Anna Leonard – Career Profile

Anna Leonard is a Senior Librarian for Research and Scholarly Communication and a part-time lecturer at the University of Namibia (UNAM). She is currently pursuing a doctorate at the University of South Africa. Anna serves on several national and international committees, including the IFLA Open Science and Scholarship Advisory Committee (ASSAC), the Crossref Membership and Fees Committee, the SPARC Africa Management Committee, and Namibia’s National Committee developing the Research Output and Journal Accreditation (ROJA) Framework. She is also a member of the Decentralised Committee on Research Ethics, School of Humanities, Society and Development. A former member of the Library Publishing Coalition’s Ethical Framework for Library Publishing Task Force (2021–2023), the University of Namibia Press Editorial Board, and the Namibia Information Workers Association (NIWAN), she has wide-ranging research interests spanning scientometrics, research evaluation, scholarly communication, open science, open access, digital scholarship, information management, and science communication.