Category: Open Access

Welcome Caroline Mort, Open Access Journals Managing Editor

The University of North Carolina Press is pleased to announce the hiring of Caroline Mort to the newly created position of Open Access Journals Managing Editor. Mort served most recently in the Library Copyright Institute at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and will report to Journals Manager Stacy Lavin. In her new position, she will play a… Continue Reading Welcome Caroline Mort, Open Access Journals Managing Editor

Journals/Open Access/UNC Press News

February 13, 2025

Path to Open: A History

The following originally appeared on the American Council of Learned Societies website, and is reposted here with permission. Path to Open—now beginning its third year—is a multiyear pilot that offers a community-driven approach to open access (OA) books. The model was developed by a small group of leaders hailing from different sectors of scholarly communications but united by a shared… Continue Reading Path to Open: A History

Open Access

October 23, 2024

Advancing Open Access through Community Collaboration

At UNC Press, the broad dissemination of scholarship is core to our mission, so we enthusiastically share the vision of many Open Access (OA) advocates. Despite the opportunities afforded by digital formats, most traditional academic publishing models reinforce networks of privilege where scholars and students at well-resourced universities can read our books and journals but anyone outside that network must… Continue Reading Advancing Open Access through Community Collaboration

Open Access/UNC Press News

Open Access for Monographs is Here. But Are we Ready for It?

By John Sherer, Spangler Family Director of the University of North Carolina Press. He is the chair of the Association of University Presses Open Access Committee and is the Primary Investigator in the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation funded Sustainable History Monograph Pilot. This post originally appeared on The Scholarly Kitchen. At the University of North Carolina Press, we recently completed a… Continue Reading Open Access for Monographs is Here. But Are we Ready for It?

Guest Bloggers/Open Access/UNC Press News

August 15, 2022

New UNC Press Titles in the National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowships Open Book Program

We are pleased to announce the latest batch of UNC Press e-books being made available as Open-access (OA)—free of charge and for immediate download—via an award sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowships Open Book Program. Read about UNC Press Open Access Vision and Policy The previous titles made available through open access via the NEHFOP program in… Continue Reading New UNC Press Titles in the National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowships Open Book Program

History/Open Access/Southern/UNC Press News