Laura Bowering Mullen is Behavioral Sciences Librarian and Open Access Specialist at Rutgers University in Piscataway, New Jersey. In addition to her many years of experience as an academic science librarian and team leader for science collections at the Rutgers Library of Science and Medicine, she holds positions in scholarly communication areas. Mullen chairs the Rutgers Libraries’ Committee on Scholarly Communication, and is the Libraries’ representative to COAPI (Coalition of Open Access Policy Institutions). Mullen and colleague Jane Otto shepherded the successful open access policy resolution (for faculty and graduate students) to its passage in the Rutgers Senate in Oct. 2012, and they have gone on to co-chair the Rutgers Open Access Policy Implementation Working Group. Mullen writes and presents locally and internationally on open access topics, and is the author of the 2009 book “Open Access and its Practical Impact on the Work of Academic Librarians” as well as many articles on open access and academic libraries. In recent years, Mullen has been a co-editor of the Emerald journal Library Hi Tech News, a member of the American Psychological Association’s Library Advisory Council, and the Chair of the ACRL EBSS Scholarly Communication Committee.