As Scholarly Communication Librarian, I am responsible for managing the Digital Commons, raising awareness of alternative publication models, and helping USU researchers retain the rights necessary to enhance the dissemination of their scholarly works. Please feel free to contact me with any questions you might have.
Articles
Who Uses this Stuff, Anyway? An Investigation of Who Uses the DigitalCommons@USU, The Serials Librarian (2013)
Much professional literature is devoted to developing content and faculty buy-in for institutional repositories. However,...
Wittgensteinian Support for Domain Analysis in Classification, Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal) (2012)
Hjorland contends that in order to further the goal of linking researchers to relevant information...
Presentations
Building departmental partnerships for open access: scholarly communication and collections (with Katie Wesolek), Electronic Resources and Libraries (2013)
The Open Access Initiatives at Utah State University are tightly integrated with our collection development...
Open Access 101: What is Open Access and how is it changing scholarship?, USU Libraries Supports Open Access (2012)
The rise of electronic publication has irrevocably transformed the ways we share research with colleagues....
The Changing Face of Scholarly Communication: University Libraries and Presses Transform the Book (with Richard W. Clement, Cheryl D. Walters, and M Spooner), 15th International Symposium on Electronic Theses and Dissertations (2012)
The rise of electronic publication is irrevocably altering the landscape of scholarly communication. Discussions of...
Who Uses this Stuff, Anyway?, North American Serials Interest Group (2012)
A great deal of the professional literature is devoted to developing content and faculty buy-in...
Digitizing Items from Special Collections: The USU Approach (with Clinton R. Pumphrey), Conference of Intermountain Archivists (2012)
The presentation outlines a USU pilot project in using the Institutional Repository to promote and...
Posters
Promoting Physics Faculty, Students and Research through the Library’s Institutional Repository (with Betty Rozum), American Geophysical Union (2012)
Utah State University Libraries hosts a thriving institutional repository, DigitalCommons@USU. The Library and Physics department...
Library exhibitions
Merrill-Cazier Library GAS Exhibition (with Betty Rozum and Pamela N. Martin), Education and Outreach (2012)
This exhibition, presented in the Merrill-Cazier Library, captured the history and accomplishments of the GAS...