Brown Library Receives Federal Grant to Grow and Diversify Digital Publishing Landscape
Brown University Library has received a three-year $246,000 Implementation Grant from the Institute for Museum and Library Services (IMLS) Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program to establish a cross-organizational training and support program for HBCU library professionals seeking to gain or expand expertise in developing open access born-digital scholarship.
Born-digital publications create exciting new conditions for the production and sharing of knowledge by advancing scholarly arguments in ways not achievable in a conventional print format, whether through multimedia enhancements or interactive engagement with research materials. Combined with open access publishing models, these new scholarly forms are increasing the visibility and reach of humanities scholarship to global audiences both within and beyond the academy in unprecedented ways. Yet the majority of this innovative work is being generated at well-resourced, predominantly white institutions.
Advancing HBCU Scholarship, Diversifying Digital Publishing, developed in close collaboration with the HBCU Library Alliance, will help to build capacity at HBCU libraries. Three librarians — at Fisk University, Kentucky State University, and Prairie View A&M University — will obtain a highly specialized skill set fully realized through the development of a born-digital publication authored by a member of their faculty. The University of Michigan Press, with its demonstrated commitment to issues of equity, diversity, and social justice, will collaborate with Brown University Library to mentor the cohort and, via an open access publishing model, disseminate HBCU-generated digital publications to the broadest possible audience for the greatest possible impact.
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