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Growing up in Miami, Florida, surrounded by Caribbean cultures across the diaspora, I developed a strong sense of identity as a proud Caribbean creative, a Belizean Cuban American designer. My intersectionalities have significantly influenced my creativity and the stories I choose to tell through my work as I delve into the importance of preserving family memories, the power of personal archives, and the transformative role of working at ITHAKA/JSTOR.

Text analysis informs decision-making across a broad swath of industries and domains. Organizations and businesses leverage text analysis to extract meaningful information from a range of texts including customer reviews, social media posts, and support tickets. Researchers use text analysis to find critical information quickly. Text analysis enables automated content categorization for organizing and understanding […]

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 of generative AI 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.

Artstor is not just for art! Yes, this extensive resource includes more than three quarters of a million images of paintings, works on paper, and sculptures, but that’s still less than half of the visual content available in the collections. What else is there, you ask?

Artstor has released 5,000 new images from Magnum Photos on the JSTOR platform, bringing the collection to more than 136,000 items. Our first JSTOR-only licensed image launch features photojournalistic coverage of momentous geopolitical events from 2021 and 2022, including global protests, the lives of political and economic refugees, the devastation of climate change, and much […]

Text analysis is behind the auto-suggest on your phone, the spam filter on your email, and the suggestions in your streaming services. Its practical use in our everyday lives has been quietly impactful for many years, but recently there has been serious buzz around text analysis and generative artificial intelligence, including their potential effects on human society. If you aren’t aware of what text analysis is and how it can benefit your academic and professional life, keep reading.

Happy Earth Day! We’ve gathered 26 open collections on JSTOR that feature breathtaking documentation of our planet and its creatures by scientists, scholars, and artists across many eras, all free for everyone to enjoy. Microcosms: Sacred Plants of the Americas Confocal microscopy is a specialized optical imaging technique that provides contact-free, non-destructive measurements of three-dimensional […]

To celebrate this year’s Earth Day, we’re sharing five openly accessible collections on JSTOR that feature the work of  important women botanists and botanical artists. You might wonder, considering how difficult it was for women to be allowed into the sciences, how did these women achieve so much? As Matthew Willis writes in JSTOR Daily, […]

Louis Agassiz Fuertes, bird portraitist April 22 marks the 53rd anniversary of Earth Day, the birth of the modern environmental movement. This year we honor the day and the intent with a tribute to the bird portraitist Louis Agassiz Fuertes, born in 1874, nearly 100 years prior to Earth Day, in Ithaca, New York. The […]

In the United States March is Women’s History Month, a time to remember and celebrate women’s contributions to history, culture, and society. And thanks to our contributing partners, JSTOR has an abundance of women-focused primary source collections that are free for everyone to access and use. Last year we compiled a selection of Artstor and […]