We’ll share a recap of 2020, including how we helped institutions and students meet the challenges of remote teaching, a roundup of the new content we released (much of it free), and share findings and future plans for our pilot program of Artstor images on JSTOR. Karen McKeown is Director of Product Marketing at ITHAKA. In her role she manages a team devoted to connecting libraries and their patrons with the products and services provided through JSTOR, Artstor, and Portico. Jason Przybylski is Associate Director of Primary Sources and Community Collections at JSTOR. He is working as part of a team focused on developing JSTOR’s Open Community Collections initiative, with the aim of making digitized special collections more discoverable and accessible. Jason lives in Beacon, NY, with his wife and dog. Deirdre Ryan is the Solutions Owner at JSTOR, where she performs a variety of activities in support of connecting the platform, business, and contributor community. Previously she was Director of JSTOR Forum and led JSTOR’s Primary Source collections at ITHAKA. Since the start of the pandemic she has been living in the beautiful state of Vermont with her father and two cats.

1. JSTOR Forum
User Group
March 24, 2021

2. Jason Przybylski
Associate Director
Open Collections &
Infrastructure
Jason.Przybylski@ithka.org
Speakers
Deirdre Ryan
Solutions Owner
Deirdre.Ryan@ithaka.org
Karen McKeown
Director Product Marketing
Karen.McKeown@ithaka.org

3. Agenda
Forum Product Updates
Update on Publishing to JSTOR
Artstor and JSTOR Update
Next Steps
Q&A

4. JSTOR Forum
Product Updates

5. Goals of JSTOR Forum
2020-2021 product enhancements
Enhancing
management of
projects
Improving user
experience
Iterative
development
Expanding and
improving publishing
options to JSTOR
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6. JSTOR Forum
Enhancements for VRA
User Group Meeting
● Continuous Discovery
● Admin & Cataloger Merge
● Project Settings
● Lists
● Support for Rights & License Badges
● Banner and logo for institutional
landing page
● Collection landing page
PLACE IMAGE HERE
Burges Plan. Scheme 3 for Trinity College (Hartford CT): Four Quads in Line

7. Goal: To engage with our Forum
users to understand their
workflows, likes, pain points and
more.
Continuous Discovery
Interviews

8. Admin &
Cataloger Merge
Goal: Provide a
streamlined way for
administrators to access
essential admin activities
in a single Forum app
(forum.jstor.org)

9. Admin & Cataloger
Merge: Project Settings
Goal: Project settings are
now available within each
project. The "Project
Settings" button is located
on the right hand of the
screen next to the “Add”
button. Only administrators
see and have access to
these settings.

11. Admin & Catalog
Merge: Lists
Goal: You can manage
your terms, field
definitions, and list users
all in one place! Previously,
users would need to go to
admin to add a new field,
edit their fields, and add
list users. Now users are
one click away and the
change is instantaneous.

13. Support for Rights and
License Badges on
JSTOR
Goal: Allow you to publish to
JSTOR with the appropriate
Creative Commons and
RightsStatements.org badges

14. Improvements to
banner and logo
image quality
Goal: To improve the
quality of banner image
and logo for the
institutional landing page.

15. Collection
Landing Page
Goal: We changed the
banner image to a hero
image to improve the
collection landing page.
We also added the ability
to add a caption.

16. Upcoming releases
Goal: To better understand the
needs, goals, and pain points of
our users SO THAT we may
research new Forum user
personas, get feedback on
product concepts, and inform
product direction.
● Metadata Importer Tool
● Improved Usage Statistics
● Additional Organizational Structures
● Streamlined Workflows
● Accessibility

17. Publishing to
JSTOR

18. Why JSTOR
Making this content available in the
JSTOR channel will increase its usage
footprint and make those collections
more discoverable to researchers
globally.
Co-locating these primary source
collections alongside the important
secondary literature (journal articles,
book chapters, research reports) already
on the JSTOR platform will allow
researchers to find this content in context
and make the research process more
seamless.

19. Why JSTOR
A growing set of images on JSTOR,
including open Artstor collections,
Community Collections, JSTOR
Primary Sources, and Reveal Digital
Tools for working with images will be
introduced in the coming months to
support research and teaching

20. Open Community
Collections
A continuously expanding set of primary
source materials, covering a wide variety
of subjects, contributed by libraries,
museums, and archives around the
world.
Initiative began in 2020
New collections and contributors added
daily
Find it:
https://about.jstor.org/open-community-
collections/

21. Bard College
Montgomery Place Campus Collection: Mushroom Drawings of Violetta White Delafield
Where Are We Now
● 200+ collections from 56 Forum participants
● No additional cost
● Support public & institutional collections
● Easy to publish and manage
● JSTOR will set up collections for publishing
● Harvesting content from CONTENTdm,
DSpace, Islandora, Internet Archive, etc.
● Indexed in Google
● Syndicating to discovery services (April)

22. ~465K item requests
Accessed from ~6,800
institutions worldwide
~52% of all item
requests came from
users without an
institutional affiliation

23. Measuring
Impact

24. Publishing Your Collection to JSTOR

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40. Artstor and JSTOR
Update

41. Unprecedented demand and impact - expanded access
5,200+ institutions
from 124 countries have opted in to
our expanded access Archives, Books
and Artstor (750+ institutions)
38 million item requests
and usage continues to grow
12,000+ institutions
have used COVID-related journals and
articles we made freely available
2.3 million registrations
for our free-to-read program
Usage (item requests) increased 14.4% 2020 v 2019

42. New: Artstor images now
on JSTOR
As of today, more than 2.4 million images from
leading museums, photo archives, scholars, and
artists are discoverable on JSTOR
More content and tools for working and teaching
with images coming throughout 2021
The Great Wave, Katsushika Hokusai (Japanese, Tokyo (Edo)
1760-1849 Tokyo (Edo)), The Metropolitan Museum of Art
https://www.jstor.org/site/artstor/

43. Research Better
By combining essential
scholarship and primary sources
in the same environment, JSTOR
strengthens the depth and quality
of research, inspires innovative
connections, and sparks
unexpected discoveries.
MLA Zimbabwe African National
Union. Zimbabwe News, Special
Issue, Vol. 19, No. 4, 1988
Imperial Defence. 1890. Aswan, As Sa'id, Egypt: Nubian
tomb, detail of cupola

44. JSTOR Search &
Discovery Investments
Significant investments being made
throughout 2020 & 2021 in search and
discovery
● Search relevancy enhancements via
iterative process with measurable user
experience improvements
● Artstor Browse and the Collections
Browse page for exploration across
collections
● Coming in next few weeks: Image
search on JSTOR and further
enhancements to browse experiences

45. Search and discovery - Collections
Visual presentation improvements to aid user exploration
Increasing use and exposure of collections
● Relevance changes to aid Forum-published content and images
● Indexing more fields
● Increased impressions for images in first page results
● Google indexing of image content
Coming soon: more targeted search options for all collections, layout and
metadata experiments to drive usage and awareness

46. Spotlighting images
and primary sources
JSTOR.org - spotlighting
image content and linking to
Browse pages, eventually
Image search
jstor.org/site/artstor/ - browse
Artstor
jstor.org/site/collection-list/ -
browse all collections
Preview of Image search (not
released)

47. Tell us about your collections
Do you have interesting insights to share with our library
community about collections you have contributed to
JSTOR? Monthly highlights in JSTOR Library Digest &
other opportunities.
Let us know: Karen.McKeown@ithaka.org

48. User Experience Team Seeks your Input
Actively seeking librarians with Artstor Administrator
access to provide feedback to help improve usage
reporting and administrative experience on the
integrated platform ($100 Amazon gift card)
Sign up for a 1 hour session:
https://calendly.com/jstor/artstor-integration-admin-conversation?month=2021-
03
OR, sign up to be contacted
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScC1R482-SgoK-o7K3_rcWkxTdQ
OblFp0vaYdFNwg8A5V-yEg/viewform

49. Deirdre Ryan
Solutions Owner
Deirdre.Ryan@ithaka.org
Jason Przybylski
Associate Director, Open Collections &
Infrastructure
Jason.Przybylski@ithka.org
Karen McKeown
Director Product Marketing
Karen.McKeown@ithaka.org
Thank you