Brianne Selman

Scholarly Communications and Copyright Librarian

Brianne Selman (she/her) is a fourth generation Winnipegger, of British settler heritage. She leads the Library’s Research and Scholarship support, as well as the Copyright Office. In her Scholarly Communications/ Research and Scholarship roles, she helps manage the information lifecycle of scholarly research done at the University. This includes providing publishing and preservation support through hosting WinnSpace, UWinnipeg’s Institutional Repository, and OJS, which supports UWinnipeg-hosted scholarly journals. Her work on policy development & support, production support, preservation, and indexing and discoverability of UWinnipeg authored Open Access resources ensures that these works can be globally accessed and reused.

Brianne is a UWinnipeg expert on research metrics, publication analysis, persistent identifiers, and author’s rights. She also provides supports for the creation of Open Educational Resources at UWinnipeg, including copyright and other considerations in support of the Zero Textbook Cost initiative. Brianne has been active on copyright research and advocacy both for higher education (as part of CFLA Copyright) and for independent musicians (as part of the SSHRC-funded Cultural Capital Project). Her research interests include knowledge justice and the academic publishing landscape, and the cultural economics of copyright.

Subject and Collections Librarian for:

• Sociology (SOC)
• Criminal Justice (CJ)

Credentials

• Master of Library and Information Science (MLIS), McGill University, 2011; Margery Trenholme Fellow
• Masters in Culture, Globalisation, and The City (Awarded by Sociology on behalf of Centre for Urban and Community Research), Goldsmiths, University of London, 2006; Commonwealth Scholar of Canada
• Bachelor of Arts (Honours, Double Major), Sociology & International Development Studies (BA), Queens University, 2002

Expertise and Research Interests

Knowledge Justice, Scholarly Publishing, Copyright, Secondary Publishing Rights, “Transformative” Agreements, Research metrics and data, political economy.

Featured Scholarly and Professional Work

ORCID Profile

• Selman, Brianne, Mark Swartz. “Secondary Publishing Rights Can Improve Public Access to Academic Research.” The Conversation Canada, 2023
• Schultz, Teresa, et al. “The Notion and Assessment of ‘Predatory’ in Scholarly Publishing.” The Journal of Electronic Publishing, vol. 26, no. 1, May 2023, https://doi.org/10.3998/jep.3681.
• Selman, Brianne, Brian Fauteux, et al. “From Copyright Cartels to Commons and Care: A Public Infrastructure Model for Canadian Music Communities.” Partnership: The Canadian Journal of Library and Information Practice and Research, vol. 17, no. 1, Aug. 2022, pp. 1–23, deWaard, Andrew, et al. “Independent Canadian Music in the Streaming Age: The Sound from above (Critical Political Economy) and below (Ethnography of Musicians).” Popular Music and Society, Jan. 2022, pp. 1–28, https://doi.org/10.1080/03007766.2021.2010028.
• Winter, Christina, et al. “Canadian Collaborations: Library Communications and Advocacy in the Time of COVID-19.” Journal of Copyright in Education & Librarianship, vol. 5, no. 1, Aug. 2021, https://doi.org/10.17161/jcel.v5i1.14920.
• Fauteux, Brian, et al. Putting Users and Small-Scale Creators First in Canadian Copyright Law and Beyond: A Brief Submitted to INDU Statutory Review of the Copyright Act. 2018. https://doi.org/10.21083/partnership.v17i1.6706.