Research and Scholarly Communication
Our team collaborates with researchers across campus to advance the creation, management, dissemination, and preservation of your research and scholarship. We assist you with:
- Copyright
- Open access publishing
- GIS and statistical data
- Data management
- Researcher identifiers (e.g. ORCID)
- Research impact
- Systematic and scoping reviews
We're here to help with your research every step of the way.
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Staff Members
Marisa Tippett
Head - Research and Scholarly CommunicationsSpecialties
- Knowledge Syntheses - Systematic and Scoping Reviews
- Digital Scholarship
Emily Carlisle
Research and Scholarly CommunicationSpecialties
- Open Educational Resources
- Open Access publishing
- Open licensing
Elizabeth Hill
Research and Scholarly Communication Data LibrarianKristin Hoffmann
Research and Scholarly Communication LibrarianSpecialties
- Open Access
- Journal Publishing
Roxanne Isard
Research and Scholarly Communications LibrarianSpecialties
- Systematic Reviews / Knowledge Synthesis
- Health and Medicine
- Teaching and Learning
Joanne Paterson
Research and Scholarly Communication LibrarianSpecialties
- Scholarship@Western
- Metadata
- Scholarly publishing
Elizabeth Sutherland (on leave)
GIS Technical SpecialistSpecialties
- Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
- Cartography
- Geography and Earth Sciences
Kristi Thompson
Data Management LibrarianSpecialties
- Research Data Management
- Finding data and statistics
- Quantitative and qualitative software
Arielle VanderSchans
Library AssistantSpecialties
- Digital Scholarship
- Scholarship@Western
- Research
Courtney Waugh
Research and Scholarly Communication LibrarianSpecialties
- Open Access Advocacy and Education
- Scholarship@Western
- Research Impact, Academic Profiles