As the Digital Content Editor, Rebecca Kennison is responsible for delivering consistent and comprehensive digital content to the CUIMC community by leveraging the Health Sciences Library's expertise and technology. She took on this newly created position in January 2022.

Past roles include that of executive director of the not-for-profit K|N Consultants and founding director of the Center for Digital Research and Scholarship, a division of the Columbia University Libraries, where she was responsible for developing programs to facilitate scholarly research and the communication of that research through technology solutions. Rebecca has worked primarily in the scholarly publishing industry, including production leadership roles at Cell Press, Blackwell Publishing (now Wiley-Blackwell), and the open-access publisher Public Library of Science (PLOS). She holds a Master of Arts degree in English language and literature from Arizona State University.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Agate, N., Kennison, R., Konkiel, S., Long, C. P., Rhody, J., Sacchi, S., & Weber, P. (2020). The transformative power of values-enacted scholarship. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 7(1), article 165.

DeRisi, S., Kennison, R., & Twyman, N. (2003). The what and whys of DOIs. PLOS Biology, 1(2), e57.

Doyle, H., Gass, A., & Kennison, R. (2004a). Open access and scientific societies. PLOS Biology, 2(5), e156.

Doyle, H., Gass, A., & Kennison, R. (2004b). Who pays for open access? PLOS Biology, 2(4), e105.

Gass, A., Doyle, H., & Kennison, R. (2004). Whose copy? Whose rights? PLOS Biology, 2(7), e228.

HuMetricsHSS [Agate, N., Long, C. P., Russell, B., Kennison, R., Weber, P., Sacchi, S., Rhody, J., & Thornton Dill, B.] (2022, February 17). Walking the talk: Toward a values-aligned academy. Humanities Commons.

Kennison, R. (2016). Back to the future: (Re)turning from peer review to peer engagement. Learned Publishing, 29(1), 69–71.

Kennison, R., & Norberg, L. (2014). Toward a scalable and sustainable approach to open access publishing and archiving for humanities and social sciences societies: A proposal. Learned Publishing, 27(3), 223–235.

Kennison, R., Panourgiá, N., & Tartar, H. (2010). Dangerous Citizens online: A case study of an author–press–library partnership. Serials: The Journal for the Serials Community, 23(2), 145–149.

Kennison, R., Ruttenberg, J., Shorish, Y., & Thompson, L. (2019, September 11). OA in the open: Community needs and perspectives. LIS Scholarship Archive.

Kennison, R., Shreeves, S. L., & Harnad, S. (2013). Point and counterpoint: The purpose of institutional repositories: Green OA or beyond? Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication, 1(4), eP1105.

Maron, N., Kennison, R., Bracke, P., Hall, N., Gilman, I., Malenfant, K. J., Roh, C., & Shorish, Y. (2019). Open and equitable scholarly communications: Creating a more inclusive future. Association of College and Research Libraries.

Maughan Perry, A., Borchert, C. A., Deliyannides, T. S., Kosavic, A., Kennison, R., & Dyas-Correia, S. (2011). The balance point: Libraries as journal publishers. Serials Review, 37(3), 196–204.

Thiem, Y., Sealey, K. F., Ferrer, A. E., Trott, A. M., & Kennison, R. (2019, May 5). Just ideas? The status and future of publication ethics in philosophy: A white paper. Publication Ethics.