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OU Libraries Monthly Feature: Profiles in Open Featuring Ann West

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“Profiles in Open” regularly features OU scholars who advocate for open access and make their work openly accessible, benefitting authors, readers, funders, the public, and others. Check out this month’s profile of Ann West.

Ann West is the Associate Vice President for Research and Partnerships in the Vice President for Research and Partnerships’ office, and the Grayce B. Kerr Centennial Chair in the College of Arts & Sciences Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry. She is the author of the openly published articles Immunodominance of Antigenic Site B over Site A of Hemagglutinin of Recent H3N2 Influenza Viruses and Crystal structure and DNA binding activity of a PadR family transcription regulator from hypervirulent Clostridium difficile R20291.

Why do you choose to publish open access?

I publish open access, because I want to have our research results disseminated to the public in an open, free, and timely manner. Our work will be available to a broader audience, and this will help advance scientific research and development.

Would you encourage others to publish open access? If so, why?

I would encourage others to publish open access, because one's work will be more easily available and more widely read by the target audience as well as the general interested public.