About the University of Vermont Press
Fully funded by the university, the University of Vermont Press uses a diamond open access model to ensure free readership, free authorship, and immediate online, global access to all its published titles.
The UVM Press is a diamond open access, born-digital university press that publishes peer-reviewed journals, books, and special projects in support of the university’s distinctive research strengths—the health of our environment and our societies.
We support the fundamental mission of all academic libraries: to make knowledge and information freely available and readily accessible to everyone in need. By providing a free alternative to the current scholarly publishing system, which passes on its costs to researchers and readers, the UVM Press and the University of Vermont Libraries are creating new ways for local and global patrons to access information. We are also participants in the global movement to develop equitable, sustainable practices for scholarly publication.
The UVM Press serves the community.
The University of Vermont is a land-grant institution founded for the public at large. The UVM Press makes scholarly research available to all—our local, national, and global community members.
The UVM Press shares essential information.
We recognize the connection between higher education and a healthy democracy, and we commit to making our published research accessible to all.
The UVM Press encourages diversity of thought.
We provide a venue for completing views to engage in conversation. The UVM Press models thoughtful, rigorous, factually informed debate that is in increasingly short supply in the public square.
The UVM Press improves understanding.
Our publications enhance understanding of the liberal arts, environment, health, and public service.
Our History
Formerly an imprint of University Press of New England, a university press consortium that published and distributed print books from 1970 to 2018, the UVM Press relaunched in 2023 as a division of the UVM Libraries. Today’s UVM Press is fully digital and publishes books and journals under a diamond open access model.
Our Diamond Open Access Publishing Model
Our diamond open access publishing model promotes equity in scholarly communication by making all content free online to everyone—both readers and authors. While there are many different types of open access publishing, known by different names, only the diamond open access model ensures that published materials begin and remain entirely free of charges, paywalls, and subscription or membership restrictions for everyone, everywhere.
Free for readers.
In fulfillment of the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI) and the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) definitions of open access, the full text of UVM Press works may be read, downloaded, copied, distributed, printed, searched, linked to, or used for any lawful, noncommercial purpose without prior permission from the author or publisher. Readers are not required to register or pay to read UVM Press content, which is always made available online immediately. No embargo period applies.
Free for authors.
There are no article processing charges, submission charges, membership requirements, or fees to publish with the UVM Press. We ask all authors to sign an author agreement form or book contract, acknowledging and accepting digital publication under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0), prior to publication.
Our diamond open access publishing model is made possible by the University of Vermont, which fully funds the UVM Press as a division of the UVM Libraries.
Copyright and Reuse
The UVM Press uses Creative Commons licenses to make all published content freely and immediately available online while allowing authors to maintain their copyright.
Our books and journals are published under a CC-BY-NC-ND license. This license allows sharing and access, in unadapted form, with attribution, but does not allow republication or distribution for any commercial use.
If work is accepted for publication:
- The authors grant a Creative Commons copyright license in the article to the general public, in particular a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0).
- The authors agree to require that a citation to the original publication of the work be included in any attribution statement satisfying the attribution requirement of the Creative Commons license.
- The authors retain ownership of all rights under copyright in all versions of the work, and all rights not expressly granted in any author agreement form or contract signed with the UVM Press.
- To the extent that any edits made by the publisher to make the work suitable for publication amount to copyrightable works of authorship, the publisher hereby assigns all right, title, and interest in such edits to the authors.
This license applies to all digital and printed versions of UVM Press titles. While print-on-demand copies of books are available for sale through the UVM Press website, each book’s version of record remains the free, digital copy.
Our Production Processes
The UVM Press partners with Michigan Publishing Services to produce our books and journals.
UVM Press books are published with Michigan Publishing Services’ digital publishing platform, Fulcrum. After UVM Press personnel complete in-house editing, proofreading, and file preparation, we transmit final manuscript materials to Michigan Publishing Services for final copyediting, typesetting, design, ePUB and PDF file creation, and accessibility feature integration. Each published book is made available on the UVM Press website for free digital download as an accessible ePUB, to be read on a digital device equipped with eReader software, and as an accessible PDF file, which can be read on a digital device or printed by a local printer. Readers also have the option to purchase a print-on-demand copy of any book title and have it shipped to a specified address. Secure payment processing, book printing, and shipping are handled by the Chicago Distribution Center, a hub for more than 120 small scholarly publishers.
UVM Press journals are published with Janeway, an open-source submission, editorial management, and publishing platform created and maintained by the Open Library of Humanities, based at Birkbeck, University of London. All submissions are screened for plagiarism and originality using the CrossRef SimilarityCheck tool. Articles accepted for publication by the journal’s editors are forwarded to UVM Press staff for final copyediting, typesetting, proofreading, and digital publication. Published articles are made available to readers as accessible online text as well as downloadable, printable PDFs. Upon publication, each article is assigned a unique Digital Object Identifier (DOI) through CrossRef and preserved via the Internet Archive.
Accessibility
The UVM Press follows the University of Vermont’s own Digital Accessibility Compliance guidelines, including Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Our publishing platforms and downloadable content are designed to be accessible to people with disabilities.
Faculty Advisory Board
The UVM Press Faculty Advisory Board is a diverse group of UVM faculty, representing a variety of disciplines, that considers peer-reviewed book manuscripts for publication. Its members meet at least once each semester to consider book manuscripts on a rolling basis. During these meetings, the Board discusses and votes whether to publish finished books that have been vetted by the UVM Press books editorial staff and endorsed by at least two outside peer reviewers. Faculty Advisory Board members are appointed for two-year, renewable terms.
Faculty Advisory Board, Summer 2026 – Spring 2028
Bridget Burke
Associate Professor, UVM Libraries
Director, Silver Special Collections Library
Boğaç Ergene
Professor of History, College of Arts and Sciences
Reuben Escorpizo
Clinical Professor, College of Nursing and Health Sciences
Bryn Geffert
Professor of History, College of Arts and Sciences
Lili Martin
Clinical Associate Professor, College of Nursing and Health Sciences
Helen Morgan Parmett
Associate Professor of English
Director, Speech and Debate Program and Lawrence Debate Union
Eric Thrailkill
Assistant Professor, Larner College of Medicine
Amy Trubek
Professor, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
Affiliate, Gund Institute for Environment
Kimberly Vannest
Professor and University Scholar
Chair, Department of Education
Inaugural Faculty Advisory Board, Spring 2024 – Spring 2026
Boğaç Ergene, Reuben Escorpizo, Holger Hoock, Lili Martin, Donna O’Malley, Eric Thrailkill, Amy Trubek, Kimberly Vannest