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Workspace: Uploading Items

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Uploaded items tab in JSTOR Workspace

In addition to saving what you find on JSTOR, you can supplement content in your Workspace by uploading your own images through the Uploaded items tab.

Note: If you previously uploaded items to a Personal Collection on Artstor, you’ll find them in the Uploaded items tab in your Workspace on JSTOR. See Your Artstor Personal Collections on JSTOR for more.

Your uploaded content can be used with all of the tools available in Workspace including:

An illustration of an orchid from an open collection on JSTOR compared alongside a uploaded photograph of an orchid using full screen compare mode
An example comparison of content found on JSTOR (left) with an image uploaded to Workspace (right).

Uploading items to Workspace

To upload items to your Workspace:

  1. Log into your Workspace.
    • If you’re an Artstor user and haven’t logged into JSTOR before, you can use your Artstor username and password.
    • See how to register for a free personal account on JSTOR.
  2. Select the Uploaded items tab.
  3. Select the Upload button.
  4. Drag and drop or select up to ten (10) image files from your computer to upload.
    • JPEG and PNG image files no larger than ten megabytes (10MB) each are supported.
  5. Add metadata such as title, date, or description for each item.
    • While only the Title field is required, adding metadata can help when searching and sorting your items later.
    • Please note, at this time it’s not possible to edit items after uploading, but this feature is planned.
  6. When you’re finished, select the Upload all button.

Once your items have finished uploading, it may take a few moments for them to become visible in your Uploaded items space. Clicking an item thumbnail will take you to the item’s detail page, where you can use the IIIF image viewer to zoom in or out, compare the image alongside other content, or view it in full screen.

Uploaded item detail page

The detail page also includes your item metadata, a stable link to the item (only accessible if the item is added to a folder and shared), and identification of who it was uploaded by.

Organizing and sharing your uploaded items

Items in your Uploaded items tab are visible only to you, including in JSTOR search results, until you choose to add them to a folder in your Workspace and share the folder link with other members of your institution.

Note: Sharing your uploaded items does not make them available to researchers on JSTOR in general. If you wish to submit scholarly content to JSTOR, please see our Editorial Review Process for more information.

To add an uploaded item to a folder in your Workspace:

  1. Log into your Workspace.
    • If you’re an Artstor user and haven’t logged into JSTOR before, you can use your Artstor username and password.
    • See how to register for a free personal account on JSTOR.
  2. Select the Uploaded items tab.
  3. Select the Add to folder button next to an item thumbnail and choose a folder to copy the item into.
    • Your original uploaded item will remain in the Uploaded items tab.
    • As with saving items you find on JSTOR, you can add multiple copies of the same uploaded item to your Workspace folders by selecting the Add to folder button again.
  4. Optionally, share your Workspace folder with other members of your institution.

Tip: Currently, uploaded items can be added to folders one at a time using the Add to folder button. However, because your own uploaded items appear alongside JSTOR content when searching, you can also search for your uploaded items, select one or more from the results, and use the Save button to save them to your Workspace in bulk.

Uploaded items alongside JSTOR content in search results

Deleting uploaded items

At this time, it’s not possible to delete items you upload to your Workspace, but this feature is planned.

As a reminder, uploaded items are not visible by other users until you add them to a shared folder and provide a link to that folder to other members of your institution.

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