Will Cross

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Director, Open Knowledge Center & Head of Information Policy

Phone: (919) 513-2416

Email: wmcross@ncsu.edu

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My areas of expertise

• Copyright and Fair Use
• Author's Rights and Open Access
• Open Pedagogy
• Open Education and Alt-Textbooks
• Managing Your Scholarly Identity
• Managing Your Research Data

I can help with

• Copyright in the Classroom

  Check copyright for course materials, fair use, use copyrighted materials

• Open Education

  Use Open Educational Resources in your class, adopt, adapt, or create OERs

• Grants & Funding

  Opportunities, proposal writing, sponsored research compliance

• Research Impact and Metrics

  Citation analysis, author networks and metrics, benchmarking

• Digital Scholarship

  Advance research and collaboration by leveraging technology

• Open Research

  Author identifiers, repositories, toolkits, workshops

• Publishing and Copyright

  Copyright agreements, Open Access, fair use

• Managing Data

  DMP review, sharing & discovery, best practices

• Text and Data Mining

  Datasets, tools and tutorials

Selected Works

• The NCSU Libraries’ Alt-Textbook Project: Open Education That Opens a Door to the Library
• More than a House of Cards: Developing a Firm Foundation for Streaming Media and Consumer-Licensed Content in the Library
• The Open Textbook Toolkit: Seeding Successful Partnerships for Collaboration Between Academic Libraries and University Presses
• Using a Data Management Plan Review Service as Training Ground for Librarians
• Restoring the Public Library Ethos: Copyright, Licensing, and the Future of Librarianship
• Hot Coffee and Freeze-Dried First Amendment Analysis: The Dubious Constitutionality of Using Private Ratings for Public Regulation of Video Games
• Is Copyright the Third Rail in Information Literacy, or a Common Denominator?