Served as an elected Library Publishing Coalition Board Member (2019-2021), shaping the organization’s strategy and, as a result, library publishing best practices and research
Created and taught a one credit hour course for 30+ undergraduate student editors of the IU Journal of Undergraduate Research (IUJUR) on academic publishing and editing
- Access the syllabus for the course which covered open access, peer review, publishing ethics, and general scholarly communication issues
- Shared the curriculum and an in-depth assessment in the JLSC article “Library Publishers as Educators: Crafting Curriculum for Undergraduate Research Journals”
Named an Association of University Presses and Library Publishing Coalition Cross-Pollination Conference Scholarship Recipient in June 2018
Helped operationalize logistics for processing articles under IU Bloomington’s Open Access Policy, passed in February 2017
- This resulted in over 600 articles being made open access in 2017-2018
Contributed regular blog posts on IU publishing services and open access/ library publishing trends
Created “chalk talks” and other instructional material on Creative Commons and intellectual property for an embedded course in the School of Education, L700
As a member of IU’s Collection Manager’s group, presented on trends in OA collections work including read & publish licenses and strategic negotiations
Assisted with the development and improvement of IU’s Open Scholarship website
Collaboratively planned the migration from OJS 2 to OJS 3 for 30+ IUScholarWorks journals successfully, teaching editors the new platform
Led Several Open Access Week Events, 2015-Present

Image designed by Leanne Nay
- Oversaw a SC department student’s creation of an Open Access Week podcast and several shorter promotional videos of OA journal editors providing testimony on why OA matters
- Worked with graphic designers and the IU Libraries Reference Team to design promotional materials
- Assisted graduate students with the creation of Indiana University’s Open Access guide and Predatory Publisher guide
- Created Davidson’s Open Access guide
- Created and taught an instruction session on “The Internet’s Own Boy” and Open Access for Davidson College’s Anthropology 263
Helped develop an informal publishing mechanism for library committee research and findings at the University of Illinois’ library
- Presented on how others might establish a library report series at other institutions at the 2015 Charleston Library Conference [conference proceedings here]
Assisted the Life Sciences Data Services Librarian and Scholarly Commons Co-Coordinator with the creation of an introductory video on data management best practices, which was used to educate students in the department of human and community development
Created a workshop and companion LibGuide on the topic of altmetrics and impact factor
- Shared the success of this workshop through a poster at LOEX 2014
Assisted with the creation of an Online Scholarly Presence Symposium
- Created and presented all introductory content on the topic of Google Scholar