Publication
June 9, 2017
Reimagining the Digital Monograph White Paper
A JSTOR Labs white paper by Alex Humphreys, Christina Spencer, Laura Brown, Matthew Loy and Ronald Snyder.
By Alex Humphreys
Notes from the Field
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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Blog Post
March 31, 2017
Lean Ethnography: Is That Even a Thing?
How does a heavyweight research technique like ethnography fit into a lean user research process? Hint: It doesn’t. We cheated. #worthit #sorrynotsorry
By Jessica Pokharel
Blog Post
March 17, 2017
Text Analyzer Video: Amy & Amir
Hear about how Amy and Amir find research they need with this new type of search called Text Analyzer.
By Jessica Pokharel
Blog Post
March 7, 2017
Under the Hood of Text Analyzer
The Text Analyzer is a new way to search JSTOR. Upload your own text or document, and Text Analyzer processes the text to find the most significant topics and named entities in the text and the recommends similar or related content from JSTOR.
By Ron Snyder
Blog Post
March 6, 2017
On Beyond Keyword Search
Introducing Text Analyzer, a new way to search JSTOR.
By Alex Humphreys
Blog Post
February 23, 2017
Imagining the Big Picture
And filling in the details one piece at the time. Introducing Reimagining the Monograph and Topicgraph.
By Alex Humphreys
Blog Post
September 13, 2016
Understanding the US Constitution
Understanding the US Constitution is a free app from JSTOR Labs that enables you to find every article on JSTOR that quotes a given part of the Constitution. This short video shows you how it works.
By Jessica Pokharel
Blog Post
September 7, 2016
The Equalizer
The UX evolution of a new way to filter and sort search results.
By Jessica Pokharel
Blog Post
August 12, 2016
Rembrandt Project Image Matching
In the Exploring Rembrandt project, the JSTOR Labs and Artstor Labs teams looked at the feasibility of using image analysis to match images in the respective repositories.
By Guest
Blog Post
August 5, 2016
Presidential Speeches
Introducing an experiment using JSTOR Labs' matchmaker algorithm on presidential speeches.
By Guest
Blog Post
July 8, 2016
Introducing “Understanding the U.S. Constitution”
Everyone should carry the U.S. Constitution in their pocket.
By Alex Humphreys
Blog Post
June 8, 2016
Exploring Rembrandt
Introducing a new way to find scholarship about Rembrandt's masterpieces.
By Alex Humphreys
Blog Post
June 3, 2016
My Year as a JSTOR Labs Intern
Jake Silva reflects on his time as a Labs intern, exploring ways to make scholarship richer and more accessible for researchers, teachers, students and the general public.
By Guest
Publication
March 17, 2016
JSTOR Sustainability: Serendipity in an Interdisciplinary Field
A paper presented by Florence Lee and Jessica Keup as part of the ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval.
By Jessica Pokharel
Blog Post
January 13, 2016
Seeking Teachers of Poetry to Test our New Annotation Tool
JSTOR Labs needs help from teachers for a new classroom tool for reading and studying poetry.
By Alex Humphreys
Blog Post
October 21, 2015
JSTOR Snap
JSTOR Snap lets you take a picture of any page of text with your smartphone"s camera and discover articles in JSTOR about the same topic. This short video shows you how it works.
By Jessica Pokharel
Blog Post
October 16, 2015
So Many Ideas! So Many Questions!
How JSTOR Labs organizes its program.
By Guest
Blog Post
October 1, 2015
The (Rapid) Evolution of an Idea
JSTOR Sustainability features an innovative method of browsing scholarly articles that have most influenced fields of study. Learn how we developed the tool.
By Jessica Pokharel