Explore flexible tiers for digital stewardship
JSTOR’s cloud-hosted platform is offered in three tiers to meet the diverse needs of institutions.
Developed with and for the community, our Digital Stewardship Services help institutions process, preserve, and share collections sustainably, while strengthening discovery and long-term access.
Compare features
Review to identify the level of functionality that best fits your institutional needs and collection goals.
Tier 1
Share on JSTOR
Share collections on JSTOR to:
- Provide access to text, image, audio, and video content for users at your institution or openly to researchers around the world
- Increase visibility through indexing in major search engines such as Google
- Enhance discoverability in common library discovery services, including EBSCO Discovery Service™ (EDS), OCLC WorldCat, and ProQuest/Ex Libris Primo/Alma
- Expand usage and reach by presenting your materials alongside primary and secondary source content on JSTOR
- Strengthen your institution’s visibility with a dedicated, branded collections page on JSTOR
- Drive discovery and access to audio and video content with searchable, auto-generated transcripts and robust streaming capabilities
- Start with 5TB of scalable storage, with options to expand as your collections grow
- Measure your collections’ impact with a self-service usage analytics dashboard that tracks views, downloads, geographic reach, and more
Tier 2
Preserve, manage, and share
Everything from Tier 1, plus:
- Manage your holdings with comprehensive digital asset management capabilities
- Preserve valuable assets with Portico’s built-in, OAIS-compliant digital preservation, safeguarding against obsolescence and loss
- Organize records and collections with intuitive, user-friendly tools
- Create structured metadata using standard or custom metadata schemas and linked authorities
- Efficiently catalog using customizable templates, built-in or Excel-based bulk editing tools, and customizable workflows
- Create and manage custom cataloging forms and assign them to different users or projects
- Assign permissions and manage user access at the institution or project level
- Share broadly to JSTOR and beyond—exhibit on Omeka and share to other platforms, including DPLA and your library catalog, via OAI-PMH
Comprehensive
Tier 3
AI-assisted stewardship with JSTOR Seeklight
Everything from Tiers 1 and 2, plus:
- Use JSTOR Seeklight to accelerate collections processing at scale while maintaining expert oversight and control
- Rapidly transform large volumes of uploaded materials into access- and preservation-ready resources
- Generate structured, standards-compliant descriptive metadata at the item level and at scale
- Transcribe text from handwritten, typed, and mixed-media documents to drive discovery and support accessibility and compliance
- Create concise, structured, project-level summaries that help identify themes and patterns across collections
- Review and refine AI-generated records using built-in tagging tools and confidence scores that support transparency and quality control
- Participate in the JSTOR Digital Stewardship charter program to directly contribute to the future of AI-assisted stewardship
Looking for more flexibility?
Add-on services are available for one-time content migration, ongoing collection harvesting, and additional content management or preservation allowances.
Stories of collaboration and impact
Explore how institutions are shaping the future of digital stewardship through partnership, innovation, and care.
North Carolina State University becomes part of JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services charter program
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.
JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services promotional toolkit
Access ready-to-use messaging, social media assets, and training resources to help your institution promote its participation in JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services and engage your campus community.
RMIT joins JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services charter program
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.
Sustainable books models and digital stewardship at Charleston 2025
At this year’s Charleston Conference, JSTOR hosted two lunch events. Highlights included updates on Path to Open, Publisher Collections, and JSTOR Seeklight’s growing role in AI-assisted metadata generation.
Exploring what’s next: Your transition from Forum to JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services
Reviewing the updated transition timeline and dual access period, outline what to expect as you begin working in JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services, and provide a detailed walkthrough of the platform.
Reclaim flexibility: Modern solutions for digital collection stewardship
In this webinar, Rachel Walton (Rollins College) and Olivia Inglin (University of Puget Sound) share their transitions from legacy systems to JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services
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