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.
- Baruch College*
- Borough of Manhattan Community College
- Bronx Community College
- Brooklyn College
- College of Staten Island
- Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY
- CUNY Central Archives
- CUNY, City College of New York
- CUNY Graduate Center
- CUNY School of Law
- Guttman Community College
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
JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services Receives Mellon Foundation Digitization Grant
Library Journal highlights JSTOR Stewardship’s new funding initiative for libraries and archives, supporting digitization, AI-assisted processing with JSTOR Seeklight, and broader public access to distinctive collections.
Trinity College expands partnership with JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services through charter program
Trinity College is deepening its work with JSTOR Stewardship by joining the charter program, gaining access to JSTOR Seeklight and scaling collections processing with expert oversight.
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.
Brandeis University becomes 50th institution to join JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services charter program
Brandeis University joins JSTOR Stewardship’s Tier 3 charter program as the community’s 50th institution, helping shape responsible, AI-assisted stewardship through JSTOR Seeklight and peer collaboration.
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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/