Feature Comparison: Publishing to Artstor versus JSTOR from Forum

Access Level

Learn more about setting up publishing targets.

Publish collections as Open/Public, Institutional, or Personal.

Open/Public and Institutional collections are supported.

🚧 Personal collections are planned.

Publish the same item to both a Public and Institutional collection to bring your institution's collections together on the Institutional Collections page, or to group the same content in different ways.

Publishing the same item to more than one collection is not supported.

However, all of your institution's collections are listed together on your institution landing page in JSTOR.

You can also use containers and compilations to bring together content from multiple collections, regardless of access level.

Browsing Collections

Learn more about customizing your landing pages.

Browse your collections on separate Public and Institutional Collections pages.

Browse and search your institution's collections on your institution landing page.

Can be customized with a banner image and logo branding.

Filter and search within a collection on the collection page.

Filter and search within a collection on the collection page.

Can be customized with a collection image.

Fields and Mapping

Learn more about how to map fields and suggested mappings for the Visual Resources Template.

Use prefixes to add freeform text to display labels.

Prefixes are not supported, but you can use available attributes to modify display labels.

Configure if fields are displayed or searchable.

❌ Not supported

Any field mapped to a JSTOR target field is displayed, with the exception of:

• Earliest/Latest Date, not displayed but used for searching and filtering.
• Browse Categories, not displayed but facets the list data limited to Artstor Country and Artstor Classification.

Custom Fields are displayed in the order they’re mapped on the item page.

Custom Fields are displayed in a group directly above License/Rights on the item page.

The order of Custom Fields cannot be customized.

Publish items with multiple titles.

Multiple titles are supported for image items currently.

🚧Support for multiple titles for text items is planned.

Items without a title display without a title.

Items without a title display with the text “[No title]” on the search results and collection pages, and "[Untitled]" on the item page.

Rights / License

Learn more about rights and license statements.

Artstor Rights Statement included on each item page.

JSTOR Community Collection Rights Statement included on each item page.

Add additional Collection Rights Statement at the collection level.

Apply custom rights/license statements to all items in a collection at the item level by supplying a default value in the Rights Notes field in your project(s).

Content Types

Learn more about JSTOR resource types.

Support for audio, video, and panorama.

🚧 Planned

Work Records

Learn more about JSTOR Compilations and Containers and compound objects.

Link multiple items to a work with work records with the option to group or sequence items linked to a work record on Artstor.

Publishing work records are not supported on JSTOR and support is not planned.

Containers and compilations can be used for hierarchical organization to group items into sub-collections (compilations) or works containing multiple items (containers) such as a periodical containing issues or articles.

While manual sequencing is not supported, items in a container or compilation may be sorted by Title or Date on JSTOR.

Compound objects can be used to relate and sequence multiple images related to the same metadata record.

Compound Objects and Related Content

Learn more about JSTOR Compilations and Containers and compound objects.

Combine multiple media types within a single compound object.

Combining multiple media types within a compound object on JSTOR is not supported.

However, you can use containers to group mixed media together.

In addition, the ability to add a cover image to audio and video items is planned.