Lindsey Skaggs
Scholarly Communication Librarian
Milner Library
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Biography
Lindsey Skaggs (she/her) manages the Scholarly Communication program at Milner Library and administers the university's institutional repository, ISU ReD.
Research Interests & Areas
Open Access, User Experience in Libraries, Algorithmic Literacy, Predatory Publishing
MS Library Science
Indiana University
Bloomington, IN
BA Hispanic Studies
Illinois Wesleyan University
Bloomington, IL
Presentations
Barriers to Open Access Publishing in the Arts and Humanities: Real, Artificial, Superficial?. Southern Humanities Conference. (2025)
Centering Users by Design: Implementing an Iterative Usability Testing Program. ACRL. (2025)
Fostering Collective Care: Practical Strategies for Navigating Low Morale in Libraries. ACRL. (2025)
From Negotiating to Assessing Impact: Centering Student Authors in Open Access Agreements. Electronic Resources & Libraries. (2025)
“I Don’t Tend That Part of My Garden”: The Self-Archiving Practices of Arts and Humanities Scholars. Southern Miss Institutional Repositories Conference. (2025)
Charting a Course to Collaboration: The LIbrary Data Services (LIDS) Dataset. IASSIST/CARTO 2024. (2024)
LIbrary Data Services (LIDS): A Golden Gate(way) to Collaboration. RDAP Summit 2024. (2024)
Following the Discourse: Using Current Events to Differentiate Source Types. Information Literacy Summit. (2023)
What is Out There? Data Services Offerings at R1 and R2 Doctoral University Libraries. Midwest Data Librarian Symposium 2023. (2023)
Preparing for Usability Testing. Usability Testing 101. Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Illinois. (2022)
Grants & Contracts
Every Good Belletrist Deserves Funding: Arts and Humanities Scholars and the Costs of Open Access Publishing. ORGS. Illinois State University. (2024)
University Research Grant: “Data Services Comparison at R1 and R2 Doctoral University Libraries, Part Two. Milner Library. Illinois State University. (2023)
University Research Grant: “Data Services Comparison at R1 and R2 Doctoral University Libraries. Milner Library. Illinois State University. (2022)