Michele Gibney is the Head of Publishing and Scholarship Support at University of the Pacific in California, USA, where she manages the institutional repository, Scholarly Commons; a faculty driven open educational resources (OER) program; and two open access journals. She is also a doctoral candidate in Informatics at Linnaeus University in Sweden. In 2018-2019, she spent three months in Kosovo at the University for Business and Technology, supporting the UBT Knowledge Center repository launch, with partial funding from a Fulbright Specialist grant.