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⚽ 🤕 Sports and concussions are deeply connected. But what do humanities and social science scholars have to say about them? In Head in the Game: Critical Sociocultural Analyses of Sports Concussion by Manchester University Press, the authors examine the sociocultural factors that have shaped the concussion crisis in sport. 📖 Start reading for free through the Path to Open program: https://bit.ly/3V06xwr

💡 Educators and librarians, go beyond the basic keyword search! Join us for our one-hour webinar, An Introduction to Research on #JSTOR, and learn how to explore primary sources from contributing collections including text, image, audio, and video files as well as examine secondary source content with the JSTOR Research Tool. See you on August 28th 1PM ET! Save your spot here: https://bit.ly/416SLMa Image: Peter Forakis. 1, 2, 3, Infinity. 1966. Visual Arts Legacy Collection.

🎧 Looking for your next great #podcast? It’s right here at JSTOR Daily! Tune into the award-winning series, Conversations on Intellectual Humility, where scholars explore this powerful concept in dialogue with thought leaders who bring it to life in their communities. All 7 episodes are available now—the perfect listen for anyone who’s intellectually curious!: https://bit.ly/4dQI9WS

🍉 ☀️ Make your summer fruitful by publishing your teaching ideas with JSTOR! Imagine becoming a featured author on the #JSTORBlog or JSTOR Daily and boosting your publication portfolio. Find collaboration work examples and submission guidelines here: https://bit.ly/41zD2pp Image: Severin Roesen. Still Life: Fruit. 1855. The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

In case you missed #InternationalCatDay (or even if you didn’t—because who says it can only be once a year?), it’s never too late to adore some meowsterpieces on Artstor on #JSTOR. 🐱🐾 Share your favorite cat images on social media with the hashtag #CatsOfJSTOR! 🐈 🖼️ See more of our editor’s #OpenAccess picks on the #JSTORBlog: https://bit.ly/3WFDsXz Image: Seated Cat. 1890. The Cleveland Museum of Art.

JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services offers a curated solution for each institution’s digital collection. But don’t just take our word for it—hear from someone who’s used the tool! Lael Ensor-Bennett, Curator of the Visual Resources Collection at The Johns Hopkins University, shares her experience with JSTOR’s cloud-based platform for building, cataloging, and publishing unique digital collections. Read her full story here: https://bit.ly/3JsNUPb Image: A Thanksgiving for the decreasing and hope of the removing of the plague : being a sermon preached at St. Pauls in London, upon the 1. of January, 1636. Rare Books of the George Peabody Library, Johns Hopkins Digital Collections.

Big Ten universities are coming together to promote open scholarship and transform how academic resources are shared. The latest Big Ten Open Books collection is now live and open to all. Explore 100+ free, fully accessible titles from leading university presses. 🔗 bigtenopenbooks.org

📰 What can cartoons in a prison newsletter tell you about daily life in the prison in the 1950s? As simple as this question might sound, it’s a great way to get students exploring primary sources. In the latest JSTOR Daily teaching article, you’ll find tips on guiding in-class conversations, where to locate free primary source collections on #JSTOR, and how to integrate them into engaging activities—all ready for you to use: https://bit.ly/4mh3e0a Image: The Angolite. 1959. Volume 7, Issue 22, page 9. Reveal DIgital.

Feeling the heat? The dog days of summer just got a little more bearable thanks to open access art. ☀️ 🐕 This ceramic Colima pup—seated, serene, and over 1,500 years old—is part of The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s open access collection on JSTOR. Whether you're interested in ancient Mesoamerican sculpture or impressionist paintings, you can explore thousands of works of art, freely and fully. Browse the full collection: https://bit.ly/4lk3jik Image: Seated Dog, Colima, 200 BCE–300 CE. Ceramic. The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

We'll be at the Society of American Archivists Annual Meeting this year! 📍 Join us at booths 607 and 608 to learn about the latest products and initiatives JSTOR and ITHAKA are developing to better serve your library during this time of rapid technological transformation. Learn how we could advance digital collection stewardship through innovative tools that accelerate descriptive metadata creation, streamline collection management, and ensure long-term preservation.