
Open Access Week 2024
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Location
Online
Event Website
https://belmont.libguides.com/OpenAccess/2024
Publication Date
10-22-2024
Document Type
Presentation
Start Date
22-10-2024 12:00 PM
End Date
22-10-2024 1:00 PM
Description
The commercialization of academic publishing and subsequent swelling cost of academic journal subscriptions have created a world of inequitable access to critical research. Practitioners, researchers, students and faculty not attached to a well-funded institution or who can't afford to pay article and/or subscription fees out of their own pockets have a legally impassable barrier to knowledge, regardless of their expertise or even if their tax dollars helped fund the research. Libraries around the world are engaged in many initiatives to push back against this information inequity. Chuck Hodgin, Digital Strategies Librarian at Belmont University, will discuss the steps that Belmont is taking to help bridge this digital divide via the Belmont Digital Repository.
Recommended Citation
Hodgin, Chuck, "Bridging the Digital Divide with the Belmont Digital Repository" (2024). Open Access Week. 1.
https://repository.belmont.edu/oaweek/2024/2024/1
Video Transcript
Bridging the Digital Divide.pdf (482 kB)
Presentation Slides
Bridging the Digital Divide with the Belmont Digital Repository
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The commercialization of academic publishing and subsequent swelling cost of academic journal subscriptions have created a world of inequitable access to critical research. Practitioners, researchers, students and faculty not attached to a well-funded institution or who can't afford to pay article and/or subscription fees out of their own pockets have a legally impassable barrier to knowledge, regardless of their expertise or even if their tax dollars helped fund the research. Libraries around the world are engaged in many initiatives to push back against this information inequity. Chuck Hodgin, Digital Strategies Librarian at Belmont University, will discuss the steps that Belmont is taking to help bridge this digital divide via the Belmont Digital Repository.
https://repository.belmont.edu/oaweek/2024/2024/1