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Jill Cirasella is a Professor and Scholarly Communication Librarian at the Mina Rees Library of the CUNY Graduate Center. She serves as University Liaison and leads scholarly communication initiatives, helping Graduate Center researchers share their work through CUNY Academic Works. She provides instruction to the CUNY research community on scholarly publishing topics including open access, copyright, fair use, publication contracts, journal evaluation, and research metrics.
Dr. Cirasella's educational background includes:
- M.Sc. in Logic from Universiteit van Amsterdam (2006)
- M.S. in Library and Information Science from Simmons College (2001)
- A.B. in Computer Science from Amherst College (1998)
Her primary research focus is scholarly communication, broadly construed. Recent projects examine concerns surrounding open access dissertations, attitudes about practice-based library literature, and the professional experiences of hard of hearing librarians. She is committed to advancing nonprofit community-led open access initiatives. As subject librarian, she supports computer science, mathematics, audiology, and speech-language-hearing sciences, with additional responsibilities for disability and accessibility resources.
Dr. Cirasella previously served as chair of the editorial board of the Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication and is co-founder and managing editor of the Journal of Graduate Librarianship. Before joining the Graduate Center in 2013, she worked for eight years as a reference and instruction librarian at Brooklyn College, and previously at the Dance Notation Bureau and Boston Architectural Center.
