About me
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 and a Society for Scholarly Publishing Fellow for 2024. She co-authored the OER textbook entitled Living Archives: A History of the Center for Christian Spirituality and authored the OER textbook Past Makes Perfect: A Mini Handbook for Student Historians. She was named an Associate Fellow with the Royal Historical Society in 2026.
