Bridging the Digital Divide with the Belmont Digital Repository
Bridging the Digital Divide with the Belmont Digital Repository Online
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.
Related LibGuide: Belmont Digital Repository Submission Guide by Chuck Hodgin
