JSTOR Resources for Licensing Representatives

• ITHAKA has invested $2.5 million in Anno, the public-benefit corporation that is home to the leading open annotation service Hypothesis. This investment furthers ITHAKA’s mission to expand access to knowledge and education by supporting a key component of open higher education infrastructure: interoperable teaching and learning tools that positively impact student learning outcomes.
   
• In addition to this investment, ITHAKA is working with Anno on a pilot project with a select number of colleges and universities to enable their faculty and students to use Hypothesis to annotate the millions of text-based resources available on JSTOR from within their learning management systems. This will be followed by a broader rollout intended to enable all JSTOR users to easily use Hypothesis for annotation both inside and outside of the classroom.

• The integration between Hypothesis and JSTOR was recently activated for all mutual participants. We are partnering with the Hypothesis marketing team to co-promote the integration, reaching both their non-JSTOR participants, and our participants that do not yet use Hypothesis, in order to build awareness of the benefits of using social annotation with JSTOR content.
   
• We sent an email to JSTOR participants that do not yet use Hypothesis to announce the integration on JSTOR and a special Back to School discount.
   
• On September 14, Hypothesis is hosting a webinar: Mind the Gap: How Hypothesis for JSTOR Bridges Student Engagement & Comprehension. We are promoting the webinar to our participants via email and social media, as well as in the August edition of Library Digest over the next few weeks.

The Hypothesis one-sheet outlines the teaching and learning benefits of using hypothesis with JSTOR content. It also includes a QR code encouraging requests for more information.