Enhancing student engagement with JSTOR Daily:
A resource for educators

By The Editors, JSTOR Daily

John Frederick Lewis. Arab School. 1841–51. The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

About JSTOR Daily

In 2014, JSTOR launched a new online publication designed to introduce academic scholarship to a broader audience. Since its launch, JSTOR Daily (daily.jstor.org) has published more than 7,000 open-access posts that link back to academic content on JSTOR for context and insight into current and historical events. The linked content on JSTOR is open and free to read by anyone.

Our mission: To make peer-reviewed scholarly research and other multimedia content relevant and accessible for a diverse audience, including instructors, librarians, students, and a general audience. We offer free access to original research articles, books, images, videos, and more, all housed in the JSTOR library.

How JSTOR Daily serves as an educational resource:

Access — All Daily content is open access, and the linked academic articles are free
Attribution — All pieces cite original peer-reviewed scholarship
Inspiration — Our stories offer accessible entry points to big ideas
Relevance — We contextualize current and historical events with reliable, trustworthy scholarship
Creativity — Our contributors model the use of scholarly sources in various article formats
Opportunity — We help to bridge the academic and popular online and in the classroom

“I love it! It has become a regular resource for planning contemporary, relevant lessons for my high school ELA students. Keep up the good work!”

JSTOR Daily in the Classroom

JSTOR Daily can be used in a number of ways to enhance student work and model academic research and writing. Our contributors use several editorial tactics that can also be employed by students to inspire and shape their writing. Our short-form stories serve as models for research summaries, and our reading lists showcase best practices for annotated bibliography while providing a scholarly overview of a field of study.

Our growing collection of pedagogical materials shows instructors how to use JSTOR Daily and other materials from JSTOR to teach specific skills, from visual literacy to scaffolding a research project, in the classroom. Our site supports media literacy in many ways, providing background and authority that’s frequently lacking in today’s world of bite-sized, casually shared snippets of information. Our contributors build on and add context to current issues, providing historical context to situate contemporary issues for classroom discussion.

Some of these tactics include:

Offering access to canonical research, well-known scholars, and public figures
Featuring resources and initiatives unique to JSTOR and ITHAKA
Analyzing timely and developing topics in the news and popular culture
Using humor to bring research to life
Presenting visual and historical materials in a compelling manner
Capitalizing on nostalgia to tell an emotional story with intellectual heft
Challenging conventional wisdom
Finding surprising angles to a story, e.g., not American-centric

Classroom content highlights, from JSTOR Daily

Pedagogies

Reading lists, annotations, and syllabi

Additional resources

For more teaching and learning resources from JSTOR Daily, including additional syllabi, reading lists, and pedagogical guides, explore our dedicated collection. You can also access a wide range of open-access academic content on JSTOR.