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Brown University Library

Academic Library · United States

Brown University Digital Publications

https://library.brown.edu/create/digitalpublications/

Allison Levy, Director
Phone: 401-863-1503
Email: allison_levy@brown.edu

Program Overview

Mission/Objectives:
Brown University Digital Publications — generously launched with support from the Mellon Foundation with additional support from the National Endowment for the Humanities — creates exciting new conditions for the production and sharing of knowledge. Widely recognized as accessible, intentional, and inclusive, Brown’s novel, university-based approach to digital content development is helping to set the standards for the future of scholarship in the digital age.
  • Publishing activities began: 2015
  • Stage of publishing efforts: 2 - Early
  • Open access focus: One priority among many
  • Portion of Open Access publications: All
  • Publishing Languages: English

Program Organization

Partners

  • Other publishing entities administered by your library: Yes
  • Other publishing entities within your library’s parent institution: Yes
Highlighted Publication

A New Vision for Islamic Pasts and Futures

This groundbreaking, born-digital book’s layered interface—readers enter Islam through a diverse set of doorways, each leading to different time periods across different parts of the world—allows for an exploration of and engagement with a rich set of visual material and multimedia evidence not possible in a printed volume. Shortlisted for the Royal Institute of Philosophy’s 2023 Nayef Al-Rodhan International Book Prize in Transdisciplinary Philosophy.

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