With focus on supporting HBCU faculty, Brown library expands access to scholarly digital publishing | Brown University
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"Fifteen humanities scholars from across the nation gathered in Brown University’s John D. Rockefeller Jr. Library this week with a shared mission: Explore best practices for authoring and publishing a first-rate, digital-first monograph and leave with the skills to create their own....
Open access scholarly digital publications, which the institute helps scholars develop, make research and expertise available free of charge to all audiences, including those from outside of higher education, she added....
The Brown University Library began developing its digital publishing program in 2015 with a $1.3 million grant from the Mellon Foundation. Since then, Brown University Digital Publications has developed three exclusively digital, open access works authored by Brown faculty and published by leading university presses. Fourteen additional born-digital publication projects are currently in development."