Rate My Professor Jenny Fry

Professor Jenny Fry is Professor of Publishing and Information Science in the School of Design and Creative Arts at Loughborough University, where she joined in 2007. Prior to this, she was a research fellow at the Oxford Internet Institute and a postdoctoral research fellow for the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) in Amsterdam following her PhD in Information Science from the University of Brighton in 2003. Her research career spans the USA, Netherlands, and the UK. She currently serves as Associate Dean for Teaching and Director of People and Culture, and has previously been Deputy Director of Postgraduate Research in the School of the Arts and leader of the Research Communication Group (ReCoG) since 2009. Fry is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and a Research Associate of the Oxford Internet Institute from 2007 to 2010.

Fry's research centers on digital scholarship, with emphasis on disciplinary research cultures, scholarly communication, digital knowledge infrastructures, and publishing practices in relation to open research. She has led and contributed to national and European projects including the Open-Access Mega-Journals project, COPIM, and Open Book Futures, focusing on open access publishing, research data management, and sustainable preservation of open access books. These efforts have informed policy development and public debate on open access routes. Her publications include 'Scholarly research and information practices: a domain analytic approach' (cited by 225), 'Open science in e-science: contingency or policy?' (cited by 69), 'Communicating knowledge: how and why UK researchers publish and disseminate their findings' (cited by 46), and 'PEER behavioural research: authors and users vis-à-vis journals and repositories' (cited by 16). She supervises PhD students in open science and research data management, teaches modules on the social shaping of technology and communicating knowledge, and serves on committees such as ASIS&T European Workshop, Digital Document and Society Conference, and JISC Steering Group. Fry is an editorial board member of Publications journal and delivered her inaugural lecture 'Preserving our intellectual heritage: Does open access go far enough?' in 2026.