This presentation was part of a Roundtable on Scholarly Publishing and its Digital Futures, the description of which is below. For my contribution, i described four themes that govern how JSTOR Labs approaches change and thus tries to shape or at least point to the future of scholarly communication. The digital transformation of humanistic scholarship and unprecedented access to digitized and digital sources not only impacts our methodologies for research and education, it also requires us to rethink the way critical work and scholarly resources get published and communicated. Important issues such as peer review, collaboration, multimodal textuality, embedded access to sources and dynamic visualizations, or sustainability are at the core of considerations that reshape scholarly publishing. This roundtable will offer insights into these transformations from scholarly, library, university press, and scholarly resource perspectives.

1. HOW JSTOR LABS
THINKS ABOUT CHANGE
Roundtable on Scholarly Publishing and its Digital Futures:
German Studies Association 2017 Annual Conference
Oct 6, 2017
@abhumphreys
Alex Humphreys, JSTOR Labs

2. ITHAKA is a not-for-profit organization that helps the academic
community use digital technologies to preserve the scholarly record
and to advance research and teaching in sustainable ways.
JSTOR is a not-for-profit
digital library of academic
journals, books, and
primary sources.
Ithaka S+R is a not-for-profit
research and consulting
service that helps academic,
cultural, and publishing
communities thrive in the
digital environment.
Portico is a not-for-profit
preservation service for
digital publications, including
electronic journals, books,
and historical collections.
Artstor provides 2+ million
high-quality images and
digital asset management
software to enhance
scholarship and teaching.

3. JSTOR Labs works with partner publishers, libraries and
labs to create tools for researchers, teachers and students
that are immediately useful – and a little bit magical.

4. 1. We’re all in this future-thing together.

5. labs.jstor.org/shakespeare
UNDERSTANDING SHAKESPEARE
Pick a play. Click a line. Instantly see articles on JSTOR
that quote that line.

6. 1. We’re all in this future-thing together.

7. 2. We’re not getting there in one step.

8. REIMAGINING
THE MONOGRAPH
Can we improve the
experience and value of
long-form scholarship?
Aug-Sep: User Research
Oct: Workshop
Nov: Build Prototype
Dec: Release Paper/Prototype

9. labs.jstor.org/topicgraph
TOPICGRAPH
Understand at a glance the topics covered in a book.
Jump straight to pages about topics you’re researching.

10. ITERATING, ITERATING, ITERATING, ITERATING, ITERA

11. 2. We’re not getting there in one step.

12. 3. Tech’s cool, but it’s not just the tech.

13. www.jstor.org/analyze
TEXT ANALYZER
Use your own document to search for articles and books.

14. 3. Tech’s cool, but it’s not just the tech.

15. 4. Share your work early & often.

16. THE NEW THING
No tagline yet. It’s new.
www.notliveyet.com

17. 4. Share your work early & often.

18. Thank you
Alex Humphreys
Director, JSTOR Labs
ITHAKA
labs.jstor.org
@abhumphreys
alex.humphreys@ithaka.org

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