Alternatives and competitors
Sites like JSTOR
The 20 closest academic digital library alternatives to JSTOR, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 7 technologies behind it.
Looking for an alternative to JSTOR? The closest matches are Scribd, De Gruyter Brill and Internet Archive. We match sites by what they actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Vote on each alternative and leave a short note to help the next person choose.
- Neighbours
- k = 20
- Sites searched
- 4,032
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 10 ms
01 · Entity
About JSTOR
JSTOR jstor.org
Client Challenge
Wikidata: distributor of eBooks and other digital media
Summary by Claude
Digital library providing full-text access to academic journals, books, and primary sources, mainly in the humanities and social sciences, with some open access and public domain content.
- Who it’s for
- Researchers, students, academic libraries
- Business model
- Institutional subscriptions
02 · Embedding space
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). Lines split each axis at the median. Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.
similarity × popularity
03 · Nearest neighbours
Alternatives to JSTOR
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to JSTOR, thumbs down if it isn’t.
- 01
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 cos 0.943 - 02
De Gruyter Brill
De Gruyter Brill | Over 300 years of publishing excellence
Very close cos 0.937 - 03
Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Texts, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine
U.S. non-profit organization and digital archive
Very close cos 0.925 - 04
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 cos 0.924 - 05
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 cos 0.921 - 06 Very close cos 0.918
- 07
ScienceDirect
journal
Very close cos 0.919 - 08
open repository of academic articles
Very close cos 0.917 - 09
Client Challenge
global publishing company
Very close cos 0.918 - 10
Sage - a global academic publisher of educational resources | Home
Sage is a global academic publisher of books, journals, and digital resources to support teaching, learning and research
Very close cos 0.912 - 11
digital journal platform
Very close cos 0.908 - 12
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 cos 0.907 - 13
Wikisource
online multilingual library that collects open-content source material
Very close cos 0.908 - 14
database of biomedical research
Very close cos 0.906 - 15
Your access has been blocked – The Atlantic
magazine and multi-platform publisher based in Washington, D.C.
Very close cos 0.909 - 16
Zenodo
research data repository
Very close cos 0.905 - 17
Our World in Data
Research and data to make progress against the world’s largest problems.
- Google Search Console
- Meta Business Suite
- Cloudflare
- Cloudflare DNS
- Cloudflare Web Analytics
- Google Tag Manager
Very close cos 0.906 - 18
OverDrive: Free ebooks, audiobooks & movies from your library.
Thousands of libraries & schools offer free digital content thru OverDrive's suite of products/services. Learn more about Libby, Kanopy, Sora & TeachingBooks.
Very close cos 0.901 - 19
Brazil
digital library
Very close cos 0.902 - 20
Homepage - Oxford University Press
Oxford University Press moves knowledge and learning forward. Discover our products, services, and latest thinking in education and research.
Very close cos 0.901
Ranked by score: the cosine similarity of each site’s vector to jstor.org’s, less a small penalty for generic sites that are close to everything. Highlighted technologies are ones JSTOR uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the ranking.
04 · Fingerprints
Technology
What JSTOR is built with, and what its closest competitors use, from its homepage’s code and its DNS records.
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
Stack changes
No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what JSTOR adds or drops shows up here.
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 18/20
- Microsoft 365 13/20
- Meta Business Suite 9/20
- Atlassian · not on jstor.org 8/20
- Google Workspace · not on jstor.org 8/20
- Cloudflare · not on jstor.org 7/20
- Apple Business · not on jstor.org 6/20
- GlobalSign 6/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on jstor.org 6/20
- Salesforce · not on jstor.org 6/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on jstor.org 6/20
- OpenAI 5/20
- DocuSign · not on jstor.org 4/20
- Google Tag Manager · not on jstor.org 4/20
- OneTrust · not on jstor.org 4/20
- Proofpoint · not on jstor.org 3/20