<html xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns:m="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2004/12/omml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii">
<meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 15 (filtered medium)">
<style><!--
/* Font Definitions */
@font-face
{font-family:"Cambria Math";
panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4;}
@font-face
{font-family:Calibri;
panose-1:2 15 5 2 2 2 4 3 2 4;}
/* Style Definitions */
p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal
{margin:0in;
margin-bottom:.0001pt;
font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;}
a:link, span.MsoHyperlink
{mso-style-priority:99;
color:#0563C1;
text-decoration:underline;}
a:visited, span.MsoHyperlinkFollowed
{mso-style-priority:99;
color:#954F72;
text-decoration:underline;}
span.EmailStyle17
{mso-style-type:personal-compose;
font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;
color:windowtext;}
.MsoChpDefault
{mso-style-type:export-only;
font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;}
@page WordSection1
{size:8.5in 11.0in;
margin:1.0in 1.0in 1.0in 1.0in;}
div.WordSection1
{page:WordSection1;}
--></style><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
<o:shapedefaults v:ext="edit" spidmax="1026" />
</xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
<o:shapelayout v:ext="edit">
<o:idmap v:ext="edit" data="1" />
</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]-->
</head>
<body lang="EN-US" link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72">
<div class="WordSection1">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#202124;letter-spacing:.15pt">The planning team for the Summer 2021 Ohio Institutional Repository Day is pleased to announce that
<span style="background:yellow">Kathleen Shearer, executive director of the Confederation of Open-Access Repositories — COAR —
</span>will join us Tuesday, June 15, as our keynote speaker.<br>
<br>
Shearer has titled her talk "The Critical Role of Repositories in Building a More Inclusive, Equitable and Sustainable Scholarly Communications System." She has spoken internationally on the subject, notably as the keynote speaker at the Open Repositories Conference
in June 2020.<br>
<br>
Shearer is the lead author of "Fostering Bibliodiversity in Scholarly Communications: A Call for Action," published in April 2020 in Zenodo (</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.google.com/url?q=https:**Adoi.org*10.5281*zenodo.3752923&sa=D&source=editors&ust=1621462978037000&usg=AFQjCNELcUEoP2Nku8SNpeqLeEt0ZbWemw__;Ly8vLw!!On18fmf1aQ!l29eZYoqXHUpnokX1I6CDH0MpSOtQ1K3ZojXqiM1LJlf5ou-ohDKAmsG3aLP5mwEr-mDq6uA$" target="_blank"><span style="letter-spacing:.15pt">https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3752923</span></a><span style="color:#202124;letter-spacing:.15pt">).
“Through bibliodiversity,” she writes, “we can greatly improve research communications, help correct … existing biases, while also addressing issues of homogenization and marginalization.”</span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;background:yellow">Ohio IR Day is from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.; registration is free. </span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#202124;letter-spacing:.15pt">The
full schedule for the day will be released in early June. <a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/forms.gle/kKo5Rsrg9URnkjTu7__;!!On18fmf1aQ!l29eZYoqXHUpnokX1I6CDH0MpSOtQ1K3ZojXqiM1LJlf5ou-ohDKAmsG3aLP5mwEr_v9mxd8$" target="_blank">
Register using this Google form</a>; a Zoom link will be sent to registrants the week before the event. Note: Please share the invitation with others who may be interested but who are not yet on our distribution list. Looking forward to seeing you.</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><br clear="all">
</span> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Maureen Schlangen, University of Dayton<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Jane Wildermuth, Wright State University<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
</div>
</body>
</html>