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A glimpse of our world in 500+ Community Collections

This month, we have reached (and have grown past) the 500 Community Collection milestone, with 591 collections from 162 contributors. For over two years, this initiative has allowed JSTOR to partner with universities, museums, and other institutions around the world to expand the reach of their special collections. These rare primary source materials, covering nearly every discipline, content type, and topic, are openly available to the millions of researchers who begin their research on JSTOR.

To celebrate and encapsulate… Read more»

JSTOR at SAA virtual conference

In August, JSTOR will be taking part in the Society of American Archivists (SAA) virtual conference to share recent initiatives and developments, including updates on the Open Community Collections.

We recognize and commend the work of archivists as our partners in uncovering and preserving essential primary source materials for generations of researchers to come, most recently through our Open Community Collections initiative, which makes freely available rare primary source materials from the special holdings of more… Read more»

Introducing JSTOR’s new design system

JSTOR’s platform team has publicly released Pharos, JSTOR’s new design system, as open source. The system serves as a guide for ITHAKA’s product teams to create cohesive, supportive, and beautiful experiences for JSTOR’s users.

Read our detailed account of the team’s journey in creating a design system from the ground up.… Read more»

465,000+ open images from the Metropolitan Museum now on JSTOR

Fon. Elephant figure. 19th c. Image and data from the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

More than 465,000 images from the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York are now freely available on JSTOR. The Museum has made all images of public domain works in its collection available under Creative Commons Zero (CC0), which means that all JSTOR users are free to download, share, and remix them without restriction.

The release is part of the ongoing integration of… Read more»

Add more than 450 Open Community Collections to your research mix

After more than a year collaborating with institutions around the globe, JSTOR’s Open Community Collections initiative now hosts over 450 collections. These contributions are digitized from the special holdings of more than 135 libraries, museums, universities, and other archives, bringing rare primary source items into the research workflow, alongside related essential scholarship.

These freely available collections cover nearly every discipline, documenting the history of universities, territories, companies, and notable figures, while chronicling important events and movements throughout the ages. Other… Read more»

Open Access pilot for Latin American monographs expands

LARRP, CLACSO, JSTOR, and García Cambeiro ebook project now includes over 280 titles

A partnership led by the Latin Americanist Research Resources Project (LARRP) in collaboration with the Latin American Council of Social Sciences (CLACSO), JSTOR, and Latin American bookseller García Cambeiro has expanded a sustainable Open Access pilot (Publish as Open) for monographs developed and supported by the library community. This is the second phase of a project to expand Latin American OA ebooks accessible through Books at JSTOR… Read more»

Reveal Digital: Helping underrepresented voices be heard

Reveal Digital develops Open Access primary source collections, with content curated and sourced from a wide array of libraries, museums, historical societies, and individual collectors, and funds pooled from library partners through a crowd-publishing model. These collections bring together fragmented documentary material from under-represented 20th century voices of dissent. Items showcased below are highlights from recently launched collections.

Launched last year, Reveal Digital’s American Prison Newspapers… Read more»

JSTOR policy to support author name changes

At ITHAKA, JSTOR’s parent organization, belonging is one of our core values. We aspire for everyone who works at and with us to feel valued and included. This commitment extends to the creators of the journal articles, books, research reports, and other works that we preserve and make accessible at JSTOR.

Accordingly, we are offering support to those authors who decide to change their name—for any reason. We know that many of our publishing partners share our commitment to belonging… Read more»

Easy options to manage your library’s access to JSTOR

Managing JSTOR access for your library has never been easier with the Access Methods settings in your admin account. Review or update your access setups on JSTOR today.

We rounded up directions (including screen grabs) on viewing and managing your library’s IP addresses and remote access options:… Read more»

Integrated research on public health with JSTOR

Child receiving vaccine at fixed site facility Zambia. John & Penny Hubley. Credit: Wellcome Collection; wellcomecollection.org CC BY 4.0.

As vaccines continue to dominate our attention–from struggles with misinformation to equity problems–the subject of public health cuts across disciplines, including science, economics, law, education, sociology, psychology, and public policy. JSTOR offers a wide variety of types of content on one platform to make your research on the topic richer and deeper.

This year, Artstor’s 2+ million high-quality images… Read more»

Expanded access to JSTOR extended and Artstor fees reduced

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, in March 2020 we instituted a temporary set of no-fee expanded access programs for participating institutions; as the crisis continued, we extended this access through June 2021. The programs clearly met a need, and millions of people are using this material today. Given our mission to provide access to knowledge and education to as many people as possible, we are challenging ourselves now to find a way to… Read more»

Celebrating School Library Month

Students and a woman reading in the Joseph Krauskopf Memorial Library (built 1924) on the campus of Delaware Valley College (now Delaware Valley University). This item is being shared by Delaware Valley University as part of the Campus Buildings and Grounds, a JSTOR Open Community Collection.

Since 1983, April has been observed as School Library Month, designated by American Association of School Librarians. As the month comes to a close, JSTOR would like to… Read more»

JSTOR awarded 100% score for accessibility statement

ASPIRE, the first verification service for accessibility statements in the publishing industry, has awarded JSTOR a perfect 100% score. JSTOR is now ranked as one of the top resources in ASPIRE’s audit of more than 50 digital platforms.

ASPIRE was launched in 2018 to encourage platforms and publishers to provide clear information about their accessibility features. In their 2021 assessment, they write, “The JSTOR accessibility statement is a fantastic example of the art of creating a user-focused… Read more»

JSTOR ebooks now available in the Rialto™ and OASIS® Marketplaces

Librarians can now acquire titles from JSTOR’s collection of more than 100,000 ebooks from 275+ academic publishers through the Rialto and OASIS marketplaces. JSTOR’s unlimited, digital rights management (DRM)-free access model and integration with journals and primary sources creates an easy and familiar user experience for researchers around the world.

Title-by-title ordering is now available for JSTOR ebooks on Rialto and OASIS, and JSTOR’s tiered savings are available to libraries through both marketplaces. Demand-driven acquisition (DDA) for JSTOR… Read more»

JSTOR at ACRL 2021

JSTOR will be taking part in this year’s virtual ACRL conference, April 13-16. We will be sharing updates with attendees, including:… Read more»

Canadiana joins JSTOR’s Open Community Collections

The Canadian Research Knowledge Network (CRKN), a national consortium serving the 75 universities in Canada, has begun freely sharing more than 10,000 items of a growing collection of digitized documentary heritage in JSTOR’s Open Community Collections.

When completed, the collection on JSTOR will feature historical pre-1900 colonial, provincial, and federal government documents, including pre-Confederation official government publications produced by colonial legislatures, federal government documents published between 1867 and 1900, pre-1900 official guides for prospective immigrants to Canada, as… Read more»

Open Community Collections marks over 100 contributors

JSTOR’s Open Community Collection initiative has surpassed the 350 collection mark and is steadily growing, with more than 100 current contributing partners at libraries, museums, universities, and other institutions around the world.

We’ve gathered highlights of some of the trends we’re seeing emerge from the contributions:

Illuminated manuscripts

Functioning as devotional objects, religious texts, and luxury goods, illuminated manuscripts play a key role in our understanding of religion and the… Read more»

JSTOR creates free companion to the Schomburg Center’s Black Liberation Reading List

JSTOR is providing free access to more than 2,500 articles and book chapters complementing the Schomburg Center’s Black Liberation Reading List through December 31, 2021. The reading list was created by the Center to celebrate 95 years of collecting and preserving Black history, arts, and culture. More than 130 publishers agreed to participate in this project.

Learn more about the JSTOR Companion to the Schomburg Center’s Black Liberation Reading List in the JSTOR Daily announcement by Brian… Read more»

JSTOR partners with APA to provide psychology books online

More than 500 titles available on an array of psychological topics

JSTOR is partnering with the American Psychological Association (APA) to offer academic monographs through JSTOR’s ebook program. More than 500 titles are available now, and APA will continue to add new academic titles as they are published.

“Our partnership with the APA significantly expands JSTOR’s library of psychology resources,” said John Lenahan, Associate Vice President, Published Content at ITHAKA, JSTOR’s parent organization. “Researchers can now discover APA’s ebooks… Read more»

University of Toronto Press adds 4,400 ebooks to JSTOR’s EBA program

The University of Toronto Press, a longtime partner in the Books at JSTOR program, has joined JSTOR’s Evidence-Based Acquisition (EBA) model. It is contributing more than 4,400 backlist ebooks to EBA.

Founded in 1901, University of Toronto Press is one of the largest university presses in North America, with particular strengths in the social sciences, humanities, and business. Its titles record high demand and usage on JSTOR in the disciplines of Language & Literature, History, Political Science, Sociology, and… Read more»

Open Community Collections passes 300 collections mark

This month, JSTOR’s Open Community Collections initiative has surpassed the 300 collections mark, gathering contributions from 89 institutions worldwide.

Recently added collections from University of Lancashire, University of Cambridge, University of California, Riverside, and University of Pennsylvania continue to diversify content available with cartoons by famed New Yorker artist William Steig, maps and atlases from the 15th century to the present, and rare ephemera including archival musical records, community… Read more»

Library Journal names JSTOR Sustainability a “must-have”

This month, Library Journal featured JSTOR’s Sustainability collection as a 2020 must-have database in the Nature and the Environment category, calling it “essential for academic libraries that support multidisciplinary research and learning with a sustainability component.”

The collection features content from more than 30 leading policy institutes worldwide, focusing on sustainability and resilience through a broad lens. It spans over 30 disciplines, with 115 journals and more than 5,400 open research reports.… Read more»

Social sign-on now available for JSTOR

As demands for remote access and teaching continue to grow, JSTOR has expanded its remote access options with Google social sign-on capabilities. This option allows students, faculty, and staff to log in using their institutional email addresses provisioned by Google.

Librarians can now request JSTOR social sign-on authentication for their institution.

If your institution already uses a proxy server or SAML and wants to add the new Google option, please note Google will be the default connection in… Read more»

Expanded access to JSTOR and Artstor extended through June 2021

As the COVID-19 crisis continues to disrupt higher education, ITHAKA is extending the JSTOR and Artstor expanded access program through June 30, 2021 to help institutions in their shift to remote teaching.

Institutions that have opted in don’t need to take any action — they will continue receiving access to unlicensed JSTOR Archive and Primary Source collections and the Artstor Digital Library. Participating institutions that have not yet opted in may still do so; please log in to… Read more»

Celebrating 100,000 ebooks on JSTOR

The Books at JSTOR program has reached a new milestone: 100,000 ebooks. Introduced in 2012, the program now boasts 279 publisher partners and includes titles libraries can license in our unlimited, DRM-free model as well as Open Access titles that are freely available to everyone.

Our 100,000th book is Ableism in Academia: Theorising experiences of disabilities and chronic illnesses in higher education from UCL Press, the UK’s first fully Open Access university press. Editors Nicole Brown… Read more»

Open Community Collections reaches 200th contribution

One year after launching with the South Asia Open Archives (SAOA), JSTOR’S Open Community Collections celebrates a new milestone: 200 collections.

Researchers across the world have taken to the collections; as of the first week of October, users at 4,570 institutions from 192 countries had viewed or downloaded 181,000 items.

The collections feature freely accessible primary source materials contributed by libraries, museums, and archives in a wide variety of subjects. While the number of collections is quickly growing,… Read more»

Free access to digital collections through new Jisc and JSTOR collaboration

Well-known education platform brings together digital content from across UK institutions for researchers, teaching staff and students

Not-for-profit ITHAKA, JSTOR’s parent organization, and the UK education and technology not-for-profit Jisc have agreed to a pioneering initiative that will allow institutions to make their digital special collections freely available to millions of researchers, faculties, and students around the globe.

The partnership gives UK higher education institutions the opportunity to add their digitized content to JSTOR’s Open Community Collections… Read more»

JSTOR’s ebook program adds three new publishers

The Books at JSTOR program has grown to more than 90,000 titles from 279 scholarly publishers.  We’re delighted to announce that three additional leading presses have recently joined the program:… Read more»

JSTOR DDA now available through GOBI

JSTOR’s Demand-Driven Acquisition program is now available through GOBI Library Solutions from EBSCO, helping libraries streamline their ebook acquisition workflows. GOBI’s multi-vendor DDA service prevents content gaps by cascading the DDA option to an available platform based on the library’s preferences. It provides trusted technical services, deduplication, and collection development support.

JSTOR’s ebook program offers 90,000 high-quality titles from scholarly publishers. Our unlimited-user, DRM-free access model and seamless integration with journals and primary sources provides an easy… Read more»

JSTOR offers $4 million fee relief for libraries and guarantees revenue for publishers; holds pricing flat through 2023

Dear colleagues,

As education institutions around the world continue to grapple with the momentous impact of COVID-19, libraries and publishers must cut budgets while continuing to support the needs of students, researchers, and their colleagues. We have talked with many of you about your needs, and we appreciate that JSTOR and Artstor are more important than ever to your communities.

When the pandemic forced institutions to stop residential learning abruptly last spring, we worked with our publishers to execute a… Read more»