Managing and sharing digitized special collections with JSTOR’s services is an opportunity to illuminate valuable scholarship and engage students in collection stewardship. When scholars and students engage with archival materials, they are able to give texture to their research that might not otherwise be available to… Read More
JSTOR announced today a new digital collection stewardship solution designed to help libraries and archives describe, preserve, manage, and share their unique collections at scale–—reducing backlogs and increasing discovery.
JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services integrates digital asset management, long-term preservation (powered by Portico), increased discovery through JSTOR, and a first-of-its-kind AI-assisted metadata generation tool that accelerates collection processing while maintaining expert oversight.
“Libraries and archives face significant challenges in stewarding existing and ever-growing digital collections,” said Rebecca Seger,… Read more»
JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services Meet the integrated, cloud-hosted solution that helps you confidently scale digital stewardship efforts while ensuring your collections are preserved, and discoverable, for the future. Book a demo Community voices “[The] AI tool for processing digital records has been… Read More
Skidmore College’s custom landing page on JSTOR Many college and university libraries have amassed special collections that hold great value for students, faculty, and researchers, and a growing number are digitizing these collections in order to share them more widely and ensure long-term… Read More
Paper cutter painted by Sophia Thoreau and given to Eliza Hosmer. Abernethy Collection of American Literature. Middlebury College. In a way, it was a single image of a hand-painted letter opener that made Middlebury College librarian… Read More
Johns Hopkins University’s vast collections, from the ancient world to the present, span centuries, genres, materials, and campus spaces. The Johns Hopkins Sheridan Libraries, the Johns Hopkins Archaeological Museum, the Visual Resources Collection, and other entities steward these… Read More
Unknown. Aerial Photograph of Downtown Georgetown Showing Train Tracks. 1930s. https://jstor.org/stable/community.34652668. Broad access is critical to an institution like Southwestern University, which houses one of the largest special collections for a university of its size. Located in The A. Frank Smith, Jr. Library on Southwestern’s Georgetown, Texas campus,… Read More
