JSTOR Access in Prison passes million-user threshold - News - About JSTOR
peter.suber's bookmarks 2025-03-15
Summary:
"In just over a year, the JSTOR Access in Prison program has doubled its reach in US state and federal prison facilities.
In late 2023, JAIP celebrated reaching 1,000 prisons and providing access to more than 500,000 incarcerated learners. Today, more than one million incarcerated learners can now research, download, and read academic journal articles, books, and other scholarly materials via the JSTOR platform.
The program cleared this astonishing milestone in December 2024 thanks in part to two key agreements. The first, with the Federal Bureau of Prisons, makes JSTOR available inside two federal facilities, reaching thousands of people in federal custody. The JAIP team hopes to expand that to all 200,000 people in the federal prison system by the end of 2025.
The second agreement is an expansion of a 2022 arrangement with the Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation, and Reentry (ADCRR). Originally, the ADCRR agreement made JSTOR available to the approximately 3,000 people enrolled in higher education in prison programs in Arizona. The program was so successful that ADCRR decided to expand access to all of the nearly 40,000 people in custody in the ADCRR system, regardless of whether they are enrolled in educational programming...."