The University of Wyoming (UW) has joined JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services as a Tier 2 participant and will transition key digital collections into JSTOR’s integrated environment for management, preservation, and access.

Home to digital collections focused on rare and non-circulating publications, as well as an institutional repository of student publications, open educational resources, open-access faculty publications, and other forms of gray literature, UW is partnering with JSTOR to better align its digital collections work with institutional goals of increasing access to its unique holdings. As Stewardship participants, they will use JSTOR’s digital asset management system, gain long-term preservation via Portico, and have the ability to expand reach and discovery by sharing materials on JSTOR.

Working with JSTOR’s professional migration team, UW will spend the next year relocating certain collections, including part of the WyoScholar institutional repository—featuring faculty, student, and staff research—as well as WyoDigital, which brings together historical maps, books, photographs, audiovisual materials, UW yearbooks, and manuscripts. These materials will move from the university’s previous DSpace system into JSTOR’s cloud-hosted platform. Future plans include expanding the College of Agriculture, Life Sciences, & Natural Resources digital collections.

“The Libraries are thrilled to partner with JSTOR to elevate the visibility, discovery, and long-term stewardship of our digital collections,” according to Chad Hutchens, Chair of UW Libraries Digital & Distinctive Collections. “This collaboration strengthens our commitment to connecting students, researchers, and communities worldwide with the unique materials that define Wyoming’s scholarly and cultural record. Through JSTOR’s powerful discovery pathways and preservation infrastructure, we’re making our collections more findable, accessible, and impactful than ever before.” 

“UW’s commitment to building sustainable infrastructure that strengthens both long-term care and discovery is exactly what JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services is designed to enable,” said Andy Utterback, Senior Business Development Manager, JSTOR Stewardship. “We’re excited to work alongside them in this transition and help maximize the impact of their collections.”

The University of Wyoming (UW) is a public land-grant research university in Laramie, Wyoming. Founded in 1887, it is the state’s only four-year university, enrolling around 12,000 students. UW earned its Research Level 1 (R1) status in 2025. 

JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services is a seamless, cloud-hosted platform that unites digital asset management, long-term preservation, and expanded discovery pathways—including sharing on JSTOR—with the AI-assisted collections processing tools of JSTOR Seeklight.