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The Evergreen State College is now part of JSTOR’s Digital Stewardship Services charter program, where they will help improve AI-assisted tools like JSTOR Seeklight and speed up the processing of their digital archival collections.
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North Carolina State University has joined JSTOR’s Digital Stewardship Services charter program, partnering to advance AI-assisted tools like JSTOR Seeklight and accelerate the processing and discovery of unique digital archival collections.
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JSTOR welcomes RMIT University as the first Australian institution to join the Tier 3 charter program of JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services. RMIT will pilot JSTOR Seeklight to explore AI-supported workflows, beginning with an architecture slide collection of more than 2,000 images.
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Over 30 institutions worldwide have joined the JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services Tier 3 charter program, forming a values-led community shaping the future of AI-assisted collections processing through collaboration, innovation, and shared expertise.
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JSTOR Seeklight now generates transcripts for handwritten, typed, and mixed-media materials—enhancing accessibility, discoverability, and research impact for digital collections.
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In 1995, Mellon Foundation president William Bowen had the idea to help libraries save shelf space and money by digitizing journals, using emerging technologies to preserve and make them available for research. Thirty years later, in Ten Surprising Things You Can Enjoy Online, Thanks to JSTOR, Mellon highlights just some of the incredible collections now on…
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JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services managing director Roger Schonfeld sat down with Library Journal executive editor, Lisa Peet to talk technology, innovation, and what’s next for library archives and special collections. New Tools for Stewardship: Q&A with JSTOR’s Roger Schonfeld reveals an evolving field with improved infrastructure, human-centered use of generative artificial intelligence, and community engagement.…
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Beginning in 2026, JSTOR will offer Publisher Collections, a new model within the Books at JSTOR program. Publisher Collections will enable libraries around the world to acquire significant lists of new books from a growing set of 20+ publishers on the JSTOR platform. The model responds directly to the needs of libraries and publishers for…
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The Society of American Archivists (SAA) has named JSTOR Seeklight, the AI-powered collections processing technology within JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services, the 2025 recipient of the C.F.W. Coker Award for Description. Established in 1984, the award recognizes projects that advance archival description by setting national standards, modeling best practices, and reshaping how archival materials are made…
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JSTOR and the Statewide California Electronic Library Consortium (SCELC) announced today a consortium-wide agreement to make JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services available to all SCELC Member institutions. Through this partnership, over 100 libraries will have the opportunity to access next-generation digital asset management (DAM) tools, long-term preservation, and AI-powered collections processing support. JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services…
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ITHAKA announced today that Roger Schonfeld will lead JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services as its managing director. Launched in April 2025, JSTOR Digital Stewardship is a new digital collection stewardship solution designed to help libraries and archives describe, preserve, manage, and share their unique collections at scale. This service integrates next generation digital asset management with…
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JSTOR, part of the nonprofit ITHAKA, has been named a finalist for two 2025 EPIC Awards, presented by the Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP). The EPIC Awards program recognizes and celebrates remarkable teams and individuals in the publishing, information technology, and communications sectors for their significant contributions to scholarly communication through innovation, creativity, and dedication.…
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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…
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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,…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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. …
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Knowledge Unlatched (KU), the global initiative for Open Access (OA), recently announced its OA Heroes 2024, highlighting the highest use nations, institutions, publishers, disciplines, and scholarly works from 2023. JSTOR is proud to be among the network of platforms recognized for contributing to the growing usage of KU OA books. JSTOR began working with KU…
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Three hundred groundbreaking new books are on the path to open access Path to Open, a pilot program to support the open access publication of new groundbreaking scholarly books that brings diverse perspectives and research to millions of people, will add 300 new books from 44 university presses in 2024. This includes titles from 9…
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Eight BLC libraries join JSTOR and the academic community in developing a sustainable path for open access university press monographs at scale Boston Library Consortium (BLC), a coalition of libraries in the northeastern United States that share knowledge, infrastructure, and resources at scale, is the latest consortium to join Path to Open, a pilot program…
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JSTOR recently joined the Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) Trusted Platform Network, a global initiative bringing together platforms committed to maintaining the highest standards in open access (OA) book publishing. The DOAB Trusted Platform Network creates a more seamless process for platforms and publishers, including JSTOR, to index their OA books in DOAB by…
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Florida Virtual Campus (FLVC), a centralized service supporting the shared needs of Florida’s 40 public colleges and universities, has joined Path to Open, a pilot program to support the open access publication of new groundbreaking scholarly books that will bring diverse perspectives and research to millions of people. Path to Open launched in 2023 as…
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Stacy Burnett, senior product manager for the JSTOR Access in Prison Initiative, recently sat down with Sara Weissman at Inside Higher Ed (Game-Changing Access to Academic Materials in Prison) and Arrman Kyaw at Diverse (JSTOR’s Digital Archives Now Reach Over Half a Million Incarcerated Learners) to discuss the power of knowledge for incarcerated learners and…
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JSTOR—with its vast collections of journals, books, and primary sources—is designed to support students doing college level coursework and research. Now, through an arrangement with the College Board, high school teachers and students taking the new Advanced Placement® African American Studies course in the 2024-2025 academic year will have free access to JSTOR to enrich…
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More than 500,000 incarcerated learners now have access to the digital library At the end of 2023, JSTOR—a vast digital library of secondary and primary sources to support teaching and learning—reached a once unimaginable goal: providing JSTOR access in 1,000 prisons. Spread across four continents, the JSTOR Access in Prison initiative now supports the education…
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