Dear Sir/ Madam, Happy to share the 25th interview post on 'Open Interview'. Our Hon'ble Vice Chancellor Prof. Tankeshwar Kumar was kind enough to post this at his hands. The 25th interview is of Katharine Dunn, Scholarly Communication Librarian, MIT. In this interview for Open Interview https://openinterview.org/with Santosh C. H, Katharine Dunn shares the growth story and OA initiatives at MIT. She throws light on how the OA initiatives such as OpenCourseWare, DSpace and open policy were introduced at MIT and how MIT puts a lot of resources into its policy implementation with a dedicated team to look after OA affairs, and policy advocacy and its implementation. She also talks on how MIT’s scholarly communication office deals with article/ book publishing charges, publishing models, self-archiving, negotiations with publishers, etc. She openly shares how challenging it is to be a scholarly communications librarian, be it MIT or anywhere. *Katharine Dunn: Open access is still viewed as a bold step—when it should be the norm* https://openinterview.org/2022/07/18/katharine-dunn-open-access-is-still-vie... Kindly go through the interview transcript and post your valuable comments on the blog. Best regards, -- Santosh C. Hulagabali, PhD https://santoshch.weebly.com/ University Librarian Central University of Haryana http://cuh.ac.in/ Mahendergarh-123 031 Haryana, India http://library.cuh.ac.in Cell: +91-99874 28147 .. DISCLAIMER: This e-mail message, including any attachments, is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail & discard all copies of the original message. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.