Exploring Latinx History and Culture: JSTOR Ebooks

Sure. We all know and love journal articles from JSTOR.  With more than 10 million articles from journal archives stretching back more than 100 years, JSTOR seldom fails to deliver at least one or two scholarly articles for humanities or social sciences topics. It is consistently one of the most-used library resources.

But did you know that JSTOR now has ebooks?  For the past several years, JSTOR has been adding titles from academic and university presses.  Like the journals on JSTOR, these ebooks are all fully searchable, and have no limits on the number of simultaneous users.  When you search in JSTOR, in addition to retrieving journal articles, you will also see book chapters from more than 90,000 scholarly books.

The Libraries provide access to JSTOR ebooks in several ways:

• More than 1700 individual books Owned by the Libraries
  These titles have been purchased and are owned in perpetuity.
• More than 6,000 Open Access titles free to all
  These have the catalog series “JSTOR Ebooks: Open Access.”
• More than 60,000 titles in two “Try Before you Buy” Collections
  • JSTOR Ebooks: DDA Frontlist
    These “data driven acquisition” titles are purchased automatically after a certain number of uses.
  • JSTOR Ebooks: EBA Title List
    High-use titles in this evidence-based acquisition” collection are purchased at the end of the fiscal year.

Find out more about using JSTOR ebooks in our Ebooks Research Guide.

No matter how the Libraries provide JSTOR ebooks to you, you will find a wealth of recent scholarly literature on Hispanic history, literature, performing arts, politics, and culture from presses such as the University of Arizona, Duke University Press, and the University of Minnesota.  Here is a small selection of some of the titles we came across in a quick search:

Nerds, Goths, Geeks, and Freaks: Outsiders in Chicanx and Latinx Young Adult Literature
Trevor Boffone and Cristina Herrera
University of Minnesota Press, 2020