non-US titles in the arts, humanities, and social sciences. Journals cover more than 30 arts, humanities, and social science disciplines, as well as business, finance, and health science fields.
Arts & Sciences VIII – 167 head titles
Broadens coverage of core humanities disciplines and features rare 19th- and early 20th-century American art periodicals from the Frick Collection, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Brooklyn Museum.
Arts & Sciences IX – 176 head titles
Widens JSTOR’s coverage in business and the social sciences and includes journals published in more than 25 countries, with rare materials that provide the collection with unique depth.
Arts & Sciences X – 125 head titles
Includes social science journals with a focus on science and social science theory, data, and analysis, and features new disciplines such as Transportation Studies and Development Studies.
Arts & Sciences XI – 138 head titles
Features a diverse group of humanities titles and content from 15 countries, including premier titles such as The American Scholar, RSA Journal, and The Black Scholar.
Arts & Sciences XII – 127 head titles
Complements JSTOR coverage in the social sciences, focusing on disciplines with high usage and broad appeal across all levels of higher education, including education, law, and political science anchor the collection, and other titles in criminology and criminal justice, history, psychology, social work, and sociology. Additional titles span African Studies, Asian Studies, and Middle East Studies.
Arts & Sciences XIII – 140 head titles
Increases coverage in core humanities disciplines, with more than 60% of its content published outside of the United States. Strengths include Christianity Studies and journals in non-Western philosophy.
Arts & Sciences XIV – 144 head titles
Devoted to the study of culture and communication, from civilization’s earliest traces to the growth and governance of peoples, with journals spanning 17 countries. The collection also includes a cluster of titles covering aspects of science, technol
Arts & Sciences XV – 162 head titles
With extensive coverage in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences, it encompasses the best titles not previously included on JSTOR; along with 20 titles drawn from Mathematics & Statistics and 21 titles from the Jewish Studies collection, there are more than 100 historically significant titles crucial in their respective fields.
JSTOR Essential – 692 head titles
Foundational content in the humanities and social sciences, with nearly 700 core titles across 45 disciplines. The journals in this collection serve both basic and advanced research and teaching needs for two- and four-year institutions.
Life Sciences – 208 head titles
Provides extensive coverage in the field sciences, with great depth in botany, ecology, and ornithology, along with important titles in general science, medicine, nursing, epidemiology, and public health.
Discipline-specific archival journal collections
JSTOR’s discipline-specific collections are designed for institutions with focused research and teaching needs.
These 18 collections provide in-depth coverage of specialized fields across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. Collections include:
- Regional and cultural studies such as Asia, Iberoamérica, Ireland, and Hebrew Journals
- Subject-focused collections including Business & Economics, Mathematics & Statistics, Music, Public Health, Religion & Theology, Sustainability, and Security Studies
All issues, from volume 1, issue 1 are provided for every journal up to the moving wall, including all previous and related titles.
Asia – 136 head titles
Features journals from and about Asia. Offers broad coverage of the continent, including China, Inner Asia, Japan, Northeast Asia, South Asia, Southeast Asia, and beyond.
Business I – 45 head titles
Titles drawn from Arts & Sciences I, II, and IV; brings together core titles in economics and finance, including many titles from the leading scholarly societies; a range of critical research titles in accounting, labor relations, marketing, management, operations research, and risk assessment.
Business II – 64 head titles
Broadens the number of core international business titles, and includes titles that explore the intersections of economics, law, policy, and psychology; 25 titles drawn from Arts & Sciences IV, VI, and VII.
Business III – 55 head titles
Covers core business fields such as economics, business administration, and finance; features a robust group of non-U.S. titles as well as prominent titles in public administration, business history, accounting, management, and marketing.
Business IV – 50 head titles
Includes core titles in economics, management, industrial relations, and finance, and adds many non-U.S. business. Does not overlap with other collections on the JSTOR archive.
Business & Economics – 237 head titles
Titles drawn from Business I, II, III, and IV; includes nearly 250 leading journals in economics, finance, marketing, management, business administration, industrial relations, and more. Features over 150 years of published research from more than 20 countries.
Hebrew Journals – 52 head titles
Developed in collaboration with the University of Haifa and the National Library of Israel. Includes Tarbiz, the only Hebrew academic journal devoted to the entire range of Jewish Studies, and Zion, continuously published since its founding in 1935-36.
Iberoamérica – 106 head titles
Includes all journals on JSTOR in Spanish and Portuguese; features titles in Latin American Studies as well as those published in Spain, Portugal, and Latin America.
Ireland – 74 head titles
An interdisciplinary resource of materials from and about Ireland; materials span from the 1780s to the present. Created with Queen’s University Belfast, funded by JISC.
Jewish Studies – 56 head titles
Features titles in English, German, French, Italian, Dutch, and Hebrew; supports teaching and research at institutions with Jewish and Judaic studies programs.
Language & Literature – 58 head titles
Spans the literary cultures of many different countries and features articles in several languages, including Arabic, Italian, and German; developed with the Modern Language Association.
Lives of Literature – 104 head titles
A collection of academic journals devoted to the deep study of writers and texts associated with core literary movements. This resource supports advanced literary studies and interdisciplinary research on writers and texts critical to curricula in literature.
Mathematics & Statistics – 81 head titles
Contains prominent U.S. journals and publications from around the world. Encompasses titles that study math and statistics across education, business, economics, science, and philosophy.
Music – 72 head titles
Brings together all Music titles from the Arts & Sciences collections on JSTOR; includes publications from more than 15 disciplines and 10 countries; a strong collection for institutions training music scholars and music teachers.
Public Health – 55 head titles at completion
Explores the environmental, biological, social and cultural factors that can impact public health and health equity in society; features relevant scholarship from a multitude of disciplines, such as law, business, sociology, political science, and the biological sciences.
Religion & Theology – 87 head titles
Covers the history and philosophy of religious thought across traditions, periods, and critical approaches.
Security Studies – 83 head titles
Gathers academic and open policy research on international and national security problems and foreign policy issues, encompassing perspectives from around the world. This interdisciplinary resource is built in collaboration with librarians, scholars, and policy researchers, and with guidance from an advisory group of professionals in the community.
Security Studies Extension
An add-on to the Security Studies collection, the Extension includes top journals in the discipline from JSTOR Arts & Sciences collections.
Sustainability – 106 head titles
A collection of academic and open policy research on environmental stresses and their impact on society. This collection was built in collaboration with librarians, scholars, and policy researchers, and looks at sustainability and resilience through a broad lens spanning more than 30 disciplines.
Sustainability Extension
An add-on to the Sustainability collection, the Extension includes top journals in the discipline from JSTOR Arts & Sciences collections.

JSTOR Sustainability is essential for academic libraries that support multidisciplinary research and learning with a sustainability component.
Licensed primary source collections
JSTOR’s primary source collections bring history to life with millions of digitized objects that support research and teaching across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences.
Developed in collaboration with libraries, museums, archives, and scholars worldwide, these collections provide unique access to rare and invaluable materials—from 19th-century pamphlets and African heritage sites to plant specimens and documents of political struggle. Each collection is curated for scholarly depth and high-resolution detail, offering a lasting record of global history and culture.
Global Plants
Consisting of nearly 3 million objects, Global Plants is the largest community-contributed database in which herbaria share their plant type specimens and experts determine and update plant names.The collection also includes partner-contributed reference works and primary sources, and serves an essential resource for research and teaching in botany, ecology, and conservation studies.
19th Century British Pamphlets
19th Century British Pamphlets is a corpus of primary sources for the study of sociopolitical and economic factors impacting 19th-century Britain. Created by Research Libraries UK (RLUK) with funding from the JISC Digitisation Programme, the collection is comprised of more than 26,000 important pamphlets held in research libraries in the United Kingdom.
Struggles for Freedom: Southern Africa
The collection consists of more than 190,000 pages of documents and images, including periodicals, nationalist publications, records of colonial government commissions, local newspaper reports, personal papers, correspondence, UN documents, out-of-print and other particularly relevant books, oral histories, and speeches.
World Heritage Sites: Africa
The collection links visual, contextual, and spatial documentation of African heritage sites. It includes more than 57,000 objects, including photographs, 3D models, GIS data, site plans, aerial and satellite photography, images of rock art, excavation reports, manuscripts, traveler’s accounts, historical and antiquarian maps, books, articles, and other scholarly research.
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Louis John Rhead (artist), Liebler & Maass Lith., New York (printer), and The New York Journal (publisher). Morning Journal. 1895. Part of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Artstor.