About the Author

Melissa Chim is the first Scholarly Communications Librarian at Excelsior University where she both created and manages the university’s scholarly publishing platform and institutional repository. She holds an MLIS from St. John’s University and an MA in History from Queen Mary, the University of London, and hold certificates in open education and Creative Commons licensing.  She was a SPARC Open Education Leadership Fellow for their 2022-23 cohort, a Society for Scholarly Publishing Fellow for 2024, an ASAPbio Fellow for 2024 and Resident for 2025, and a member of the Fulbright Specialist Roster from 2024-2027. She co-authored the OER textbook entitled Living Archives: A History of the Center for Christian Spirituality, and wrote the OER Open Science Promotion for Librarians. She is currently editing a book on open pedagogy expected to be published in 2027.