Open Access Week 2025

It is Open Access Week 2025! 

This is a week where many OA presses do a bit more to make known their work. You can read my semi-regular post on North Dakota Quarterly and Open Access here. It also seems like as good a time as any to make visible the work of The Digital Press at the University of North Dakota over the past 12 months.

This past month, The Digital Press has become a member of the Radical Open Access Collective, and we hope that this alignment will help us share what we do more broadly and learn more about what’s going on in the broader open access world. 

We’ve also enjoyed some productive partnerships over the last year. We partnered with the American School of Classical Studies at Athens to publish David Pettegrew’s Corinthian Countrysides and with the Northern Plains Heritage Foundation to reprint Clell Gannon’s Songs of the Bunch Grass Acres. We worked with North Dakota Quarterly to publish the first English translation of Ismail Gaspirali’s The Muslims of Darürrahat. We are developing closers relationships with the brilliant students in UND’s Writing, Editing, and Publishing certificate program.

We’ve also continued our efforts to embrace the laboratory aspects of The Digital Press by publishing an article on Corinthian Countrysides in the Journal of Field Archaeology this fall: “Mobilizing the Archaeological Report for a Future of Reuse: Linked Open Data and the Scholar-Led Publication” with David Pettegrew.  

Curious about what else we’ve done over the past twelve months?

Here’s some of the late 2024 books: 

Ismail Gaspirali, The Muslims of Darürrahat. Translated by Çiğdem Pala Mull. Edited by Sharon Carson. 2024.

David K. Pettegrew, Corinthian Countrysides: Linked Open Data and Analysis from the Eastern Korinthia Archaeological Survey. 2024. 

Jack Russell Weinstein, Israel, Palestine, and the Trolley Problem: On the Futility of the Search for the Moral High Ground. 2024.

Christopher Neal Price, Big Pandemic on the Prairie: Spanish Flu in North Dakota. 2024.

And here’s what we’ve done in 2025. This year has turned out to be a super exciting year for the press with five brilliant publications (and one more likely!). 

Wild Drawing (WD), Context and Content: The Art of WD. Edited by Kostis Kourelis. 2025.

Eric Burin, ed. Picking the President: Understanding the Electoral College. Revised and Expanded Edition. 2025.

Clell Goebel Gannon, Songs of the Bunch Grass Acres. New Edition. With a forward by Tom Isern and an introduction by Aaron Barth. 2025.

Shawn Graham, Practical Necromancy for Beginners: A Short Incomplete Opinionated Introduction to Artificial Intelligence for Archaeology and History Students. 2025.

Michael G. Michlovic, An Archaeology of the Red River of the North. 2025.