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JSTOR is Now Available in 1k Prisons
- kragen 3y agoso if aaron was still alive, maybe he'd have access to jstor again
- whimsicalism 3y agohad the exact same thought
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- lazyasciiart 3y ago“ The students in Ohio prisons have reviewed nearly 30,000 unique articles over the past year, with 10% in the last month. Access there will be expanded to the prison general libraries. The students at Tennessee Higher Education Initiative regularly access 2,400 unique articles in a month—the highest per capita use in the country for incarcerated learners”
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- emayljames 3y agoWhen you realise that the US has, by a large margin, the highest percentage of prisoners of any nation; you also realise that what you say is not the case.
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- AlotOfReading 3y agoI don't really get the dismissal you're showing here. Why is the expectation that they need to be ascetically pursuing education for its own sake?
- jlengrand 3y agoIt hurts me to see such cynisme. Education is key to lower recidive, and a great way to help those who didn't have the chance to be born with the support they needed to grow free of trouble. I'm glad those things move forward. If not for the prisoners, for the people they'll be responsible for down the line. "The study found that parents' educational levels when the child was 8 years old predicted the child's educational and occupational success at age 48. The more educated the parent was when the child was 8 years old, the higher educational aspirations and attainment the child had at age 19" https://militaryfamilies.psu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Parents-Educational-Levels-Influence-on-Child-Educational-Outcomes.20Jan06.final_.pdf https://militaryfamilies.psu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/... https://www.americanprogress.org/article/education-opportunities-prison-key-reducing-crime/ https://www.americanprogress.org/article/education-opportuni...
- rvense 3y agoYeah, this was one of those headlines that stopped me in my tracks. Hackers for right, we are one down.
- hangonhn 3y agoHad the exact same thought. After all these years, that still hurts.
- tibbon 3y agoI can't believe it's already been over 11 years since we lost him.
- HaZeust 3y agoExactly what I thought the second I read the headline. Tragic comedy, may he rest.
- doubloon 3y agoRip
- mortallywounded 3y agoAvailable in prisons, god forbid it be available to the public!
- earthwalker99 3y agoMe in my late 20s would have wanted to go to prison for this. Having to pay college tuition to access academic material like this is so insane.
- whimsicalism 3y agothere’s always scihub
- earthwalker99 3y agoFor the material I wanted at the time, the solution was libgen. But yeah.
- whimsicalism 3y agoscihub, libgen, i use the terms interchangeably - they are the same org
- mortallywounded 3y agoTo all the 20 year olds, libgen.rs
- superkuh 3y agoLibrary Genesis is great, but it doesn't have much in terms of journal articles. sci-hub did but the attacks on them in Indian courts have made it so they haven't been able to upload new articles since Dec 2020. They only have pre-2020 articles. Anna's archive is basically just a combo of those two sources and some others things. I really, really miss sci-hub and being able to read research papers. Before sci-hub there were a handful of forums for requesting and fulfilling full text papers. But those forums basically died because sci-hub was so easy and useful. And now that sci-hub is dead there's nothing.
- CuriousCosmic 3y agosci-hub is still very much alive. It's just new papers are available under an alternate service called the Standard Template Construct. The STC uses IPFS to distribute the papers instead of hosting them themselves which mostly protects it.
- 1oooqooq 3y agoI can't even find if they are making this a tax rebatable donation because it's impossible to find information on jstor. Any search with "jstor" in it will include results about papers (which i won't be able to read more than the title/abstract) from jstor and dozen of other sites, because search engines assume I mean "academic papers" with i type "jstor", even in quotes. And jstor being opaque as it is, it is the perfect recipe for zero discoverability.
- corps_and_code 3y agoAdding the term "Ithaka" might help your search, that's the parent company that develops Jstor. I understand the struggle here. I was interviewing at that company at one point, and it was difficult to do research on them and the Jstor platform for the reasons you listed.
- smitop 3y agoJSTOR doesn't get any tax benefit for doing this because they're already fully exempt from US income tax - their parent, Ithaka, is a 501(c)(3) non-profit (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ithaka_Harbors https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ithaka_Harbors).
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- m3kw9 3y agoSo this is scihub but legal?
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- aeturnum 3y agoObviously this brings up the horrible unfairness of Aaron Swartz's treatment, but before you move on I encourage you to further get upset about the entire US prison system. Prisoners are charged high fees for access to basic resources[1]. There is a whole industry in "providing" services to prisoners at lower quality and higher cost. This goes against any notion of just punishment. Consider pushing back against the prison-industrial complex wherever you can. [1] https://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/blogs/the-scoop/prisoners-pay-to-read-prison-tablets/ https://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/blogs/the-scoop/prison...
- parhamn 3y ago> This goes against any notion of just punishment. Do you have a good explanation for this? I haven't though about prisoner rights much. The obvious layman view of this is "the whole prison thing is about restricting access to resources"
- skulk 3y agoEven without thinking too hard about purpose prisons actually serve in society, it's self-evident to me that prisoners and their families should not be thought of as piggybanks from which value should be extracted. This creates a perverse incentive to keep more people in prison, which is exactly the opposite of what we (as a society) ostensibly want.
- shagie 3y agoIn many cases, the government is prohibited from providing certain things to people convicted of crimes at tax payer expense. This then means that the government has to go to third parties and contract with them to provide those goods and charge the people using them. For example, an ankle monitor - the state can't provide it and give it to the person for supervision and so the third parties who make them have a captive customer base - both the state and the individual. When looking at items inside prisons, there are special requirements for them. They need to be transparent so that contraband can't be hidden in them. There are a number of other requirements for it too. It must run on batteries that can be purchased. This creases a very small market which in turn results in higher individual prices. It is a complex topic that from one side or the other can appear to be clear cut - but the boundary between those sides is incidentally complex that results in a market that has prices much beyond what would be considered to be reasonable ... but the alternative is even more expensive or restrictive. https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/how-one-of-the-last-american-typewriter-companies-survives https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/how-one-of-the-l...
- tarboreus 3y agoRIP Aaron Swartz.
- lxe 3y ago"unimaginable goal: providing JSTOR access in 1,000 prisons." If this is in the realm of "unimaginable goals" for them, then public access to science is infinitesimally unlikely. What a joke of an organization.
- bikenaga 3y agoYou can register for a free personal JSTOR account: https://support.jstor.org/hc/en-us/articles/115004760028-How-to-Register-Get-Free-Access-to-Content https://support.jstor.org/hc/en-us/articles/115004760028-How... I think they started doing this during the pandemic. The personal account allows you to read up to 100 articles online every 30 days. "Online" means you can't download the article as a PDF, for instance. It's cumbersome to have to read stuff online only, but better than nothing. University accounts are nicer, since you can download articles and read offline. On the other hand, most schools won't carry all the journals that JSTOR holds.
- selassieI 3y agoDeliberate underfunding of public schools by this whole (school funding determined by zip code and taxes of the area) so that prisons (and Amazon warehouses etc) can be filled up with poor people so that large corporations can profit off of free labor and providing “services” (10$ snack cakes and ramen noodles). There are huge profits and incentives for large corporations and the politicians who own the stock , private prisons etc to keep a constant supply of bodies going through the system thus we will continue to see decline in public education and services. The entire system is for profit.