News Tag: JSTOR

JSTOR scales access to interactive research tool in beta, empowering researchers and educators with AI

500 higher education institutions offered early access to JSTOR’s AI-powered tool in beta, designed to deepen research and enhance teaching in the humanities, arts, and social sciences.

JSTOR, a nonprofit service of ITHAKA, announced today that it is expanding the beta program for its interactive research tool by offering 500 colleges and universities the opportunity to provide early access for their faculty and students. Higher education institutions that sign up will give their communities a chance to

Latin American Open Access ebook pilot expands impact with 100 titles from Prometeo Editorial

JSTOR, the Latin Americanist Research Resources Project (LARRP), and Libreria Garcia Cambeiro have released 100 Open Access titles from the highly respected Argentine publisher, Prometeo Editorial. Now globally accessible on JSTOR, these books span the humanities and social sciences with an emphasis on Argentina and Latin America, filling an important gap in openly accessible scholarship. 

The availability of this scholarship is the result of an innovative multi-year collaboration wherein Libreria Garcia… Read more»

JSTOR announces “Artstor on JSTOR”

The JSTOR platform is now the official home for the complete Artstor Digital Library, an unmatched collection of rights-cleared images and media for use in teaching and research. Comprised of over 2 million images, videos, panoramas, and audio files contributed by museums, galleries, and other cultural organizations around the world, the collection is now known as “Artstor on JSTOR,” signaling the collection’s deep integration with the more than 2,800 journals, 100,000 books, 50,000 research reports, and robust primary… Read more»

Path to Open books are now freely available to Historically Black Colleges and Universities and Tribal Colleges and Universities

America’s Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and Tribal Colleges and Universities (TCUs) are now able to provide their more than 300,000 students and faculty with immediate access to the diverse, groundbreaking university press books being published on JSTOR as part of Path to Open.

Developed in partnership with the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), University of Michigan Press, and University of North Carolina (UNC) Press, Path to Open is a multi-year pilot program designed to… Read more»

JSTOR partners with Schweitzer to support library ebook sales in Germany

JSTOR is now partnering with Schweitzer Fachinformationen, a leading library service provider, to sell ebooks to academic and public libraries in Germany. Schweitzer serves more than 200 libraries throughout the country. Through this new arrangement, these libraries will be able to easily acquire affordable, high-quality DRM-free ebooks available on the JSTOR platform from premier scholarly presses as part of their existing library workflows.

Starting on June 1, 2024, libraries can select and order individual titles from… Read more»