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 regular reminder both of how lucky
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
Constraint-storming, Not Brainstorming
Exploring the constraints governing the design of JSTOR's offline solution for prison education
Building JSTOR's Offline Solution for Prison Education
Announcing a new JSTOR Labs Report
Sharing a new JSTOR Labs report: Supporting the Academic Research Needs of Incarcerated Students: Building JSTOR's Offline Solution for Prison Education.
The Many Faces of Meetings
A Taxonomy of Emerging Models for In-Person and Hybrid Conferences
Three years into the pandemic, it has become clear that we need a more nuanced typology for thinking about conferences than the simple triad of virtual, in-person, and hybrid.
Innovation Fellowships
We’re excited to announce the 2022 inaugural cohort of innovation fellowships
Join Our Team and Help Incarcerated Learners
We are seeking to hire two new team members to contribute to our JSTOR Access in Prison Initiative.
Making JSTOR Available for all College Students in Prison
Mellon Foundation Awards $1.5 million to ITHAKA to make JSTOR accessible to incarcerated college students
My Experience Using Juncture for Kent Maps Online
Carina Chan, a student at Sheffield University, shares her experience using JSTOR Labs' Juncture for Kent Maps Online.