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I've worked with the University of Kansas' DSpace repository KU ScholarWorks in various roles since 2007. KU ScholarWorks supports our faculty Open Access policy -- the first such policy adopted by faculty at a public university in the US -- and our theses and dissertations, as well as journal publishing efforts and other publication types, including research data. DSpace is one of several open source products we use and support, along with ArchivesSpace, Islandora, and Open Journals Systems. In my current role as Associate Dean I work with teams who support publishing and repository initiatives, scholarly communications outreach, library systems and discovery, and IT, among other groups.

DSpace is a key part piece of scholarly communications infrastructure at my institution. I'm interested in continuing on the DSpace Leadership Group to support the community's recent strides toward a more sustainable development model and increased community engagement and participation.

At ETH Zurich, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, we run a DSpace repository (Research Collection) which hosts open access publications and research data from ETH Zurich and additionally it serves as an institutional bibliography feeding publication data to institutional websites as well as the academic reporting system.

In my role as project manager when implementing the Research Collection, I have acquired extensive knowledge of DSpace’s functionalities and underlying system concept. I since transitioned into a new role as Head of E-Publishing at ETH Library where I oversee both business processes as well ongoing product development related to our DSpace repository.

At ETH Library we are committed to contributing to a sustainable future development of DSpace. I am looking forward to a next term in the DSpace Leadership Group in order to bring the perspective of one of the Europe’s leading universities in science and technology into this group.