Stacy Burnett, senior product manager for the JSTOR Access in Prison Initiative, recently sat down with Sara Weissman at Inside Higher Ed (Game-Changing Access to Academic Materials in Prison) and Arrman Kyaw at Diverse (JSTOR’s Digital Archives Now Reach Over Half a Million Incarcerated Learners) to discuss the power of knowledge for incarcerated learners and JSTOR’s goal to deliver equitable access to students on the inside.
JSTOR—with its vast collections of journals, books, and primary sources—is designed to support students doing college level coursework and research. Now, through an arrangement with the College Board, high school teachers and students taking the new Advanced Placement® African American Studies course in the 2024-2025 academic year will have free access to JSTOR to enrich their learning experience.
Approximately 13,000 students in 700 high schools across 40 states are currently enrolled in the AP… Read more»
More than 500,000 incarcerated learners now have access to the digital library
At the end of 2023, JSTOR—a vast digital library of secondary and primary sources to support teaching and learning—reached a once unimaginable goal: providing JSTOR access in 1,000 prisons. Spread across four continents, the JSTOR Access in Prison initiative now supports the education and growth of more than 550,000 incarcerated people.
Incarcerated learners have been left behind for decades. Limited access… Read more»
Libraries use a variety of systems and tools to build, manage, provide access to, preserve, and distribute digital versions of their special and primary source collections. Over the last three years, ITHAKA has supported a pilot to test whether the infrastructure created to support JSTOR and Portico could be used to provide more cost-effective and impactful access to and preservation of these collections.
At the CNI Fall 2023 Membership Meeting, Kevin Guthrie, President of ITHAKA, and Bruce Heterick, Senior Vice… Read more»
Webinar and report offer actionable ideas for librarians and faculty
JSTOR, a nonprofit service of ITHAKA, and Choice, a publishing unit of The Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL), have partnered to publish a new research report, Teaching and Learning with Digital Primary Sources: Nine insights into awareness, literacy, and collaboration between librarians, faculty, and students. Available first through a free upcoming webinar, the report examines the current state of digital primary source instruction and research challenges faced by… Read more»
JSTOR Daily, established in 2014 with a mission to make scholarly materials more accessible and relevant to a general audience, is proud to announce its recent recognition at the 2023 Folio: Eddie Awards. Honored for its editorial excellence among nonprofit websites, JSTOR Daily stands as a testament to the importance of bridging the divide between academia and the public in an increasingly fraught information landscape.
The Folio: Eddies & Ozzies Awards, described as… Read more»
Path to Open is hitting its stride with some exciting developments in the past few weeks. Here are highlights since we released the list of the first 100 books on October 4th:… Read more»
JSTOR, part of the non-profit ITHAKA, announced today the release of the first books in Path to Open, a new program designed to affordably and sustainably support the open access publication of new groundbreaking books in the humanities and social sciences.
Launched as a pilot in January 2023, Path to Open is a delayed open access model where new books are made available to supporting libraries upon publication and become open access after three years. Thirty-seven university… Read more»
JSTOR will make a new 100-title open access book collection available as part of the Big Ten Academic Alliance’s latest open access initiative. Centered on Gender and Sexuality studies, this collection is the first in a series of collections from Big Ten Open Books, a collaboration between the university presses and libraries of the Big Ten Academic Alliance.
“Big Ten Open Books is pursuing a robust programmatic future for open monograph publishing by… Read more»
ITHAKA’s Chief Technology Officer Michelle Lee was recently interviewed by IT Labs on their CTO Confessions podcast. In this wide-ranging conversation, Michelle shares her insights on the tech industry, her work at ITHAKA, and the future of education, providing listeners the unique opportunity to deepen their understanding of the innovative strategies at work at our organization.
Michelle’s conviction that technology has the potential to revolutionize education and her excitement for how ITHAKA can play an even larger role… Read more»
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