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G r a n t s  a n d  A c q u i s i t i o n sAnn-Christe Galloway

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The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded the University of Minnesota (UM) a 
$615,000 grant for Mapping Prejudice, a project of the UM Libraries, started in 2016 
by using volunteers to document racial covenants—the clauses that were inserted into 
property deeds to keep anyone who was not white from buying or occupying certain 
pieces of land. The funding will allow the Mapping Prejudice team to build collabora-
tions that can advance racial justice in Minnesota. The team will convene a think tank 
to bring together academics, researchers, and community fellows under the umbrella 
of the UM Libraries. “Mapping Trust: A model for co-creative community collabora-
tion in an academic library” is a two-year project under the direction of Kirsten Dele-
gard, director of Mapping Prejudice. The think tank will nurture conversations—with 
the voices of Black, Indigenous and people of color (BIPOC) at the center—around 
local efforts to dismantle structural racism. Academics and researchers will learn from 
this work and use it to generate collaborations that reflect the priorities of community 
members and provide new resources for these efforts. 

The Association of University Presses (AUPresses) has been awarded a Digital Hu-
manities Advancement Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities 
(NEH) to study the effect of open digital editions on the sales of print monographs. 
The Level I grant will support a study led by John Sherer, director of the University 
of North Carolina Press and chair of the AUPresses Open Access (OA) Committee, 
and Erich Van Rijn, associate director at the University of California Press, an AU-
Presses representative on the Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem Advisory Board 
and chair of the 2019-21 AUPresses OA Task Force. The project seeks to understand 
empirically whether the availability of OA editions of scholarly books has a quantifi-
able effect on the sales performance of print editions. While many university presses 
have pursued experiments with OA publishing, sustainable financing of high-quality, 
rigorous scholarly publishing operations is a significant concern. The study will look 
at both OA and traditionally published titles across multiple disciplines from many 
presses. Findings from the study will be shared publicly in support of scholarly pub-
lishers, peer institutions, and associations devoted to humanities scholarship.  

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