Manifold at University of South Carolina

This website offers free digital resources made available to the public through a collaboration between the University of South Carolina Libraries (USC) and University of South Carolina Press (USC Press). Featured materials currently include open access books published by USC Press through its Open Carolina program. As the collections on Manifold at USC continue to grow, you will also find educational resources, multimedia presentations, and other digital projects.

Open Carolina

Open Carolina is an open access repository of diverse and authoritative content made available to the public by University of South Carolina Press working in cooperation with the University of South Carolina Libraries.

In this collection, you will find books, journals, reference works, and other content supporting education, scholarship, policy discussion, and public conversation. All books, journals, and reference works have been peer-reviewed to ensure the highest standards of USC Press. With the support of USC and outside funding bodies, all of this content is available as open access—permanently archived and free to download to anyone with an internet connection with no barriers of institutional membership or subscription fees. Each work available here bears its appropriate Creative Commons license designating allowable uses of the content.

USC Press is committed to developing Open Carolina to fulfill these intentional goals: sharing freely with the world substantial and rigorously edited books, journals, open educational resources, digital reference projects, multimodal digital works, and policy paper publications; lowering financial and reputational barriers to entry for scholars and experts who want to publish in an open access environment; and contributing to the mission of USC as an institution of higher learning committed to sharing valuable scholarship and expert research while lowering (and ideally eliminating) barriers to access.

For more information about Open Carolina, please contact Michael McGandy, USC Press director, at mcgandy@mailbox.sc.edu.

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USC Manifold

The University of South Carolina Libraries provides access to the Manifold digital publishing platform hosted by Manifold Digital Services to support USC research and teaching activity self-publishing. Manifold provides creation of annotatable, iterative projects that pull from documents authored in multiple file formats (EPUB, HTML, Word, Google Doc, Markdown). 

This collection of the University Libraries at the University of South Carolina-Columbia includes open educational resources, multimedia presentations, and other digital projects developed with the support of the University Libraries. These resources are digitally accessible and available for free to the public.

USC faculty, staff, and graduate students are invited to create and publish projects on Manifold at USC. To a request a Manifold at USC account, fill out and submit this form.