معرفی
Professor Lucy Montgomery serves as Dean of Research in the Faculty of Humanities at Curtin University, leading the Curtin Open Knowledge Initiative (COKI), a strategic research project analyzing big data to assess universities as Open Knowledge Institutions. Her work combines humanities perspectives with cloud computing to explore scholarly communication, open access, and diversity. Key areas include open access policy impacts, global academic diversity, and data-driven university benchmarking. The COKI project analyzes over 12 trillion data items to inform institutional openness.
Research Focus: Open access, open science infrastructure, scholarly communication networks, academic publishing models, institutional transformation, and diversity in higher education. Her 2021 MIT Press book Open Knowledge Institutions: Reinventing Universities synthesizes these themes.
Publications Overview: Recent work emphasizes open access's role in diversifying citations, global OA performance dashboards, and leveraging library data to measure institutional openness. Her 2024 study in Scientometrics demonstrates open access outputs receive more geographically diverse citations. Collaborative projects include the Book Analytics Dashboard (BAD) and analysis of OA monograph usage.
Grants & Collaborations: Leads major projects like the COKI initiative, funded by strategic university resources. Collaborates with global partners (e.g., UCL Press, OPERAS) on OA monograph frameworks and data interoperability. Active in international conferences (e.g., Force11, ELPUB).
Labs/Teams: Oversees the COKI research group, a multidisciplinary team specializing in big data analytics for academia. Engages with library consortia (e.g., Knowledge Unlatched) to advance OA book funding models.
