Guidelines for Customizing Your Institution and Collection Pages

Customize the entry point for all of your digital collections on JSTOR. Your institution page contains all of your collections and includes institutional branding.

Users logged in through your institution on JSTOR can visit your institution's landing page by opening the Browse drop-down menu and selecting Your Institution's Collections.

These guidelines provide technical and aesthetic direction for selecting and creating banner, hero, and logo images, as well as writing copy.

Edit your institution page

In Forum

1. Log into Forum with an account that has Institutional Admin permissions.
   
   • Not an admin yet or have questions about managing user access? Contact JSTOR Forum Support.
2. Open the Admin drop-down menu and select "Customize Landing Page".

In the Collection Loader

1. Log into the Collection Loader.
2. On the Home page, click the Edit Institution Page button.

Banner, logo, and collection image (hero) specifications

Banner specifications:

• Dimensions: 1440px width x 440px height
• Format: JPG, PNG, GIF
• Resolution: 72dpi (or higher)

Logo specifications:

• Dimensions - 300px width x 150px height
• Format: JPG, PNG, SVG, GIF
• Resolution: 150dpi (or higher)

Collection image (hero) specifications:

• Dimensions: 560px width x 400px height
• Format: JPG, PNG, GIF
• Resolution: 72dpi (or higher)

Banner and collection image (hero) selection

Banner for institution landing page

• Choose a single high-resolution image that reflects your institution, such as an image of the campus, library, or students and faculty.
• The banner area dimensions require a horizontal/landscape image orientation.
• Use an image that is clear and is recognizable, with a consistent color and pattern.
• The banner title box will cover the left side of the banner image. So the main focus of the image, if any, should be on the right.

Hero for individual collection pages

• Choose a single high-resolution image that reflects the collection.
• Crop out any borders or decorative edges on the image.
• Include an image caption citing the creator, title, date, media, institution, and copyright. The image caption has a 275-character limit. Example:

Logo selection

• Use an image with a white or transparent background.
• The logo area dimensions require a horizontal/landscape image orientation.
• Check your institution's style guide, if appropriate, for official logo options.

Description copy

Institutional pages

Start with a brief (one to two-paragraph) description of your institution, followed by a general statement about the types of collections you share. Keep in mind, each collection will have its own description so there's no need to describe collections in detail here.

Collection description

• Be aware that the first 20 words of the description will show up as a preview of the collection on your institutional page.
• The name of the collection will appear immediately above the description, so there's no need to repeat the collection name in the description. Example: