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.
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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.
What’s new in JSTOR Stewardship: July 2026
This month’s JSTOR Stewardship update welcomes new participating institutions, highlights newly available collections on JSTOR, and shares recent work from the digital stewardship community. Featured stories include AI-assisted collections processing, expanded access to distinctive materials, and community-led efforts to make digital collections more discoverable.
JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services secures funding to help institutions expand public access to distinctive collections
With support from the Mellon Foundation, JSTOR Stewardship is launching a new initiative to help participants digitize collections and expand public access.
Catalyzing a more public future for distinctive collections: A new initiative within JSTOR Stewardship
New support from the Mellon Foundation will help expand JSTOR Stewardship, giving more libraries and archives the tools to digitize, process, preserve, and share distinctive collections through JSTOR so original sources can reach broader audiences.
The University of North Dakota joins JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services to advance access to collections
The University of North Dakota joins JSTOR Stewardship, expanding discovery and access to its distinctive digital collections through JSTOR.
Eastern Michigan University expands partnership with JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services by joining Tier 3 charter program
Eastern Michigan University joins JSTOR Stewardship’s Tier 3 charter program, building on its role as an early JSTOR Seeklight beta partner to advance responsible, AI-assisted stewardship.
JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services charter program surpasses 50 participating institutions
More than 50 institutions now participate in JSTOR Stewardship’s charter program, collaborating to advance responsible, AI-assisted digital collections stewardship.
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Our stewardship team can help you assess your collections, goals, and workflows to find the right fit. Contact us to get started.
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