How to Register & Get Free Access to Content

What is a personal account?

A registered personal account is a free account that enables you to access, cite, and return to JSTOR content. Your personal account may support your research in a variety of ways depending on your role and affiliations, including:

• Access to free, read-online content for participating publishers for all registered personal accounts.
• Additional content access and account admin permissions for individuals who manage JSTOR for  subscribing institutions, such as librarians.
• The option for faculty, students, and staff to connect your personal account to the institution's subscription for matching access remotely, if you are affiliated with a subscribing school, university, or library.

Learn more about the Benefits of a Personal JSTOR Account

Who uses a personal registered account?

Anyone with an e-mail address may register for a personal account.

For independent researchers and individuals who aren't affiliated with a school, organization, or library, a personal account provides citation management and research tools for all kinds of researchers.

Students, scholars, and independent historians may use a personal account to conveniently save, manage, and organize citations for projects, articles, and papers directly on JSTOR.

Already registered? Learn more about How to Use Your Free Reads with a Personal Account.

If you're a librarian or administrative member of your school, library, or organization, you must first have a registered personal account before you can be granted admin permissions for the institutional account.

For individuals requiring admin permissions, through your personal account you will also be able to review and manage:

• Usage statistics
• Holdings
• Account information

Learn more about what Librarians and account Administrators can do with admin permissions.

How do I register for a personal account?

To register for a new free account:

1. Visit the JSTOR registration page.
2. Provide an email address.
   • The email address you choose to register with will be your default username.
3. Confirm your email address.
4. Select a strong password. Passwords must:
   
   • Contain at least one (1) upper or lowercase character.
   • Contain at least one (1) number or special character.
   • Be a minimum of six (6) characters in length.
   • No spaces or whitespace are permitted.
5. Confirm your password.
6. Optionally, provide any additional information you would like to share (role, area of study, etc.).
7. Review the Terms and Conditions of use and select the checkbox.
8. To stay logged in, select Keep me Logged In.
9. To opt into updates from JSTOR and/or JSTOR-participating publishers, select JSTOR Updates.

What can I do with a personal account?

Personal accounts can help with your research, whether you are a student with access to an institutional subscription or an independent researcher:

• Read up to 100 articles every 30 days online for free.
• Save your citations to your personal Workspace.
• Students who have access to JSTOR through their school can use a personal account to save their work.
• If you're a librarian or account administrator, a registered personal account is required in order to gain institutional Admin access. Institutional Admin access lets you access to manage the institution's usage statistics, holdings, and account information.
• If you purchase JPASS, you can use the same personal account to manage your subscription.

Learn more about the Benefits of a Personal JSTOR Account

Already registered?  Learn more about How to Use Your Free Reads with a Personal Account.