Jennifer Beamer is the Scholarly Communication Librarian at California State University San Bernardino (CSUSB). Jennifer provides leadership, outreach, and education on the scholarly communication ecosystem, including open access advocacy, open science practices, open educational resources, copyright and fair use, and research impact, and runs the institutional repository. She was awarded a Fulbright Research award for 2023 – 2024 to examine open-access infrastructure at the National Institute of Informatics in Tokyo, Japan. She is passionate about open-access advocacy and open infrastructure, having completed her doctoral work on how organizations like SPARC NA support open-access social and technical infrastructure.
Throughout her librarian career, Jennifer has been an active member of the Scholarly Communications Community. She was Vice-Chair of the Statewide California Electronic Library Consortium (SCELC) Scholar Communications Committee and the SCELC IR Subcommittee Chair. Jennifer is a presenter for the Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL) Scholarly Communication Roadshow. Jennifer is an alumnus of the SPARC Open Education Program 2019-2020, OpenCon 2014, and 2016.
Before joining CSUSB, she was the Head of Scholarly Communications and Publishing Services at the Claremont Colleges and the Digital Initiatives Librarian at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. She led efforts at UHM to help faculty comply with the university’s open access policy. Furthermore, she assisted their Graduate Student Organization create a resolution to include themselves in the faculty Open Access policy. Jennifer holds a doctorate in communications and information science and an MLISc. degree from the University of Hawaii at Manoa and a Master of Science degree from the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada.
