Usability testing revealed two mental models—targeted bulk edits and context-rich cataloguing. That insight shaped Stewardship’s updates: a full-width editor that keeps you in context, field visibility by default, and item thumbnails to refine selections—delivering a faster, clearer workflow grounded in evidence, trust, and belonging.
By Carson Smith, Lecturer, San Diego State University
Educator Carson Smith shares a student research project that uses JSTOR and Workspace to help learners slow down, analyze art deeply, and build visual literacy skills.
By Syed Amaanullah, Senior Product Manager, ITHAKA
JSTOR Seeklight now generates transcripts for typed and handwritten items, making every word searchable and accessible while keeping editors in control. Available now for Tier 3 participants.
In this deeply personal reflection, Ryan McCarthy of JSTOR Labs shares his experience visiting Oregon State Penitentiary (OSP) alongside Chemeketa Community College’s prison education team.
By Amelia Nelson, Director of the Library and Archives, Spencer Art Reference Library, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art is an encyclopedic museum with collections from across the globe. The images contributed to Artstor from the museum’s over 42,000 works of art reflect the diversity of the museum’s collections and the artistic culture of peoples across 5,000 years.
By John Lenahan, Vice President of Published Content, Licensed Collections, JSTOR, part of the nonprofit ITHAKA
Path to Open is a community-driven model bringing 240+ libraries and nearly 50 publishers together to fund new monographs, provide early campus access, and then flip titles open. The first 100 will open in January 2026, expanding worldwide access to DRM-free, unlimited-use ebooks on JSTOR.
What happens when archivists, librarians, and digital collections leaders from a wide variety of institutions—large research universities, small liberal arts colleges, public policy institutes—gain early access to a new AI-powered tool purpose-built to accelerate collection processing and transform access? You get enthusiasm, ideas, and a glimpse of what’s ahead, as more diverse primary source collections […]