Digital stewardship
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The University of Wyoming joins JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services as a Tier 2 participant, migrating key collections from DSpace to JSTOR for integrated management, Portico preservation, and expanded discovery.
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Goldey-Beacom College used JSTOR Seeklight to scale archival metadata creation with AI and human oversight—unlocking hidden collections while building student AI literacy.
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The Disciples of Christ Historical Society will adopt JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services as a unified home for its digital collections and join the Tier 3 charter community.
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Preserving distinctive collections is essential—but preservation alone doesn’t guarantee impact. In today’s digital research environment, discovery determines whether primary sources are found, used, and meaningfully integrated into scholarship and teaching. This post explores why platform choice now plays a central role in turning stewardship into impact.
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Webinar time is based in EST. Training for Stewardship participants (Tiers 2-3): use Collection Builder, organize related content, and use lists. One of three sessions in a monthly Stewardship training series.
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North Shore Community College has joined the JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services charter community as a Tier 3 participant, becoming the first community college to help shape JSTOR Seeklight and future stewardship practices.
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The American Library in Paris has joined JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services as a Tier 2 participant, using JSTOR’s integrated platform to manage, preserve, and share its institutional archives, beginning with historic photographs from its early history.
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Northwestern University has joined the Tier 3 charter program of JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services, becoming part of a cohort of institutions working together to advance responsible, sustainable approaches to digital collections stewardship.
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Creighton University has joined the JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services charter community as a Tier 3 participant, gaining access to JSTOR Seeklight and contributing to the development of responsible, scalable tools for digital collections stewardship.
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The JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services community continues to grow, bringing together libraries, archives, and cultural heritage organizations committed to responsible, mission-aligned digital collections. This month’s update highlights new community members, recently shared collections, and conversations shaping the future of scalable digital stewardship.
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The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) will join JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services as a Tier 3 charter program participant, expanding its partnership with JSTOR and helping shape the future of responsible, scalable digital collections stewardship.
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Webinar time is based in EST. Training for Stewardship participants (Tiers 2-3): catalog records, manage media, use linked fields, and organize work. One of three sessions in a monthly Stewardship training series.
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Webinar time is based in EST. Training for Stewardship participants (Tiers 2-3): create/edit projects, map publishing targets, manage users, and access preservation. One of three sessions in a monthly Stewardship training series.
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Training for Stewardship participants (Tiers 2-3): use Collection Builder, organize related content, and use lists. One of three sessions in a monthly Stewardship training series.
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DePauw University has joined JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services as a Tier 2 participant, adopting an integrated platform to manage, preserve, and expand access to its digital collections.
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The Evergreen State College is now part of JSTOR’s Digital Stewardship Services charter program, where they will help improve AI-assisted tools like JSTOR Seeklight and speed up the processing of their digital archival collections.
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The JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services community continues to grow as libraries, archives, and cultural heritage organizations collaborate to strengthen responsible digital collections practices. This month’s update highlights new participants, featured open collections, and insights from the wider community—offering inspiration for teams looking to scale or refine their digital stewardship programs.
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North Carolina State University has joined JSTOR’s Digital Stewardship Services charter program, partnering to advance AI-assisted tools like JSTOR Seeklight and accelerate the processing and discovery of unique digital archival collections.
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Access ready-to-use messaging, social media assets, and training resources to help your institution promote its participation in JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services and engage your campus community.
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JSTOR welcomes RMIT University as the first Australian institution to join the Tier 3 charter program of JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services. RMIT will pilot JSTOR Seeklight to explore AI-supported workflows, beginning with an architecture slide collection of more than 2,000 images.
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At this year’s Charleston Conference, JSTOR hosted two lunch events. Highlights included updates on Path to Open, Publisher Collections, and JSTOR Seeklight’s growing role in AI-assisted metadata generation.
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In this webinar, Rachel Walton (Rollins College) and Olivia Inglin (University of Puget Sound) share their transitions from legacy systems to JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services
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In this webinar, Zachary Johnson (Vanderbilt University) and Michael Fitzgerald (University of the District of Columbia) share how they transitioned from in-house systems to JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services, offering insights into infrastructure, decision-making, and team impact.
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In this webinar, Emilie Hardman shares how values-aligned AI, including JSTOR Seeklight, can support reparative description at scale.
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You will learn how to create, add to, and edit a JSTOR collection, as well as understand your collection usage dashboard. This webinar is appropriate for Stewardship Tier 1 users who are using the collection loader tool to create and edit JSTOR collections.
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Over 30 institutions worldwide have joined the JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services Tier 3 charter program, forming a values-led community shaping the future of AI-assisted collections processing through collaboration, innovation, and shared expertise.
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Roger Schonfeld introduces the concept of a collections processing tool—a new, community-driven system that reimagines how special collections are described and discovered. With JSTOR Seeklight, this approach uses digitization and intelligent recognition to make archives more accessible and impactful.
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Discover how archivists and librarians are balancing care, ethics, and capacity in an evolving field shaped by digital transformation and shifting resources.
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Vanderbilt University and the University of the District of Columbia moved from self-hosted systems to JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services, transforming digital stewardship from a technical challenge into a scalable, mission-driven practice.
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Discover JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services, a cloud-based platform with three flexible tiers to manage, preserve, and share digital collections. Choose the level that fits your institution’s needs and enhance discovery and long-term access.
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