JSTOR” stands for “Journal Storage” and is an electronic archive of leading journals across many academic disciplines. It provides text-searchable, high-quality .pdf facsimiles of each journal article from a publication’s inception up to the past 3-5 years. JSTOR’s mission is to preserve and offer user-friendly access to scholarship at a cost reasonable to libraries. It s different from other journal platforms in that it is a not-for-profit initiative undertaken by academic institutions working collaboratively to provide high quality digital versions of standard scholarly journals collected by most libraries.  Moreover, JSTOR has a preservation goal to house the content of these journals in digital form over the long term with perpetual access.

Currently, it provides access to more than 12 million academic journal articles, books, and primary sources in 75 disciplines.