Monthly wrap-up: Exploring special collections and multimedia on JSTOR
Explore JSTOR's new collections for a diverse tapestry of history, culture, and creativity in various multimedia formats. Discover notable additions this month!
Blog Tag: Infrastructure services
Preserving diverse histories: Portico’s commitment to securing underrepresented content
Portico preserves underrepresented digital content to safeguard diverse narratives and cultural heritage for future generations. Join us in maintaining a richer historical record.
Middlebury archives go global: The unexpected reach of one small college’s special collections
For Middlebury and other small liberal arts schools, taking part in JSTOR’s shared collections program is almost a no-brainer, Irwin says, since JSTOR is a database with which many students are already very familiar.
Visionary collaboration: How the Johns Hopkins Visual Resources Collection used JSTOR Forum to build cross-campus partnerships and amplify university collections
In 2020, Johns Hopkins University faced sudden closure due to COVID-19. Discover how the Special Collections team adapted by partnering with JSTOR Forum, revolutionizing access to materials for faculty and students alike.
Skidmore College and JSTOR collaborate to enhance digital access to special collections
Explore how Skidmore College digitizes its special collections in this insightful blog post detailing David Seiler's efforts in leading the transition to the digital age.
Academic institutions increase the reach of their digitized collections on JSTOR: The results of a three-year initiative
Discover highlights from the Coalition for Networked Information's biannual membership meeting, where discussions revolved around networked information technologies in higher education and research. Explore the outcomes of JSTOR's Open Community Collections program, showcasing the benefits for participant libraries in terms of reach and visibility.
Broadening global access:
Sharing open access special collections through our pilot program
Partnering with libraries, publishers, and museums, ITHAKA reduces costs and preserves scholarship for the future with digital special collections.
On the road to future-proofing all digital content:
How Portico now preserves libraries’ self-curated collections
Portico has earned its reputation as a trusted guardian of digital content for publishers, with over 1,000 publishers and 1,000 libraries worldwide relying on its time-honored preservation approach. Portico centers long-term content management and organizational commitment, as well as a dedication to addressing the needs of future scholars.
On the road to future-proofing all digital content:
The origin story of preserved collections with Portico
Preserved collections were launched with Portico as part of ITHAKA’s suite of infrastructure services. Preserved collections provides long-term digitally managed preservation for institutions’ digital collections with Portico. The service is designed to be flexible, so that it can be taken up on its own or integrated with ITHAKA’s other infrastructure services and work as part of institutions’ existing workflows.
Three ornithology collections that are free as the birds
The history of ornithology (the scientific study of birds) has involved observations captured in imagery going as far back as prehistoric stone-age drawings.[1] As ornithology developed as a natural science it faced the aesthetic challenge of convincingly capturing depictions of different bird species,[2] leading to beautifully documented and historically fascinating works of illustration. Several shared […]