Sarah Melton is a PhD Candidate in the Graduate Institute of the Liberal Arts and the Digital Projects Coordinator at the Emory Center for Digital Scholarship. Her research examines public histories of South African apartheid resistance and the U.S. civil rights movement. She is the assistant managing editor of the open access journal Southern Spaces (http://www.southernspaces.org), a journal about the regions, places, and cultures of the US South and their global connections. She is also the community and advocacy coordinator for the Open Access Button (http://www.openaccessbutton.org), a mapping project that visualizes the global effects of research paywalls.