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Anne T. Gilliland is the Scholarly Communications Officer for the libraries at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, where she provides guidance, policy development, and advocacy on copyright, privacy, open access, and related issues. She holds a BA in studio art and an MS in Library and Information Science. In mid-life, while she was working for the Ohio Library and Information Network, she finished a JD at Capital University, and began a new phase of her career, working in scholarly communications and copyright. Her research interests include privacy issues in special collections and copyright education.

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Rebekah Kati is the Institutional Repository Librarian at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She manages the Carolina Digital Repository and is responsible for service management, identifying strategies for content recruitment, authoring documentation and crafting polices. Formerly, she was a Digital Publishing Technologist at Duke University Press, where she project managed the print and online production process for several journals, launched journal sites and developed press-wide XML standards. Her research interests include scholarly communications, publishing, open access, and repositories.

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Jennifer Solomon teaches in the School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her research interests include diversity and inclusion in scholarly communications, Open Access sustainability, and building community for academy-owned publishing. Previously, she served as the Open Access Librarian at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the Global Open Knowledgebase Editor at North Carolina State University.

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Managing Editor

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Reviews Editors

Christie Hurrell is the Digital Initiatives and Scholarly Communications librarian at the University of Calgary. Her role involves advancing digital research initiatives and partnerships, working on open access and scholarly communication initiatives, and coordinating Lab NEXT, the library’s digital scholarship collaboration space and makerspace. Christie’s research and practice interests stem from her interest in new ways of conducting, sharing and tracking the impact of research. Christie has a MA in Communication and Culture from York and Ryerson Universities, and an MLIS from the University of British Columbia.

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Editorial Board

I am the assistant director of scholarly communication and digital projects at Columbia University, where I work alongside a talented team of scholars, thinkers, and doers in the libraries. Before that, I was head of digital initiatives at the MLA, where I was responsible for Humanities Commons, MLA Commons, and CORE. I am co-PI on the Mellon-funded HumetricsHSS initiative, which is seeking to establish a framework for values-based assessment and evaluation in the humanities and social sciences; a founding editor of The Idealis, an overlay journal that promotes quality open-access scholarship about scholarly communications issues; and I serve on various Force11 committees.

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I am currently Ireland’s National Open Research Coordinator, based at the Digital Repository of Ireland, Royal Irish Academy. In this role I work with the National Open Research Forum (NORF) on the development and delivery of a National Action Plan for the implementation of open research across Ireland.

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Will Cross is the the Director of the Copyright & Digital Scholarship Center in the NCSU Libraries, an instructor in the UNC School of Information and Library Science, and an OER Research Fellow. Trained as a lawyer and librarian, he guides policy, speaks, and writes on open culture and navigating legal uncertainty. As presenter coordinator for the ACRL Scholarly Communication Roadshow, he has developed training materials and led workshops for international audiences from Ontario to Abu Dhabi. His research focuses on legal frameworks that support open culture and he currently serves as PI on three IMLS-funded projects that support OER, open pedagogy, and training for copyright and scholarly communication.

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Dr Danny Kingsley is an administrator and researcher in scholarly communication. This involves aspects of advocacy, professional development, research and communication. As the head of the Office of Scholarly Communication at Cambridge University, this requires developing relationships with all levels of the scholarly communication landscape, from the individual researcher, to editors and publishers of journals and monographs, funding bodies, research institutions and government. Danny blogs extensively at Unlocking Research https://unlockingresearch.blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/, and presents regularly at conferences, workshops and meetings. Many of her slide decks are available: https://www.slideshare.net/dannykingsley

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Mr. Lewis is the Dean Emeritus of the IUPUI University Library. He is the co-PI on a Mellon funded project, Mapping Digital Scholarly Communications Infrastructure, and is working on developing strategies and structures to create and sustain the infrastructure to support the open scholarly commons. He has published nearly 50 articles and book chapters. His 1988 article “Inventing the Electronic University” was selected one of seven “landmark” articles to be republished in the 75th anniversary issue of College & Research Libraries. His book Reimagining the Academic Library was published in 2016. In 2018 he was named the ACRL Academic/Research Librarian of the Year. He is a masters swimmer who enjoys cooking and traveling to parts of the world where red wine is made.

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Emma Molls is Publishing Services Librarian at the University of Minnesota. She assists campus affiliates in publishing scholarly content in an open environment through University of Minnesota Libraries Publishing. Emma is the co- founder and organizer of OpenCon's Early Career Librarian community calls. Additionally, she serves as a presenter for ACRL's "Intersections of Scholarly Communication and Information Literacy." Emma is an open access advocate and proud member of the first OpenCon cohort (2014).

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Reggie Raju is the Deputy Director (Research & Learning) at the University of Cape Town Libraries. He has been in academic libraries for more than 30 years. His research focus is on research librarianship with an emphasis on open access.

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As Head of Artes, a division of KU Leuven Libraries, I am responsible for collections and services for the Arts and Humanities. As a member of the management team, I also contribute to the strategic development and operational management of KU Leuven Libraries as a whole, with a particular focus on scholarly communication and open science. I am a strong believer in Fair Open Access and serve on the editorial board of the Open Library of Humanities as well as the Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication.

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Founding Editors

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