Peter Whiting is the Scholarly Communications Librarian at the University of Southern Indiana (USI). He is also the 2022-2023 Chair of the ALI Scholarly Communications Committee. Whiting's primary responsibility is overseeing the Scholarly Open Access Repository (SOAR) at USI. SOAR recently underwent an upgrade for a brand-new look and feel with TIND IR, a next gen institutional repository platform that went live in February 2023. TIND IR was selected by USI Rice Library to replace Atmire Open Repository. The reason was to enhance the user experience with features such as enabling scholarship uploaded in SOAR to be findable in the online catalog, and in the submission process users can now choose to have a DOI assigned to make their scholarship discoverable and accessible.
In addition to his work on SOAR, Whiting also answers copyright questions, and promotes and educates USI faculty, staff, and students on copyright, open access funding, open access review, open access, and Open Educational Resources (OER) at Scholarly Communication at Rice Library. He believes that scholarly communication is an important part of academic libraries, and that sharing scholarly communication knowledge through conversations with librarians, library staff, and library users such as students and faculty, creates valuable connections. Whiting says that "spreading the word of scholarly communication is not a one-person task at USI Rice Library." His librarian colleagues at USI are involved in having meaningful conversations about scholarly communication in the library and with the USI community, thus everyone in the library is engaged in the scholarly communication conversation.
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