jstor.org
JSTOR
Who runs JSTOR, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest academic digital library alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- ScienceDirect
Measured from JSTOR’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit JSTOR01 · 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.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- None found
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.
- 01
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
Very close - 02
Client Challenge
global publishing company
Very close - 03
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.
Very close - 04
EconLit
Very close - 05
digital journal platform
Very close - 06
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.
Very close - 07
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.
Very close - 08
De Gruyter Brill
De Gruyter Brill | Over 300 years of publishing excellence
Very close - 09
Wikisource
online multilingual library that collects open-content source material
Very close - 10
Brazil
digital library
Very close - 11
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.
Very close - 12
OpenAlex: The open catalog to the global research system
OpenAlex indexes half a billion scholarly works, with their authors, institutions, sources and topics, and makes them free to search, analyze and reuse through our web app, API and bulk download.
Very close - 13
online bibliographic database
Very close - 14
Zenodo
research data repository
Very close - 15
Frontiers | Publisher of peer-reviewed articles in open access journals
Open access publisher of peer-reviewed scientific articles across the entire spectrum of academia. Research network for academics to stay up-to-date with the latest scientific publications, events, blogs and news.
Very close - 16
Our World in Data
Research and data to make progress against the world’s largest problems.
Very close - 17
OpenStax
OpenStax offers free college textbooks for all types of students, making education accessible & affordable for everyone. Browse our list of available subjects!
Very close - 18
Client Challenge
digital library
Very close - 19
Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Texts, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine
U.S. non-profit organization and digital archive
Very close - 20
database of biomedical research
Very close
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
What changed
Price and policy 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
- 9,196
- 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.
similarity × popularity
Built with
- Live chat & support
- Zendesk TXT v=spf1 mx include:spf.protection.outlook.com include:u1397501.wl.send…
- CDN
- Fastly header x-served-by: cache-ber1080023-BER, cache-ber1080044-BER
- Email hosting
- Microsoft 365 MX ithakaharbors-org.mail.protection.outlook.com
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- GlobalSign TXT _globalsign-domain-verification=-lBuNJDFRxDkLkNbYOLBU03PlWjnPqAzBPAVU…
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=fUzFvqROnu3S1gFEmkwguY42PzRgOFzwg4qQMP24sU4
- Meta Business Suite TXT facebook-domain-verification=t7mhq4udodhlfom0rn909rrhmrcq7f
- OpenAI TXT openai-domain-verification=dv-EAO0jUA8iKZCqlqYfddXpA3R
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 17/20
- Microsoft 365 9/20
- Atlassian · not on jstor.org 7/20
- Google Workspace · not on jstor.org 6/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on jstor.org 5/20
- Cloudflare · not on jstor.org 4/20
- GlobalSign 4/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on jstor.org 4/20
- Salesforce · not on jstor.org 4/20
- Meta Business Suite 4/20
- Apache HTTP Server · not on jstor.org 4/20
- Apple Business · not on jstor.org 3/20
- DocuSign · not on jstor.org 3/20
- OneTrust · not on jstor.org 3/20
- Amazon SES · not on jstor.org 3/20
- Amazon CloudFront · not on jstor.org 3/20