A new model for scholarly ebooks: Publisher Collections built with, and for, librarians and publishers, to serve readers today and tomorrow - About JSTOR

"Since first making OA ebooks available on JSTOR in 2016, we have grown this corpus to over 13,000 open access ebooks from over 145 publishers. Open access ebooks are treated the same as licensed titles on JSTOR. They have the same metadata to enhance discovery, are preserved through Portico, include MARC records, and are accessible through all major discovery services like EBSCO EDS. These titles offer strong value to researchers around the world, as evidenced by the 19.6 million uses from January 2024 through July 2025.

The publishers participating in Publisher Collections have shown a longstanding commitment to OA publishing. There are over 1,600 of their titles on JSTOR. In 2024, they published over 1,400 new titles and more than 215, or 15%, were published as immediate OA, or delayed OA through Path to Open. Publishers in the program are committed to continuing to increase the number of open access ebooks they publish, as resources allow.

The 1,600 OA titles have also had a strong impact on expanding knowledge to users around the world. There were over 2 million uses from January 2024 through July 2025 alone. Usage was not just across large institutions in North America or Western Europe—there were over 12,200 institutions across 228 countries that used these books during that time period. What’s even more impressive is that there were over 925,000 unique researchers who used these books during this time.

This data provides strong evidence that supporting these publishers and their open access titles helps to make a difference in learning by expanding access to more users around the world."