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Browsing your institution's collections
If your institution has contributed collections to JSTOR, you can visit your institution's landing page to browse them.
To view your institution's collections, open the Browse drop-down menu in the main navigation on JSTOR and select Your Institution's Collections.
Not seeing this option? Make sure you're logged in through your institution. See How to tell if you are logged in to JSTOR for more.
Browsing all collections
Explore collections of images and primary sources from libraries, museums, and archives around the world on JSTOR.
To start browsing collections, open the Browse drop-down menu in the main navigation on JSTOR and select Collections or visit Collections on JSTOR.
Filtering the list of collections
If you have a specific collection or contributor in mind, you can use the Collection contributors and Filter collections fields to filter the list of collections.
For example, try typing an institution or library's name in the Collection contributors field.
To further refine the list of collections, you can use the Filter collections field to specify a type of collection you're interested in.
For example, you're interested in photography collections within your institution's collections. You can enter "photography" to narrow the list to collections that include "photography".
Refining results within a collection
When viewing a collection, subcollection, or container (for example, a book or periodical within a collection), you can also refine and filter items using the Refine Results sidebar on the collection, subcollection, or container page.
Available facets and filters will vary depending on the collection. See Searching: Using Filters and Facets for more information.
In the following example, we can filter the items in the South Asia Open Archives (SAOA) collection by items in English within the "Women & Gender" subcollection.
Viewing items that are part of a collection
If you come across an item of interest on JSTOR, use the collection link within the metadata to explore the collection it comes from. This is helpful if you want to see how the items you are viewing fits within a larger collection of items that might expose you to related works.
For items you've saved to your Workspace, you can also find the collection link after the title, creator, and date in both list and gallery view.
Text-based items also can be part of a collection. In the example above, items in the Workspace are part of a variety of content collections, including:
- Articles that are part of a journal
- Chapters that are part of a book
- Images that are part of a collection of other images or mixed content