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Blog Topic: AI and advanced technologies

November 26, 2024

Pioneering the future of digital collections stewardship: Highlights from Charleston 2024

By Maria Papadouris, Content and Community Engagement Manager, ITHAKA
At the Charleston Conference 2024, JSTOR presented its vision for managing and preserving digital collections into the future. “Not Just Another AI Session” highlighted how cutting-edge tools—including JSTOR’s digital collection processing prototype and interactive research tool (beta)—can transform access to archival materials while staying true to JSTOR's nonprofit mission. 

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July 25, 2024

What’s new at JSTOR: Enhancing access and engagement with innovative technologies

By Victoria Spitz, Senior Digital Marketing Manager
At JSTOR, our mission is to improve access to knowledge and education for people around the world. We're excited to share several new initiatives leveraging cutting-edge technology to make scholarly materials more accessible, interactive, and engaging for our users. Here's a detailed look at the latest advancements we recently shared at ALA 2024 in San Diego.

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June 25, 2024

AI and other advanced technologies on JSTOR: What we’re learning from early usage, real-world applications, and user feedback

By Kevin Guthrie, President, ITHAKA and Beth LaPensee, Senior Product Manager, ITHAKA
We are actively learning from usage, real-world applications, and user feedback in a limited beta environment to build out capabilities thoughtfully, intentionally, incrementally, and most importantly–based on evidence. This blog post delves into the rationale, construction, and current functionality of JSTOR’s beta generative AI tool, as well as the key themes and insights that have emerged from our analysis of its usage.

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June 5, 2024

Empowering educators, engaging students: How one teacher used JSTOR’s interactive research tool to boost student engagement, teach key skills, and streamline workflows

By Morgan Godvin, Content and Community Engagement Manager, ITHAKA
Discover how Sarah Kiyak, a teacher at Alexandria High School in Virginia, leveraged JSTOR's generative AI tool to enhance student engagement, foster research skills, and streamline workflows in her classroom.

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March 22, 2024

From Berkeley to beta: How students helped bring AI and advanced technologies to JSTOR

By Diba Kaya, Senior User Researcher, ITHAKA
Discover how researchers and students explore the usage of ChatGPT in generative AI. Learn how this collaboration led to JSTOR's AI tool development and improved search features tailored for students' needs, reflecting ITHAKA's community-driven ethos and commitment to expanding knowledge access.

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August 14, 2023

Approaching AI and advanced technologies together

By Kevin Guthrie, President, ITHAKA
Despite these concerns, and in some ways because of them, we are collaborating closely with our community of librarians, faculty, researchers, and students to address the numerous existential questions, institutional concerns, and practical considerations introduced by use AI and other advanced technologies in education. We are great believers in learning both through careful research and through action, and so I want to introduce you to some of the work we have underway.

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