JSTOR for community colleges
JSTOR partners with community colleges to expand access to knowledge through an affordable, comprehensive, and easy to administer model. Get complete access to thousands of journals and primary sources designed to support teaching, learning, and research across disciplines.
A more economical and simplified model
Like community colleges, JSTOR is committed to expanding and enhancing access to knowledge and education. To help, we developed a community college fee model that is:
- Easier with one comprehensive collection versus individually licensed collections
- All-inclusive, with access to all archival journals and primary sources available for license on JSTOR
- Economical with more than 60% of participating community colleges seeing a decrease in their current fees
- Flexible, with options for an annual subscription or a one-time payment for permanent access with no recurring fees
How Wyoming Community Colleges made JSTOR access permanent
Learn how seven campuses in Wyoming secured lifelong access to JSTOR’s full archival collections—with no recurring fees—through our one-time payment option.
What’s included
Comprehensive
Community colleges receive low-cost access to the JSTOR Archival Journals and Primary Sources Collection—a single, all-in-one resource with:
- 2,800+ top scholarly journals across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences
- Complete journal runs from volume 1, issue 1 up to the moving wall
Rich primary sources
The collection also includes millions of primary sources—pamphlets, manuscripts, oral histories, government documents, images, 3D models, and more—from four major collections.
Affordable for all sizes
As a nonprofit, JSTOR provides fees scaled by Full-Time Enrollment (FTE):
- Small: Under 1,000
- Medium: 1,000–10,000
- Large: Over 10,000
Rapidly growing free and open content
We’ve also introduced new functionality and more diverse types of open content from publishers, libraries, archives, and museums, including open images on Artstor and open primary source collections.
Learn more about JSTOR for community colleges
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Take advantage of all JSTOR has to offer
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Stay organized with Workspace
Create, collect, and collaborate with Workspace—your secure hub for saving, organizing, and sharing research materials. Available with a free personal JSTOR account.
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Explore open and free content
JSTOR offers a growing set of freely accessible resources, including journals, books, primary sources, library-contributed collections, images, and research reports.
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Enhance your research with AI
Ask questions in natural language. Summarize texts, explore related materials and topics, and uncover new connections across millions of items. JSTOR’s AI research tool makes complex research more intuitive.
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Search images on JSTOR
View high-quality images from leading museums, libraries, and archives—all in one powerful visual research platform. Go beyond thumbnails with tools designed for visual analysis.
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Evening view of Laramie County Community College Ludden Library’s curved facade and illuminated interior. Photo courtesy of Stasis Design.