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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.

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.

Explore new Path to Open titles on JSTOR supporting teaching and research. View September 2025 releases and access options.

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. 

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.

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 […]

Explore new Path to Open titles on JSTOR supporting teaching and research. View August 2025 releases and access options.

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.