Jeff Graveline is a Professor and Associate Dean for Research and Scholarly Communication in the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Libraries. He also serves as Director of the UAB Libraries' Office of Scholarly Communication. Jeff is involved nationally with the American Library Association (ALA) and the Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL) and served as President of the Alabama Library Association. Jeff’s research interests focus on scholarly communication, specifically the intersection between copyright and higher education. Prior to joining UAB in 2006, Jeff practiced law in Birmingham and worked as a law clerk for a bankruptcy judge in the Northern District of Alabama. He holds a J.D. and an M.L.I.S. from the University of Alabama and a B.A. in History from Virginia Tech. You can contact Jeff at jgraveli@uab.edu.