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The first 100 Path to Open books are now free to read worldwide on JSTOR—proving a community-funded model can expand access, sustain presses, and amplify scholarly impact.
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Path to Open has reached a major milestone: the first 100 scholarly books have officially flipped to open access on JSTOR. This post celebrates what that moment represents for libraries, publishers, and authors working together to expand global access to high-quality academic monographs.
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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 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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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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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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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 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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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 on HIV/AIDS and the arts, these additions illustrate the power of preservation and the depth of human creativity. Let’s explore the highlights. Path to Open book of the month: Published…
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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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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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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 with immediate access to the diverse, groundbreaking university press books being published on JSTOR as part of Path to Open. Developed in partnership with the American Council of Learned Societies…
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Knowledge Unlatched (KU), the global initiative for Open Access (OA), recently announced its OA Heroes 2024, highlighting the highest use nations, institutions, publishers, disciplines, and scholarly works from 2023. JSTOR is proud to be among the network of platforms recognized for contributing to the growing usage of KU OA books. JSTOR began working with KU…
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Three hundred groundbreaking new books are on the path to open access Path to Open, a pilot program to support the open access publication of new groundbreaking scholarly books that brings diverse perspectives and research to millions of people, will add 300 new books from 44 university presses in 2024. This includes titles from 9…
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Eight BLC libraries join JSTOR and the academic community in developing a sustainable path for open access university press monographs at scale Boston Library Consortium (BLC), a coalition of libraries in the northeastern United States that share knowledge, infrastructure, and resources at scale, is the latest consortium to join Path to Open, a pilot program…
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JSTOR recently joined the Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) Trusted Platform Network, a global initiative bringing together platforms committed to maintaining the highest standards in open access (OA) book publishing. The DOAB Trusted Platform Network creates a more seamless process for platforms and publishers, including JSTOR, to index their OA books in DOAB by…
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Florida Virtual Campus (FLVC), a centralized service supporting the shared needs of Florida’s 40 public colleges and universities, has joined Path to Open, a pilot program to support the open access publication of new groundbreaking scholarly books that will bring diverse perspectives and research to millions of people. Path to Open launched in 2023 as…
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Path to Open is hitting its stride with some exciting developments in the past few weeks. Here are highlights since we released the list of the first 100 books on October 4th: One of the first Path to Open books released, On Music Theory and Making Music More Welcoming for Everyone by Philip Ewell, is…
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The emergence of open access is reshaping the way scholarly information is disseminated and consumed. In this comprehensive exploration, we will delve into what open access is and how JSTOR, our renowned digital library, is playing a crucial role in facilitating open access for academic journals, books, art, and research reports.
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JSTOR, part of the non-profit ITHAKA, announced today the release of the first books in Path to Open, a new program designed to affordably and sustainably support the open access publication of new groundbreaking books in the humanities and social sciences. Launched as a pilot in January 2023, Path to Open is a delayed open…
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JSTOR will make a new 100-title open access book collection available as part of the Big Ten Academic Alliance’s latest open access initiative. Centered on Gender and Sexuality studies, this collection is the first in a series of collections from Big Ten Open Books, a collaboration between the university presses and libraries of the Big…
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Brings JSTOR to 10,000 Open Access Books punctum books, an independent scholar- and queer-led open access publisher, and JSTOR recently released punctum’s entire backlist of 250 open access academic books on JSTOR. punctum books is dedicated to radically creative modes of intellectual inquiry, publishing works that take experimental risks with the forms and styles of…
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The research libraries of the Big Ten Academic Alliance (BTAA) have entered into a multi-year pilot agreement with JSTOR to support Path to Open, a new cost-effective, sustainable publishing model for supporting frontlist university press monographs and making them open access after three years. More than 30 university presses and hundreds of authors are part…
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JSTOR, part of the non-profit ITHAKA, and a cohort of leading university presses announced today Path to Open, a program to support the open access publication of new groundbreaking scholarly books that will bring diverse perspectives and research to millions of people. Launching as a pilot, Path to Open libraries will contribute funds to enable…
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Scott Vieira, Collection Development Coordinator at Rice University’s Fondren Library, recently interviewed Peggy Glahn for Serials Review about her experience working with libraries to develop Open Access primary source collections in her role as Associate Director of Reveal Digital. Scott and Peggy discussed Reveal Digital’s history and funding model, favorite collections, upcoming publishing activity, and…
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