Independent Voices

“15,000 issues of US underground and alternative press periodicals available

In in partnership with Reveal Digital have extended the early availability to UK HEIs of these, often rare, periodicals to the end of 2017. The publications feature material form many significant underground, alternative and radical presses.

Reveal Digital’s Independent Voices already comprises over 15,000 issues of 21st C US periodicals produced by feminists, dissident GIs, campus radicals and the New Left, Native Americans, anti-war activists, Black Power advocates, Hispanics, LGBTs, the extreme right-wing press and alternative literary magazines. This initiative is based on a “library crowdfunding” cost recovery-open access model to support digitisation of collections. We will now digitise similar UK publications.

(UK libraries will also be able to take part and access the US-based collections. Half the income from UK libraries will be used to digitize UK content) “