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Make the most of your JSTOR experience with Workspace

“I stumbled upon it when I started looking at JSTOR’s landing page. There’s the universal icon for tabs or saving in the upper right corner. I clicked on it thinking, ‘What does Workspace mean?’ I don’t even remember what I initially expected… but then I realized that this is really… Read More

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JSTOR research tool demo, design & use

July 24, 2025 | 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM EDT

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Join us for a demonstration of JSTOR’s AI-powered research tool, which enables users to quickly identify key points within scholarly texts, discover new topics and content, and query for deeper engagement. We’ll detail the tool’s development, including technical foundations and design, suggest how to incorporate it into teaching and learning, and offer insights for institutional implementation and user engagement.

This one-hour webinar is appropriate for librarians and faculty working with both novice and advanced researchers.

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AI and advanced technologies

Humanities and social sciences

May 14, 2025

The humanities in an AI world: Personal reflections from SXSW EDU 2025

By Zhuo Chen, Text Analysis Instructor, Constellate

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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Ithaka S+R

Your time constraints are our concern

Bess Wilhelms, a middle school history teacher at George Rogers Clark Elementary School Public school educators often juggle multiple roles beyond subject matter expert. Bess Wilhelms currently teaches US history, world history, and civics at George Rogers Clark Elementary School in Chicago. Previously, she taught high school… Read More

JSTOR’s interactive research tool promotional toolkit

Build awareness and engagement with JSTOR’s interactive research tool with these ready-made resources. From training materials and social media posts to customizable web copy, our toolkit has everything you need to help your community get the most out of this innovative tool. Web and social media resources Reach… Read More

AI and advanced technologies

Digital collection stewardship

Text analysis

July 25, 2024

What’s new at JSTOR: Enhancing access and engagement with innovative technologies

By Victoria Spitz, Senior Digital Marketing Manager, ITHAKA

At JSTOR, our mission is to improve access to knowledge and education for people around the world. We're excited to share several new initiatives leveraging cutting-edge technology to make scholarly materials more accessible, interactive, and engaging for our users. Here's a detailed look at the latest advancements we recently shared at ALA 2024 in San Diego.

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Constellate

Hypothesis

Interactive research tool

JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services

AI and advanced technologies

June 25, 2024

AI and other advanced technologies on JSTOR: What we’re learning from early usage, real-world applications, and user feedback

By Kevin Guthrie, President, ITHAKA and Beth LaPensee, Senior Product Manager, ITHAKA

We are actively learning from usage, real-world applications, and user feedback in a limited beta environment to build out capabilities thoughtfully, intentionally, incrementally, and most importantly–based on evidence. This blog post delves into the rationale, construction, and current functionality of JSTOR’s beta generative AI tool, as well as the key themes and insights that have emerged from our analysis of its usage.

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Faculty

Interactive research tool

Students

Thought leadership

JSTOR’s AI research tool

Get to know our AI research tool, part of a growing suite of AI-enabled features on JSTOR designed to enhance—not replace—the research process. Developed in collaboration with our community and offered free to JSTOR-participating institutions, the tool helps users engage more deeply with JSTOR’s trusted corpus. Have questions, comments,… Read More

AI and advanced technologies

Research skills

June 5, 2024

Empowering educators, engaging students: How one teacher used JSTOR’s interactive research tool to boost student engagement, teach key skills, and streamline workflows

By Morgan Godvin, Content and Community Engagement Manager, ITHAKA

Discover how Sarah Kiyak, a teacher at Alexandria High School in Virginia, leveraged JSTOR's generative AI tool to enhance student engagement, foster research skills, and streamline workflows in her classroom.

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Case studies

Interactive research tool

JSTOR

Secondary schools