Digital stewardship
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At Guilford College, one archivist is achieving what many teams can’t. Using JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services, Gwen Erickson has transformed a complex archive—spanning Quaker history, fine art, and student research—into a living, digital resource. The platform empowers students as curators, preserves fragile materials, and ensures that Guilford’s collections are discoverable worldwide, all without a tech…
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At Drew University, digitization isn’t just preservation, it’s participation. Using JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services, Drew’s Special Collections team transformed rare materials, from Mary Shelley manuscripts to Byron memorabilia, into accessible digital archives. The initiative not only safeguards scholarship but also brings students into the process, teaching digital curation, metadata creation, and archival storytelling.
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At Johns Hopkins University, JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services provides the flexible framework needed to manage and showcase a wide range of collections—from ancient papyri to modern archives—enhancing visibility, collaboration, and global access to rare materials.
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Learn how Middlebury College is extending the global reach of its archives through JSTOR, connecting researchers and historians to rare materials from Civil War letters to Vermont postcards.
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Discover how Skidmore College’s Lucy Scribner Library is using JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services to expand access, streamline preservation, and ensure the long-term impact of its special collections, making rare materials discoverable to scholars around the world.
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Discover how Rollins College and the University of Puget Sound modernized digital stewardship with JSTOR, replacing fragmented legacy systems with a unified, mission-driven platform that streamlines workflows, enhances teaching, and reenergizes engagement across campus.
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User research revealed differing bulk editing needs and guided a refined JSTOR Stewardship design that offers clearer context, stronger usability, and support for diverse workflows.
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Explore JSTOR’s resources, tools, and services for librarians. Strengthen collections, support faculty and students, and steward your institution’s distinctive materials with confidence.
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SCELC and JSTOR partner to empower 100+ libraries with digital stewardship services—preserving diverse histories, expanding access, and building a sustainable future for shared cultural collections.
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Accelerate impact with JSTOR Seeklight—purpose-built AI that helps archivists and librarians process, describe, and publish collections responsibly, keeping human expertise at the center.
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Streamline digital collection migration or harvesting with expert-led support from JSTOR, reducing technical complexity so your team can focus on discovery, access, and long-term impact.
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Explore JSTOR’s full suite of products and services—from mission-driven digital stewardship and an innovative research platform to flexible content solutions—that support scholarship, teaching, and discovery.
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Maximize the impact of your digital collections with JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services, a unified, cloud-based platform to process, manage, preserve, and share materials for global discovery.
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JSTOR is a nonprofit digital library advancing global access to knowledge through trusted research, teaching resources, and digital stewardship services.
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JSTOR Seeklight now generates transcripts for handwritten, typed, and mixed-media materials—enhancing accessibility, discoverability, and research impact for digital collections.
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JSTOR Seeklight now generates transcripts for typed and handwritten items, making every word searchable and accessible while keeping editors in control. Available now for Tier 3 participants.
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This summer, charter participants in JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services shared their early enthusiasm for JSTOR Seeklight, our AI-powered tool for accelerating collection processing. We share their feedback, ideas, and a glimpse of what’s ahead.
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JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services managing director Roger Schonfeld sat down with Library Journal executive editor, Lisa Peet to talk technology, innovation, and what’s next for […]
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JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services does more than store your collections. Explore content management that drives discovery, use, and impact.
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Bias is inherent to description, but description can and should be revised over time. We’re evolving JSTOR Seeklight’s safeguards against bias and harmful content to reflect our values, our engineering ethos, and our commitment to transparency.
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Southwestern University brought its rich special collections to a global audience by partnering with JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services. Learn how streamlined tools, analytics, and open access helped the library expand visibility, engage new users, and strengthen its case for funding.
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This year’s American Library Association (ALA) Conference in Philadelphia offered an opportunity to share how JSTOR is addressing two interconnected needs: helping researchers navigate trusted content more intuitively, and helping libraries manage, preserve, and activate distinctive collections at scale.
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A look into Ithaka S+R’s collaborative research on digital exhibits—how libraries and archives use them to connect communities, the challenges they face, and opportunities for future innovation.
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How JSTOR Seeklight brings together archival expertise, AI, and community insight—reflections on winning the Coker Award and building values-driven tools.
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Senior Product Manager Ann Connolly shares how JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services addresses key collection management issues with a unique integration approach.
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Senior Product Manager Syed Amaanullah shares how JSTOR Seeklight blends technology and human expertise to deliver a purpose-built AI application for archives.
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Preserving digital collections is essential to safeguarding cultural memory. Discover how JSTOR’s Digital Stewardship Services help libraries and archives maintain accessible, durable, and meaningful collections for generations to come.
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We’ve gathered some of the most reliable grants that prioritize digitization, collection development, preservation, access, open educational resources (OER), and new technologies.
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At ACRL 2025, JSTOR marked its 30th anniversary while unveiling JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services—built to support libraries in managing and preserving digital collections using AI-assisted metadata creation and community-driven collaboration.
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In 1995, JSTOR launched with a mission that felt radical at the time: digitize scholarly journals and make them accessible online to researchers and educators everywhere.
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