JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services
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Learn how Middlebury College is extending the global reach of its archives through JSTOR, connecting researchers and historians to rare materials from Civil War letters to Vermont postcards.
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Skidmore College uses JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services to amplify and future-proof its special collections

Discover how Skidmore College’s Lucy Scribner Library is using JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services to expand access, streamline preservation, and ensure the long-term impact of its special collections, making rare materials discoverable to scholars around the world.
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Reclaiming flexibility: How Rollins College and the University of Puget Sound modernized digital stewardship with JSTOR

Discover how Rollins College and the University of Puget Sound modernized digital stewardship with JSTOR, replacing fragmented legacy systems with a unified, mission-driven platform that streamlines workflows, enhances teaching, and reenergizes engagement across campus.
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User research revealed differing bulk editing needs and guided a refined JSTOR Stewardship design that offers clearer context, stronger usability, and support for diverse workflows.
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Explore JSTOR’s resources, tools, and services for librarians. Strengthen collections, support faculty and students, and steward your institution’s distinctive materials with confidence.
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SCELC and JSTOR partner to empower 100+ libraries with digital stewardship services—preserving diverse histories, expanding access, and building a sustainable future for shared cultural collections.
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Accelerate impact with JSTOR Seeklight—purpose-built AI that helps archivists and librarians process, describe, and publish collections responsibly, keeping human expertise at the center.
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Streamline digital collection migration or harvesting with expert-led support from JSTOR, reducing technical complexity so your team can focus on discovery, access, and long-term impact.
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Explore JSTOR’s full suite of products and services—from mission-driven digital stewardship and an innovative research platform to flexible content solutions—that support scholarship, teaching, and discovery.
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Maximize the impact of your digital collections with JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services, a unified, cloud-based platform to process, manage, preserve, and share materials for global discovery.
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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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JSTOR Seeklight now generates transcripts for typed and handwritten items, making every word searchable and accessible while keeping editors in control. Available now for Tier 3 participants.
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This summer, charter participants in JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services shared their early enthusiasm for JSTOR Seeklight, our AI-powered tool for accelerating collection processing. We share their feedback, ideas, and a glimpse of what’s ahead.
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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 […]
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JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services does more than store your collections. Explore content management that drives discovery, use, and impact.
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Building evolving guardrails: How JSTOR Seeklight helps address bias and harm in descriptive metadata

Bias is inherent to description, but description can and should be revised over time. We’re evolving JSTOR Seeklight’s safeguards against bias and harmful content to reflect our values, our engineering ethos, and our commitment to transparency.
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Southwestern University brought its rich special collections to a global audience by partnering with JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services. Learn how streamlined tools, analytics, and open access helped the library expand visibility, engage new users, and strengthen its case for funding.
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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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A look into Ithaka S+R’s collaborative research on digital exhibits—how libraries and archives use them to connect communities, the challenges they face, and opportunities for future innovation.
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How JSTOR Seeklight brings together archival expertise, AI, and community insight—reflections on winning the Coker Award and building values-driven tools.
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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 […]
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JSTOR and SCELC Announce Consortium-Wide Agreement to Offer Digital Stewardship Services to All Member Institutions

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 […]
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Senior Product Manager Ann Connolly shares how JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services addresses key collection management issues with a unique integration approach.
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Engineering with purpose: How JSTOR Seeklight combines AI and human expertise to transform digital stewardship

Senior Product Manager Syed Amaanullah shares how JSTOR Seeklight blends technology and human expertise to deliver a purpose-built AI application for archives.
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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 […]
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Guidance for special collections preservation: Using JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services to support your long-term goals

Preserving digital collections is essential to safeguarding cultural memory. Discover how JSTOR’s Digital Stewardship Services help libraries and archives maintain accessible, durable, and meaningful collections for generations to come.
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Reflections from ACRL 2025: Celebrating 30 years of partnership —and a new chapter in digital stewardship

At ACRL 2025, JSTOR marked its 30th anniversary while unveiling JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services—built to support libraries in managing and preserving digital collections using AI-assisted metadata creation and community-driven collaboration.
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JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services is designed to help libraries and archives scale preservation through a seamless, mission-aligned workflow that combines digital asset management, AI-assisted metadata creation, and long-term preservation support.
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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 […]
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Bringing hidden histories to light: An archivist reflects on AI, archives, and the future of digital stewardship

An archivist explores how AI can help surface hidden histories, improve metadata, and support digital stewardship while emphasizing the need for human expertise in shaping archival narratives.
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