Events

Hear from ITHAKA/JSTOR thought leaders at the Annual Meeting of the Association of University Presses, the premier professional development and networking event for university presses and nonprofit scholarly publishers.

Visit us at booth #1035 at ALA 2024 to discover the innovative ways JSTOR and ITHAKA support teaching and learning, offer affordable access to knowledge, expand open access initiatives, and preserve your resources for generations to come.

Join us at CNI 2024 for the session “Navigating Generative Artificial Intelligence: Early Findings and Implications for Research, Teaching, and Learning,” presented by Beth LaPensee, Senior Product Manager at ITHAKA, and Kevin Guthrie, President of ITHAKA. You’ll learn about ITHAKA’s investments in generative AI research tools on the JSTOR platform and collaborative projects led by Ithaka S+R, gaining valuable insights into the impact and potential of AI-powered research and its significance for the future of academia.

Join us at UKSG to delve deeper into our key initiatives in support of our mission such as ITHAKA’s Infrastructure Services Shared Collections, Portico, Artstor on JSTOR, Constellate, Path to Open, as well as our New Fee Model. This annual conference gathers librarians, publishers, content providers, and consultants together for enriching workshops, insightful presentations, and a vibrant trade exhibition.

Join us at ER&L 2024 to learn how we’re collaborating with our community to meet needs introduced by post-pandemic hybrid learning and emerging technologies. Explore Path to Open, a groundbreaking pilot program fostering equitable open access to scholarly monographs at an unprecedented scale. Delve into the ethical integration of AI in education through JSTOR’s beta AI-powered research tool, exploring responsible and sustainable approaches to generative AI usage. Together, let’s explore how your library can shape the future of digital learning and research through collaborative, sustainable innovation.

Explore the transformative potential of ITHAKA’s infrastructure services at scale in our session at ER&L, featuring insights from SCELC and CUNY. Following a successful pilot from 2020-23, delve into why both institutions opted to invest in these innovative infrastructure services, impacting access and preservation of digitized library collections. Join us to unravel their rationale, expectations, and aspirations, shaping the future of academic resource management.

Join us at Booth #806 at ER&L 2024 to explore ITHAKA’s comprehensive suite of services, including JSTOR, Path to Open, Infrastructure Services, Portico, and Constellate. We’ll delve into the future of ITHAKA, emphasizing growth through collaboration and our commitment to providing ongoing value.

Join us at this SCELC session to learn how ITHAKA’s trusted resources like JSTOR empower institutions to share special collections globally, ensuring accessibility for future generations. You will discover how SCELC members are reaching millions of scholars, promoting their institutions, connecting collections to secondary literature, and evaluating impact through usage statistics.

Join this session at SCELC to explore innovative strategies for navigating the evolving academic landscape, including insights into post-pandemic hybrid learning challenges and emerging trends in open access resources and generative AI technologies. Discover how our collaborative efforts with administrators, librarians, educators, publishers, and students are shaping the future of academic content delivery.

Join us at SCELC, where you’ll connect with over 200 library deans and directors. Stop by table #9 to discover how ITHAKA’s suite of nonprofit services can meet your institution’s needs with open access to scholarly monographs, special collections, primary sources, and more.

How can stewards of distinctive collections use emerging technologies in service of description and discovery? In this webinar, Emilie Hardman shares how values-aligned AI, including JSTOR Seeklight, can support reparative description at scale. Learn from real-world examples how emerging tools deepen representation, surface under-described materials, and center community values.

Institutions have often turned to locally supported systems to manage digital collections, drawn to their flexibility and community-driven roots. Yet as staffing capacity shifts and technical upkeep becomes more demanding, many libraries and archives are rethinking what sustainability looks like at scale. In this webinar, Zachary Johnson (Vanderbilt University) and Michael Fitzgerald (University of the District of Columbia) share how they transitioned from in-house systems to JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services, offering insights into infrastructure, decision-making, and team impact.

Looking to enhance your understanding of JSTOR’s features and functionality to better support upper division students, faculty, and other scholars in research and teaching? This one hour webinar is appropriate for library professionals and faculty who are responsible for teaching and doing research on a more advanced level. It presumes a basic understanding of the JSTOR platform as discussed in the introductory webinar.

The more basic uses of JSTOR for research are covered in the webinar: An introduction to research on JSTOR.

Many libraries and archives rely on digital collection platforms that once served them well but now feel misaligned with evolving priorities like adaptable workflows, actionable analytics, and sustainable access. In this webinar, Rachel Walton (Rollins College) and Olivia Inglin (University of Puget Sound) share their transitions from legacy systems to JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services—what drove their decisions, how they guided change, and what’s different today. Their reflections offer practical insights for leaders managing digital collections, metadata, and discovery.

Want to develop a core understanding of JSTOR’s features and functionality for research and teaching? In this one hour webinar, you’ll learn how to explore primary sources from contributing collections including text, image, audio and video files, as well as examine secondary source content with the JSTOR Research Tool. This session is appropriate for library professionals and faculty who are responsible for teaching students the basic skills needed to use JSTOR for research projects.

More advanced uses of JSTOR for research will be covered in the September 11th JSTOR Updates series webinar: Advanced research on JSTOR.

Join us to learn about the 2025 updates to JSTOR administrator tools, with a specific focus on preparing to serve users. Discover how to perform an access checkup, update your institution’s account information, manage your institution’s access to JSTOR’s Research Tool, and manage the individual accounts of your users. Please note that usage and holdings will be covered at the end of this JSTOR Updates series in: JSTOR Administrator tools part 2.

This one hour webinar is appropriate for library professionals who are responsible for managing smooth JSTOR access at their institution.

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Join us for a demonstration of JSTOR’s AI-powered research tool, which enables users to quickly identify key points within scholarly texts, discover new topics and content, and query for deeper engagement. We’ll detail the tool’s development, including technical foundations and design, suggest how to incorporate it into teaching and learning, and offer insights for institutional implementation and user engagement.

This one-hour webinar is appropriate for librarians and faculty working with both novice and advanced researchers.

Join us for a look at Forum’s advanced functionality. Learn how to create and manage compilations and containers, and explore lists.

Join us to learn the basics of cataloging in Forum. Learn how to catalog records individually and in bulk, access data from linked fields, and manage different types of media. 

Discover the value of Artstor on JSTOR for teaching and research across disciplines. In our webinar, explore tools, content, and strategies with Blair Woodard (Associate Professor of History and Environmental Studies, University of Portland) and Whitney Barlow Robles (Author, Historian, Curator, and Visiting Scholar, Department of History, Dartmouth College), and get practical tips on using images to enrich student learning.

Join us for the first session of our JSTOR Forum training series, designed to help you master Forum’s capabilities. You are welcome to attend the full hour, which includes two parts, or join us for the section that is most relevant to your work.  

Starting in mid-2023, ITHAKA began investing in and engaging directly with generative AI in two broad areas: a generative AI research tool on the JSTOR platform and a collaborative research project led by Ithaka S+R. In this presentation, Kevin Guthrie (President, ITHAKA) and Beth LaPensee (Senior Product Manager, JSTOR) share early signals about how this technology-enabled evolution is beginning to take shape.

Join this free, one-hour JSTOR + Choice-ACRL webinar to learn how librarians and faculty can align and collaborate to address barriers to teaching with digitized primary sources. In addition to walking away with actionable insights, attendees will be the first to receive full access to the new report!

Struggling to forge a connection between scholarly content and vibrant student engagement? The solution awaits. Join us for this webinar where Hypothesis and JSTOR teams unite to unveil the transformative potential of social annotation in reshaping the student-faculty interaction with JSTOR content. 1 hour

Join us as Reveal Digital’s Cornelius Fortune presents a preview of the contextual material he’s developed as part of the Documenting White Supremacy and its Opponents collection. With a focus on the 1920’s, Cornelius invites you into his research and thought processes, helping us explore the importance of contextualization for this sensitive collection and primary sources in general. 1 hour

In this webinar, we explore the benefits of social annotation and demonstrate how to use Hypothesis to annotate JSTOR articles. We share tips and best practices for collaborating with others through annotations, and show you how to effectively use annotation to improve your research and understanding of a topic. 1 hour

Next in JSTOR Access in Prison’s Second Chance Month webinar series, join a conversation on how to meet the needs of students with disabilities enrolled in prison education programs with Southern New Hampshire University student Ben Wright and expert Dr. Jennifer Montag. 1 hour

Join a JSTOR Access in Prison webinar on how college access and campus-readiness initiatives impact academic success and life outcomes post-release, featuring conversation with LA Times journalist Keri Blakinger, BMCC Associate Director Olga Miliman, and PEN America’s Caits Messner. 1 hour

April is Second Chance Month and JSTOR Access in Prison invites everyone to be a part of the conversation about the role education can play in making second chances a reality for people and communities impacted by incarceration. This first Second Chance Chat features JSTOR Access in Prison Advisory Board member Patrick Rodriguez and Donald Washington Jr. of The Marshall Project. 1 hour

Watch this recording to discover how educators can use the American Prison Newspapers collection in their classrooms. We showcase what information instructors and students would come across, such as poems, comics, debates, artwork, and informational articles. 1 hour

Through interviews with scholars, this recording highlights the depth of once-hidden content that is now or will be available for discovery on JSTOR and how the material is having a significant impact on contemporary scholarship. 90 minutes

Introduction to JSTOR primary source collections, covering how these rich research materials can enhance your teaching and research. Check out the JSTOR Beyond Journals resource for a recap of what’s covered. 45 minutes