John Edward Martin  is Director of Scholarly Communication at the UNT Libraries in Denton, TX. He oversees the Libraries' scholarly communication and publishing services, outreach & educational programming, open publishing platforms, OER and open textbook support, scholarly impact consulting, and data management planning services. He is a member of the Libraries Research Support Services unit and the Digital Scholarship Committee. He also serves as a member of the THECB OER Founding Fellows program and the ACRL Scholarly Communication Roadshow presenters team. He is currently working on an open scholarly monograph on Edgar Allan Poe and comics to be published by the UNT Libraries.