Becca Kruse
Institutional Repository Specialist
- email: kruserl@jmu.edu
MSC: 4601
Departments: Research & Scholarly Communications Unit, Scholarly Communications Team
About me
Responsibilities: Becca works with the Digital Assets team to manage JMU’s institutional repository, JMU Scholarly Commons, to ensure optimal patron access to the collections such as theses, dissertations, and academic journals.
Education:
MA, Medieval and Classical History, American Public University, 2021
BA, History and Art History, James Madison University, 2017
General Info: Becca has worked with JMU Libraries in her current role since 2019. In this time she has gathered extensive knowledge of JMU Scholarly Commons and advocates for open access publication.
About Research & Scholarly Communications Unit
We provide holistic support for scholarly communications across JMU, including the development of inclusive and equitable practices related to publishing model and research infrastructure support. We provide expertise in copyright and IP, author rights, data and AI literacy and ethics, data services, internal Libraries reporting, open education, open publishing, and open infrastructure initiatives.
About Scholarly Communications Team
We provide expertise in copyright and IP, author rights, open education, open publishing, publishing models, and open infrastructure initiatives. We manage JMU Scholarly Commons and Aviary, the university’s institutional repositories, and provide consultations to the university community on their use. We can help answer questions about publishing models, retaining copyright, licensing, and how to make course materials open and accessible.