Atkins Fellow - Open Access

UNC Charlotte

Part-Time
Closes on Sunday, March 15, 2026

Job Description

Open access policies–wherein research institutions promote and preserve faculty scholarship by archiving faculty work in an open access repository–are important mechanisms for supporting faculty scholarship and promoting open access to research. UNC Charlotte has recently adopted an open access policy, which went into effect December 2025. Atkins Library is supporting the university in this work by helping facilitate the ingest of journal scholarship into the university’s open access repository.
This fellowship offers an opportunity to learn about the ways that academic libraries support research through scholarly publishing support. The Open Access Fellow will evaluate the library’s new workflows related to supporting the campus open access policy, conducting several runs of ingests of faculty publications with an eye for recommending improvements. These workflows include citation generation, metadata transformation, batch ingests into the repository, and outreach. The Open Access Fellow will also develop instructional and outreach materials for faculty and administrators related to the open access policy and other repository services. Meetings with subject librarians and possibly some faculty will help provide some context for the outreach and instructional component of the project.
Duties and responsibilities:

  • Test and evaluate the current workflow for soliciting and ingesting postprints related to the campus open access policy. Draft recommendations for process improvements.
  • Research other universities with long-standing open access policies for the instructional and promotional materials they provide related to their open access policy.
  • Meet with subject librarians to learn about scholarly publishing priorities and needs, by discipline.
  • Create instructional and promotional materials related to the open access policy and the open access repository.
  • Create outreach plans for instructional and promotional materials.
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