Chart titled “Path to Open Early Results: Year-over-Year Item Requests for the First 100 Open Access Titles.” A bar graph compares 2025 (licensed only, shown in gray) with 2026 (open access, shown in red). For January and February, the red bars are dramatically higher—around 9,500–10,000 item requests each month—compared to roughly 1,500–2,000 in 2025. The full-year comparison shows about 20,000 requests in early 2026 already surpassing the roughly 15,000 total requests recorded in all of 2025.
When scholarly books are made freely available, they reach more readers in more places right away.
In just five weeks of #OpenAccess, the first Path to Open books have already been used more than they were during the entire previous year of limited access.
Read the news: https://bit.ly/4rTptM4
13.02.2026 18:40 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Red background graphic featuring a green book cover of Middlemarch by George Eliot, with decorative Victorian-style lettering and a small illustrated vignette. White text reads: “Like a Victorian novel, this has gone on longer than expected. Happy Valentine’s Day, JSTOR.”
13.02.2026 16:57 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Red background graphic featuring a watercolor of ancient Pompeii with tall columns and partial walls under a blue sky. White text reads: “My heart is basically Pompeii: preserved mid-disaster. Happy Valentine’s Day, JSTOR.”
Red background graphic featuring Harald Slott-Møller’s Paolo and Francesca (1905). A robed man and woman embrace closely in a dim setting, referencing the tragic lovers from Dante. White text reads: “I blame the book for this affair. Happy Valentine’s Day, JSTOR.”
Red background graphic featuring Edvard Munch’s The Scream in black-and-white lithograph form. A figure with a distressed expression holds their face while standing on a bridge beneath swirling skies. White text reads: “You fill my existential void. Happy Valentine’s Day, JSTOR.”
Red background graphic featuring a handwritten manuscript page with medical observations in cursive script. White text reads: “This relationship has survived peer review. Happy Valentine’s Day, JSTOR.”
13.02.2026 16:57 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Red background graphic featuring Jan van Eyck’s Arnolfini Portrait (1434). The painting shows a man in a dark robe and wide hat holding hands with a woman in a green gown inside a domestic interior, with a small dog at their feet and a convex mirror behind them. White text reads: “Our love is the Arnolfini Portrait: suspiciously domestic, legally binding, and someone is watching. Happy Valentine’s Day, JSTOR.”
Red background graphic with an oval engraved portrait of Michel de Montaigne wearing a ruffled collar and decorative chain. White text reads: “Unlike Montaigne, I did not intend to reveal this much about myself. Happy Valentine’s Day from JSTOR.”
Red background graphic featuring an illustration of three large tethered balloons floating over an icy polar landscape, with small figures and sled dogs below. White text reads: “At this latitude, retreat is theoretical. Happy Valentine’s Day from JSTOR.”
Red background graphic featuring a gilded baroque altarpiece with radiating gold rays and a central religious figure. White text reads: “I swore an oath to you on a relic and now there’s no backing out. Happy Valentine’s Day, JSTOR.”
Tomorrow is #ValentinesDay! Consider this thread your peer-reviewed reminder. ❤️
13.02.2026 16:57 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
ITHAKA Winter 2026 Community Letter: Putting Technology to Work - ITHAKA
Dear friends and colleagues, At ITHAKA, we have consistently embraced and made thoughtful, responsible, productive use of new technologies that have the power to improve access to education and knowle...
In our Winter 2026 Community Letter, learn how ITHAKA is using technology to support access to #education and knowledge–including through Transfer Explorer, digital news preservation via Portico, JSTOR Seeklight, and accessibility improvements.
Read the letter: https://bit.ly/3Oca9eP
12.02.2026 22:09 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
photo of Mark McBride and Tracy Bergstrom of Ithaka S+R and Andrew Pace of ARL at the ARL President's Institute 2026
Thank you to @ithaka-org.bsky.social, @jstor.bsky.social, Portico, and @ithakasr.bsky.social for sponsoring registration scholarships for #ARLPI26!
Left to right: Mark McBride, Tracy Bergstrom, @andrewkpace.bsky.social
11.02.2026 22:08 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Red graphic with the JSTOR logo and the heading “JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services.” Large white text displays a quote: “Migrating our archives into JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services means our collections will be preserved in a trusted environment, with a modern foundation for digital collections—without adding complexity for our staff.” The quote is attributed to Vince Boisselle, Director of Library Services, Assumption University.
Assumption University has selected JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services to help preserve, manage, & share its digital collections.
By moving its archives into JSTOR’s cloud-hosted platform, Assumption will benefit from integrated digital asset management.
Learn more: https://bit.ly/4twzWi0
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Image: Central Library Children’s Room, Washington, D.C., January 1, 1907. @dcpubliclibrary.bsky.social. Via Wikimedia Commons.
10.02.2026 16:25 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Archival storage boxes stacked closely together, each labeled with typed and handwritten notes indicating contents, dates, and technical specifications. The worn cardboard and paper labels show signs of age and long-term use.
Millions of archival materials go unseen because description takes time.
A new case study from Goldey-Beacom College shows students and librarians using AI to support #archival work while keeping context, care, and responsibility human.
Read more: https://bit.ly/3Zq1cB5
10.02.2026 16:24 — 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
JSTOR-branded graphic with a beige background featuring a quote about JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services. The quote reads: “The Libraries are thrilled to partner with JSTOR to elevate the visibility, discovery, and long-term stewardship of our digital collections.” Attribution below the quote reads: Chad Hutchens, Chair of UW Libraries Digital & Distinctive Collections, The University of Wyoming. The JSTOR logo appears at the top.
The University of Wyoming has joined JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services to manage, preserve, and share its digital collections.
UW will transition key collections, including parts of the WyoScholar institutional repository and WyoDigital, into JSTOR’s platform.
Learn more: https://bit.ly/4r8Lq9T
09.02.2026 17:53 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
An aged, cream-colored printed broadside with black engraved pictograms and text advertising a lottery. At the top are small images including a cat, a seated woman holding a tablet, and a bird, followed by the phrase “Catch Fortune while you can.” The main body combines words and images, such as coins, eyes, shoes, dice, animals, and pointing figures, to form rebus-style sentences. The readable text states: “Every man that wishes to get money by a small risk, will, if he be wise, hasten to the nearest lottery office, at which (by purchasing even a small share) he may get that which he desires, and which cannot fail to make the mare go, and place him (if money be his deity) in an earthly paradise.” Near the bottom, the broadside announces prizes including “2 of £30,000 & 50 other Capitals,” notes “Lottery begins Drawing 14th May,” and adds, “Tickets and shares are selling by all the agents in this county.” The paper shows folds, creases, and wear consistent with age.
Feeling lucky? We come to you with a #vintage lottery ad.
Instead of long blocks of text, it uses small engraved images to “spell out” its message: take a small risk, buy a ticket, and maybe fortune will smile on you.
Image: Catch Fortune While You Can… n.d. @wellcomecollection.bsky.social.
06.02.2026 21:46 — 👍 7 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Red graphic with the JSTOR logo and the headline: “Disciples of Christ Historical Society joins the JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services charter community.” A small label at the top reads “News | JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services.”
The Disciples of Christ Historical Society is bringing its digital collections to JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services, creating a new home for materials that document the history of the Stone-Campbell movement and the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ).
Learn more: https://bit.ly/3Zjd9Zi
05.02.2026 22:10 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
New Open Access Books through Path to Open + book covers
🔓 New Open Access Books through Path to Open, a collaborative Books at JSTOR initiative.
Two of our titles have joined the first 100 books from the 2023 cohort to flip to Open Access
👉 Read more: lup.be/2026/02/new-...
#OpenAccessBooks #PathToOpen #JSTOR #AcademicPublishing @jstor.bsky.social
05.02.2026 16:57 — 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Image: Carl Otto Lampland, Glass Positive of Pluto Discovery, 1930. Science Museum Group.
04.02.2026 16:11 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
JSTOR Blog header with the article title “The purpose of stewarding distinctive collections: Discovery and impact” by Roger C. Schonfeld, displayed beside a black-and-white image of a bright star surrounded by smaller stars.
Stewardship succeeds when distinctive collections are found and used.
In a new post, Roger Schonfeld, managing director of JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services, outlines what modern #discovery requires and why platform choice increasingly shapes outcomes.
Read the blog post: https://bit.ly/4awcbPx
04.02.2026 16:11 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
A red background; at the top, the JSTOR and University of Wisconsin Press logos in white. Then text reads "News: Path to Open. Select books from our press are now open access on JSTOR." And then there are thumbnail images of two books: As Legend Has It by Jennifer Eastman Attebery and Staging Existence by Svetlana Evdokimova
The University of Wisconsin Press is delighted to participate in Path to Open, a groundbreaking collaboration between university presses, libraries, and @jstor.bsky.social. We are thrilled to share that two of our books are now available to anyone, anywhere via JSTOR: tinyurl.com/yrn9xhb8
03.02.2026 16:18 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Image: Two African American women, seated and facing each other, 1900. Library of Congress. Via Wikimedia Commons.
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Black-and-white portrait of two African American women seated close together, turned toward one another. One woman rests her arm gently on the other’s shoulder as they make eye contact, creating an intimate, composed scene against a plain studio backdrop.
For #BlackHistoryMonth, @jstordaily.bsky.social editors have gathered stories that draw on scholarship to explore Black life, culture, resistance, and creativity, with free access to the research behind each piece.
Start reading: https://bit.ly/4hL27mM
03.02.2026 18:28 — 👍 7 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
Red gradient graphic with the JSTOR logo in the upper left. White text reads: “JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services. ‘We’re excited to join this collaborative community and to help shape tools that will strengthen access to and care for our collections.’” Attribution below: Rex Krajewski, Director of Library and Learning Commons Services, North Shore Community College.
North Shore Community College is the first community college to join the JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services charter program!
Through this partnership, NSCC will support long-term access to cultural and #educational materials.
Learn more: https://bit.ly/4rrOUUu
03.02.2026 15:00 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
JSTOR logo, white J on a red background, surrounded by stylized yellow vines with "STOR" in white below.
Because I am apparently a deeply unserious person, my main reaction to Chappell Roan's very uncomfy looking Grammys outfit was, "Wait, is her back tattoo the JSTOR logo?!"
It was not.
02.02.2026 16:17 — 👍 19 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Image: Motocycliste lisant (Le Mans, France). Photograph by G. Gorce for The American Library Association, circa 1918. American Library in Paris photograph archive, file 1-9.
02.02.2026 15:07 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Red JSTOR news announcement graphic with the headline “The American Library in Paris adopts JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services to manage, preserve, and share its institutional archives,” alongside a black-and-white historical photograph of a uniformed man seated on a motorcycle reading a booklet.
The American Library in Paris has joined JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services to manage, preserve, and share its institutional archives.
The Library is beginning by making a curated set of historical photographs publicly accessible.
Learn more: https://bit.ly/45E5JmQ
02.02.2026 15:07 — 👍 9 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Red background graphic with white text reading “An equitable, tiered fee structure for every type of library.” Along the bottom, simple white line illustrations show four different library buildings, ranging from small to large, representing different types of libraries.
Publisher Collections uses an equitable, tiered fee structure based on JSTOR’s classification system. 🔢
Participating libraries often see proportionally lower fees compared to purchasing individual #ebooks.
Explore tiered participation fees: https://bit.ly/49PthYx
30.01.2026 21:55 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Opening Scholarship to New Readers with Path to Open
Publishes award-winning books that advance humanities and social science fields, as well as English language teaching and regional resources.
We're so proud to announce our first batch of 2026 Path to Open titles with
@jstor.bsky.social! Explore the 6 UMP titles part of JSTOR's Path to Open initiative here:
28.01.2026 23:16 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Red gradient graphic with the JSTOR logo. White text reads: “JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services. ‘We see tremendous opportunity in accelerating collections processing to make more collections accessible and discoverable more quickly.’” The quote is attributed to Xuemao Wang, Dean of Libraries, Northwestern University.
We’re glad to share that Northwestern University has joined the JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services charter community to advance responsible, sustainable approaches to preserving and sharing digital collections.
Read the announcement to learn more about the partnership: https://bit.ly/49X2U1u
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Image: Ferranti PC 2860-AT microcomputer, circa 1985. Ferranti Computer Systems Ltd. @sciencemuseum.org.uk.
28.01.2026 18:46 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Desktop microcomputer from the mid-1980s with a beige rectangular metal case, labeled Ferranti PC 2860-AT. The unit is wide and low-profile, with ventilation slats and front-facing drive bays, representing early personal computing hardware.
#AI is changing how we search for information and how the value of knowledge gets measured.
When answers come from summaries instead of clicks, what gets lost in the data? A new blog post looks at how AI-driven discovery is reshaping online behavior.
Read more: https://bit.ly/4t1gDNH
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