Meet Jessica Ryan, Scholarly Communications Assistant

We are excited to have Jessica Ryan promoted to the new Scholarly Communications Assistant position after having worked at Smith Libraries for the last three years. Jessica assists with the Faculty and Student Scholarship Access and Preservation project in the Smith College Libraries. She provides outreach, acquisition, dissemination and metadata activities for Smith ScholarWorks, our institutional repository: which showcases and archives scholarship and research materials created by Smith faculty, students, and staff.

Jessica is an enthusiastic advocate for the larger ScholarWorks’ mission, helping scholarly communities flourish through open access, quick discovery, and wide dissemination of scholarly and creative content. 

Feel free to reach out to Jessica by email at scholarworks@smith.edu.