Sites like JSTOR

01 · Entity

About JSTOR

JSTOR jstor.org

Client Challenge

Wikidata: distributor of eBooks and other digital media

Top 10K · #1,267 English 7 technologies Crawled Nov 6, 2026

Visit JSTOR

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

• academic digital library
• academic journal archive
• scholarly articles
• ebooks
• primary sources
• open access content
• full-text search
• library 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.

1. 01
   Scribd scribd.com Top 1K English

   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.

   • Fastly
   • GlobalSign
   • Google Search Console
   • Meta Business Suite
   • Microsoft 365
   • OpenAI

   0 say Scribd is a good alternative to JSTOR 0 say Scribd isn’t a real alternative to JSTOR

   Comment
   Very close cos 0.943
2. 02
   De Gruyter Brill degruyterbrill.com Top 10K English

   De Gruyter Brill

   De Gruyter Brill | Over 300 years of publishing excellence

   • Google Search Console
   • Microsoft 365
   • Apple Business
   • Atlassian
   • Bootstrap
   • Brevo

   0 say De Gruyter Brill is a good alternative to JSTOR 0 say De Gruyter Brill isn’t a real alternative to JSTOR

   Comment
   Very close cos 0.937
3. 03
   Internet Archive archive.org Top 1K English

   Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Texts, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine

   U.S. non-profit organization and digital archive

   • Google Search Console
   • Microsoft 365
   • Atlassian
   • Google Workspace
   • nginx
   • Salesforce

   0 say Internet Archive is a good alternative to JSTOR 0 say Internet Archive isn’t a real alternative to JSTOR

   Comment
   Very close cos 0.925
4. 04
   Open Library openlibrary.org Top 10K English

   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.

   • Google Search Console
   • Bing Webmaster Tools
   • Matomo
   • nginx

   0 say Open Library is a good alternative to JSTOR 0 say Open Library isn’t a real alternative to JSTOR

   Comment
   Very close cos 0.924
5. 05
   Project Gutenberg gutenberg.org Top 10K English

   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.

   • Google Search Console
   • Apache HTTP Server
   • Google Workspace

   0 say Project Gutenberg is a good alternative to JSTOR 0 say Project Gutenberg isn’t a real alternative to JSTOR

   Comment
   Very close cos 0.921
6. 06
   ScienceDirect sciencedirect.com Top 1K English

   ScienceDirect

   journal

   • GlobalSign
   • Microsoft 365
   • Cloudflare
   • Cloudflare DNS

   0 say ScienceDirect is a good alternative to JSTOR 0 say ScienceDirect isn’t a real alternative to JSTOR

   Comment
   Very close cos 0.919
7. 07
   Springer Science+Business Media springer.com Top 1K English

   Client Challenge

   global publishing company

   • Fastly
   • GlobalSign
   • Google Search Console
   • Meta Business Suite
   • Microsoft 365
   • OpenAI

   0 say Springer Science+Business Media is a good alternative to JSTOR 0 say Springer Science+Business Media isn’t a real alternative to JSTOR

   Comment
   Very close cos 0.918
8. 08
   Sage Publishing sagepub.com Top 1K English

   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

   • GlobalSign
   • Google Search Console
   • Meta Business Suite
   • Microsoft 365
   • Apple Business
   • ASP.NET

   0 say Sage Publishing is a good alternative to JSTOR 0 say Sage Publishing isn’t a real alternative to JSTOR

   Comment
   Very close cos 0.912
9. 09
   Taylor & Francis Online tandfonline.com Top 1K English

   digital journal platform

   • Google Search Console
   • Meta Business Suite
   • Microsoft 365
   • Cloudflare
   • Cloudflare DNS
   • Dropbox

   0 say Taylor & Francis Online is a good alternative to JSTOR 0 say Taylor & Francis Online isn’t a real alternative to JSTOR

   Comment
   Very close cos 0.908
10. 10
    frontiersin.org Top 1K English

    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.

    • Google Search Console
    • Meta Business Suite
    • Microsoft 365
    • OpenAI
    • Zendesk
    • Azure DNS

    0 say frontiersin.org is a good alternative to JSTOR 0 say frontiersin.org isn’t a real alternative to JSTOR

    Comment
    Very close cos 0.907
11. 11
    Wikisource wikisource.org Top 10K English

    Wikisource

    online multilingual library that collects open-content source material

    • Google Search Console

    0 say Wikisource is a good alternative to JSTOR 0 say Wikisource isn’t a real alternative to JSTOR

    Comment
    Very close cos 0.908
12. 12
    Europe PubMed Central europepmc.org Top 10K English

    database of biomedical research

    • Cloudflare
    • Amazon Route 53

    0 say Europe PubMed Central is a good alternative to JSTOR 0 say Europe PubMed Central isn’t a real alternative to JSTOR

    Comment
    Very close cos 0.906
13. 13
    The Atlantic theatlantic.com Top 10K English

    Your access has been blocked – The Atlantic

    magazine and multi-platform publisher based in Washington, D.C.

    • GlobalSign
    • Google Search Console
    • Meta Business Suite
    • Microsoft 365
    • OpenAI
    • Zendesk

    0 say The Atlantic is a good alternative to JSTOR 0 say The Atlantic isn’t a real alternative to JSTOR

    Comment
    Very close cos 0.909
14. 14
    Zenodo zenodo.org Top 10K English

    Zenodo

    research data repository

    • Google Search Console
    • Microsoft 365
    • cdnjs
    • Cloudflare DNS
    • Matomo
    • nginx

    0 say Zenodo is a good alternative to JSTOR 0 say Zenodo isn’t a real alternative to JSTOR

    Comment
    Very close cos 0.905
15. 15
    Our World in Data ourworldindata.org Top 10K English

    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

    0 say Our World in Data is a good alternative to JSTOR 0 say Our World in Data isn’t a real alternative to JSTOR

    Comment
    Very close cos 0.906
16. 16
    OverDrive overdrive.com Top 10K English

    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.

    • Google Search Console
    • Meta Business Suite
    • Microsoft 365
    • Atlassian
    • Azure DNS
    • Canva

    0 say OverDrive is a good alternative to JSTOR 0 say OverDrive isn’t a real alternative to JSTOR

    Comment
    Very close cos 0.901
17. 17
    SciELO Brasil scielo.br Top 10K English

    Brazil

    digital library

    • Google Search Console
    • Bootstrap
    • bunny.net
    • Google Analytics
    • Google Workspace
    • PHP

    0 say SciELO Brasil is a good alternative to JSTOR 0 say SciELO Brasil isn’t a real alternative to JSTOR

    Comment
    Very close cos 0.902
18. 18
    oup.com Top 1K English

    Homepage - Oxford University Press

    Oxford University Press moves knowledge and learning forward. Discover our products, services, and latest thinking in education and research.

    • GlobalSign
    • Google Search Console
    • Meta Business Suite
    • Microsoft 365
    • Adobe
    • Apple Business

    0 say oup.com is a good alternative to JSTOR 0 say oup.com isn’t a real alternative to JSTOR

    Comment
    Very close cos 0.901
19. 19
    EBSCO Information Services ebsco.com Top 10K English

    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

    • Google Search Console
    • Microsoft 365
    • OpenAI
    • Amazon SES
    • Atlassian
    • Amazon CloudFront

    0 say EBSCO Information Services is a good alternative to JSTOR 0 say EBSCO Information Services isn’t a real alternative to JSTOR

    Comment
    Very close cos 0.900
20. 20
    Library of Congress loc.gov Top 1K English

    Home | Library of Congress

    The world's largest library. View historic photos, maps, books and more. Contact experts for help with research. Plan a visit. Home of U.S. Copyright Office.

    • Google Search Console
    • Microsoft 365
    • OpenAI
    • Adobe
    • Adobe Experience Platform Tags
    • Atlassian

    0 say Library of Congress is a good alternative to JSTOR 0 say Library of Congress isn’t a real alternative to JSTOR

    Comment
    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.