David Scherer is the Scholarly Repository Specialist at the Purdue University Libraries. In his role, he serves as the manager of the Purdue e-Pubs institutional repository (http://docs.lib.purdue.edu). David works closely with faculty, staff, and students to expand the role of Purdue e-Pubs as a service of the Purdue Libraries providing free global online access to their research and scholarship. As a representative of the Scholarly Publishing Services unit, David collaborates alongside the Purdue University Press to provide the best scholarly communication solutions and services across a spectrum of library publishing services offered by the Purdue Libraries Publishing Division to campus stakeholders.

Additionally, David works in conjunction with the e-Archives repository and the Purdue University Research Repository (PURR) to provide the Purdue community a continuum of repository-based services offered by the Purdue Libraries. His research experience and interests include collection development, scholarly communications, open access, institutional repositories, and altmetrics. David earned his MSLIS and MA in History from Simmons College.