Independent Voices — Digital Alternative Press Comes to Hope

Independent Voices: An Open Access Collection of an Alternative Press is now available through the library. These periodicals were produced by feminists, dissident GIs, campus radicals, Native Americans, anti-war activists, Black Power advocates, Hispanics, LGBT activists, the extreme right-wing press and alternative literary magazines during the latter half of the 20th century (60’s, 70’s, and …

Open Access Week 2016

The scholarly research you have worked so hard on should be available to the widest audience possible.  The Open Access concept allows authors to share their research anywhere, with anyone.  Open Access Week brings attention to the changes needed in academic publishing today.   From Hope’s Open Access Policy: Hope faculty affirms the core value …

Knowledge Unlatched

Van Wylen Library is participating in a pilot collection called Knowledge Unlatched.  What is KU? Essentially, it creates sustainable, open access to scholarly books with long-term savings for institutions by sharing the costs. Each institution that has pledged their support has acknowledged the need for new publishing models that give broader access to information while keeping …