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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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November 25, 2024

Monthly wrap-up: November’s shared collections and audio-visual finds

By Maria Papadouris, Content and Community Engagement Manager, ITHAKA
November brought new opportunities to explore underrepresented voices, rich cultural artifacts, and engaging multimedia content on JSTOR. This month’s additions provide researchers, educators, and students with unique insights into history, art, and human ingenuity.

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November 10, 2024

Explore the latest titles in JSTOR’s Path to Open program

By Cristina Mezuk, Manager of Content Operations, Curation & Management
Explore JSTOR's Path to Open program, expanding access to high-quality humanities, arts, and social sciences resources through partnerships with University Presses. Offering select titles as open access, the program promotes equity in education, supporting scholars and students alike. Learn how your library can provide access and preview upcoming content to enhance teaching, learning, and research.

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November 1, 2024

Monthly wrap-up: October’s shared collections and audio-visual finds

By Maria Papadouris, Content and Community Engagement Manager, ITHAKA
This month on JSTOR, we continued expanding access to invaluable content, adding multimedia and archival collections that amplify voices from the past. Discover our picks from the month.

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October 21, 2024

Frankenstein, The Vampyre, and the spirit of the humanities: Echoes from the summer of 1816

By Maria Papadouris, Content and Community Engagement Manager, ITHAKA
Discover how a ghost story contest during the summer of 1816 gave birth to Frankenstein and The Vampyre, two literary masterpieces that continue to haunt the humanities. This blog post explores the fateful gathering at Villa Diodati, the gothic themes of life, death, and ambition, and the enduring relevance of these stories in our quest to understand human nature and societal dynamics—just in time for Halloween.

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September 30, 2024

Rediscovering Joseph F. Stapleton: New additions to Artstor on JSTOR

By Robert Solomon, Art Historian and Biographer: Joseph F. Stapleton
Explore the newly expanded Joseph F. Stapleton Drawing Collection from Artstor on JSTOR, now featuring 345 additional images. Stapleton, a Brooklyn-born surrealist and abstractionist, is gaining renewed attention for his contributions to post-WWII abstract expressionism in New York. With nearly 650 images available, this collection offers a rich resource for research and study.

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September 26, 2024

Monthly wrap-up: expanding collections and engaging new perspectives

By Maria Papadouris, Content and Community Engagement Manager, ITHAKA
Discover JSTOR's latest resources, including radical newspapers, historical multimedia, and new video content. Enhance your research with diverse entries from Reveal Digital, Artstor on JSTOR, and shared collections.

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