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September 3, 2025

What scholars are reading: Top-read JSTOR ebooks and editor picks

By Maria Papadouris and Rumika Suzuki Hillyer, Content and Community Engagement Manager, ITHAKA
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.

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September 2, 2025

Building evolving guardrails: How JSTOR Seeklight helps address bias and harm in descriptive metadata

By Syed Amaanullah, Senior Product Manager, ITHAKA
Learn how we’re building and evolving JSTOR Seeklight’s safeguards against bias and harmful content through AI, expert insight, and user feedback.

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August 25, 2025

Advancing discovery, access, and stewardship together: An ALA 2025 reflection

By Maria Papadouris, Content and Community Engagement Manager, ITHAKA
This year’s American Library Association (ALA) Conference in Philadelphia offered an opportunity to share how JSTOR is addressing two interconnected needs: helping researchers navigate trusted content more intuitively, and helping libraries manage, preserve, and activate distinctive collections at scale.

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August 20, 2025

A new model for scholarly ebooks: Publisher Collections built with, and for, librarians and publishers, to serve readers today and tomorrow

By John Lenahan, Vice President of Published Content, Licensed Collections, JSTOR, part of the nonprofit ITHAKA
A new nonprofit-led model from JSTOR offers libraries and publishers a more sustainable, equitable, and integrated ecosystem for scholarly ebooks.

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August 6, 2025

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

JSTOR’s Path to Open program continues to expand, offering valuable new resources that support teaching, learning, and research in the humanities, arts, and social sciences. These titles, newly published by our University Press partners, provide scholars and students with access to high-quality academic content across a range of disciplines. By offering a selection of these […]

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August 1, 2025

Access in Prison at inaugural HBCU Prison Education Summit

By Stacy Lyn Burnett, Senior Manager, JSTOR Access in Prison
Explore highlights from the first HBCU Prison Education Summit, where educators, advocates, and tech leaders gathered to advance higher education in prisons. Learn how HBCUs, digital tools like JSTOR, and secure technology are transforming access and equity for incarcerated learners.

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July 24, 2025

Building together: Reflections on JSTOR Seeklight and the 2025 C.F.W. Coker Award

By Emilie Hardman, Research Lead, Archives & Special Collections, and Sr. Curator, Reveal Digital, ITHAKA and Syed Amaanullah, Senior Product Manager, ITHAKA
How JSTOR Seeklight brings together archival expertise, AI, and community insight—reflections on winning the Coker Award and building values-driven tools.

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July 23, 2025

A new chapter for JSTOR’s AI research tool: Reflections on community engagement, insights from ALA, and what’s next

By Rumika Suzuki Hillyer, Content and Community Engagement Manager, ITHAKA
JSTOR's AI research tool (formerly known as the Interactive Research Tool) has officially launched for all JSTOR-participating institutions. In this blog post, explore the tool’s development history, recent updates, and community insights JSTOR team learned from this year’s American Library Association conference.

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