Responsibilities

• Title: Scholarly Communication Librarian
• 2026 - present

Institutional Repositories

• Manage SMU Scholar and SMU Dataverse.
• Create and manage workflows for depositing ETDs, scholarly and creative works, and datasets.
• Support journal publishing workflows, including obtaining ISSNs when necessary.
• Advise authors on repository deposits, metadata, permissions, accessibility, embargoes, and dissemination workflows.
• Generate DOIs for articles and ETDs when required.

Open Access

• Consult on scholarly publishing, including journal and publisher selection, rights retention, and open access options.
• Administer open access grants and article processing charges (APCs).
• Promote library publishing and institutional repository services to SMU researchers.

Copyright

• Provide guidance on copyright, authors’ rights, fair use, and licensing for the creation, dissemination, and reuse of scholarly and creative works.
• Collaborate with the SMU Libraries copyright team to support copyright needs in teaching, learning, and research.

Data

• Provide research data support, including data reference services, data management planning, DMP review, and administration of the DMPTool.
  • Data plans
  • DMP review
  • Data reference as relevant

Researcher profile and scholarly impact

• Serve as SMU’s ORCID representative and support ORCID integration with Interfolio Faculty Activity Reporting (FAR).
  • Research IDs & Persistent Identifiers (PID)
• Consult and provide programming on researcher profiles, faculty activity reporting, and research impact.
  • Measure Scholarly Impact (Metrics)

Accessibility & AI

• Partner with Norwick Center for Digital Solutions (nCDS) and OIT’s Research Technology Services team to evaluate transcription tools to assist researchers with HTR and OCR.
• Advise on workflows for transcription, alt-text, and captioning to ensure accessibility in web environments.

SMU Liaison, Instruction and Collection responsibilities (Current)

• Economics (Jan 2025–Present)

• Statistics and Data Science (Jan 2025–Present)

• (Interim) Engineering: Civil & Environmental Engineering, Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Design & Innovation, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Operations Research & Engineering Management, Game Development, Mechanical Engineering (April 2026–Present)

• (Interim) Math & Sciences: Applied Physiology, Biology, Chemistry, Earth Sciences, Mathematics, Physics (April 2026–Present)

Committees at SMU (Current)

• Chair of SMU Scholar Advisory Group (April 2026-Present)
• Member of Research & Digital Strategy Steering Committee (July 2026-Present)
• Member of SMU Libraries Entrepreneurial Engagement Team (Interim, as Engineering Librarian) (March 2026-Present)
• Member of Office of Engaged Learning Undergrad Research Steering committee (August 2025-Present)
• Member of Moody School Professional Development Network (August 2025-Present)
• Member of Moody Working Group on Dissertation/Thesis Formatting (April 2026-Present)
• Alternate on SMU IRB review board (September 2026-Present)
• High-Performance Computing (HPC) procurement committee (September 2026-Present)

Texas Digital Library Responsibilities

• Serve as SMU Libraries’ representative to the Texas Digital Library.
• Manage and evaluate the portfolio of tools/services offered, including TDR and the Dataverse.
• Attend Texas Data Repository (TDR) Steering Committee Monthly Meeting
  • Serve on TDL/TDR committees:
    • TDR Larger Data Subcommittee Meeting (April 2026-Present)
    • TDR Mentoring & Program Building Subcommittee (April 2026-Present)
    • TDR Accessibility Working Group (July 2026-Present)
• Represent SMU Libraries at the annual TDL meeting.

ICPSR

• SMU ICPSR Representative (April 2026-Present)

Complete CV