Grants and Acquisitions

David Free

Lyrasis, in collaboration with the Big Ten Academic Alliance’s Center for Library Programs and the California Digital Library (CDL), has been awarded a $206,886 grant from the Gates Foundation to advance community-governed, open access scholarly publishing in the United States. The grant will support the project Mapping US Diamond Open Access Journals, which will conduct the first national mapping of Diamond Open Access (OA) publishing in the United States. Diamond OA journals are peer-reviewed publications that are free for both authors and readers and operate without commercial profit motives. The project will illuminate the decentralized US landscape of Diamond OA journals, surface sector-wide challenges, and provide actionable recommendations in support of sustainable, noncommercial scholarly publishing. By identifying infrastructure, investment, and policy needs, the project aims to produce actionable recommendations to guide institutions, funders, and coalitions in creating sustainable, field-informed investments that strengthen openness and resilience in scholarly communication. This work builds on the ongoing commitment of the organizations to advance Diamond Open Access in the United States.

Acquisitions

The Hoover Institution Library & Archives has acquired the collection of Colonel Jack T. Young, a legendary explorer, soldier, and diplomat. The collection follows Young’s extraordinary path of service from Chiang Kai-shek’s Nationalist Chinese government to the United States and broadens our knowledge about China before the 1949 divide and beyond. The Jack T. Young papers preserve his story through personal writings, correspondence, photographs, official reports, news clippings, films, maps, and printed materials.

Together, the materials follow Young’s path from explorer to soldier, from mediator to military advisor. They detail his life and illuminate the complex history of China before and after the 1949 divide, as well as the evolving relationship between the United States in the 20th century. Learn more about Young and the collection at https://www.hoover.org/hoover-acquires-collection-colonel-jack-t-young-legendary-explorer-soldier-and-diplomat.

The Hoover Institution has also acquired an extensive collection of oral histories related to the Red Scare that were conducted by Bay Area author and Stanford alumnus Griffin Fariello. In the early 1990s, Fariello developed an interest in McCarthyism and the 1950s Red Scare that led him to seek out and interview individuals who had participated in or been affected by the ideological conflicts of America in the post–World War II era. Fariello’s collection includes interviews with notable figures such as Alger Hiss, Ring Lardner Jr., Chris Trumbo, and Peter Szluk. The interviews portray repression and resistance, narrated by veterans from all sides of the Red Scare. Throughout his research for the book, Fariello interviewed blacklisted actors, writers, professors, scientists, schoolteachers, union members, and federal employees. He also conducted oral histories with the FBI agents and informers who worked against the targeted and spoke with men and women who, as children, were caught in the ideological crossfire of the 1950s. More details are available at https://www.hoover.org/news/hoover-acquires-collection-oral-historian-griffin-fariello.