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Digital Stewardship Services

Enabled by the AI-powered technology of JSTOR Seeklight, Digital Stewardship Services is a seamless, cloud-hosted platform that helps you process, manage, preserve, and share collections–expanding access worldwide.

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Research and teaching platform

We advance discovery and teaching in the Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences by using technology to connect researchers and educators with trusted primary and secondary source content.

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Content solutions

We offer numerous ways for institutions to provide scholarly materials, with content and plans aligned to needs and budgets. Materials will be featured in archival journals and primary sources, Books at JSTOR, Path to Open, Artstor, research reports, and more.

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Open and free

Our partnerships with libraries and publishers help us make more content accessible and discoverable. From Open Access journals and ebooks to images, media, research reports, library-supported collections like Reveal Digital, and JSTOR Daily.

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Built with and for our community

Over 30+ years, JSTOR has brought together 14,000+ institutions, 1,850+ publishers, and millions of users to create solutions that reduce costs, extend access, and preserve scholarship.

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Librarians
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Provide trusted access to more content, and get measurable results

Accelerate and scale your work

Digital Stewardship Services helps special collections librarians process, preserve, manage, and share unique collections.

JSTOR has a great, reliable reputation. The fact that they’re a nonprofit resonates with librarians like me.

Publishers
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Join 1,850+ academic publishers reaching 14,000 libraries worldwide

Collaborate to advance scholarly publishing

Partner with JSTOR to innovate, publish and preserve sustainably—reaching global audiences through programs like Path to Open and Publisher Collections.

When JSTOR approached us with an offer to participate in their new Publisher Collections program, we saw it as an opportunity to offer libraries more choices. We were impressed with the care, collaboration, and commitment they brought to construct a solution that benefits both publishers and libraries.

Educators
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Find materials that align with your syllabus and learning goals–all ready to use and easy to integrate

Engage your students with assignments you can adapt in minutes

Explore free, ready-to-use teaching resources created by fellow educators and designed to fit seamlessly into your courses.

In a world that often flattens knowledge into keywords and search engine logic, JSTOR invites slow reading, curiosity, and discovery.

Students
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Deepen your research by exploring millions of high-quality, credible sources for any assignment

Search for content that matches your studies

Use your institutional access or browse open content. Either way, JSTOR helps you research with confidence.

Primary source collections have become increasingly important, especially for my research in material culture. JSTOR has helped make art, as a primary source, and accompanying secondary material easy to organize and accessible as an undergraduate scholar.

Transform your teaching with JSTOR

Bring scholarship to life with easy access to journals, books, primary sources, and multimedia content, all on one platform. JSTOR helps you engage students, build research skills, and design adaptable assignments with diverse, interdisciplinary resources.


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Making JSTOR more accessible worldwide

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JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services secures funding to help institutions expand public access to distinctive collections

With support from the Mellon Foundation, JSTOR Stewardship is launching a new initiative to help participants digitize collections and expand public access.

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Catalyzing a more public future for distinctive collections: A new initiative within JSTOR Stewardship

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The University of North Dakota joins JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services to advance access to collections

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JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services training: Project cataloging

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Eastern Michigan University expands partnership with JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services by joining Tier 3 charter program

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JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services charter program surpasses 50 participating institutions

More than 50 institutions now participate in JSTOR Stewardship’s charter program, collaborating to advance responsible, AI-assisted digital collections stewardship.

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Brandeis University becomes 50th institution to join JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services charter program

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Student using a laptop surrounded by historical images, video stills, and text fragments with on-screen prompts for related content and transcripts.

Jerash Diary (March 31, 1933 – July 1, 1933): April 24, 1933. n.d. Part of Dura-Europos and Gerasa (Yale University), Artstor.

John Pruitt, Benjamin E. Mays, and WSB-TV. Mays Discusses Desegregation’s Effect on the Quality of Education. January 22, 1970. Part of WSB-TV newsfilm collection, University of Georgia Digital Library of Georgia.

Moche Culture. Seated Figure of Deer Impersonator. 250 – 550 A.D. Part of Art Institute of Chicago, Artstor.

Digital archival materials including artwork, documents, and historical artifacts connected by icons labeled Process, Preserve, Manage, and Share.

John Gibson. Bust of a Gentleman. ca. 1830–40. Part of Open: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Artstor.

Unknown maker. Bain’s Chemical Telegraph, 1850. 1850. Part of Open: Science Museum Group, Artstor.

William Stanley Haseltine. Baths of Trajan (Sette Sale, Villa Brancaccio, Rome). ca. 1882. Part of Open: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Artstor.

F., A. B. Durand, Gulian C. Verplanck, J. E. Freeman, and John Gibson. “Sketchings.” Thomas J. Watson Library, The Metropolitan Museum of Art. The Crayon 5, no. 1 (1858): 23–27.

A collage showing a jade vase, a scholarly article titled Separate but Loyal: Ethnicity and Nationalism in China, and a book cover A Companion to the Global Early Middle Ages, with tags reading “Qing Dynasty” and “Show related content.”

Chinese. Three-Sectional Altar Group: Cylindrical Carving with Phoenix (Lid). 1644–1911. Part of Open: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Artstor.

Wenfang Tang and Gaochao He. “Separate but Loyal: Ethnicity and Nationalism in China.” East-West Center, 2010.  

Erik Hermans. A Companion to the Global Early Middle Ages. Editorial: Leeds, Arc Humanities Press, 2020.

Collage of open access materials including posters, books, journals, and audio, each labeled by content type such as Book, Journal, Audio, and Image.

Alexander Key. “Front Matter.” In Language between God and the Poets: Ma‘na in the Eleventh Century, 1st ed., i–viii. University of California Press, 2018.

Veysel Apaydin. “Introduction: Why Cultural Memory and Heritage?” In Critical Perspectives on Cultural Memory and Heritage: Construction, Transformation and Destruction, edited by Veysel Apaydin, 1–10. UCL Press, 2020.

Doubleday, Page & Company. An Academic Class; A Problem in Brick Masonry; Mr. Washington Always Insisted upon Correlation: That Is, Drawing the Problems from the Various Shops and Laboratories. Published: Garden City, N.Y., Issued: 1916. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture; Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division. Part of Booker T. Washington, builder of a civilization, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture (New York Public Library), Artstor.

The Movement. January 1970. Vols. 5–12. The Movement Press. Periodical, The Movement Newspaper collection. The Freedom Archives.

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William Michael Harnett. A Study Table. 1882. Part of Minneapolis College of Art and Design Collection, Artstor.

Painted portrait of a man in traditional dress reading from an open book, representing global publishing and scholarship.

An Indian (?) Man Seated, Reading a Book. n.d. Part of Open: Wellcome Collection, Artstor.

Painted portrait of a man in traditional dress reading from an open book, representing global publishing and scholarship.

Whittaker and Company, and Andrew Pritchard. “A List of Two Thousand Microscopic Objects” Book by Andrew Pritchard, England, 1835, 1835. Part of Open: Science Museum Group, Artstor.

Denis Bourdon. Cabinet Card of Frederick Douglass with His Grandson, Joseph Douglass. May 10, 1894. Part of Charlene Hodges Byrd Collection, Open: Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture, Artstor.

Close-up of an ancient carved sculpture head with buttons labeled Zoom and Save to Workspace.

Egyptian. Face from a Cosmetic Spoon. 1391–1353 BC. Part of Open: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Artstor.

Collage of historical documents and political posters from various countries, including anti-Nazi and Puerto Rican independence imagery, with a search bar overlay containing the word ‘Propaganda.’

Rolando Córdova Cabeza. Day of World Solidarity with the Struggle of the People of Puerto Rico. 1976. Part of The Lindsay Webster Collection of Cuban Posters, Wofford College. 

South African Communist Party. The Path to Power. Programs (Programmes), 1989. Part of South African Communist Party, Struggles for Freedom: Southern Africa. 

Leopoldo Mendez. Nazi Propaganda and Espionage. 1937. Part of Seattle Art Museum, Artstor.

“The Italian Scene. Vol. XV – N.6 June 1969” XV, no. 6 (June 1, 1969): 1–16. Part of The Italian Scene. A Bulletin of Cultural Information (1953-1969), Sorbello Foundation.

David Shambaugh. “China’s Propaganda System: Institutions, Processes and Efficacy.” The China Journal, no. 57 (2007): 25–58.