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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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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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Enhancing research accessibility for students

Without compromising academic integrity, JSTOR’s AI research tool benefits both instructors and learners and overcomes the skepticism of AI.​ Embracing AI and other emerging technologies for efficient and accessible research and teaching Education is rapidly evolving with the expansion of AI across the globe, and this especially impacts… Read More

February 21, 2025

Unlocking research with JSTOR’s interactive tool: How to ask questions and get more from your readings

By Alex Houston, Senior Marketing Manager, Victoria Spitz, Senior Digital Marketing Manager, and Rumika Suzuki Hillyer, Content and Community Engagement Manager, ITHAKA
JSTOR’s interactive research tool allows users to actively engage with texts by asking questions directly within the tool. Based on user feedback, we created this guide to help you get the most out of this feature. We’ll explore how asking the right types of questions can help you quickly find relevant content, understand complex arguments, and support your research more effectively.

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Platform features

JSTOR provides robust, sustainable platform features designed to meet the evolving needs of scholars, educators, and students. Our tools integrate seamlessly with our vast digital library of journals, books, images, primary sources, and now, audio and video—ensuring that knowledge is both accessible and actionable. New and enhanced features for teaching… Read More

Bridging access

Research involves more than direct translation, requiring adaptation to new cultural norms.​ JSTOR’s AI research tool promotes equity by giving students from various backgrounds a platform to explore and develop their perspectives​.​ Electronic resources librarian and student finds AI and other emerging technologies essential to broadly accessible research… Read More

Your time constraints are our concern

Bess Wilhelms, a middle school history teacher at George Rogers Clark Elementary School Public school educators often juggle multiple roles beyond subject matter expert. Bess Wilhelms currently teaches US history, world history, and civics at George Rogers Clark Elementary School in Chicago. Previously, she taught high school… Read More

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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JSTOR’s AI research tool

Get to know our AI research tool, part of a growing suite of AI-enabled features on JSTOR designed to enhance—not replace—the research process. Developed in collaboration with our community and offered free to JSTOR-participating institutions, the tool helps users engage more deeply with JSTOR’s trusted corpus. Have questions, comments,… Read More