Roger C. Schonfeld is the managing director for JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services. Launched in 2025, JSTOR Stewardship is a service through which libraries can manage, preserve, and provide access to their archives and special collections, with transformative opportunities to accelerate their collections processing productivity and to increase their collections’ usage and impact.  Roger is also responsible for ITHAKA’s overall organizational strategy. 

Throughout his career, much of Roger’s work has focused on innovation and sustainability for the shared infrastructure that makes possible the work of libraries, publishers, museums, and the research enterprise. At Ithaka S+R, Roger developed research and advisory programs that helped libraries and publishers transform their service offerings based on the needs of users and changes in the information marketplace. 

Roger is an author of the 2024 Ithaka S+R report on “The Second Digital Transformation of Scholarly Publishing: Strategic Context and Shared Infrastructure.” With Deanna Marcum, he wrote Along Came Google: A History of Library Digitization (Princeton University Press, 2021), examining structural impediments to digital strategy and the role of an outside catalyst in fostering digitization among research libraries. He also wrote JSTOR: A History (Princeton, 2003), focusing on the development of a sustainable not-for-profit initiative for the digitization and preservation of scholarly texts.

Roger blogs regularly about libraries and publishing at the Scholarly Kitchen and currently serves as a board member for the Center for Research Libraries. Previously, he has served on the NSF Blue Ribbon Task Force for Sustainable Digital Preservation and Access and NISO’s Open Discovery Initiative. Roger has testified before the US House of Representatives on government publishing, advocating for strong approaches to digital preservation.

Roger was previously a research associate at The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. There, he collaborated on The Game of Life: College Sports and Academic Values with James Shulman and William G. Bowen (Princeton, 2000). He was an Association of Research Libraries Leadership Fellow and received degrees in library and information science from Syracuse University and in English Literature from Yale University.