Digital stewardship
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Middle Tennessee State University evaluated seven digital collections platforms before selecting JSTOR Stewardship to replace CONTENTdm. Learn how staff from Walker Library and the Albert Gore Research Center aligned their needs, planned the migration of roughly 30 collections and more than 10,000 items, and are preparing to make distinctive materials easier for researchers to discover.
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In The Scholarly Kitchen, Roger Schonfeld argues that libraries are entering a second digital transformation for distinctive collections, calling on library leaders to build an “activation infrastructure” that connects processing, digitization, and discovery to maximize their collections’ impact.
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Join Roger Schonfeld (JSTOR Stewardship), Jamie Markus (University of Wyoming Libraries), and colleagues from JSTOR to explore how institutions can connect digitization, processing, preservation, and discovery to activate distinctive collections.
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Meet the newest JSTOR Stewardship charter participants, explore distinctive collections now available on JSTOR, and discover recent conversations shaping the future of digital stewardship.
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NKU joins the JSTOR Stewardship charter community to expand access to distinctive collections, build sustainable digital workflows, and connect materials with students, researchers, and regional communities.
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Digital collections stewardship depends on more than technology. Lee Dotson examines how SCELC, its member institutions, and JSTOR Stewardship are sharing expertise, support, and infrastructure to make distinctive collections more discoverable, accessible, and sustainable.
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Yeshiva University moves to JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services for digital asset management, preservation, and access

Yeshiva University is migrating its digital collections from Islandora to JSTOR’s unified platform for digital asset management, preservation, and discovery.
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University of Tennessee at Martin moves to JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services, joins charter program

The University of Tennessee at Martin is adopting JSTOR Stewardship to strengthen preservation, discovery, and AI-assisted collections processing while joining a collaborative charter community. 27 words
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CCU joins JSTOR Stewardship’s charter program to build durable digital collections infrastructure, expand access, and explore AI-assisted processing with JSTOR Seeklight.
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Boston Architectural College joins JSTOR Stewardship’s Tier 3 charter program, adding JSTOR Seeklight and helping shape responsible, AI-assisted approaches to stewardship.
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New research reveals how distinctive collections shared on JSTOR are being discovered and used across research, teaching, and learning.
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Training for Stewardship participants (Tiers 2-3): create/edit projects, map publishing targets, manage users, access preservation, and create new projects from existing content. One of three sessions in a monthly Stewardship training series.
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SUNY Morrisville joins the JSTOR Stewardship charter program to expand access to distinctive collections, advance digitization, and explore AI-assisted collections processing with JSTOR Seeklight.
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See what’s new across the JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services community, including new participants, distinctive collections, AI-assisted description, accessibility work, and lessons from institutions expanding access to their digital materials.
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New alt text capabilities in JSTOR Stewardship help libraries and archives create, manage, and publish accessible image descriptions, with JSTOR Seeklight supporting draft generation at scale.
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New alt text tools in JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services help institutions make image collections more accessible while keeping expert review and judgment at the center.
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Training for Stewardship participants (Tiers 2-3): learn how to build and manage complex relationships with your assets. One of three sessions in a monthly Stewardship training series.
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Library Journal highlights JSTOR Stewardship’s new funding initiative for libraries and archives, supporting digitization, AI-assisted processing with JSTOR Seeklight, and broader public access to distinctive collections.
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Trinity College is deepening its work with JSTOR Stewardship by joining the charter program, gaining access to JSTOR Seeklight and scaling collections processing with expert oversight.
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This month’s JSTOR Stewardship update welcomes new participating institutions, highlights newly available collections on JSTOR, and shares recent work from the digital stewardship community. Featured stories include AI-assisted collections processing, expanded access to distinctive materials, and community-led efforts to make digital collections more discoverable.
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JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services secures funding to help institutions expand public access to distinctive collections

With support from the Mellon Foundation, JSTOR Stewardship is launching a new initiative to help participants digitize collections and expand public access.
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Catalyzing a more public future for distinctive collections: A new initiative within JSTOR Stewardship

New support from the Mellon Foundation will help expand JSTOR Stewardship, giving more libraries and archives the tools to digitize, process, preserve, and share distinctive collections through JSTOR so original sources can reach broader audiences.
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The University of North Dakota joins JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services to advance access to collections

The University of North Dakota joins JSTOR Stewardship, expanding discovery and access to its distinctive digital collections through JSTOR.
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Eastern Michigan University expands partnership with JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services by joining Tier 3 charter program

Eastern Michigan University joins JSTOR Stewardship’s Tier 3 charter program, building on its role as an early JSTOR Seeklight beta partner to advance responsible, AI-assisted stewardship.
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More than 50 institutions now participate in JSTOR Stewardship’s charter program, collaborating to advance responsible, AI-assisted digital collections stewardship.
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Brandeis University becomes 50th institution to join JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services charter program

Brandeis University joins JSTOR Stewardship’s Tier 3 charter program as the community’s 50th institution, helping shape responsible, AI-assisted stewardship through JSTOR Seeklight and peer collaboration.
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The JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services community continues to grow, welcoming new institutions, highlighting innovative uses of AI-assisted collections processing, and showcasing unique open access collections now available on JSTOR.
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Ferris State University joins JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services to manage, preserve, and share digital collections

Ferris State University joins JSTOR Stewardship as a Tier 2 participant, migrating from Islandora to support digital collections management, preservation, and expanded discovery on JSTOR.
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Colgate University builds on JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services partnership by joining charter program

Colgate joins JSTOR Stewardship’s Tier 3 charter program, migrating from Islandora to an integrated platform for preservation, discovery, and AI-assisted collections processing with JSTOR Seeklight.
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The University of the South (Sewanee) joins JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services Tier 3 charter program

Sewanee joins JSTOR Stewardship’s Tier 3 charter program, adopting JSTOR Seeklight and migrating digital collections from DSpace to an integrated platform for preservation, management, and discovery.
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