Illustration courtesy of Daniel Longan, April 2022.
Equipping learners with information literacy is essential to supporting their success, but with limited access to educational materials or technology, students in prison often cannot build those key skills.
The JSTOR Access in Prison initiative offers students on the inside online and offline access to JSTOR’s extensive and ever-growing library of peer-reviewed journal articles, scholarly ebooks, and open research reports, granting them research experience commensurate with that of a traditional college.
If you’re interested in bringing JSTOR access to a jail or prison you work with, we’ve outlined the following steps. Schedule a consultation with us to review any questions you may have about the initiative or JSTOR implementation in jails, prisons, or detention centers.
Our mission
We believe that a freely available library of high-quality educational content can counter the growing impact of for-profit education and technology solutions in prison and play a positive role in helping to lower the cost and improve the outcomes for people in prison-based education programs.
The JSTOR Access in Prison collection contains the same respected corpus of secondary literature available to students on the outside.
How to get started
- Locate an IT professional from your partnering Department of Corrections facility. We can review security requirements and coordinate the whitelisting of jstor.org or pep.jstor.org.
- Receive permission from your higher education institution. Institutions already using JSTOR with active licensing agreements do not need to sign new agreements.
- Provide the new IP address and identify if the site will use jstor.org or the mediated version, pep.jstor.org.
- Designate a list of administrators and reviewers. Set them up in the system. If your site needs more than just a few, we can set it up for you.