{"id":76989,"date":"2018-04-03T16:25:48","date_gmt":"2018-04-04T02:25:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=76989"},"modified":"2026-04-24T11:32:36","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T21:32:36","slug":"uh-press-awarded-100k-to-publish-open-access-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2018\/04\/03\/uh-press-awarded-100k-to-publish-open-access-books\/","title":{"rendered":"UH<\/abbr> Press awarded $100K to publish open-access books"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>
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University of Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> has received a $100,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation<\/a> to support the digitization and open-access distribution of 22 out-of-print University of Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Press<\/a> books.<\/p>\n

The 18-month project is part of the Humanities Open Book Program<\/a>, a joint initiative between the Mellon Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities<\/a> (NEH<\/abbr>). In 2017, UH<\/abbr> Press received a $90,000 grant to launch the program at UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“We are extremely grateful to the Mellon Foundation and the NEH<\/abbr> for their continued support,” said Trond Knutsen<\/strong>, UH<\/abbr> Press digital publishing manager. “Our goal for this project is to expand upon UH<\/abbr> Press’s efforts to revive our rich backlist and make scholarly resources available to more readers.”<\/p>\n

A team of UH<\/abbr> Press and UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa Library<\/a> employees recommended texts for the Humanities Open Book Program that are foundational to regional studies in Asia, the Pacific and Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span>.<\/p>\n

Among the books selected are a heavily illustrated, three-volume ethnography of Tahiti, as well as the biography of an important statesman who served the last king of the Hawaiian monarchy.<\/p>\n

“Over the years our UH<\/abbr> Press has published many books of cultural and historical significance to Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span>, the Pacific and Asia,” said David Lassner<\/a><\/strong>, UH<\/abbr> System president and UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa interim chancellor. “We thank the Mellon Foundation for their assistance in helping us make some of these academic treasures available to the world in online open-access formats.”<\/p>\n

The process of making out-of-print titles available in open-access formats is often costly, and requires publishers to clear rights from authors and their estates, research third-party permissions, work with multilingual proofreaders and coordinate with digitization vendors.<\/p>\n

“Like most university presses, we operate without an endowment and within narrow margins in order to support the best scholarship,” said Joel Cosseboom<\/strong>, UH<\/abbr> Press interim director and publisher. “This generous grant from the Mellon Foundation and the NEH<\/abbr> will enable us to give important works from our 70 years of publishing new life in virtual collections.”<\/p>\n

At the end of the project, readers will be able to find direct links to open-access works from a new UH<\/abbr> Press website, and download the digitized books in EPUB<\/abbr> and PDF<\/abbr> at no cost. A print-on-demand option will also be offered for select titles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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