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SFU library unrolls free access for local non-profits

Although scholarly research is readily available to students and professors, it remains highly inaccessible to anyone outside the university. A new program launched through the SFU library intends to change this. The Community Scholars Program, offered in partnership with the United Way of the Lower Mainland and the Mindset Social Innovation Foundation, will give 500 individuals from non-profit organizations from across British Columbia access to the scholarly publications by six publishers as well as research support from the library. Librarian Heather De Forest, who is coordinating the program, notes that many of these non-profits are doing their own research in…

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