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Since 2013, Michigan State University Libraries has been a remarkable partner for Reveal Digital, one of the first libraries to provide seed money for what was then a new, experimental publishing model for Open Access primary source collections. The Murray & Hong Special Collections Library provided thousands of pages of content from their renowned American…
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The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded ITHAKA a new $1.5 million grant to provide incarcerated college students with access to JSTOR, a digital library of journals, books, and other materials. Our aim is for every incarcerated college student in the United States to have access to JSTOR, along with the research skills to use…
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In our research, we learned that faculty often manually create handouts with content links to upload to their LMS. As part of our efforts to improve teaching with texts and images, we have made it easy to export the content on your JSTOR Workspace or in one of its folders as PDFs. On your Workspace…
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Our JSTOR Labs team recently announced the launch of Juncture, a free, open source tool to support the creation of visual essays using technologies that are broadly accessible. The tool was developed in connection with the Plant Humanities Lab, a resource created by JSTOR Labs and Dumbarton Oaks. As an authoring tool, Juncture makes it…
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Join us for a webinar discussing configuration options in EBSCO Discovery Service to ensure that your JSTOR content is discoverable and your settings showcase your preferences for full-text link display. Using EBSCOadmin, you will learn about the powerful tools available for library administrators to customize the experience and provide users with the best full-text link…
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This month we have reached (and have grown past) the 500 Community Collection milestone, with 591 collections from 162 contributors. Through this initiative, JSTOR has partnered with universities, museums, and other institutions around the world to expand the reach of their special collections. These rare primary source materials cover nearly every discipline, content type, and…
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In August, JSTOR will be taking part in the Society of American Archivists (SAA) virtual conference to share recent initiatives and developments, including updates on the Open Community Collections. We recognize and commend the work of archivists as our partners in uncovering and preserving essential primary source materials for generations of researchers to come, most…
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LARRP, CLACSO, JSTOR, and García Cambeiro ebook project now includes over 280 titles A partnership led by the Latin Americanist Research Resources Project (LARRP) in collaboration with the Latin American Council of Social Sciences (CLACSO), JSTOR, and Latin American bookseller García Cambeiro has expanded a sustainable Open Access pilot (Publish as Open) for monographs developed…
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At ITHAKA, JSTOR’s parent organization, belonging is one of our core values. We aspire for everyone who works at and with us to feel valued and included. This commitment extends to the creators of the journal articles, books, research reports, and other works that we preserve and make accessible at JSTOR. Accordingly, we are offering…
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Managing JSTOR access for your library has never been easier with the Access Methods settings in your admin account. Review or update your access setups on JSTOR today. We rounded up directions (including screen grabs) on viewing and managing your library’s IP addresses and remote access options: IP Addresses Verify that we have the correct…
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In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, in March 2020 we instituted a temporary set of no-fee expanded access programs for participating institutions; as the crisis continued, we extended this access through June 2021. The programs clearly met a need, and millions of people are using this material today. Given our mission to provide access to…
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Since 1983, April has been observed as School Library Month, designated by American Association of School Librarians. As the month comes to a close, JSTOR would like to recognize our partners at libraries, in the United States and abroad, for the work they do to support patrons in many integral roles. We celebrate your dedication…
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Librarians can now acquire titles from JSTOR’s collection of more than 100,000 ebooks from 275+ academic publishers through the Rialto and OASIS marketplaces. JSTOR’s unlimited, digital rights management (DRM)-free access model and integration with journals and primary sources creates an easy and familiar user experience for researchers around the world. Title-by-title ordering is now available…
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JSTOR will be taking part in this year’s virtual ACRL conference, April 13-16. We will be sharing updates with attendees, including: A deeper research experience in JSTOR: Find out how our rapidly growing collections of images, primary sources, and reports from around the world — many of them openly available — are strengthening the depth…
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The Canadian Research Knowledge Network (CRKN), a national consortium serving the 75 universities in Canada, has begun freely sharing more than 10,000 items of a growing collection of digitized documentary heritage in JSTOR’s Open Community Collections. When completed, the collection on JSTOR will feature historical pre-1900 colonial, provincial, and federal government documents, including pre-Confederation official…
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JSTOR’s Open Community Collection initiative has surpassed the 350 collection mark and is steadily growing, with more than 100 current contributing partners at libraries, museums, universities, and other institutions around the world. We’ve gathered highlights of some of the trends we’re seeing emerge from the contributions: Illuminated manuscripts Functioning as devotional objects, religious texts, and…
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JSTOR is providing free access to more than 2,500 articles and book chapters complementing the Schomburg Center’s Black Liberation Reading List through December 31, 2021. The reading list was created by the Center to celebrate 95 years of collecting and preserving Black history, arts, and culture. More than 130 publishers agreed to participate in this…
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More than 500 titles available on an array of psychological topics JSTOR is partnering with the American Psychological Association (APA) to offer academic monographs through JSTOR’s ebook program. More than 500 titles are available now, and APA will continue to add new academic titles as they are published. “Our partnership with the APA significantly expands…
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The University of Toronto Press, a longtime partner in the Books at JSTOR program, has joined JSTOR’s Evidence-Based Acquisition (EBA) model. It is contributing more than 4,400 backlist ebooks to EBA. Founded in 1901, University of Toronto Press is one of the largest university presses in North America, with particular strengths in the social sciences,…
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This month, JSTOR’s Open Community Collections initiative has surpassed the 300 collections mark, gathering contributions from 89 institutions worldwide. Recently added collections from University of Lancashire, University of Cambridge, University of California, Riverside, and University of Pennsylvania continue to diversify content available with cartoons by famed New Yorker artist William Steig, maps and…
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As demands for remote access and teaching continue to grow, JSTOR has expanded its remote access options with Google social sign-on capabilities. This option allows students, faculty, and staff to log in using their institutional email addresses provisioned by Google. Librarians can now request JSTOR social sign-on authentication for their institution. If your institution already…
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As the COVID-19 crisis continues to disrupt higher education, ITHAKA is extending the JSTOR and Artstor expanded access program through June 30, 2021 to help institutions in their shift to remote teaching. Institutions that have opted in don’t need to take any action — they will continue receiving access to unlicensed JSTOR Archive and Primary…
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The Books at JSTOR program has reached a new milestone: 100,000 ebooks. Introduced in 2012, the program now boasts 279 publisher partners and includes titles libraries can license in our unlimited, DRM-free model as well as Open Access titles that are freely available to everyone. Our 100,000th book is Ableism in Academia: Theorising experiences of…
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One year after launching with the South Asia Open Archives (SAOA), JSTOR’S Open Community Collections celebrates a new milestone: 200 collections. Researchers across the world have taken to the collections; as of the first week of October, users at 4,570 institutions from 192 countries had viewed or downloaded 181,000 items. The collections feature freely accessible…
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The Books at JSTOR program has grown to more than 90,000 titles from 279 scholarly publishers. We’re delighted to announce that three additional leading presses have recently joined the program: Vanderbilt University Press: Established in 1940, Vanderbilt University Press publishes across most areas of the humanities and social sciences, with strengths in anthropology, Latin American…
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JSTOR’s Demand-Driven Acquisition program is now available through GOBI Library Solutions from EBSCO, helping libraries streamline their ebook acquisition workflows. GOBI’s multi-vendor DDA service prevents content gaps by cascading the DDA option to an available platform based on the library’s preferences. It provides trusted technical services, deduplication, and collection development support. JSTOR’s ebook program offers…
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Dear colleagues, As education institutions around the world continue to grapple with the momentous impact of COVID-19, libraries and publishers must cut budgets while continuing to support the needs of students, researchers, and their colleagues. We have talked with many of you about your needs, and we appreciate that JSTOR and Artstor are more important…
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New offering provides libraries more choice to acquire and manage DDA programs via preferred workflow solution GOBI® Library Solutions from EBSCO is providing choice for libraries by extending its Demand Driven Acquisition (DDA) services to include Books at JSTOR. This arrangement offers libraries more options to acquire and manage their DDA program via their preferred…
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After seeing high usage and a positive response from end users, libraries, and the publishing community, JSTOR’s temporary free access to a set of 38,000 ebooks in response to the COVID-19 crisis is being extended past its original end date of June 30. Forty-eight publishers have generously agreed to continue offering free access to more…
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Dear colleagues, On March 18th, working in collaboration with JSTOR’s publishing partners, we announced a set of expanded access offerings to support libraries, faculty, and students making the emergency shift to remote instruction and research. In the nine weeks since launching the program, there have been more than 10 million accesses to that content. We…
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