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This year, at work, I helped shepherd an accomplishment of which I am inordinately proud. Those of you who are from organizations which have your shit together more than we do might not think this is so impressive (although it seems to be a truth in this field that every organization thinks that everybody else has their shit together more).
Under the leadership of my manager, our libraries' Scholarly Communications Team worked with the provost to develop a fund for open access publishing. Over the last several months, I've been instrumental in making sure that we set hard deadlines to write guidelines, accept applications, and of course, give away that money. And now we have. Our first round of applications came in, funding has been announced, and now we've started to receive our second round of applications.
Giving away other people's money in order to increase the amount of open access scholarship in the world is totally, thoroughly awesome.
Under the leadership of my manager, our libraries' Scholarly Communications Team worked with the provost to develop a fund for open access publishing. Over the last several months, I've been instrumental in making sure that we set hard deadlines to write guidelines, accept applications, and of course, give away that money. And now we have. Our first round of applications came in, funding has been announced, and now we've started to receive our second round of applications.
Giving away other people's money in order to increase the amount of open access scholarship in the world is totally, thoroughly awesome.
