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Managing Institutional Access to JSTOR's AI-enabled Features

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Note: JSTOR's AI-enabled dynamic search mode will be available on or after October 7, 2026. If you previously opted out or disabled institutional access to the AI research tool, dynamic search will not be enabled for your institution.

About JSTOR’s AI-enabled features

AI research tool

JSTOR’s AI research tool employs AI and other technologies to enhance research and discovery of JSTOR’s content. It can highlight key points and arguments in a text, recommend related JSTOR content (it does not access resources outside of JSTOR), suggest thematically similar research, and answer questions about the item.

For more information about our approach to the research tool, check out our AI research tool FAQs.

Item page experience for users when access to the tool is disabled and enabled.

Item page experience for users when access to the tool is disabled (left) and enabled (right).

Dynamic search is JSTOR's AI-enabled search experience, designed to help researchers refine an initial query, identify relationships across sources and disciplines, and find related materials. When users perform a dynamic search, multiple parallel searches based on conceptually-similar terms are run, the results are ranked, and the strongest matches out of all available keyword-based matches on JSTOR are returned.

Dynamic search results page with results overview panel and results Q&A features

For information on JSTOR's approach to AI, visit JSTOR and AI.

Managing access to AI features on JSTOR

JSTOR recognizes that institutions have different needs when it comes to AI-driven research tools. Administrators can enable or disable access for all users at your institution through JSTOR Admin.

Institutional access toggle for the research tool in JSTOR Admin

To enable or disable JSTOR's AI-enabled features for your institution:

  1. Log into JSTOR Admin with a personal account that has administrative permissions.
  2. Select Account Information in the sidebar.
  3. Under JSTOR’s Interactive Research Tool, check or uncheck the checkbox.
    • There is no delay after changing this setting; however, if you are already logged into JSTOR, you may need to log out and log in again to see the change reflected in your own browser.
Note: The ability to enable or disable JSTOR's AI tools for an institution is available to non-consortium admins only if access to these features has been activated for that institution. If you don’t see this setting in JSTOR Admin, these features either have not been activated for your institution or you're logged in as a consortium admin and should contact the institution's local admin.

When enabled, users logged into JSTOR through your institution will see the option to perform dynamic searches and use the AI research tool on select journal articles, book chapters, and research reports.

Users will maintain access to traditional keyword search and can also hide the research tool for themselves at any time using an On/Off toggle for the tool itself.

On/off toggle located above the research tool window.

Individual ON/OFF toggle located above the research tool window.

If these features are disabled for your institution, users will not see the option to use them. Please note that if a user has access to JSTOR through multiple institutions, they may still retain access to AI-enabled tools through another institution.

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