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Resources and tools to enhance teaching and learning

As educators, you’re navigating a challenging landscape: balancing increasing workloads, sparking and sustaining student engagement, developing innovative curricula, and adapting to the rapid pace of change in educational technology—all with limited resources. You’re also championing the humanities and social sciences, highlighting both their economic and humanistic value in a society… Read More

Teaching and learning resource library

Find lesson plans, classroom activities, and assignments. Enhance the impact of your teaching with topical reading lists and syllabi, as well as information about features and tools to support your course preparation. On this page Resources by instructional need Platform features designed for teachers Open… Read More

Preservation

September 5, 2024

Preservation is paramount: What news websites can do to ensure their legacy when the lights go out

By Kate Wittenberg, Managing Director, Portico

The recent removal of news archives like MTV News raises concerns about preserving valuable digital content. Media companies must plan for digital preservation to ensure access to historically significant materials. Portico outlines key steps, including secure storage, regular backups, and engaging experts to safeguard content. A new Portico pilot project is exploring long-term preservation of local news content. Collaboration is essential to protecting the cultural and social history that journalism provides.

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AI and advanced technologies

Digital collection stewardship

Text analysis

July 25, 2024

What’s new at JSTOR: Enhancing access and engagement with innovative technologies

By Victoria Spitz, Senior Digital Marketing Manager, ITHAKA

At JSTOR, our mission is to improve access to knowledge and education for people around the world. We're excited to share several new initiatives leveraging cutting-edge technology to make scholarly materials more accessible, interactive, and engaging for our users. Here's a detailed look at the latest advancements we recently shared at ALA 2024 in San Diego.

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Constellate

Hypothesis

JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services

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 AI research tool

Get to know our AI research tool, part of a growing suite of AI-enabled features on JSTOR designed to enhance—not replace—the research process. Developed in collaboration with our community and offered free to JSTOR-participating institutions, the tool helps users engage more deeply with JSTOR’s trusted corpus. Have questions, comments,… 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