Small team, big reach: How Guilford College uses JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services to scale digital collections, empower students, and share Quaker history
See how Guilford College’s solo archivist scales a multifaceted archive with JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services. A flexible, cloud-hosted platform streamlines metadata, publishing, and discovery; empowers students as ‘digital stewards’; and supports secure internal access. Open standards (exportable metadata, OAI-PMH) enable partnerships with DPLA/Omeka—delivering big impact from a small team now.
Animating the archive: How Drew University uses JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services to expand access to scholarship and increase student engagement
Discover how Drew University animates rare archives with JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services—bringing the Byron Society Collection and Betty T. Bennett papers online for global access. A cloud-hosted workflow preserves fragile materials, boosts discovery, and engages students through hands-on courses in digitization and metadata, turning classroom work into lasting research contributions.
For each collection, a solution: How JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services flexible framework powers Johns Hopkins’ diverse digital collections
How Johns Hopkins powers diverse digital collections with JSTOR Digital Stewardship’s flexible framework. COVID shutdown sparked pilot collaboration. Customizable landing pages, sub-collections, and metadata fields (even content warnings) support curatorial control. Publishing on JSTOR boosts discovery alongside journals. Result: cross-campus collaboration—and 10,000+ items across 13 public collections now accessible worldwide.
Middlebury archives go global: The unexpected reach of one small college’s special collections
Middlebury College’s Special Collections found global audiences by sharing 75,000+ items across 20 collections on JSTOR. From a Thoreau-related letter opener to an 1863 Civil War letter with 8,000 requests, usage soared beyond campus, reaching scholars and local historians worldwide—exceeding expectations through JSTOR’s discovery and Share to JSTOR program.
Skidmore College uses JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services to amplify and future-proof its special collections
See how Skidmore future-proofs special collections with JSTOR Digital Stewardship: public hosting on JSTOR, cataloging in Forum, preservation via Portico. Broader discovery through JSTOR and Google drives global use across 93 countries, while librarians reduce maintenance and gain durable formats—amplifying impact without dedicated archivists, freeing time for teaching, curation.
How Southwestern University partnered with JSTOR to amplify its special collections
Southwestern University boosted access to Special Collections with JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services. Moving beyond a separate portal, staff published collections on JSTOR in days; an aerial-photos pilot drew 1,980 requests immediately. Built-in analytics reveal global audiences and guide digitization priorities—strengthening the case for funding while aligning discovery with campus habits.