Madeline Donnelly

Visualizing the Open Access Landscape: Climate Change and Lake Superior

Artist Statement

This work depicts a network of articles that have been retrieved from an Omni Library search on the topic of climate change and Lake Superior. Within the network, articles that have been published open access are brought to the forefront. Articles that have been published behind a paywall are blurred, unreadable and constrained. This work visualizes an open access landscape: What information is missing because it exists behind a paywall? How does open access publishing contribute to equitable access to scholarly information? 

Open Access articles included in this work are licensed with CC-BY. For full attribution please visit bit.ly/LAIR2023

Madeline Donnelly

Madeline is an academic librarian and part-time visual arts student at Lakehead University. She is excited by the ways in which art can explore and ask questions of concepts related to information access and consumption.