Deep Maps: Blue Humanities
This project in partnership with James Louis Smith and the University of Westminster Press was generously funded by Open Book Futures
Active Projects
Credit Transfer Explorer
Building a universal credit mobility website to connect students and institutions with easily accessible, up-to-date, and accurate information on how credits transfer and count towards degrees.
JSTOR Access in Prison Initiative
The JSTOR Access in Prison Initiative is a three year project to scale access to JSTOR to all higher education in prison (HEP) programs in the United States.
Juncture
Juncture helps researchers and students make complex arguments and tell compelling stories using state-of-the-art tools for digital writing.
Text Analysis Pedagogy Institute
Text analysis can be difficult to learn. Two national institutes seek to make learning text analysis easier for teachers, students, and researchers.
Constellate
Constellate, a part of ITHAKA's portfolio of non-profit services, is the only text analysis platform that integrates access to scholarly content and open educational resources into a cloud-based lab to help faculty more easily and effectively teach text analysis and data skills.
The JSTOR Understanding Series
With an ever-expanding collection of primary texts, the JSTOR Understanding Series links original works of culture and history to scholarship that quotes it.
Plant Humanities Initiative
In partnership with Dumbarton Oaks, we aim through scholarly programming and tool development to advance the field of Plant Humanities, the interdisciplinary study that explores and communicates the unparalleled significance of plants to human culture.
Graduated & Retired Projects
The Future of Annual Meetings and Scholarly Societies
This research project was conducted by Ithaka S+R and JSTOR Labs to investigate the challenges facing scholarly conferences and opportunities for change.
Innovation Fellowships 2023
In June, July, and August 2023, this cohort of 4 Innovation Fellows spent 9 weeks learning and applying design thinking and lean startup skills in the educational/library space
Innovation Fellowships 2022
In July and August 2022, this inaugural cohort of 8 Innovation Fellows spent 6 weeks learning and applying design thinking and lean startup skills in the educational/library space
Prison Education: Offline Access Pilot
Conducting research without internet access is challenging. This project will test a new, offline version of JSTOR designed specifically for prison education programs and their students.
Interview Archive
A collection of full-length interviews from the MLK documentary King in the Wilderness – from the cutting room floor to your classroom.
Cultural History Baseball Cards
The cultural history of baseball, one player at a time. Cultural History Baseball Cards is a proof of concept showcasing a way to use Linked Open Data to connect diverse corpora.
Text Analyzer
Upload your own document to search JSTOR. Text Analyzer finds the topics discussed in your document and recommends articles and chapters about the same topics from JSTOR.
Topicgraph
Understand at a glance the topics covered in a book, then jump straight to pages about topics you’re researching. Topicgraph helps users explore longform scholarship.
Reimagining the Monograph
Consisting of both a white paper and the Topicgraph prototype, Reimagining the Monograph shows how design thinking can unlock some of the value lost as longform scholarship has migrated to digital.
Understanding the U.S. Constitution
Select an article, amendment or clause to see all the articles in JSTOR that quote or cite it. Understanding the U.S. Constitution leads you to a library of constitutional scholarship -- in your pocket.
Exploring Rembrandt
Pick a painting to see scholarship from JSTOR about that painting. Exploring Rembrandt is a proof of concept demonstrating the potential of using artwork as a portal into the scholarship about it.
Livingstone's Zambezi Expedition
Incorporating rich materials from JSTOR Global Plants, this project allows researchers to explore plant specimens and primary source materials geographically and chronologically.
JSTOR Snap
Snap a picture of any page of text and discover articles from JSTOR about the same topic. Providing a mobile research experience that isn’t just a stripped-down, small-screen version of desktop search, JSTOR Snap takes advantage of the unique qualities of your smart phone.
Reflowit
Read page scan content easily on your phone’s small screen. ReflowIt is a quick proof of concept that reflows the images of the words of scanned pdfs for better reading on a small device.
Understanding Shakespeare
Pick a play. Click a line. Instantly see articles on JSTOR that quote that line. Developed in partnership with the Folger Shakespeare Library, Understanding Shakespeare showcases the potential of using a primary text as a portal into the scholarship about it.