Adrian K. Ho is Director of Digital Scholarship at the University of Kentucky (UK) Libraries. He manages UK’s institutional repository (UKnowledge), which collects, organizes, archives, and provides free online access to the scholarly contents generated by the university community. He explores opportunities to collaborate with faculty members and students to launch online journals, create image galleries, archive research data, and publish theses, dissertations, and conference proceedings. The goal is to maximize access to research and scholarship so that people around the world will benefit from the UK community's intellectual outputs. Adrian’s responsibility also includes informing the university community of how the information landscape is evolving and how researchers can enhance knowledge sharing through new communication practices. The topics he often addresses are open access, author rights, data management, alternative research metrics, and trends and practices of scholarly publishing. Adrian has worked in collection development and public services before at different institutions in the U.S. and Canada.

Adrian's ORCID ID is 0000-0002-7417-7373.