JSTOR for college readiness
Prepare students for success in higher education with an affordable solution widely adopted by AP, IB, and other advanced secondary school programs. Students and teachers gain access to trusted academic journals, books, primary sources, and images that support rigorous, college-level learning and research.
2,700+
Leading academic journals
2M+
Primary sources across four collections
4,600
Participating secondary schools worldwide
Students build essential college-level research and critical thinking skills
Using JSTOR in high school helps students build the research and analytical skills needed for college-level work:
- Access trusted scholarly resources to conduct in-depth research, a key part of AP and IB curricula
- Develop independent research and writing skills while learning to locate, evaluate, and cite scholarly sources
- Strengthen critical thinking and analysis by assessing arguments, interpreting data, and synthesizing sources
- Engage with professional scholarship across diverse subjects to explore future areas of study
- Gain a global perspective through access to resources from institutions worldwide
Teachers enrich learning with trusted academic resources and tools
JSTOR supports teachers with trusted academic resources that enrich curricula and make research and teaching more engaging. Educators can:
- Use our free self-directed and ad-free Research Basics course to help students strengthen essential research skills
- Stay organized with Workspace, a tool for saving articles, book chapters, and other scholarly materials with notes and citations
- Incorporate JSTOR Daily articles that connect news and current events to scholarly research—perfect for classroom discussion prompts
- Draw on the Understanding Series for accessible analyses of widely studied texts, from Shakespeare to Martin Luther King Jr. and Louisa May Alcott
Innovative, cost-effective solutions for student success
Secondary schools can extend their resources by including multiple types of high-quality digital content on JSTOR’s feature-rich, easy-to-use platform. These content types—including journals and primary sources, books, and images—enable students to expand their avenues of research and streamline workflows for academic success.
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Journals and primary sources for college-level research
Prepare students for college research with access to the vast majority of JSTOR’s archival journals and primary sources—all at a fraction of the cost. New content is added each year as the moving wall advances, ensuring continuous growth.
- 2,700+ leading journals across literature, history, biology, mathematics, and more
- Emerging fields such as sustainability, public health, and international security
- Millions of primary sources—pamphlets, manuscripts, oral histories, images, and more—to support research and teaching
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Affordable academic ebook access
Search and discover ebooks, journal articles, and primary sources in one place with Books at JSTOR. JSTOR’s ebook package offers unlimited access to 93,000+ titles from 115+ publishers—valued at over $18 million—for a modest annual fee.
- Fully integrated search across books, articles, and primary sources
- Unlimited simultaneous use for students and teachers
- Annual fee: $995 (U.S.) with 75% reserved to automatically purchase your most-used titles
- Perpetual access on JSTOR to your purchased titles each year
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Trustworthy images and multimedia to boost visual learning
Strengthen visual literacy with Artstor on JSTOR, featuring over 2 million high-quality images from museums, libraries, and archives—integrated alongside JSTOR’s trusted texts.
- Interdisciplinary depth across art, history, anthropology, and more
- Curated and credible images with complete metadata
- Interactive tools for zooming, comparing, and creating image presentations
- Ideal for arts, humanities, and social sciences classes—or for building visual analysis skills essential to college success
Empower your students with JSTOR
Join more than 4,600 secondary schools worldwide using JSTOR to prepare students for higher education. With affordable, comprehensive access to scholarly journals, books, primary sources, and images, JSTOR gives schools the tools to inspire inquiry, strengthen research skills, and foster a lifelong love of learning.
The latest from JSTOR
Stay up-to-date on all things JSTOR.
An update to JSTOR’s free reading program
JSTOR is updating its free reading program to provide registered readers with access to 10 articles every 30 days, while open and free content remains available without affecting the reading allowance.
JSTOR Stewardship introduces alt text tools and workflows for image-based materials
New alt text capabilities in JSTOR Stewardship help libraries and archives create, manage, and publish accessible image descriptions, with JSTOR Seeklight supporting draft generation at scale.
Making images more accessible: Introducing alt text in JSTOR Stewardship
New alt text tools in JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services help institutions make image collections more accessible while keeping expert review and judgment at the center.
Empowering research impact with JSTOR
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Path to Open: What Happens When Scholarly Books Become Open?
Join us for a virtual Charleston webinar on Thursday, September 3, 2026, from 11:00 AM–12:00 PM ET.
JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services training: Publishing and Preservation for JSTOR Seeklight
Training for Stewardship Tier 3 participants: Publishing Seeklight collections to JSTOR, preserving with Portico. Part of a quarterly Seeklight training series.
JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services training: Advanced features
Training for Stewardship participants (Tiers 2-3): learn how to build and manage complex relationships with your assets. One of three sessions in a monthly Stewardship training series.
JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services Receives Mellon Foundation Digitization Grant
Library Journal highlights JSTOR Stewardship’s new funding initiative for libraries and archives, supporting digitization, AI-assisted processing with JSTOR Seeklight, and broader public access to distinctive collections.
Reflection as direction: Expanding information access for incarcerated people
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Christine Moll-Murata. State and Crafts in the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911). Amsterdam University Press, 2018.
Jin Nong. Poems on Paintings, Written for Ma Yueguan. 1754. Part of Open: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Artstor. https://www.jstor.org/stable/community.18706184.