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Reveal Digital develops open primary source collections from under-represented 20th-century voices of dissent, crowdfunded by libraries.
The editors of JSTOR Daily have brought together items on JSTOR from various collections to tell stories about historical or current events, material culture, poetry and prose. Use the search feature to find a Daily article related to your own research interests.
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Our Images on JSTOR lesson plan can be copied and adapted for your own use as needed. Each lesson plan contains key points about JSTOR's features, suggested activities for students, and links to relevant training videos and support pages. We will periodically update these resources as the JSTOR platform continues to evolve.
On JSTOR the category “academic content” in the refine results sidebar contains secondary sources. This is generally scholarly content in the form of journal articles, books chapters and research reports provided by publishers and research institutes. The category “primary sources” is reserved for content provided by contributing archives, museums, , and other collections. The types of content include historical publications, theses and dissertations, images, videos, serials, oral histories, diaries, letters, postcards and other documents.
Please review Getting Permissions for Content on JSTOR on support.jstor.org In addition, check the metadata of the images in question for the contact information for the owner of the image.
The best way to find the open and free image content on JSTOR is to search by Collections under the Browse menu on any page and then choose Open Collections | JSTOR. See also Open and free content on JSTOR
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