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Graphic with a red background featuring the JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services logo and a quote in large white text: “Merging archival principles, technological innovation, and a commitment to sustainable stewardship, JSTOR Seeklight exemplifies the award’s criteria.” The quote is attributed to the Society of American Archivists, 2025 Coker Award Committee. On the right side of the graphic is a scanned archival document with typed and handwritten notes, highlighting names and production information for a 1979 performance of The West Street Gang.

JSTOR Seeklight—the AI-powered technology in JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services—is built with archivists, not just for them. This month, @saa-official.bsky.social recognized this community-built #DigitalStewardship tool with the 2025 Coker Award for Description.

More here: bit.ly/455irv8

Humiliation, Headaches, and Narcissism - JSTOR Daily Well-researched stories from Undark, Yale Environment 360, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.

my humiliation article is on JSTOR recommended reading

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Hiding The Radiation of the Atomic Bombs - JSTOR Daily The atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by the US came with censorship and obfuscation about the effects of the radiation on those who were exposed.

This August marks the 80th anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Despite the media spotlight, far less has been written about the U.S. censorship of radiation’s effects on survivors.

Learn more about the hidden history in @jstordaily.bsky.social article: bit.ly/4m2k0Qs

Access in Prison at inaugural HBCU Prison Education Summit Explore highlights from the first HBCU Prison Education Summit, where educators, advocates, and tech leaders gathered to advance higher education in prisons. Learn how HBCUs, digital tools like JSTOR,...

In the latest #JSTOR Blog post, Stacy Burnett, Senior Manager of JSTOR Access in Prison, shares highlights from the first HBCU Prison Education Summit.

🔗 Read how HBCUs, digital tools like JSTOR, and secure technology are transforming access and equity for incarcerated learners: bit.ly/4ooUWEX

Promotional image for a webinar titled 'Real-World Engagement with Social Annotation at Virginia Tech' scheduled for August 7th at 1 PM, hosted by Hypothesis.

How can one tool support both STEM and arts learning?

On Thursday, August 7, join our friends Hypothesis webinar as two Virginia Tech educators share how social annotation is helping students think critically, collaborate effectively, and stay engaged.

📅 Save your spot: bit.ly/4meQ7fe

Image: Briton Rivière. A loyal dog puts his paw on the lap of a sick child holding flowers. Reproduction of a painting after B. Riviere. Wellcome Collection.

Artwork titled 'Playfellows' depicting a sleeping child in a bed with a dog seated attentively beside them in a rustic room.

📩 #Educators, let us be your companion in teaching & research!

JSTOR’s newsletter brings you #OpenAccess content, teaching tools, and publishing opportunities—tailored content for instructors, graduate/undergrad students & independent researchers.

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Building together: Reflections on JSTOR Seeklight and the 2025 C.F.W. Coker Award How JSTOR Seeklight brings together archival expertise, AI, and community insight—reflections on winning the Coker Award and building values-driven tools.

JSTOR Seeklight, the AI-powered technology in JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services, just won the 2025 Coker Award from the ‪ @saa-official.bsky.social!

In the latest #JSTOR blog, read how this honor highlights community-driven #archives work and #DigitalStewardship partnerships: bit.ly/46ALbNs

The Intersection of Dance and Science - JSTOR Daily Lynn Matluck Brooks dives into the ever-evolving relationship between movement and technology.

Science + dance? They're more connected than you think.
Lynn Matluck Brooks shares insights as an editor of Dance and Science in the Long Nineteenth Century on @jstordaily.bsky.social, the book is part of JSTOR's Path to Open program.

Read the interview & access the first chapter 🆓: bit.ly/3IUmAJy

Image: Hunhar II. Flowering Marigold (verso). 1765. The Cleveland Museum of Art.

Decorative floral rug featuring a central motif of golden marigolds with green leaves and detailed pink borders, set against a soft blue background.

🏵️ Marigolds are in season in July, but if you miss your chance to admire them in person, don’t worry—you can explore a wide variety of #OpenAccess images and paintings of marigolds from different countries and time periods on #Artstor on JSTOR.

Explore open access images and more: bit.ly/4ktZ1oy

Image: Game Board. 15th century. @metmuseum.org

Promotional poster for JSTOR Administrator Tools Part 1: Access methods and user management, dated August 7, 2025. Features JSTOR logo at the top and decorative border.

Join us on 8/7 to learn about the 2025 updates to JSTOR’s administrator tools. Discover how to perform an access checkup, update your institution’s account info, manage access to AI Research Tool & support individual user accounts.

📅 Webinar registration (+access to the recording):
bit.ly/4l7Kejg

Assigned Readings: Questions to Ask Yourself - JSTOR Daily Choosing texts to assign next semester? An experienced instructor offers tips for deciding what to add to your syllabus—and what to let go.

An eternal question for educators: How do you get students to engage with assigned texts? This practical five-question guide can help you set realistic, flexible reading expectations for your students.

Check out the latest pedagogical essay from @jstordaily.bsky.social: bit.ly/3GJIXRq

Screenshot of JSTOR's Workspace interface

The tools you equip your students with can make a lasting impact on their learning and research journey.

Introduce your students (or yourself!) to Workspace. A source-organizing tool that's free to use on the #JSTOR platform.

Learn more about Workspace and start using it here: bit.ly/4704MXq

Promotional graphic for the book "Lost Literacies: Experiments in the Nineteenth-Century US Comic Strip" by Alex Beringer. The left side features the ITHAKA and JSTOR logos above the book title, author name, and the phrase “I am on the Path to Open” on a blue-to-red gradient background. The right side displays the book cover, which includes an illustrated comic strip sequence featuring a man and a dog.

What if early comics history is only half the story? 📘
"Lost Literacies" by Alex Beringer (published by @ohiostatepress.bsky.social) explores 19th-c. experimental comics.

Part of our Path to Open program, you can read a free chapter on JSTOR: bit.ly/4jF0FTY

A red graphic from JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services with the headline: “JSTOR Seeklight wins 2025 C.F.W. Coker Award for Description.” On the right, there’s a green-toned vintage magazine cover titled Up from under: by, for, and about women featuring black-and-white photos of women in various settings. A small icon overlay in the top corner says “Generate metadata with JSTOR Seeklight.”

Big news! JSTOR Seeklight, the AI-powered technology in JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services, won the 2025 Coker Award from @saa-official.bsky.social! Grateful to the community shaping this innovative work in archival description & sustainable stewardship.

Learn more: bit.ly/4o6yeRK

Image: Don Etherington, Inside the Book, n.d. 11.125 × 8 in. Guilford College.

A photo of Inside the Book by Don Etherington, featuring a rust-orange woven cloth cover with subtle horizontal lines. A tan label with red blocks of text is affixed to the spine. The book is upright and slightly angled against a neutral gray background.

With JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services, Guilford College makes its unique collections—like this beautiful art binding—available to the wider scholarly community. 📒

Explore how Guilford uses JSTOR to manage and share its archives: bit.ly/4lIgxG6

A new chapter for JSTOR’s AI research tool: Reflections on community engagement, insights from ALA, and what’s next JSTOR's AI research tool (formerly known as the Interactive Research Tool) has officially launched for all JSTOR-participating institutions. In this blog post, explore the tool’s development history, ...

What’s new with JSTOR's AI research tool?

The tool has evolved through continuous feedback from users worldwide and close collaboration with academic communities.

Explore new features and hear our team’s reflections from this year’s ALA conference: bit.ly/4lOiWj8

A vibrant 19th-century Japanese woodblock print depicting a lively nighttime cherry blossom scene in Yoshiwara. The print shows crowds of people walking along a bustling street lined with blooming cherry trees, lantern-lit buildings, and elevated teahouses. Geishas in elaborate kimonos, merchants, and townspeople fill the scene, framed by symmetrical architecture and a large gate in the distance beneath a star-speckled sky.

As Japanese art entered Europe, impressionists drew on its color, subjects, and angles. "Yoshiwara Yo Zakura no Zu" mirrors the 19th-century European fascination with the "flâneur"—a keen observer of city life.

Explore this piece and more on JSTOR: bit.ly/4199HkZ

Image: @metmuseum.org.

Image: Dress of Clara Louise Guild. 1835. Rollins College.

A worn, two-piece Victorian dress laid flat on a white background. The dress features a fitted bodice with long sleeves and a high neckline, made of light blue and cream silk fabric with visible signs of deterioration. The front panel and overskirt are cream-colored with gold fringe trim, while the rest of the garment is light blue with darker blue marbled patterns. The full-length skirt has horizontal gathered tiers and a slight train.

What did 19th-century college students wear? 👗

This dress once belonged to the first graduate of Rollins College, Clara Louise Guild. She wore the dress on several college occasions.

The dress is part of the Student Lives at Rollins collection, now available to view on JSTOR: bit.ly/3GXCFxu

Flyer for a hip hop event titled A Super-Natural Electric Gigolo Boogie Jam, held on Friday, December 18, 1981, at Harlem World Entertainment Complex in New York City. The flyer is mint green with black text and features stylized typography, hand-drawn embellishments, and cut-out photographic images of performers. It advertises performances by DJ Afrika Bambaataa, DJ Jazzy Jay, DJ Red Alert, Cosmic Force, and special guests Funky 4. Additional highlighted artists include Keith Keith, Sha-Rock, and Jazzy Jeff, with a note about “The Two Queen of Rap,” Sha-Rock and Lisa Lee, issuing a call to “any female MC.” Designed by Eddie Ed, the flyer captures the early visual language of Bronx-based hip hop culture. Decorative corner elements and playful language reinforce the grassroots, DIY energy of the era.

JSTOR’s shared collections make room for surprise. Scholars and the archive-curious can explore them through stories from @jstordaily.bsky.social!

🕳️ 🐇 Fall down a collection rabbit hole: bit.ly/4nWOkgy

Image: Harlem World flyer, @cornelluniversity.bsky.social.

Why do participants love our Path to Open program?

Hear from Scott Warren, Senior Associate Dean for Research Excellence at @syracuseu.bsky.social Libraries, about the goals & decisions leading to the school's participation in our open access initiative.

Read the case study: bit.ly/4kjtJ3r

Image: Ningiukulu Teevee. Kiakshuk's Polar Bear. 2017. Winnipeg Art Gallery-Qaumajuq.

Kiakshuk's Polar Bear by a Canadian artist Teevee, Ningiukulu. Illustration of a white polar bear being gently held in a gloved orange hand. The hand emerges from a white-sleeved arm with dark blue stripes, set against a swirling, textured blue background. The style is bold and graphic, with colored pencil-like textures.

Indigenous artwork remains underrepresented in art and history textbooks, which is why we’re excited that the Winnipeg Art Gallery-Qaumajuq collection is available in Artstor on JSTOR.

With +2000 artworks, connect with the diverse artists and communities that shape Canadian art. bit.ly/4m5n9yt

Image: Llama Figurine. 1400–1532. The Cleveland Museum of Art.

Photograph of an ancient Llama statuette depicting a standing golden gazelle, displayed against a red background of JSTOR's Workspace interface.

“If you can't trace your sources, you can’t really use them.”

Take it from Connie Robles, a recent PhD graduate in Latin American art history from Boston University.

Read how Connie built her Workspace into an all-in-one hub for organizing her research and start your own for free: bit.ly/3IzbREh

Lies, Damn Lies, and…Primary Sources? - JSTOR Daily An instructor shares her approach for teaching students how to evaluate historical materials and claims of veracity made by their originators.

🤔 Want to teach with primary sources but need free, #OpenAccess materials?

in the latest @jstordaily.bsky.social article, a history instructor shares three in-class activity ideas with links to free #primarysource collections on #JSTOR.

Try one out and let us know what you think: bit.ly/40pWBzB