Jess Newman

Research Data and Scholarly Communication Lead
Electronic and Collection Services

Disclosure: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.

Jess Newman is the Research Data and Scholarly Communications Lead at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center in Memphis, Tennessee. She received her MSIS from the University of Tennessee in 2017, where she served as a research assistant for the DataONE National Science Foundation project under Dr. Suzie Allard. She then worked as the Digital Preservation and Scholarship manager at Rhodes College, overseeing a team of student researchers in digitization and digital humanities projects as well as managing the digital repository and overseeing a total migration of thousands of digital historical objects between systems. At UTHSC, she is working to build campus awareness and services around open access and library-as-publisher, research data management, data literacy and visualization, research impact metrics, and science communication.