Digital stewardship
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In a Mellon Foundation essay for its First Movers series, Colleen J. Ross traces digital preservation from JSTOR’s early work digitizing academic journals to public library memory labs that help people preserve personal media and local history.
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The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston joins JSTOR Stewardship’s Tier 3 charter program to strengthen digital collections management, preservation, and discovery through an integrated platform.
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The University of Wyoming expands its JSTOR Stewardship partnership by joining the Tier 3 charter program, adopting JSTOR Seeklight to accelerate collections processing and expand access.
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Libraries and archives need to make digital collections accessible today while keeping them usable for future generations. Learn how JSTOR Stewardship brings Portico’s preservation infrastructure into a shared environment for managing and sharing collections, and how JSTOR is learning from the special collections community.
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Deakin University becomes the ninth Australian institution to join JSTOR Stewardship, strengthening digital collections management, preservation, and discovery while expanding access to distinctive cultural materials.
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Northern State University joins JSTOR Stewardship’s Tier 3 charter program, migrating collections from CONTENTdm to strengthen preservation, discovery, and AI-assisted processing with JSTOR Seeklight.
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Rowan University adopts JSTOR Stewardship to strengthen digital collections management, preservation, and discovery while joining a charter community shaping responsible, AI-assisted collections processing.
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A hands-on workshop for Tier 3 Stewardship admins: Enable and configure JSTOR Seeklight with the new Seeklight Field Management settings.
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A hands-on workshop for Tier 3 Stewardship admins: Enable and configure JSTOR Seeklight with the new Seeklight Field Management settings.
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Explore the latest from JSTOR Stewardship in October 2026, including new participating institutions, distinctive collections now discoverable on JSTOR, and community perspectives on digital preservation, collaboration, and the future of collections stewardship.
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Join us for a conversation with Kathleen Schmand (Dean, Walker Library) about Middle Tennessee State University’s move from CONTENTdm to JSTOR Stewardship. Hear how MTSU evaluated its options, worked with JSTOR’s migration team to prepare and move its collections, and what the transition has made possible.
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Libraries’ and archives’ collections shared through JSTOR Stewardship can become evidence for research, teaching, and public understanding.
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JSTOR rebuilt the infrastructure behind its Digital Stewardship Services while hundreds of institutions continued their work. Learn how this modernization supports accessibility, reliable maintenance, and more flexible ways to organize and connect digital collections.
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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 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.
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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 Tier 3 participants: Publishing Seeklight collections to JSTOR, preserving with Portico. Part of a quarterly Seeklight training series.
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