Paul St-Pierre

STEM Collections Librarian

University of Guelph

Paul St-Pierre is the STEM Collections Librarian at the University of Guelph, and chair of the library’s Open Investment Strategy Committee. He has been promoting Open Access for 20 years, attempting to restore some sanity to the political economy of scholarly communication.

Presenting at the following sessions

October 04, 2022 3:00pm

Building Community Across Teams: The Experience of Developing an Open Investments Strategy at the University of Guelph

The Open Access landscape is complex and rapidly evolving. Business models, technologies, organisations, initiatives, mandates, and mergers proliferate, while at the same time libraries have limited staffing, expertise, and financial resources to devote to OA. How can libraries optimize the use of open investment funds and labour? How can we support initiatives that align with our values, notably that scholarly communication should be a public, rather than a private good?

2022 CRKN Conference: Strength in Community

Paul St-Pierre

Presenting at the following sessions

Building Community Across Teams: The Experience of Developing an Open Investments Strategy at the University of Guelph

Meg Ecclestone

Christopher Popovich

Paul St-Pierre

Cameron Wheaton