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June 25, 2024

AI and other advanced technologies on JSTOR: What we’re learning from early usage, real-world applications, and user feedback

By Kevin Guthrie, President, ITHAKA and Beth LaPensee, Senior Product Manager, ITHAKA

We are actively learning from usage, real-world applications, and user feedback in a limited beta environment to build out capabilities thoughtfully, intentionally, incrementally, and most importantly–based on evidence. This blog post delves into the rationale, construction, and current functionality of JSTOR’s beta generative AI tool, as well as the key themes and insights that have emerged from our analysis of its usage.

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Faculty

Interactive research tool

Students

Thought leadership

Level up your college readiness curriculum with Artstor on JSTOR

Visual literacy is a critical skill for college success. Artstor on JSTOR bridges the gap between traditional text-based research and powerful visual exploration, offering access to 2+ million high-quality images alongside trusted JSTOR resources. Contact us Why Artstor on JSTOR for… Read More

JSTOR’s interactive research tool

JSTOR invites you to explore an interactive research tool in beta. Developed in collaboration with our community, this tool employs AI and other technologies to empower people to deepen and expand their research with JSTOR’s trusted corpus. Sign up for the beta Do you… Read More

How Southwestern University partnered with JSTOR to amplify its special collections

Unknown. Aerial Photograph of Downtown Georgetown Showing Train Tracks. 1930s. https://jstor.org/stable/community.34652668. Broad access is critical to an institution like Southwestern University, which houses one of the largest special collections for a university of its size. Located in The A. Frank Smith, Jr. Library on Southwestern’s Georgetown, Texas campus,… Read More

For librarians and higher education in prison programs

Illustration courtesy of Daniel Longan, April 2022. Equipping learners with information literacy is essential to supporting their success, but with limited access to educational materials or technology, students in prison often cannot build those key skills. The JSTOR Access in Prison initiative offers students on the inside… Read More

For Departments of Corrections

Illustration courtesy of Daniel Longan, April 2022. The JSTOR Access in Prison initiative provides learners at correctional facilities with an online mediated or an offline index option to access JSTOR’s library of scholarly, peer-reviewed journal articles and academic materials. These tools enable students to make the most of… Read More

JSTOR Access in Prison initiative

Providing a college-level research experience for students in jails and prisons. Video illustrations courtesy of Daniel Longan, April 2022. Departments of Corrections Libraries and higher education programs Frequently asked questions… Read More

Harness the power of visual materials for teaching and learning

Artstor is JSTOR’s cross-disciplinary collection of over 2 million* rights-cleared images from around the world, discoverable alongside JSTOR’s journals, books, and other primary sources on one feature-rich platform. By joining images with vital critical and historical background, Artstor on JSTOR expands avenues of research in one convenient workflow, and… Read More

Ebook acquisition models

JSTOR offers flexible acquisition options to suit your collection strategy and budget. We can provide holdings comparisons and recommendations based on your institution’s usage data for journals and Open Access ebooks. Savings discounts are available and are calculated annually based on your institution’s JSTOR Archive Collection participation level, plus… Read More

Books

Books at JSTOR offers more than 158,000+ ebooks from renowned scholarly publishers, integrated with journals and primary sources on JSTOR’s easy-to-use platform. As a not-for-profit with a mission to serve the academic community, JSTOR works closely with librarians, publishers, and scholars to develop this offering. We focus on delivering… Read More