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Who runs JSTOR, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest academic digital library alternatives.

Who’s behind it
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Online since
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Trackers
Prices
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Last price change
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Closest alternative
ScienceDirect

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01 · Who’s behind it

Who runs JSTOR

JSTOR jstor.org

Wikidata: distributor of eBooks and other digital media

Company
No imprint we could read
Online since
Not in the Internet Archive
Audience
In English

02 · Privacy

What JSTOR tracks

What the homepage loads before you accept or decline cookies. A cookie banner should hold most of it back until you agree, and a tag manager can load more that we don’t see.

trackers that follow visitors

None of the 12 alternatives below has fewer; 5 have more.

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We found no trackers, ad pixels or third-party embeds on JSTOR’s homepage.

03 · Alternatives

Alternatives to JSTOR

Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to JSTOR, thumbs down if it isn’t.

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  1. 01
    ScienceDirect sciencedirect.com Top 1K

    website providing subscription-based access to a database of scientific and medical research

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  2. 02
    proquest.com Top 10K

    set of journals

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  3. 03
    EBSCO Information Services ebsco.com Top 10K English No trackers

    EBSCO - Research Databases, EBooks, Discovery Service

    EBSCO is the leading provider of research databases, e-journals, magazine subscriptions, ebooks and discovery service for academic libraries, public libraries, corporations, schools, government and medical institutions

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  4. 04

    digital library

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  5. 05
    Gale gale.com No trackers

    Gale: Historical Archive, Educational & Library Resources

    Gale, part of Cengage Group, provides historical archive, library solutions, and trusted educational resources for academic, K-12, and public libraries.

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  6. 06
    Springer Science+Business Media springer.com Top 1K English No trackers

    Client Challenge

    global publishing company

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  7. 07
    Project Gutenberg gutenberg.org Top 10K English No trackers

    Free eBooks | Project Gutenberg

    Project Gutenberg is a library of over 75,000 free eBooks. Choose from ebook formats or read online. No fees, no registration, no ads.

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  8. 08
    econlit.org English 1 tracker

    EconLit

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  9. 09
    Taylor & Francis Online tandfonline.com Top 1K English

    digital journal platform

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  10. 10
    Open Library openlibrary.org Top 10K English 1 tracker

    Welcome to Open Library | Open Library

    Open Library is an open, editable library catalog, building towards a web page for every book ever published. Read, borrow, and discover more than 3M books for free.

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  11. 11
    SciELO scielo.org

    bibliographic database of open access journals

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  12. 12
    Scribd scribd.com Top 1K English 1 tracker

    Scribd: Home to the world’s documents.

    Get to the source. Specialized knowledge on any topic, and answers you won’t find anywhere else. Home to the world’s documents, 300M+ and counting.

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  13. 13
    cnki.net Top 10K

    China's academic research database

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  14. 14
    RePEc repec.org Top 10K No trackers

    RePEc: Research Papers in Economics

    RePEc is a central index of economics research, including working papers, articles and software code

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  15. 15
    De Gruyter Brill degruyterbrill.com Top 10K English 1 tracker

    De Gruyter Brill

    De Gruyter Brill | Over 300 years of publishing excellence

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  16. 16

    curated list of peer-reviewed open-access journals

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  17. 17
    Wikisource wikisource.org Top 10K English No trackers

    Wikisource

    online multilingual library that collects open-content source material

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  18. 18
    SciELO Brasil scielo.br Top 10K English 1 tracker

    Brazil

    digital library

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  19. 19

    American aggregation platform providing open access to digital collections from libraries, archives, and museums.

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  20. 20
    Standard Ebooks standardebooks.org English No trackers

    Standard Ebooks: Free and liberated ebooks, carefully produced for the true book lover

    Free and liberated ebooks, carefully produced for the true book lover. Download free ebooks with professional-quality formatting and typography, in formats compatible with your ereader.

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Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles JSTOR’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones JSTOR uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the order.

04 · History

No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what JSTOR adds, drops or rewrites shows up here.

05 · Details

How we measure

Alternatives are matched by what sites actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Trackers and the rest of the stack come from the homepage’s code and DNS records.

The full technology stack, the competitor map and search numbers · 7 technologies
Neighbours
k = 20
Sites searched
9,193
Vector
384-d
Query
31 ms

Competitor map

Each alternative by how close its vector is to JSTOR’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.

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