Open and free content
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Collections, Humanities, arts, and social sciences, Open access, Open and free content, Primary sources, Teaching
Curricular materials, guides, and readings designed to help educators and students teach with the American Prison Newspapers collection, centering incarcerated voices and critical inquiry.
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Explore new Path to Open titles on JSTOR supporting teaching and research. View November 2025 releases and access options.
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Explore millions of primary sources on JSTOR—documents, images, artifacts, and data from libraries, archives, and museums worldwide. Discover materials that enrich research and teaching.
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Explore new Path to Open titles on JSTOR supporting teaching and research. View October 2025 releases and access options.
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Discover how JSTOR supports your academic work with trusted scholarly content, free and low-cost access options, and research tools that help you stay organized and build confidence.
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Explore JSTOR’s resources, tools, and services for librarians. Strengthen collections, support faculty and students, and steward your institution’s distinctive materials with confidence.
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Explore the JSTOR platform—an interactive, nonprofit digital library offering journals, books, primary sources, images, and advanced research tools that support teaching and learning worldwide.
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Learn how a slow-looking project helps students engage deeply with artworks, build visual analysis skills, and create collaborative exhibitions using JSTOR and Artstor resources.
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Explore new Path to Open titles on JSTOR supporting teaching and research. View September 2025 releases and access options.
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Path to Open is a community-driven model bringing 240+ libraries and nearly 50 publishers together to fund new monographs, provide early campus access, and then flip titles open. The first 100 books will become open access on JSTOR in January 2026.
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Discover the newest Path to Open books—fresh scholarship from leading university presses spanning archaeology, African American studies, communication, cultural studies, and more that’s now on a clear path to becoming open access.
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Discover the story behind Reveal Digital, an open access primary source collection on JSTOR highlighting underrepresented 20th-century voices of dissent. Learn how library crowdfunding, collaboration, and preservation have built a resource of over 70,000 items.
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These titles, newly published by our University Press partners, provide scholars and students with access to high-quality academic content across a range of disciplines.
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These titles, newly published by our University Press partners, provide scholars and students with access to high-quality academic content across a range of disciplines.
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How do we hope to meet the challenges of the future? This blog post details some of the inroads we’re making in charting the path ahead, including through digital collection stewardship, faculty engagement, open scholarship initiatives, and editorial excellence.
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JSTOR’s Path to Open program continues to expand, offering valuable new resources that support teaching, learning, and research in the humanities, arts, and social sciences. […]
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Explore new Path to Open titles on JSTOR supporting teaching and research. View April 2025 releases and access options.
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JSTOR has partnered with Pluto Journals and the African Books Collective to launch six open access African journals as part of a new pilot program supporting diamond open access publishing.
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JSTOR’s Path to Open program continues to expand, offering valuable new resources that support teaching, learning, and research in the humanities, arts, and social sciences. These […]
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This March, JSTOR’s collection highlights include a vibrant mix of historical archives, health media, and pathbreaking literature. From Montana’s mid-century newsletters to a global archive […]
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Let’s take a time machine—right at your fingertips—with digital primary sources. Developing digital literacy and primary source analysis skills is essential in higher education, equipping learners not only for academia but also for careers in research, journalism, policy, and beyond.
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Explore new Path to Open titles on JSTOR supporting teaching and research. View February 2025 releases and access options.
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Since 2012, Books at JSTOR has expanded to include over 146,000 scholarly ebooks from 345 global publishers, supporting diverse library needs through flexible acquisition models like Demand Driven Acquisition (DDA) and Evidence Based Acquisition (EBA).
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Explore new Path to Open titles on JSTOR supporting teaching and research. View January 2025 releases and access options.
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Accessible knowledge opens the door to education. In 2025, explore JSTOR’s open access collections, featuring art, photographs, and cultural archives that empower visual literacy and interdisciplinary discovery.
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Explore new Path to Open titles on JSTOR supporting teaching and research. View December 2024 releases and access options.
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Explore new Path to Open titles on JSTOR supporting teaching and research. View August through October 2024 releases and access options.
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Discover how JSTOR supports teaching and learning with classroom-ready resources, diverse scholarly content, and digital tools that help you save time and deepen student engagement.
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Amplifying marginalized voices through crowdfunding and crowdsourcing in digital archives and libraries. Learn how Reveal Digital’s initiative uncovers underrepresented histories with open access collections hosted on JSTOR.
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America’s Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and Tribal Colleges and Universities (TCUs) are now able to provide their more than 300,000 students and faculty […]
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