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The Scholarly Communications and Publishing Department is located on the third floor (381L) of Allen Library. Alternately, you can email us.

Scholarly Communication and Publishing Department

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Gordon Aamot is the Director of Scholarly Communications and Publishing at UW Libraries. He works with Libraries SCP staff and others to help UW creators and consumers of intellectual content share their work openly.

  • Phone: 206-616-6431
  • Email: aamot at uw.edu
Elizabeth Bedford

Elizabeth Bedford is a Scholarly Publishing Outreach Librarian at UW Libraries. Her goal is to assist researchers and students in sharing their work with the world as openly as possible. She can help with questions about data management, electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs), copyright, repositories, and open access.

  • Phone: 206-685-1540
  • Email: ebedford at uw.edu
Maryam Fakouri

Maryam Fakouri is a Scholarly Publishing Outreach Librarian at UW Libraries. She monitors developments in information law and policy that affect higher education and offers guidance and training around copyright, fair use, open access, and related topics.

  • Phone: 206-543-3890
  • Email: mfakouri at uw.edu
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Verletta Kern is the Head of the Open Scholarship Commons and the Digital Scholarship Librarian at UW Libraries. She helps researchers and students consider their digital project goals and think through how to implement their projects, including how to find resources at the Libraries and around campus.

  • Phone: 206-685-4847
  • Email: vkern at uw.edu
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Jenny Muilenburg is the Research Data Services Librarian at UW Libraries. She supports the data needs of faculty and students, data management plan writing and guidance, data curation and archiving, and data repositories.

  • Phone: 206-221-6348
  • Email: jmuil at uw.edu