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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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
October 14, 2022
Exploring the constraints governing the design of JSTOR's offline solution for prison education.
By Alex Humphreys
October 5, 2022
Sharing a new JSTOR Labs report, "Supporting the Academic Research Needs of Incarcerated Students: Building JSTOR's Offline Solution for Prison Education."
By Alex Humphreys
October 3, 2022
A JSTOR Labs white paper by Alex Humphreys, Laura Hillegas, Jessica Pokharel and Ronald Snyder.
By Alex Humphreys
July 29, 2022
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.
By Jessica Pokharel
January 7, 2022
We’re excited to announce the 2022 inaugural cohort of innovation fellowships.
By Jessica Pokharel
October 8, 2021
We are seeking to hire two new team members to contribute to our JSTOR Access in Prison Initiative.
By Alex Humphreys
October 8, 2021
The Mellon Foundation awards $1.5 million to ITHAKA to make JSTOR accessible to college students who are incarcerated.
By Alex Humphreys
October 8, 2021
Carina Chan, a student at Sheffield University, shares her experience using JSTOR Labs' Juncture for Kent Maps Online.
By Guest
September 20, 2021
Introducing Juncture, a free-to-use, open source framework for creating engaging visual essays.
By Alex Humphreys
April 2, 2021
We are thrilled to announce the release of Plant Humanities Lab, a new resource aiming to explore the cultural histories of plants and their influence on human societies.
By Alex Humphreys
December 17, 2020
Carolyn Oulton from Canterbury Christ Church University introduces Kent Maps Online.
By Alex Humphreys
November 3, 2020
JSTOR Labs has received a grant from The National Endowment for the Humanities for two national Text Analysis Pedagogy (TAP) Institutes.
By Guest
October 28, 2020
Summary of a workshop held at the 2019 Charleston Conference, by Alex Humphreys, Curtis Michelson, Heather Staines, Geoffrey Timms and Caroline Muglia, in Charleston Technology and Trends
By Alex Humphreys
October 19, 2020
Announcing a new project funded by Ascendium Education Philanthropy that will allow us to expand our current work on increasing access to quality educational resources for higher education in prison.
By Alex Humphreys
September 11, 2020
A quick history of JSTOR’s support for prison education programs and a description of our current Mellon-funded project to expand that support.
By Alex Humphreys
September 11, 2020
The journey that led to a simple and amazing JSTOR Labs website using the Ghost platform.
By Guest
September 10, 2019
Post #3 on JSTOR Labs Discovery Process: How we root our investigations in the users we're trying to help.
By Jessica Pokharel
August 20, 2019
Post #2 on JSTOR Labs Discovery Process: How we define the area we want to explore.
By Alex Humphreys
