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Louis User Conference (LUC) 2025

October 15, 2025 to October 16, 2025

Baton Rouge, LA

Join us at LUC 2025 to learn about the latest products and initiatives JSTOR and ITHAKA are developing to better serve your library during this time of rapid technological transformation. Learn how we could advance digital collection stewardship through innovative tools that accelerate descriptive metadata creation, streamline collection management, and ensure long-term preservation.

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Collection highlights

May 29, 2025

Monthly wrap-up: Maps, movements, and miniature pills in May

By Maria Papadouris, Content and Community Engagement Manager, ITHAKA

May’s additions to JSTOR opened new ways to engage with visual culture, political history, and everyday life.

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U.S. universities and four-year colleges

Highlights

Organization

Platform

May 15, 2025

How JSTOR evolved: Expanding access and preserving knowledge worldwide

By Rumika Suzuki Hillyer, Content and Community Engagement Manager, ITHAKA

Did you know JSTOR is just one of several platforms offered by its parent nonprofit, ITHAKA? Discover the decades-long journey of a company committed to open access, digital scholarship, and community-driven innovation.

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May 12, 2025

JSTOR Recognized as a Finalist for 2025 EPIC Award in Podcasting and Marketing Campaigns Categories

JSTOR, part of the nonprofit ITHAKA, has been named a finalist for two 2025 EPIC Awards, presented by the Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP). … Read more»

JSTOR

JSTOR Access in Prison

JSTOR Daily

Digital collection stewardship

Preservation

May 9, 2025

Funding opportunities for libraries, archives, and special collections: May–December 2025

By Maria Papadouris, Content and Community Engagement Manager, ITHAKA

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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Archivists

Audio

Books

Collection building, cataloging, and publishing

Government and non-profit research institutions

Images

International universities and four-year colleges

Librarians

Primary sources

U.S. universities and four-year colleges

Video

Justice initiatives

May 5, 2025

It takes a village

By Elizabeth Shatswell, Correctional Education Manager, JSTOR Access in Prison

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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JSTOR Access in Prison

JSTOR Access Initiative

Second Chance Month

Open access

April 25, 2025

Opening access, amplifying voices: Six African journals now on JSTOR

By Maria Papadouris, Content and Community Engagement Manager, ITHAKA

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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International universities and four-year colleges

April 3, 2025

30 years of JSTOR: How a library shelf crisis sparked a global archive

By Maria Papadouris, Content and Community Engagement Manager, ITHAKA

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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Collection highlights

March 29, 2025

Monthly wrap-up: From fly-fishing lore to artistic resistance, March’s collections reflect lives and legacies

By Maria Papadouris, Content and Community Engagement Manager, ITHAKA

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U.S. universities and four-year colleges

Video

March 28, 2025

Introducing students to academic articles with JSTOR

By Richard Joseph, PhD Candidate, McGill University

Help students navigate academic articles with confidence. Richard Joseph shares classroom-tested strategies, from highlighting and annotating to summarizing complex scholarly texts.

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Faculty

JSTOR

Students

Teaching and research