Webinars

Orientation for Admins: The new JSTOR Admin site

Tuesday, August 16 | 11:00 – 11:55 AM EDT

JSTOR recently released a new and improved Admin site for account administrators. Join us for a tour of enhanced functionality designed to make your work easier.

This webinar is appropriate for new and existing JSTOR admins. 55 min

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Orientation for Artstor Admins: What you can now accomplish on the new JSTOR Admin site

Friday, August 19 | 1:00 – 1:55 PM EDT

Join us to learn about the new JSTOR Admin site, where you can now find all your admin and stats tools.

This webinar is appropriate for new and existing JSTOR admins. 55 min

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Orientation: The latest content, features, and tools on JSTOR

Friday, August 26 | 1:00 – 1:55 PM EDT

JSTOR has grown to include books, journals, research reports, primary sources, and images from museums and other collections worldwide. Join us to learn about the time-saving features and functionality that make finding, gathering, curating, and sharing all kinds of content on JSTOR easy and efficient.

This webinar is appropriate for faculty and staff. 55 min

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From your shelves to the world: Unlock the power of your special collections

Tune in to learn how Queens College CUNY, Queen’s University Belfast, and University of the Pacific made their primary source materials openly accessible on JSTOR to scholars, students, and faculty worldwide. 1 hr

Finding and using images on JSTOR

JSTOR is now offering millions of images from Artstor and Open Community Collections for teaching and research. Join us to learn all about finding, organizing, and presenting images on JSTOR. We’ll stay online after the session for questions. 40 min

Voices of the Student Advisory Board

System-impacted college students share how access to JSTOR has, encouraged exploration and invited creativity and learning into prison’s highly structured environment.1 hr

View the first session, Introducing HEP communities to JSTOR Access in Prison.

How your collections can reach researchers

In this session, panelists from Moore Theological College, Mannix Library at Divinity University, and Queensland University of Technology will share what they’ve discovered by making their primary source materials openly accessible through JSTOR’s Open Community Collections. 1 hr

Text analysis platform beta

Learn about the progress of Constellate, our new platform to teach and learn text analytics, build datasets from multiple content sources, and visualize and analyze datasets — and find out how your library can participate in a free beta evaluation. 1 hr

JSTOR for Admins

Support faculty and students with our checklist to simplify remote access and tips to find what you need–including images alongside journals and books–on the evolving JSTOR platform. 45 min

Remote teaching and learning with JSTOR

Get ready for next term! We’ll show you how to help users find exactly what they need, cover our current expanded access offerings during COVID-19, and share a success guide checklist for developing, teaching, or supporting a course! 45 min

JSTOR Beyond Journals

Introduction to JSTOR primary source collections, covering how these rich research materials can enhance your teaching and research. Check out the JSTOR Beyond Journals resource for a recap of what’s covered. 45 min

Hosting your special collections on JSTOR

Want to increase the awareness of your digital special collections and archives? During this quick demo we’ll cover how more than 200 contributors have made their collections freely available for researchers on the JSTOR platform. 15 min

American Prison Newspapers

The first of three webinars on Reveal Digital’s new project, American Prison Newspapers 1800-2019: Voices from the Inside, features James McGrath Morris, author of Jailhouse Journalism. 1 hr

American Prison Newspapers

The second of Reveal Digital’s American Prison Newspapers 1800-2019: Voices from the Inside webinar series features Kerry Myers, Deputy Director of the Louisiana Parole Project and ex-editor of The Angolite. 1 hr

American Prison Newspapers

The third of Reveal Digital’s American Prison Newspapers 1800-2019: Voices from the Inside series features Yukari Iwatani Kane and Shaheen Pasha, co-founders and co-directors of the Prison Journalism Project. 1 hr

Introduction to JSTOR’s EBA Model

Our Evidence-Based Acquisition (EBA) model is on the Joint Consortia Framework (Lot 4.3) and we are making a special offer to libraries serving UK Higher Education to mark the event. Learn more about the programme, the 98 participating publishers, and the experiences of participating UK libraries. There will also be plenty of time for questions. 30 min

JSTOR DDA at the Royal Danish Library

Michael Ferslev joined us to discuss ebook acquisitions strategy at the Royal Danish Library, including how JSTOR’s Demand-Driven Acquisition model helps meet user information needs and optimize usage of library budgets. 40 min

Benefits of DDA with JSTOR + GOBI

We explore how input from our participants led to our partnership with GOBI on Demand-Driven Acquisition, as well as its benefits for libraries. Maggie Saponaro and Leigh Ann DePope from the University of Maryland, College Park share their experiences and recommendations. 1 hr

Expose JSTOR content

Join us to discuss configuration options in EBSCO Discovery Service to ensure that your JSTOR content is discoverable and your settings showcase your preferences for full-text link display. 30 min

Creative ebook acquisition strategies during COVID-19

Stephanie Church, Acquisitions and Metadata Services Librarian at Case Western Reserve University, discusses her library’s e-resource usage trends and her strategies to control costs. We share the results of JSTOR’s COVID access initiative and our continuing support efforts. 1 hr

Flip the deficit script!

What if we made students’ life-research experiences the focus of curriculum design for information literacy? Four authors share their findings and discuss the connections between students’ real-world information-seeking experiences and academic research. 1 hr

Artstor User Group

Join us for a virtual update on our work bringing the Artstor experience to JSTOR. In this session we will provide an overview of our strategy and plans for the future, including a roadmap update. There will be time for discussion at the session. 1 hr

Charter Members meeting

Learn about the impact of publishing to JSTOR. We’ll cover repository harvesting enhancements, platform investments to enhance discovery and usage of collections, and future service options. There will also be time for an open discussion and Q&A. 90 min

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JSTOR Forum User Group

Join us and guest speaker Neel Agrawal, South Asia Digital Librarian at Center for Research Libraries, for an update on enhancements made to JSTOR Forum, the experience of publishing collections to JSTOR,  and the impact of these collections. 45 min

Artstor on JSTOR

Give us 15 minutes and we’ll share all the latest updates plus the answers to your colleagues’ burning questions. 15 min