Sharla Lair
Sharla Lair is the Senior Strategist of Open Access and Scholarly Communication Initiatives at Lyrasis. Since 2015, Sharla’s role at Lyrasis has been to advance innovative content licensing and open scholarship.
Statement of interest.
“I am honored to serve on this board and am interested in better understanding the dynamics around making scholarly publishing more sustainable through explorations in community building, funding infrastructures, and capacity building. I have presented and published widely on open access and served on a number of committees and boards. I am currently Chair of the Board of Trustees for the OA Ebook Usage Data Trust, a member of the joint International Advisory Board of both Diamas and Craft-OA projects funded by the European Union, as well as a member of the inaugural MIT Press Library Advisory Board. I’m an active member of the Diamond OA Community, an international community facilitated by Science Europe, cOAlition S, OPERAS, and the French National Research Agency. I also participate in the OPERAS OA Books Network Specialty Interest Group, OPERAS Open Access Business Models Specialty Interest Group, and the Subscribe to Open Community of Practice.”