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Publisher responsibilities
- Send suitable and usable content. JSTOR hosts academic, scholarly, or professional books for a higher education or professional audience.
- Ensure that each book you provide has global/world sales rights. JSTOR does not support territorial sales restrictions.
- Ensure that each book has the ability to be sold under an Unlimited/Concurrent User pricing model, as JSTOR only sells books under this sales model to libraries.
- Register an eISBN for each book. The original print ISBN can’t be reused as the ISBN for the electronic version of the book.
- Send JSTOR a list of names of any distributed press arrangements as we will need to manually configure your account to accommodate these.
- Send JSTOR book supply chain metadata, complete book PDF that is DRM-free, and separate front cover image for each book.
- You may also send an additional EPUB file for each book product. If you send only a PDF for your ebook, it must be made accessible to the best of your ability. (See Submission Accessibility Guidelines.)
- If you are sending both a PDF and an EPUB, the EPUB must meet EPUB Accessibility 1.1 standards.
Supplying metadata
JSTOR requires book-level metadata so that not only can our system properly process your files, but also so faculty and students can find your book on the JSTOR Delivery Platform. For more information, see Metadata Requirements.