Mira Waller

As a member of the senior leadership team, Mira provides oversight for the subject liaison program, faculty programs, research data services, the teaching and learning program, information services and spaces, the Robertson Media Center, and the Digital Humanities Center (includes IATH and Scholars' Lab). She oversees the development of services and programming for new and evolving teaching and research tools and methods, including those for digital scholarship, multimedia production and use, and data management and analysis.

How the academic publishing oligopoly skews debates on the cost of publishing

"What gets lost in the debates about the cost of publishing is the nuance around what publishing actually is and who publishers actually are. Publishing isn’t a specific practice by a certain kind of organisation, but instead reflects a multitude of practices, business models, formats, political modes, and so on. But this diversity is obscured by the fact that publishing is also a highly concentrated industry.

Open access journals get a boost from librarians—much to Elsevier’s dismay

A quiet revolution is sweeping the $20bn academic publishing market and its main operator Elsevier, partly driven by an unlikely group of rebels: cash-strapped librarians. When Florida State University cancelled its “big deal” contract for all Elsevier’s 2,500 journals last March to save money, the publisher warned it would backfire and cost the library $1m extra in pay-per-view fees. But even to the surprise of Gale Etschmaier, dean of FSU’s library, the charges after eight months were actually less than $20,000.

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