This document summarizes a collaboration between UNC Press, the Special Collections Library at UNC, the Southern Oral History Program, and the Center for Civil Rights. It discusses their shared goals of advancing scholarship on the Long Civil Rights Movement, publishing in innovative ways about civil rights, and discovering the future of scholarly publishing. It outlines their plans to work together, hold meetings, develop an online publishing platform, and create open access publications, archives, and teaching resources on the civil rights movement.

1. Funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Sylvia K. Miller, Project Director

2. § UNC Press (Principal Investigator, Kate Torrey, Director)
§ Special Collections Library, UNC (P.I., Rich Szary,
Director)
§ Southern Oral History Program at the Center for the
Study of the American South (P.I., Professor Jacquelyn
Dowd Hall, Director, SOHP)
§ Center for Civil Rights, UNC Law School (P.I., Julius
Chambers, Director)
Project staff for each partner

3. } To advance scholarship on the Long Civil
Rights Movement
} To publish in innovative ways on civil rights
} To help to discover where scholarly
publishing is going in the future

4. } The increasingly overlapping roles of
scholarly publishers and librarians:
Libraries’“scholarly communications”involve
publishing services;
Publishers offer library- like hosting, searching, and
linking online.
Does digitization of collections = publishing?
} The old boundary between us becomes a
space in which we work together.

5. Meetings, meetings, meetings. (Brainstorming,
working groups, next steps, mini projects)
Sketches to summarize our collective thinking
LCRM Conference April 3- 4, 2009
Focus groups, workshop following conference;
survey
Investigating technologies is an iterative process
Technology research necessarily turned inward,
to our own systems and capabilities
Defining “publishing platform”

6. Interactive Monograph Underlying Architecture

7. 1. Internal navigation (i.e., TOC, running
heads, page numbers, index, cross-
references)
2. Apparatus pointing outward to sources and
directions for further research (notes,
bibliography, illustrations which might
represent an archive)
3. Tangents: sidebar stories, boxed features,
long notes, definitions, inserts

8. From Human Diseases and Conditions
(3 vols.), edited by Neil Izenberg,
M.D. (Scribners, 2000)

9. From Introduction to Mythology,
Second Edition by Eva M. Thury and
Margaret K. Devinney (Oxford, 2009)

10. From Civilizations of the Ancient Near
East (4 vols.), edited by Jack Sasson
(Scribners, 1995)

11. } “Monographs aren’ published; they are
t
abandoned.”
} “Publishing as community” the publication
:
can continue to develop in collaboration over
time and spark new work

12. Annotation by author links to primary sources and invites comment.

13. § Scholars: Book is read and taught; it sparks new projects;
promotion/tenure via UNC Press legitimatization of
publishing activity; share with students how history is
researched and written
§ Library: Increased discovery and use of collections; exciting
publishing service to offer to faculty; helps to prioritize
collections for digitization; positive publicity attracts new
collections/donations
§ Publisher: Sell more books; create new publications; attract
authors; strengthen list/profile in the field
§ Activists: History informs organizing; current work recorded
and used (they “ make history”)

14. } To create a platform/environment that is
used, not just admired
} To balance traditional forms of scholarship
with innovation
} To focus on achievable goals for all partners
} To achieve scalability and sustainability
} More: legal, ethical, editorial, technical,
diplomatic, monetary . . .

15. } LCRM Online Center or “ hub”
} Developing community- organizing manuals with
CCR, SOHP, and archives
} Archiving and publishing CCR and SOHP work
} Digitization on demand for scholars and communities
} Connecting primary and secondary sources (“ data
sets”within the publishing process
} CPP for development of library subject guides and
finding aids
} TEI XML Best Practices for university presses
} LCRM full- text resource
} CPP as teaching tool
} Hybrid business model

16. You are invited to follow developments at . . .
http://lcrm.unc.edu