Maureen Schlangen

As the manager of eCommons, the University of Dayton's Digital Commons institutional repository, Maureen Schlangen (she/her/hers) helps faculty across the University of Dayton to make their scholarly works and data collections discoverable and accessible to researchers around the world.

Schlangen is the publisher of seven academic journals and one journal of undergraduate writing, working with editors to manage their journals' submissions, peer review, design, production and publicity. Browse the journals.

With her expertise in web content accessibility guidelines (WCAG), she is leading efforts to bring new content in the repository into compliance with Title II of the Americans With Disabilities Act. Collaborating with colleagues on the Libraries' digital stewardship and sustainability team, she implements strategies for the long-term integrity and accessibility of digital assets.

A former journalist, she is also the author of hundreds of articles in University of Dayton magazines, newsletters and blogs.

• B.S., Journalism (News Editorial), Ohio University
• B.A., Political Science, Ohio University

• Member, Phi Beta Kappa
• Certified Institutional Repository Manager (2015)

• Production editor, Curiosity for the Common Good : A Catholic and Marianist Approach to Artificial Intelligence. Edited by Meghan Henning et al., University of Dayton, 2026.
• “People-First Promotion: Rallying Library Workers during COVID-19 and Beyond.” Marketing Libraries Journal, vol. 5, no. 1, June 2021, pp. 4–17.
• "A Student Journal to Celebrate, Preserve, and Improve Beginning Undergraduate Writing." In Jackson, Amy S., et al., editors, Scholarship in the Sandbox : Academic Libraries as Laboratories, Forums, and Archives for Student Work. Association of College and Research Libraries, a division of the American Library Association, 2019.
• “Content, Credibility, and Readership: Putting Your Institutional Repository on the Map.” Public Services Quarterly, vol. 11, no. 3, July 2015, pp. 217–24.