Blog Tag: Primary sources

Let’s take a time machine—right at your fingertips—with digital primary sources. Developing digital literacy and primary source analysis skills is essential in higher education, equipping learners not only for academia but also for careers in research, journalism, policy, and beyond.

Primary sources offer direct, unfiltered access to the voices, images, and documents that shape our understanding of the world and its history. And yet, despite their value, primary source literacy remains an ongoing challenge in higher education.

Highlighting key 2025 grant opportunities for libraries to digitize, preserve, and describe collections, including funding for audiovisual materials and community archives. Deadlines and award amounts vary, offering multiple pathways for support.

Accessible knowledge opens the door to education. In 2025, explore JSTOR’s open access collections, featuring art, photographs, and cultural archives that empower visual literacy and interdisciplinary discovery.

Organize, compare, and share your research like never before with JSTOR’s Workspace. Perfect for librarians, faculty, and students, it streamlines resource management and collaboration, making research easier and more efficient.

Discover how educators across various disciplines are creatively using Artstor on JSTOR to enrich their teaching. From ESL to Dance studies, explore 15 inspiring ways high-quality images and media are being integrated into lessons, helping students engage with visual resources in new and innovative ways.

Amplifying marginalized voices through crowdfunding and crowdsourcing in digital archives and libraries. Learn how Reveal Digital's initiative uncovers underrepresented histories with open access collections hosted on JSTOR.

Reveal Digital develops open access primary source collections from underrepresented 20th-century voices of dissent, crowdfunded by libraries. In a session during ER&L’s annual conference, Peggy Glahn, Associate Director of Reveal Digital, discussed the six collections that are currently accessible, and talked about the shift they represent in Open Educational Resources (OERs).