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New Open Access Initiatives
In addition to participating in several open access agreements to help reduce or eliminate article publishing charges for Virginia Tech authors, the University Libraries supports a number of open access initiatives that serve the broader academic community. Two of the latest examples of this are detailed below.
Knowledge Unlatched – Knowledge Unlatched has been an important provider of open access books for over a decade. Our library has just made a pledge to support the KU Select 2026 (full collection of 200 OA books). We are also supporting the KU Focus Collection 2026: Digital Lives-Technology’s Influence on Contemporary Life. (20 additional OA books).
Reveal Digital – Featuring collaboratively funded primary sources, Reveal Digital develops and makes collections openly accessible to the world through the JSTOR platform. Having previously support their Independent Voices collection, our library has just made a pledge to support their newest collection, Behind the Scenes of the Civil Rights Movements, which documents the history of civil rights movements across different communities.