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Open Access Research

A comprehensive guide on the resources that are made available to the collective research community, both at USF and abroad. Functioning as a one-stop shop for post-grads and community researchers, this guide covers a wide range of information.

What is Information Privilege?

Within the academic community--faculty, staff, and students--there exists what is commonly referred to as "information privilege." This term describes the ability to access a wealth of scholarly and peer-reviewed materials that are often available to the general public. Through institutional subscriptions, members of the university can retrieve high-quality academic research from specialized databases, e-books, peer-reviewed journals, and streaming video colletions (Evanson & Hare, 2018).  Outside access through academic institutions, most users hit a paywall.  Learn more about this problem and the problem of academic publishers and what they publish view the video below.