Institutional Repository Librarian
UMass Chan Medical School
Lisa A. Palmer, MSLS, AHIP, is the Institutional Repository Librarian at the Lamar Soutter Library at UMass Chan Medical School in Worcester, MA, USA. She oversees eScholarship@UMassChan, the medical school’s repository and publishing systems for digital research and scholarship. In this role she serves as an editor for the Journal of eScience Librarianship and other publications. She also provides library services and outreach in areas related to the publication, dissemination and impact of UMass Chan scholarship, including open access, author rights, research impact, copyright, research data management, and NIH Public Access compliance. She earned her graduate degree in library science from Simmons College in Boston, MA. Prior to joining UMass, Lisa was a corporate librarian for Digital Equipment Corporation, Compaq Computer Corporation, and Hewlett-Packard.