Episode 029 - Nicole Allen

Open Access Week was October 23-29 of this year. It’s a week promoting open access as the default in scholarship and research. The Vanderbilt Libraries hosted a number of events for Open Access Week, and one of the speakers they brought in was Nicole Allen, director of open education at SPARC, the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition. Melissa Mallon, director of liaison and instruction services at the Vanderbilt Library and a member of the Leading Lines team, sat down with Nicole while she was on campus to talk about Nicole’s work promoting the use of open educational resources in higher education. Nicole Allen’s SPARC profile, https://sparcopen.org/people/nicole-allen/ @txtbks, Nicole Allen’s Twitter account, https://twitter.com/txtbks SPARC, https://sparcopen.org/ OpenStax, https://openstax.org/ OpenCon, http://www.opencon2017.org/