Become a contributor

Reveal Digital collections are built and sustained by the library community. Whether you contribute funding or content, your participation ensures that vital, underrepresented histories remain preserved and freely accessible on JSTOR.

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Support an open access collection

Support the creation of new open access collections that document historically excluded voices and movements. Library contributions directly fund digitization, rights clearance, and long-term preservation through Portico

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Share your collections

Libraries, archives, and cultural organizations of every size—public or private—are invited to nominate and contribute materials to Reveal Digital’s open collections.

Your content expands what scholars and students can discover and study.

See the impact of community collaboration

Reveal Digital’s impact comes to life through the work of our contributors and the stories uncovered in our collections. Explore how libraries and archives are bringing these materials into classrooms, scholarly research, and public understanding.

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Teaching with the American Prison Newspapers collection

Curricular materials, guides, and readings designed to help educators and students teach with the American Prison Newspapers collection, centering incarcerated voices and critical inquiry.

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Behind the scenes of Reveal Digital: An open-access primary source collection on JSTOR

Discover the story behind Reveal Digital, an open access primary source collection on JSTOR highlighting underrepresented 20th-century voices of dissent. Learn how library crowdfunding, collaboration, and preservation have built a resource of over 70,000 items.

Cover of Common Lives/Lesbian Lives, a lesbian quarterly magazine. The title appears in red serif font at the top. Below the title, a Black woman in athletic clothing sits on grass, resting her arms on a rugby ball. She wears a striped rugby shirt, dark pants, high socks, and cleats. The photo is sepia-toned. At the bottom, the issue number is labeled “fifteen/sixteen” in red.
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Monthly-wrap up: Spotlighting pride, prison newspapers, and a painter in June

We hope this blog post finds you with a spare moment to explore something new! June’s releases on JSTOR brought together book-length research, community newspapers, […]

Book cover of Slaves to Fashion: Black Dandyism and the Styling of Black Diasporic Identity by Monica L. Miller. The cover features a stylishly dressed Black man in a double-breasted suit with a flower boutonnière, sitting on a vintage green couch in a confident, posed manner.
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Monthly wrap-up: Maps, movements, and miniature pills in May

May’s additions to JSTOR opened new ways to engage with visual culture, political history, and everyday life.

Women’s sports teams. 1940.  University Archives, University of Pennsylvania.
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Digitally archived primary sources are imperative to higher education

What would your classroom look like if students engaged with knowledge as detectives rather than passive readers? The answers lie in digital primary sources. And education depends on how we use them.

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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.

George Margetts. Astronomical Watch. 1750-1810. Science Museum Group Collection.
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A digital time machine: The power of digital primary sources in higher education

Let’s take a time machine—right at your fingertips—with digital primary sources. Developing digital literacy and primary source analysis skills is essential in higher education, equipping learners not only for academia but also for careers in research, journalism, policy, and beyond.

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Primary source literacy is a necessary 21st century skill

Primary sources offer direct, unfiltered access to the voices, images, and documents that shape our understanding of the world and its history. And yet, despite their value, primary source literacy remains an ongoing challenge in higher education.

A black-and-white photograph of six African American women standing on a train platform in front of a railcar, with one woman leaning out of the train doorway. A sign on the train reads: “National Association of Colored Women Enroute Convention Los Angeles.” The women are dressed in formal attire, wearing suits, dresses, and hats, and carrying handbags. The image, taken between 1948-1952, captures a moment from the NACW’s journey to their convention.
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Monthly wrap-up: Preserving voices, histories, and artistic legacies in February

February brought new archival collections and multimedia highlights to JSTOR. In honor of Black History Month, we also highlighted stories of activism, resilience, and creative expression.

Meet the community behind the collections

Discover the people and partnerships behind Reveal Digital. Meet the librarians, archivists, and funders who make open collections possible—and see how their contributions bring hidden histories into classrooms and research.

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Black-and-white magazine cover titled Black Dialogue featuring a young Black man wearing sunglasses and a jacket, raising his fist in a Black Power salute; a library stamp dated Jan 4, 1971 appears across the image.

William A. Maynard, Joe Goncalves, James Forman, jackie earley, issac j. black, sonia sanchez, Jeff Donaldson, et al. “Black Dialogue.” Black Dialogue 4, no. 2 (July 1, 1970). Black American, Part of Independent Voices, Reveal Digital. https://jstor.org/stable/community.28034114.