About Mark Swartz

Mark Swartz is the Scholarly Publishing Librarian at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario. In this role, he manages the university’s Open Access journal publishing program and institutional repository, while also overseeing grant programs that support book subventions and the creation of open educational resources. Mark’s research focuses on the evolving role of libraries in supporting open publishing and protecting user rights under the Copyright Act. His interests include open access, open data, OERs, the public domain, and privacy. Currently, he focuses on the surveillance systems underpinning commercial scholarly publishing and the implementation of secondary publishing rights in Canada. Mark is also a Visiting Program Officer for Open Science with the Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL).