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How Wyoming Community Colleges secured JSTOR for its seven campuses

Thomas Moran. Green River Cliffs, Wyoming. 1881. The National Gallery of Art (Washington, DC). In March of 2023, Meghan Kelly experienced a new sense of freedom. Permanent access to all archival journals and primary sources licensed materials on JSTOR was granted to faculty and students across seven Wyoming… Read More

AI and advanced technologies

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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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. Why Artstor on JSTOR for your school? Diverse and interdisciplinary: Explore a… 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. Do you have questions, comments, or concerns? We want to hear from… 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

Maximize the impact of your ebook collection with flexible acquisition models Books are essential for exploring the humanities, social sciences, and the arts. Yet many libraries face growing challenges with maintaining their collections, including limited physical space, tight budgets, and increasing demands around digital discovery, access, and preservation. This is… 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