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Introducing JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services

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 Access in Prison passes million-user threshold

In just over a year, the JSTOR Access in Prison program has doubled its reach in US state and federal prison facilities. 

In late 2023, JAIP celebrated reaching 1,000 prisons and providing access to more than 500,000 incarcerated learners. Today, more than one million incarcerated learners can now research, download, and read academic journal articles, books, and other scholarly materials via the JSTOR platform.

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JSTOR retires Publisher Sales Service

Effective December 31, 2024, JSTOR will retire its Publisher Sales Service, a program that enables publishers to sell, and individuals to buy, single articles and issues from the journals preserved and hosted by JSTOR. 

JSTOR began the Publisher Sales Service in the early 2000s to provide access to research to people finding articles on JSTOR through Google and other search engines but who did not have broader access to JSTOR’s <a… Read more»

JSTOR Daily wins a 2024 Silver Anthem Award

JSTOR Daily has received a Silver Anthem Award for excellence in mission-driven news and journalism from the producers of the prestigious Webby Awards. Daily was recognized for its contributions to the fields of Education, Arts & Culture in the News & Journalism category for non-profit institutions.

The 2024 Anthem Winners were selected by the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences from 2,300 submissions representing 34 countries around the world. We’re proud to be honored alongside other high-profile winners,… Read more»

JSTOR scales access to interactive research tool in beta, empowering researchers and educators with AI

500 higher education institutions offered early access to JSTOR’s AI-powered tool in beta, designed to deepen research and enhance teaching in the humanities, arts, and social sciences.

JSTOR, a nonprofit service of ITHAKA, announced today that it is expanding the beta program for its interactive research tool by offering 500 colleges and universities the opportunity to provide early access for their faculty and students. Higher education institutions that sign up will give their communities a chance to

Latin American Open Access ebook pilot expands impact with 100 titles from Prometeo Editorial

JSTOR, the Latin Americanist Research Resources Project (LARRP), and Libreria Garcia Cambeiro have released 100 Open Access titles from the highly respected Argentine publisher, Prometeo Editorial. Now globally accessible on JSTOR, these books span the humanities and social sciences with an emphasis on Argentina and Latin America, filling an important gap in openly accessible scholarship. 

The availability of this scholarship is the result of an innovative multi-year collaboration wherein Libreria Garcia… Read more»

JSTOR Access in Prison awarded the 2024 ALPSP Impact Award

Innovative program that gives incarcerated students access to scholarly research recognized for its transformative impact

The JSTOR Access in Prison Initiative, which enables students inside jails and prisons to access the scholarly journals, books, and primary sources hosted on JSTOR, was honored this week with the 2024 ALPSP Impact Award. The prestigious award is reserved for initiatives that demonstrate substantial “beneficial impact within scholarly publishing and communications.”

The Association of Learned and Professional… Read more»

JSTOR announces “Artstor on JSTOR”

The JSTOR platform is now the official home for the complete Artstor Digital Library, an unmatched collection of rights-cleared images and media for use in teaching and research. Comprised of over 2 million images, videos, panoramas, and audio files contributed by museums, galleries, and other cultural organizations around the world, the collection is now known as “Artstor on JSTOR,” signaling the collection’s deep integration with the more than 2,800 journals, 100,000 books, 50,000 research reports, and robust primary… Read more»

Path to Open books are now freely available to Historically Black Colleges and Universities and Tribal Colleges and Universities

America’s Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and Tribal Colleges and Universities (TCUs) are now able to provide their more than 300,000 students and faculty with immediate access to the diverse, groundbreaking university press books being published on JSTOR as part of Path to Open.

Developed in partnership with the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), University of Michigan Press, and University of North Carolina (UNC) Press, Path to Open is a multi-year pilot program designed to… Read more»

JSTOR partners with Schweitzer to support library ebook sales in Germany

JSTOR is now partnering with Schweitzer Fachinformationen, a leading library service provider, to sell ebooks to academic and public libraries in Germany. Schweitzer serves more than 200 libraries throughout the country. Through this new arrangement, these libraries will be able to easily acquire affordable, high-quality DRM-free ebooks available on the JSTOR platform from premier scholarly presses as part of their existing library workflows.

Starting on June 1, 2024, libraries can select and order individual titles from… Read more»