With support from the Mellon Foundation, JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services is launching a new initiative to help libraries and archives create a more public future for their distinctive collections by supporting a fuller pathway from digitization to long-term impact.

Launched just over a year ago, JSTOR Stewardship is a digital collections platform designed to help institutions increase the impact of distinctive materials. Today, more than 350 institutions participate in JSTOR Stewardship, including over 50 charter members helping shape tools and practices to accelerate impact responsibly. Together, the Stewardship community makes a growing corpus of over 3 million items openly available on JSTOR.

The new initiative will further advance this work and purpose. Through it, new and existing JSTOR Stewardship charter participants can receive direct funding support for digitization, then use the full Stewardship infrastructure to move materials into broader discovery and use: processing at scale with JSTOR Seeklight and publishing openly on JSTOR, where collections become discoverable in a widely used research and teaching environment.

For more about the initiative, visit our blog. Institutions interested in becoming part of the JSTOR Stewardship charter community can learn more about the program and how to get involved.