Reveal Digital’s first multi-year OA fund, Diversity & Dissent, is a publishing program through which libraries and archives pool funding and primary source materials to create important Open digital collections and make them freely available to everyone.

Overview

Reveal Digital launched the Diversity & Dissent Digitization Fund in 2017 with the mission to bring together funding and source material to develop Open Access digital collections focused on the voices of forgotten, marginalized, radical, and activist voices in the 20th century. 

With the generous support of 61 libraries, the program is now fully funded and four collections are in development or completed:

Collections available on JSTOR now

      1. American Prison Newspapers, 1800-2020 (Description, Collection page)
      2. Black Periodicals: The Great Migration to Black Power (Description, Collection page)
      3. HIV, AIDS & the Arts (Description, Collection page)
      4. Student Activism (Description, Collection page)

 

Diversity & Dissent Fund editorial board

Reveal Digital’s editorial board is composed of representatives from funding libraries, with members. The board plays a pivotal role in the selection of new digital projects and provides oversight as each selected project is developed.

Current members

Jessica Ballard, Archivist for Multicultural Collections & Services, University of Illinois

Conor Casey, Labor Archivist, Labor Archives of Washington, University of Washington Libraries

Lillian Castillo-Speed, Head of Ethnic Studies Library, University of California, Berkeley

Thai Jones, Curator, U.S. History, Columbia University

Nick Okrent, Coordinator for Humanities Collections, University of Pennsylvania

Michael Rodriguez, Coordinator for Digital Humanities, Michigan State University

Karla Strand, Gender and Women’s Studies Librarian, University of Wisconsin

Katrina Windon, Accessioning and Processing Archivist, University of Arkansas

Former board members who helped shape our publishing program

Lori Birrell, Associate Dean for Special Collections, University of Arkansas

Jeff Moyer, Founder, Reveal Digital