Obviously 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.<p>[1] <a href="https://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/blogs/the-scoop/prisoners-pay-to-read-prison-tablets/" rel="nofollow">https://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/blogs/the-scoop/prison...</a>
I 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.<p>And jstor being opaque as it is, it is the perfect recipe for zero discoverability.
You can register for a free personal JSTOR account: <a href="https://support.jstor.org/hc/en-us/articles/115004760028-How-to-Register-Get-Free-Access-to-Content" rel="nofollow">https://support.jstor.org/hc/en-us/articles/115004760028-How...</a><p>I think they started doing this during the pandemic.<p>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.<p>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.
Deliberate 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.
"unimaginable goal: providing JSTOR access in 1,000 prisons."<p>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.