What we’re learning. We share successes, challenges, and emerging insights from our projects to contribute to the broader conversation about technology, education, and social impact.
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July 22, 2026
Our work and ambitions have grown over time. Today, we have a name to match the our ambition: we will now be known as ITHAKA Labs.
By Alex Humphreys
May 4, 2026
Dr. Nikoleta Zampaki introduces her work on Digital Ecologies, which uses Juncture to trace mentions of plants in Greek romantic poetry.
By Alex Humphreys and Guest
August 29, 2025
An oral history of JSTOR Labs.
By Alex Humphreys and Jessica Pokharel
August 28, 2025
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.
By Ryan McCarthy
July 31, 2025
We reflect on both what we accomplished and what we learned about the challenges of the text analysis pedagogy space.
By Guest
June 9, 2025
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.
By Jessica Pokharel
March 20, 2025
Description of how ITHAKA's new service Transfer Explorer maps transfer courses to degree requirements, by Chris Buonocore, Alex Humphreys, Martin Kurzweil, and Emily Tichener, in Inside Higher Ed.
By Alex Humphreys and Chris Buonocore
March 17, 2025
A new national credit mobility tool has launched and will continue to expand in 2025 and beyond.
By Chris Buonocore
March 12, 2025
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.
By Jessica Pokharel
February 26, 2025
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.
By Stacy Burnett
February 26, 2024
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.
By Ivanok Tavarez
November 20, 2023
It’s not easy to work on projects with evolving requirements under uncertain conditions, but we're sharing a new method that helps us turn our ignorance into progress – The Wall of Ignorance.
By Jessica Pokharel and Alex Humphreys
August 11, 2023
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.
By Guest
August 3, 2023
In this post, Jeffrey Reger reflects on the purposes of, and plans for, the Middle East Studies Association's conference offerings.
By Guest
July 25, 2023
Today’s blog post features excerpts from a conversation with Erin McGuirl, Executive Director for The Bibliographical Society of America, about her involvement in the Future of Scholarly Meetings cohort.
By Guest
July 25, 2023
In this post, Elizabeth Maddox reflects on recent changes in the American Society of Civil Engineers' conference offerings.
By Guest
July 21, 2023
Today’s blog post features excerpts 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.
By Guest
July 18, 2023
A description of JSTOR's collaboration with the social annotation tool Hypothesis, by Alex Humphreys and Jeremy Dean (Hypothesis), in The Scholarly Kitchen.
By Alex Humphreys
March 12, 2023
Explore Code4Lib workshops hosted by the Labs team, ranging from our text analysis platform a new open source framework for essay-creation, from tech to support library access in prison to an inquiry into removal of bias in algorithms.
By Alex Humphreys
February 3, 2023
Announcing the second annual cohort of innovation fellowships at ITHAKA on the JSTOR Labs team.
By Jessica Pokharel
