A Visit to Oregon State Penitentiary: Reflections from a JSTOR Engineer
On a recent visit to Oregon State Penitentary, Ryan McCarthy, the Senior Software Engineer for JSTOR Labs, joined Chemeketa Community College’s prison education team to observe a psychology class in action.
Constellate: An Experiment and Retrospective
We reflect on both what we accomplished and what we learned about the challenges of the text analysis pedagogy space.
That Special Design Skill: The Kind of Product Designer We Hire at JSTOR Labs
At JSTOR Labs, we build experimental tools and services that expand access to education and knowledge — and that means working in ambiguity more often than not.
Innovation in Action: Transfer Explorer has launched and will continue to grow!
A new national credit mobility tool has launched and will continue to expand in 2025 and beyond.
Translational Design
The JSTOR Labs designers have started creating visual and diagrammatic accompaniments to these reports, distilling their core ideas into formats that are easier to absorb at a glance and preserve at least some of the nuance that would be lost with a bulleted list summary.
Freeing Potential: A JSTOR Short Video Series
A look into a new series from JSTOR Access in Prison that spotlights five scholars who share how JSTOR was their gateway to an expansive and modern education during their incarceration.
New Project Announcement: Universal Credit Transfer Explorer
Announcing a national credit transfer exploration website to provide learners with an opportunity to see how credits they have earned will transfer to other schools and apply toward degree completion.
JSTOR Labs Methods: the Wall of Ignorance
It’s not easy to work on projects with evolving requirements under conditions of extreme uncertainty, but we have found this shared understanding of all our questions - and the prioritized answer-finding that follows - turn our ignorance into progress.
Revisiting the Future of Conferences from an Early Career Scholar Perspective
In this post, JSTOR Labs Innovation Fellow Shruthi Venkatesh describes Summer 2023 work to follow up junior scholars to review prototypes created by the Future of Scholarly Meetings cohort.
How and Why Do We Meet? The Future of the MESA Annual Meeting
In this post, Jeffrey Reger reflects on the purposes of, and plans for, the Middle East Studies Association's conference offerings.
What’s next for Conferences? A Perspective from the Bibliographical Society of America
Today’s blog post features excerpts (edited for clarity) from a conversation with Erin McGuirl, Executive Director for The Bibliographical Society of America about her involvement in the Future of Scholarly Meetings cohort.
Stronger Together Than Apart
In this post, Elizabeth Maddox reflects on recent changes in the American Society of Civil Engineers' conference offerings.
What’s next for Conferences? A Perspective from Geography
Today’s blog post features excerpts (edited for clarity) from a conversation with Oscar Larson, Deputy Director for Meetings at the American Association of Geographers about his involvement in the Future of Scholarly Meetings cohort.
JSTOR Labs at Code4Lib
Twice weekly, the dozen-or-so folks that work here at JSTOR Labs get together for a fifteen minute check in. We go around the (virtual) room, everyone sharing what they're working on. It's a whirlwind tour with an active and laugh-out-loud side-chat. It's also a
Innovation Fellows 2023
We’re excited to announce the second annual cohort of innovation fellowships at ITHAKA on the JSTOR Labs team. In this post, I’ll describe a bit about how we work, what Fellows can expect to learn and do, and who should apply. JSTOR Labs seeks to explore the future