Information privilege describes the disparity people experience when trying to access credible resources based on their status, technology access, location, or institutional affiliation. As students in the Vermont State Colleges System, you have access to a range of library resources and services like databases, eBooks, peer-reviewed journals, and interlibrary loans that the broader community does not. This is to say that as a student you experience information privilege, but upon graduation or transfer access to these resources and services will be lost. So what's the alternative? Select the next tab to read about Open Access Resources.

Whose information shows up in the library?

Access to education and modes of knowledge production is a form of privilege. Because of historical injustices - including, but not limited to, racial segregation and gender discrimination - many voices and perspectives have been underrepresented in scholarly literature. Additionally, in the case of indigenous peoples, knowledge may be spread from person to person and not widely published. 

Citational justice

A scholar's body of work is measured quantitatively through the number of times their work has been cited by other scholars. The term "citational justice" is an effort to increase representation of historically marginalized voices in scholarly discourse.