CUNY and JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services
City University of New York (CUNY) and JSTOR are collaborating to support libraries in processing, preserving, managing, and sharing digital collections.
Participating institutions
CUNY libraries share a growing set of digital collections on JSTOR, including archives, special collections, and scholarly materials from member campuses—discoverable alongside journals, books, and primary sources.
The list below includes CUNY institutions participating in JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services, with links to their collection pages where available—so you can explore what’s currently shared on JSTOR. Please note that some participants may have only institutional collections published on JSTOR that are not publicly accessible. Institutions marked with an asterisk (*) are Tier 3 charter participants, helping shape the evolution of JSTOR Seeklight and the broader Stewardship environment.
Featured collections
Hunter College Concert Bureau Collection – Hunter College
Posters, playbills, programs, and drawings document the Hunter College Concert Bureau’s distinguished performance history, featuring celebrated musicians, writers, opera singers, and actors.
Civil Rights Movement Photographs – Queens College
Original photographs document the participation of Queens College students and other Northern activists in major civil rights initiatives of the 1960s, including Mississippi Freedom Summer, SCOPE, and the Medical Committee for Human Rights.
Municipal Assistance Corporation Collection – Baruch College
Records from New York City’s Municipal Assistance Corporation document efforts to confront the city’s 1975 fiscal crisis and avert default and bankruptcy.
Learn more about Stewardship
Building capacity together: Exploring collaborative strategies for digital collections stewardship
Digital collections stewardship depends on more than technology. Lee Dotson examines how SCELC, its member institutions, and JSTOR Stewardship are sharing expertise, support, and infrastructure to make distinctive collections more discoverable, accessible, and sustainable.
Yeshiva University moves to JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services for digital asset management, preservation, and access
Yeshiva University is migrating its digital collections from Islandora to JSTOR’s unified platform for digital asset management, preservation, and discovery.
University of Tennessee at Martin moves to JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services, joins charter program
The University of Tennessee at Martin is adopting JSTOR Stewardship to strengthen preservation, discovery, and AI-assisted collections processing while joining a collaborative charter community. 27 words
Coastal Carolina University joins JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services charter community
CCU joins JSTOR Stewardship’s charter program to build durable digital collections infrastructure, expand access, and explore AI-assisted processing with JSTOR Seeklight.
Boston Architectural College joins Tier 3 charter program of JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services
Boston Architectural College joins JSTOR Stewardship’s Tier 3 charter program, adding JSTOR Seeklight and helping shape responsible, AI-assisted approaches to stewardship.
Real research impact: What we’re learning about distinctive collections shared on JSTOR
New research reveals how distinctive collections shared on JSTOR are being discovered and used across research, teaching, and learning.
SUNY Morrisville joins JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services charter program
SUNY Morrisville joins the JSTOR Stewardship charter program to expand access to distinctive collections, advance digitization, and explore AI-assisted collections processing with JSTOR Seeklight.
What’s new in JSTOR Stewardship: August 2026
See what’s new across the JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services community, including new participants, distinctive collections, AI-assisted description, accessibility work, and lessons from institutions expanding access to their digital materials.
JSTOR Stewardship introduces alt text tools and workflows for image-based materials
New alt text capabilities in JSTOR Stewardship help libraries and archives create, manage, and publish accessible image descriptions, with JSTOR Seeklight supporting draft generation at scale.
View image credits from this page
Indoor Voices. The City University of New York.
Hunter College. Columbia Artists Presents Betty Allen. Programs (Programmes). Hunter College, 1975. Hunter College Archives. Hunter College. https://jstor.org/stable/community.41742126.
Padow-Sederbaum, Phyllis. Junior NAACP Demonstration. 1963. Queens College Special Collections and Archives (Queens, New York). Civil Rights Movement Photographs. Queens College . https://jstor.org/stable/community.28487222.
Municipal Assistance Corporation Logo. https://www.jstor.org/site/baruchcollegearchives/municipalassistancecorporationcollection/