Responsible and Sustainable Open Publishing: Q&A With Canada’s largest library-based open publisher

Author Biographies

• Amanda Wakaruk, University of Alberta

  Amanda Wakaruk is the Copyright and Scholarly Communications Librarian at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada. She has supported open academic publishing and the development of open educational resources in various capacities for more than fifteen years and been active with copyright advocacy for libraries and their users for the better part of the last decade. Her current research interests are focused on mitigating the impacts of copyright anxiety and related legal chill in higher education. https://amandawakaruk.ca/

• Sonya Betz, University of Alberta
  Sonya is the Head of Open Publishing and Digitization Services at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada, which supports more than 70 diamond Open Access journals through its non-commercial, scholar-led publishing program. Sonya is deeply interested in seeking ways to promote and sustain not-for-profit approaches to scholarly publishing and open access. She currently sits on the Board of the Library Publishing Coalition and co-chairs the Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL) Library Publishing Community Engagement Team.