Sara Hoover

Sara Hoover is a Data Services Librarian for GW Libraries and Academic Innovation where she works on projects related to supporting research data management and scholarly communications. Her current areas of interest include research impact, qualitative analysis, and open access publishing. Before becoming a Data Services Librarian she served as the Scholarly Communications Librarian at the National Institutes of Health Library where she developed services to support researchers with publishing and other research outputs. She also spent five years as the Metadata and Scholarly Publishing Librarian at the Himmelfarb Health Sciences Library at the George Washington University where she oversaw their Scholarly Communications Committee and managed their institutional repository. She has worked in both the library and publishing sectors and her work focuses on fostering cross institutional partnerships that support open research. Her fields of interest are Research Data Management, Open Access (OA) publishing, publication best practices, and research information management systems.