Uploaded November 2017 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
Over the past decade Ashley has worked in both academic and public libraries, focusing on digital inclusion and providing access to scholarly content. She is now an Associate Officer of Knowledge and Research Services at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
In this capacity, she serves on the core Open Access team, focusing on the foundation’s Open Access Policy’s implementation. This includes the development of Chronos, a newly created service for its grantees and staff, as well as, leading the implementation of Gates Open Research, a revolutionary publishing platform hosted by F1000. This work has sparked a passion for promoting open access, believing that freely accessible knowledge has the power to improve and save lives.
Farley delivered the keynote address, "The Importance of Open Science in a Changing Scholarly Communications Paradigm," at ECS's OpenCon on October 1, 2017 in National Harbor, Maryland.
Over the past decade Ashley has worked in both academic and public libraries, focusing on digital inclusion and providing access to scholarly content. She is now an Associate Officer of Knowledge and Research Services at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
In this capacity, she serves on the core Open Access team, focusing on the foundation’s Open Access Policy’s implementation. This includes the development of Chronos, a newly created service for its grantees and staff, as well as, leading the implementation of Gates Open Research, a revolutionary publishing platform hosted by F1000. This work has sparked a passion for promoting open access, believing that freely accessible knowledge has the power to improve and save lives.
Farley delivered the keynote address, "The Importance of Open Science in a Changing Scholarly Communications Paradigm," at ECS's OpenCon on October 1, 2017 in National Harbor, Maryland.
