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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.

Explore how JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services does more than just store your collections with content management that drives discovery, use, and impact.

Explore the most-read JSTOR ebooks and editor picks across disciplines, from art and history to sociology and political science. With 168K+ titles available through JSTOR’s Demand-Driven Acquisition model, discover timely, interdisciplinary scholarship to support teaching and research.

Learn how we’re building and evolving JSTOR Seeklight’s safeguards against bias and harmful content through AI, expert insight, and user feedback.