In 2026, we’re excited to welcome @martinkurzweil.bsky.social as the new managing director of Ithaka S+R. With over 20 years of experience, Martin brings a leadership and results-driven focus that will carry us forward to even further mission impact. Read more: sr.ithaka.org/blog/announc...

Announcing new leadership for Ithaka S+R. After 9 transformative years, Catharine Bond Hill will transition from managing director to senior advisor. We’re so grateful to Cappy for her incredible leadership, and thrilled that she’ll continue to contribute to our work. sr.ithaka.org/blog/announc...

Hey look! My @ithakasr.bsky.social colleagues wrote a research report on the development of transferexplorer.org (which I'm the lead dev on so it's basically been my whole work life the past few years) : sr.ithaka.org/publications...

NEW: Over the past two years, my JSTOR colleagues and I have been partnering with librarians & archivists to co-create a "collections processing tool"—a new kind of service that empowers practitioners to expand discovery & impact of distinctive collections at scale. about.jstor.org/blog/what-is...

How do transcripts transform discovery and access? In a new post, Syed Amaanullah shares how transcript functionality in JSTOR Seeklight helps institutions boost the impact of text-based collections while keeping human expertise at the center. Read more: https://bit.ly/3IMAVrH

In this @libraryjournal.bsky.social interview, Roger Schonfeld (@rschon.bsky.social), managing director of JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services, discusses how his team is helping libraries and archives manage backlogs, safeguard collections, and expand access. Read the Q&A: bit.ly/4nJVjJ9

I'm incredibly grateful to @lisapeet.bsky.social of @libraryjournal.bsky.social for all the recent coverage of archives and preservation, including this interview with me about @jstor.bsky.social Digital Stewardship Services. www.libraryjournal.com/story/progra...

The @mellon.org‬ Foundation used a $700,000 grant to try to address a big problem for a small world—the growing abundance of academic journals and back issues. Three decades later @jstor.bsky.social‬ is a powerhouse, bringing in nearly $90 million in revenues. https://phlnthrp.com/4p1ABpd

I am incredibly excited about our launch of @jstor.bsky.social Publisher Collections, which will dramatically increase access to scholarly monographs through an innovative new model based on tiered annual participation fees for both front-list and back-list books. about.jstor.org/blog/a-new-m...

"The archival field has been navigating the shift from bespoke, individualized practices to scalable, systemic solutions informed by field-wide, best practices/standards, all while contending w/ the on-the-ground realities of fragmented workflows+limited resources" about.jstor.org/wp-content/u...

Guest Post — What is the Current State of Academic e-book Business Models? scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/08/14/g...

The Current State of Academic E-Book Business Models New Report 📚 sr.ithaka.org/blog/the-cur...

The special issue, Networking Networks: A Festschrift in Honor of Clifford Lynch, guest edited by Joan K. Lippincott, is available as an open access supplement to portal: Libraries and the Academy via Project Muse 📔 muse.jhu.edu/issue/55108 We are grateful to all who made this tribute possible!

"The original motivation for GetFTR came in response to a stark presentation by Roger Schonfeld at the Frankfurt STM meeting in 2015..." 1/ www.researchinformation.info/analysis-opi...

Shared infrastructure must activate the benefits of cross-institutional scale in ways that preserve and advance academic values without sacrificing innovation and agility. scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/06/18/r...

Loved this! Shared infrastructure is the quiet hero of trustworthy research. JSTOR has set such a strong example, curious to see what’s next! What’s one collection you think deserves more spotlight right now?

As @rschon.bsky.social takes on a role at @jstor.bsky.social Digital Stewardship Services, he reflects on 20 years of #research on libraries, scholarly communication, and distinctive collections at Ithaka S+R.

Insightful @rschon.bsky.social for @scholarlykitchen.bsky.social this am on shared infrastructure-- looking back at JSTOR projects and what's ahead. So impt as distinctive collections become ever more valuable in a world of questionable content. scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/06/18/r...

🎉 We turn 30 this year! Join the conversation with longtime ITHAKA team member @rschon.bsky.social—recently named Managing Director of JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services—as he reflects on JSTOR’s journey from its beginnings to today and what lies ahead on @jstordaily.bsky.social: bit.ly/4kNJX5P

Roger Schonfeld (@rschon.bsky.social) has long guided libraries, archives, & museums through change. We're proud to share he's now managing director of JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services. Please join us in extending our warmest congratulations and gratitude! Learn more: bit.ly/45xWXHD

Libraries told us the challenges in digital collection stewardship—so we built a solution with our community. Introducing JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services:
A cloud-based platform integrating processing, digital asset management, preservation, and access. Read the announcement: bit.ly/4cjfr00

Thanks to @ithakasr.bsky.social and @jstor.bsky.social for their work on these important issues.

Today, my colleagues and I at @ithaka-org.bsky.social are announcing the launch of @jstor.bsky.social Digital Stewardship Services -- a set of tools designed for libraries and archives to process and make discoverable the vast and growing collections that remain hidden from view. 1/

"Ultimately, the transition beyond single title purchase models for ebooks seems to be picking up, suggesting a sort of second digital transformation for the monograph..." @rschon.bsky.social scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/03/19/s...

A Second Digital Transformation for Scholarly Monographs? - great piece by @rschon.bsky.social via @scholarlykitchen.bsky.social scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/03/19/s...

Today, Molecular Connections announced that it has purchased Morressier. My analysis is in the @scholarlykitchen.bsky.social this morning. scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/01/29/m...

Constructive and disturbing reflections about the extent of fraud and misconduct in the Alzheimer's field, which has surely slowed progress to treatment and prevention, at enormous human cost. Science needs to be trustworthy. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/24/o...

Phil Davis's post in @scholarlykitchen.bsky.social today makes the point that having a vague and unenforced data availability policy is perhaps worse than having no policy at all. scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2025/01/17/d...

Shout out and gratitude to @rouhiroo.bsky.social for tweeting (skying?) #APE2025 - thank you!

@rschon.bsky.social "we're not going to talk article atomization -- separating all the relevant bits and making them FAIR. Nothing is inevitable just bc it's possible -- discussion will focus on focus that could drive change/stability" #APE2025

I fear that publishers are not able to give enough focus to ensuring trust and integrity in the scientific record, nor are they prepared to incorporate research security policy implications adequately into product strategy. #APE2025 #APE25

Caroline Sutton, STM Association CEO, gave the opening keynote here at Academic Publishing in Europe. She spoke about key strategic, policy, and tech developments from the past twenty years and what is coming next for scholarly publishing.

"More than 100 German universities and research institutions have entered into a national agreement with MDPI... The agreement includes substantial discounts on ... APCs [and] and a flat-fee model that enables institutions to precisely plan expenses" www.mdpi.com/about/announ...

Big news and more market consolidation, Sage Acquires the Scientific and Medical Publisher Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. home.liebertpub.com/news/sage-ac...

Scholarly publishers are licensing their content to train LLMs. For @natureportfolio.bsky.social, I wrote about a tracker that @rschon.bsky.social and team made to catalogue these deals—and some of the early trends they're observing. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Internet Archive is not pursuing an appeal to the Supreme Court for Hachette. www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

For regular updates about the work across our whole team here at Ithaka S+R, please follow @ithakasr.bsky.social

From the NAS president: "Although scientists must never shirk their duty to provide the foundation of evidence that can guide policy decisions..., they must avoid the tendency to imply that science dictates policy. It is up to elected officials to determine policy" www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

The State of the Humanities sr.ithaka.org/blog/reflect... @ithakasr.bsky.social

How Bluesky, Alternative to X and Facebook, Is Handling Explosive Growth www.nytimes.com/2024/11/17/t...

For those new to Bluesky, here's a starter pack of current (and former) Scholarly Kitchen Chef accounts you may wish to follow. go.bsky.app/6Q7pwT6

My analysis of this week's big news in scholarly publishing: scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2024/10/28/s...

Academics, this is an important resource 👇👇

Important work from @ithakasr.bsky.social: Generative AI Licensing Agreement Tracker "To understand the dynamics around this fast-developing market, Ithaka S+R has launched a tracker of these licensing deals." sr.ithaka.org/our-work/gen...

Intriguing.

Several scholarly publishers are licensing their content at scale to companies that are building large language models (LLMs). Today, my colleagues Maya Dayan and Dylan Ruediger and I are releasing the first edition of a tracker of these deals. scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2024/10/15/l...

Great to see that Annie Callanan will be leading @ebsco Information Services. She is a talented leader in our community who sees the big picture and appreciates the responsibilities that the information sector holds. What fantastic news for EBSCO. www.businesswire.com/news/home/20...

As chair of the search committee, I am delighted to be able to share the position profile for the next President of the Center for Research Libraries. Is this you? Or someone you know? Please share this opportunity widely. www.imsearch.com/open-searche...

In today’s political environment, both libraries and universities have been at the heart of controversy. Today, @ithakasr.bsky.social published a report by Ess Pokornowski and me examining the impact of this polarization at public research university libraries. sr.ithaka.org/publications...

Really smart fr @rschon.bsky.social on @scholarlykitchen.bsky.social, picking apart some of the driving assumptions & postures in scholarly research-pub-library nexus that may be really contradictory to purpose. How to get to necessary collaboration? scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2024/03/05/s...