JSTOR Blog
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In this blog, discover how to learn digital preservation skills with free, expert-designed online courses from the Digital Preservation Coalition, which offer practical, self-paced training for beginners and professionals alike.
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How do we hope to meet the challenges of the future? This blog post details some of the inroads we’re making in charting the path ahead, including through digital collection stewardship, faculty engagement, open scholarship initiatives, and editorial excellence.
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JSTOR’s Path to Open program continues to expand, offering valuable new resources that support teaching, learning, and research in the humanities, arts, and social sciences. […]
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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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May’s additions to JSTOR opened new ways to engage with visual culture, political history, and everyday life.
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What would your classroom look like if students engaged with knowledge as detectives rather than passive readers? The answers lie in digital primary sources. And education depends on how we use them.
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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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Did you know JSTOR is just one of several platforms offered by its parent nonprofit, ITHAKA? Discover the decades-long journey of an organization committed to open access, digital scholarship, and community-driven innovation.
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At SXSW EDU 2025, educators gathered to discuss the promises and pitfalls of AI in the classroom. This post reflects on the evolving role of humanities instructors, advocating for AI as a collaborative tool to support metacognition, process-based learning, and critical engagement.
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Explore new Path to Open titles on JSTOR supporting teaching and research. View April 2025 releases and access options.
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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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In this closing post of JSTOR’s Second Chance Month series, Elizabeth Shatswell reflects on the transformative power of education, community, and creative expression in the lives of incarcerated individuals.
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Incarcerated writer Shane Bell challenges assumptions about prison education and rehabilitation, arguing for access to learning as a transformative force—even for those who may never leave prison. His powerful essay, part of JSTOR’s Second Chance series, calls for purpose, service, and dignity behind bars.
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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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This moving reflection traces the enduring bonds formed in prison classrooms and the profound impact of educational journeys shared by incarcerated women. Through the story of Phiengchai Sisouvanh, we see how learning, friendship, and community transcend confinement and continue to transform lives long after graduation.
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April’s collections on JSTOR highlight labor solidarity, poetic vulnerability, and historic landscapes through new books, rare archives, and open access multimedia.
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In this powerful series of personal essays, incarcerated authors reflect on how education has become a catalyst for self-discovery, healing, and community restoration. Their stories underscore the transformative potential of learning, even behind prison walls, as a lifelong commitment to growth and redemption.
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JSTOR has partnered with Pluto Journals and the African Books Collective to launch six open access African journals as part of a new pilot program supporting diamond open access publishing.
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In this compelling essay, Ignacio Carrillo challenges traditional definitions of rehabilitation and advocates for animal-assisted programs in prisons. The author explores the role of animals in fostering humanity, dignity, and systemic change within carceral spaces.
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Incarcerated writers dave rich and Danny Thomas reveal how education becomes a radical act of resistance within the prison system. Confronting systemic injustice, they transform long sentences into opportunities for mentorship, advocacy, and self-liberation.
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Poet Matthew Feeney crafts language that cuts through the noise of modern life, offering distilled expressions of humanity shaped by incarceration, identity, and introspection. His evocative work—layered with metaphor, symbolism, and emotional precision—reminds us to write as if our lives depend on it
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In this reflection on education and transformation, Elizabeth Shatswell introduces two powerful Second Chance Month essays by incarcerated scholars Juan Portieles and Brian Newman. Their stories, shared through JSTOR Access in Prison, explore education as a path to optimism, purpose, and freedom—with lasting ripple effects across their communities.
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In this JSTOR’s Second Chance Month essay, Michael Munro draws powerful parallels between the structure of roguelike games and his journey through trauma, incarceration, and personal reinvention.
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Through the transformative power of prison-based arts education, Wyatt Reed shares his journey of reclaiming a lost identity, confronting addiction, and rediscovering purpose through creative expression.
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In this Second Chance Month essay, Alexander Bolling reflects on his journey from strategic silence to confident speech, tracing how education, community and persistence helped him claim and share his voice.
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When Alazaron “Laz” Sargeant discovered the poetry of Mahmoud Darwish through a library brought into his prison unit, it sparked a deeper search for meaning—and a powerful wave of creative expression.
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In this Second Chance Month essay, Allen Ivanov reflects on the liberating and isolating power of education in prison, exploring how knowledge—through Shakespeare and critical inquiry—becomes both a burden and a path to self-reclamation.
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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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In this essay for Second Chance Month, Shane Moffat reflects on early school experiences, the sensory memories of his bus rides, and his enduring love for education, demonstrating the power of access, equity, and memory—even behind prison walls.
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