Welcome to JSTOR’s teaching and learning resource library! Browse our collection of topical reading lists, lesson plans, classroom activities, and sample syllabi and assignments, as well as information about features and tools to support your course preparation and enhance the impact of your teaching.
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Explore pedagogical support for your courses
Save time in course planning and preparation with guides for introducing research and scholarship in the classroom, lesson plans, and curated reading lists.
Help students build foundational research skills
Equip your students with vital academic research skills using engaging classroom activities, tutorials, and videos. Enhance their learning with our self-paced research basics course for independent skill-building.
Boost student engagement and comprehension
Create an interactive and engaging learning environment using our expert pedagogical resources along with a versatile, easy-to-use social annotation tool.
Integrate text analysis into your courses
Teach and perform text analysis with Constellate to help students uncover new insights from large text datasets–fostering data literacy and critical thinking skills.
Highlight diverse perspectives
Enrich your courses by including underrepresented viewpoints, ensuring a more inclusive and comprehensive understanding of the material.
Equip students to use an interactive research tool
Guide your students through more efficient research techniques with our free tool, powered by AI and other technologies.
Enhance your teaching with primary sources
Spark curiosity in your students by integrating diverse historical documents, images, and multimedia from JSTOR, Artstor on JSTOR, and Reveal Digital.
- Unlimited, DRM-free access: Your entire class can simultaneously access, save, download, and print content without digital rights management (DRM) restrictions or using special software.
- Diverse content types: Your students can cross-search scholarship and primary sources on one platform, strengthening the depth and quality of their research and generating unexpected discoveries.
- High quality, curated content: Peer-reviewed and scholarly content from leading publishers ensure that your students focus on reputable sources.
- Broad disciplinary coverage: Content spans more than 75 disciplines within the humanities, arts, and social sciences, enabling rich interdisciplinary exploration and connections across fields.
- An easy-to-use platform: An intuitive user experience and JSTOR Workspace simplify discovering, saving, organizing, and citing academic sources.
- Innovative teaching tools: Leverage the latest digital technologies like text analysis, social annotation, and an interactive research tool to enhance learning experiences.
Open and free content on JSTOR
As part of our mission to expand access to knowledge and education worldwide, we collaborate with libraries and publishers to make an increasing amount of content discoverable and freely accessible worldwide, including journals, books, images and multimedia, research reports, primary sources, and more. All content adheres to JSTOR’s high standards for quality and scholarly value.
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