Kathleen Shearer
Executive Director at COAR
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolKathleen Shearer is an experienced leader in open access and open science, serving as Executive Director of COAR where she has spent the past 15 years building a global coalition of repositories and shaping policy that recognizes repositories as critical research infrastructure. With nearly two decades in scholarly communications and research data management, she has driven initiatives like Next Generation Repositories and COAR Notify that modernize repository functionality and promote the “Publish, Review, Curate” model for diamond open access. Based in Montreal, she contributes to international efforts including UNESCO Open Science working groups and the Research Data Alliance, while maintaining ties to regional networks such as LIBSENSE Africa and the Canadian Association of Research Libraries. Trained in library and information studies at McGill with a background in philosophy, she combines policy influence, community building, and technical foresight to advance scalable, interoperable repository practices worldwide.
8 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Arts, Philosophy, Bachelor of Arts, Philosophy at Carleton UniversityMasters Degree, Library and Information Studies, Masters Degree, Library and Information Studies at McGill University
English, Spanish, un peu de francaisProgramming languages (1)
Github contributions (3)
coar-repositories/ngr
Dec 2017 - Jan 2018
Contributions:147 commits, 145 pushes in 1 month
coar-repositories/registry
Nov 2019 - Jan 2020
Contributions:4 issues in 1 month
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