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October 17, 2025

Design as dialogue: Building JSTOR Stewardship through listening and evidence

By Shima Houshyar, User Researcher, ITHAKA
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.

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September 25, 2025

Now available on JSTOR: Highlights from the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art

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.

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September 23, 2025

Path to Open: building a shared future for scholarly books

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.

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September 16, 2025

Illuminating possibility: Early reflections on JSTOR Seeklight from our charter community

By Alex Houston, Senior Marketing Manager, ITHAKA
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 […]

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September 5, 2025

Behind the scenes of Reveal Digital: An open-access primary source collection on JSTOR

By Rumika Suzuki Hillyer, Content and Community Engagement Manager, ITHAKA
Discover the story behind Reveal Digital, an open-access primary source collection on JSTOR highlighting underrepresented 20th-century voices of dissent. Learn how library crowdfunding, collaboration, and preservation have built a resource of over 70,000 items.

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