ITHAKA

We are a not-for-profit with a mission to improve access to knowledge and education for people around the world. We believe education is key to the well-being of individuals and society, and we work to make it more effective and affordable.

What we do

We help make higher education and access to knowledge more affordable; we improve outcomes for students and researchers; and we preserve knowledge for future generations.

  1. Knowledge for everyone

    Technology offers us unprecedented opportunities to deliver knowledge affordably to a global community. Through our digital libraries and learning platforms, we deliver uninterrupted access to collections from academic libraries, publishers, and museums around the world to millions of students, teachers, and researchers in 180 countries.

  2. College access, affordability, and student success

    Everyone deserves access to higher education, regardless of their economic resources and circumstances. Our research and advising focuses on how colleges and universities can enroll and better serve underrepresented and low-income students to help them thrive and graduate.

  3. Preservation and collections

    Knowledge builds on the past. As we work to improve access to knowledge today, we are equally concerned about preserving it for the future. We provide sustainable preservation services for libraries and publishers as well as research and guidance on collection and preservation strategies.

  4. Innovation in research and teaching

    As technology continues to advance, so do our opportunities to overcome barriers and conduct research and teach in new ways. Our teams develop and scale innovative approaches for scholars and students to gain insights from vast stores of information and from one another.

  5. Empowering others

    We multiply our impact by empowering others to bring change to their organizations, campuses, and communities. We bring leaders together, share best practices, and put tools into the hands of those working with students and researchers every day to deliver insight and improve outcomes.

Our services

We help institutions and individuals accelerate the impact of research and learning through diverse services.
Journals, books, images, and primary sources on a platform for teaching and connecting ideas
about.jstor.org
Media for teaching and learning from the world’s leading museums, artists, and scholars
artstor.org
Community-supported preservation of e‑journals, e‑books, and digital collections
portico.org
Collaborative strategies and research for higher education and the arts
sr.ithaka.org

Highlights

Supporting higher education in prisons

The JSTOR Labs team is collaborating with a small cohort of prison programs to pilot new, creative mechanisms to make JSTOR content available for use in prison education.

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The impact of Open Access Latin American scholarship

JSTOR digitized 700 out-of-print titles from El Colegio de México Press and shared them as Open Access. This project served as a foundation for further work on the Open Access dissemination of Latin American scholarship.

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Rare Civil Rights recordings made freely available

Tuskegee University had a large cache of reel-to-reel tapes featuring leaders of the Civil Rights Movement addressing the community. The collection was digitized and is now freely available to the world in Artstor’s public collections.

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Assessing the impact of state policies on degree attainment

The opportunity to pursue higher education varies widely by students’ race and socioeconomic background. Ithaka S+R is consulting with state policymakers and creating policy briefs and analytical tools to help improve equity in attainment.

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