Internal Database Training: Independent Voices

Overview

• Smaller database
• Part of Reveal Digital; part of JSTOR
• Reveal Digital - Reveal Digital are sourced from a wide array of libraries, museums, historical societies, and individual collectors. Reveal Digital curates the content in collaboration with an editorial board of library leaders and provides a crowd-publishing model in which libraries pool funds to develop the collections. The results are open access primary source collections of great value to scholars and researchers.
• Independent and small press newspapers and magazines and journals
• Timeframe: 1950s-1980s
• Less than 20,000 items
• Most items come from Special Collections in US and Canada and UK
• Niche demographics covered:
  • Black Americans during civil rights
  • GI Press
  • LGBT collection
  • Latino collection
  • Right Wing extreme publications
  • Campus underground - college campuses
• Uses
  • Sociology - LGBTQ content, Women's rights courses, Diversity in the US
  • Helps if you're looking for a particular issue - offers perspectives from Black, Latino, Indigenous communities on topics, but if they are mainly looking for diverse sources, they'd probably find better sources on Ethnic News Watch

Searching

• To just look at independent voices you cant use the top JSTOR or Advanced Search, you have to use the Independent Voices search box in the middle of the homepage
• Ex: "voting" 
• Refining Results
  • Sort by - oldest - not always accurate by publication date
  • Other filters (subcollections, etc). can't do it from initial search results, you can't do that advanced search from the beginning
• Article Detail Page
  • Sources are scanned images with metadata and thumbnails of the pictures
  • Probably not full text searchable 
  • Click "view 1 search match" in the upper right corner of the image viewer to navigate to the right page of your search term but it doesn't highlight it
  • Open source - has CC license
  • Stable URL in metadata on side column