Shannon Kipphut-Smith

Shannon Kipphut-Smith is Scholarly Communications Liaison at Fondren Library. She manages Rice’s faculty open access policy and collaborates with groups across campus to address a number of diverse scholarly communications issues, including copyright and author rights, new publishing models, and increasing the visibility of research. She received a MS in Library Science from the University of North Texas, a MA in History, with a concentration in Archival Studies, from Auburn University, and a BA in History from Centre College.

Skills and expertise: Open access; copyright; author rights; library publishing; institutional repositories; research data management; funder public access requirements

ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5444-8623