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May 20, 2025 — In addition to this week's NewsBreaks article and the monthly NewsLink Spotlight, Information Today, Inc. (ITI) offers Weekly News Digests that feature recent product news and company announcements. Watch for additional coverage to appear in the next print issue of Information Today.
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JSTOR Celebrates Its 30th Birthday
Maria Papadouris, content and community engagement manager for ITHAKA, writes the following in “30 Years of JSTOR: How a Library Shelf Crisis Sparked a Global Archive”: In 1995, JSTOR launched with a mission that felt radical at the time: digitize scholarly journals and make them accessible online to researchers and educators everywhere. As we mark JSTOR’s 30th anniversary in 2025, we’re looking back at how it all began and why that vision continues to matter, especially for the humanities and social sciences. … The [JSTOR] logo, with its ornate, illuminated ‘J’ and classical styling, bridged tradition and innovation. It signaled that JSTOR, while revering the methods of scholarship’s past, hoped to preserve and build upon it in new, enduring ways. … JSTOR was built at a moment of crisis: libraries were running out of space, journal costs were rising, and smaller institutions were being priced out of access to scholarship. But behind that practical challenge was a larger question: Who gets to participate in the conversation of knowledge? For more information, read the blog post.
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