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In this closing post of JSTOR’s Second Chance Month series, Elizabeth Shatswell reflects on the transformative power of education, community, and creative expression in the lives of incarcerated individuals.
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Incarcerated writer Shane Bell challenges assumptions about prison education and rehabilitation, arguing for access to learning as a transformative force—even for those who may never leave prison. His powerful essay, part of JSTOR’s Second Chance series, calls for purpose, service, and dignity behind bars.
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Incarcerated writers dave rich and Danny Thomas reveal how education becomes a radical act of resistance within the prison system. Confronting systemic injustice, they transform long sentences into opportunities for mentorship, advocacy, and self-liberation.
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In this JSTOR’s Second Chance Month essay, Michael Munro draws powerful parallels between the structure of roguelike games and his journey through trauma, incarceration, and personal reinvention.
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Through the transformative power of prison-based arts education, Wyatt Reed shares his journey of reclaiming a lost identity, confronting addiction, and rediscovering purpose through creative expression.
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In this Second Chance Month essay, Alexander Bolling reflects on his journey from strategic silence to confident speech, tracing how education, community and persistence helped him claim and share his voice.
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When Alazaron “Laz” Sargeant discovered the poetry of Mahmoud Darwish through a library brought into his prison unit, it sparked a deeper search for meaning—and a powerful wave of creative expression.
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In this Second Chance Month essay, Allen Ivanov reflects on the liberating and isolating power of education in prison, exploring how knowledge—through Shakespeare and critical inquiry—becomes both a burden and a path to self-reclamation.
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In this essay for Second Chance Month, Shane Moffat reflects on early school experiences, the sensory memories of his bus rides, and his enduring love for education, demonstrating the power of access, equity, and memory—even behind prison walls.
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JSTOR’s Path to Open program continues to expand, offering valuable new resources that support teaching, learning, and research in the humanities, arts, and social sciences. These titles, newly published, provide scholars and students with access to high-quality academic content across a range of disciplines. By offering a selection of these titles as open access, the program…
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Vy Thang’s reflection on education challenges idealized notions of utopia shaped by historical trauma and incarceration. His story illustrates how liberal arts learning becomes a powerful act of self-discovery, resistance, and community building.
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JSTOR announced today a new digital collection stewardship solution designed to help libraries and archives describe, preserve, manage, and share their unique collections at scale–—reducing backlogs and increasing discovery. JSTOR Digital Stewardship Services integrates digital asset management, long-term preservation (powered by Portico), increased discovery through JSTOR, and a first-of-its-kind AI-assisted metadata generation tool that accelerates…
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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,…
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Explore new Path to Open titles on JSTOR supporting teaching and research. View February 2025 releases and access options.
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Since 2012, Books at JSTOR has expanded to include over 146,000 scholarly ebooks from 345 global publishers, supporting diverse library needs through flexible acquisition models like Demand Driven Acquisition (DDA) and Evidence Based Acquisition (EBA).
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Explore new Path to Open titles on JSTOR supporting teaching and research. View January 2025 releases and access options.
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For 30 years, JSTOR has expanded access to knowledge through thoughtful, mission-driven choices. This journey has included key adjustments to ensure equity, sustainability, and continued support for research and education worldwide.
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Explore new Path to Open titles on JSTOR supporting teaching and research. View December 2024 releases and access options.
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Effective December 31, 2024, JSTOR will retire its Publisher Sales Service, a program that enables publishers to sell, and individuals to buy, single articles and issues from the journals preserved and hosted by JSTOR. JSTOR began the Publisher Sales Service in the early 2000s to provide access to research to people finding articles on JSTOR…
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JSTOR Daily has received a Silver Anthem Award for excellence in mission-driven news and journalism from the producers of the prestigious Webby Awards. Daily was recognized for its contributions to the fields of Education, Arts & Culture in the News & Journalism category for non-profit institutions. The 2024 Anthem Winners were selected by the International…
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Explore new Path to Open titles on JSTOR supporting teaching and research. View August through October 2024 releases and access options.
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500 higher education institutions offered early access to JSTOR’s AI-powered tool in beta, designed to deepen research and enhance teaching in the humanities, arts, and social sciences. JSTOR, a nonprofit service of ITHAKA, announced today that it is expanding the beta program for its interactive research tool by offering 500 colleges and universities the opportunity…
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JSTOR, the Latin Americanist Research Resources Project (LARRP), and Libreria Garcia Cambeiro have released 100 Open Access titles from the highly respected Argentine publisher, Prometeo Editorial. Now globally accessible on JSTOR, these books span the humanities and social sciences with an emphasis on Argentina and Latin America, filling an important gap in openly accessible scholarship. …
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Innovative program that gives incarcerated students access to scholarly research recognized for its transformative impact The JSTOR Access in Prison Initiative, which enables students inside jails and prisons to access the scholarly journals, books, and primary sources hosted on JSTOR, was honored this week with the 2024 ALPSP Impact Award. The prestigious award is reserved…
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The JSTOR platform is now the official home for the complete Artstor Digital Library, an unmatched collection of rights-cleared images and media for use in teaching and research. Comprised of over 2 million images, videos, panoramas, and audio files contributed by museums, galleries, and other cultural organizations around the world, the collection is now known…
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Discover how Meghan Kelly and the Wyoming Community College Commission secured permanent access to JSTOR’s extensive collection of archival journals and primary sources for seven Wyoming community colleges without recurring fees. A unique one-time payment option made this initiative possible.
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Assessing the Path to Open initiative in a recent webinar by Library Journal and JSTOR. Learn about the collaborative funding model for open access academic monographs developed with ACLS, University of Michigan Press, and The University of North Carolina Press. Key points, updates, and future directions discussed.
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Discover the rise of Central American cinema through insightful essays in “The Rise of Central American Film in the Twenty-First Century.” Explore the dramatic resurgence of filmmaking in the region from Belize to Panama. Learn about JSTOR’s Path to Open pilot program supporting open access publishing for diverse voices in the academic world.
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JSTOR is now partnering with Schweitzer Fachinformationen, a leading library service provider, to sell ebooks to academic and public libraries in Germany. Schweitzer serves more than 200 libraries throughout the country. Through this new arrangement, these libraries will be able to easily acquire affordable, high-quality DRM-free ebooks available on the JSTOR platform from premier scholarly…
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Unveiling the critical role of trust in open access publishing, highlighting the DOAB Trusted Platform Network’s mission to combat predatory practices and uphold quality. Learn how initiatives like JSTOR ensure the integrity of scholarly works, facing challenges from perceptions of quality to generative AI, and fostering a sustainable open access ecosystem.
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