Meredith Goins curriculum vitae (PDF)
Meredith P. Goins joined the World Data System (WDS) as executive director of the International Program Office in 2021. Funded by the US Department of Energy (PI, Professor Suzie Allard) and housed at the University of Tennessee Oak Ridge Innovation Institute at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The WDS is an affiliated body of the International Science Council.
With over two decades of experience in science and medical information centers, Goins is working towards her PhD in Communication and Information with a concentration in information sciences at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, focusing on board interlock between data repositories and adjacent data organizations. She has over a decade of experience recruiting grant peer reviewers for international, federal, and state funding agencies using bibliometric and scientometric indicators to aid in identifying potential reviewers.
She earned her MS in Information Science from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and her BA in Public Relations from East Carolina University, Greenville, NC. In 2025, Goins was appointed as a member of the External Advisory Board for the FIDELIS Project of the European Open Science Cloud, which is building a European network of trusted, FAIR-enabled data repositories. She also serves as an ex officio member of the US National Committee for the Committee on Data (USNC/CODATA), the US Research Data Alliance (US-RDA) Steering Committee. She is also co-chair of the RDA/WDS Certification of Digital Repositories Interest Group and the RDA/WDS TRUST Principles Working Group. Goins is a reviewer for IASSIST Quarterly, Information Technologies and Libraries, Library Leadership & Management, and has served as a conference reviewer for the American Geophysical Union (AGU), International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC), and SciDataCon and a grant reviewer for the US Department of State and the State of Tennessee.
Research Interests
- Scholarly communications
- Grant peer review
- TRUST principles
- Data repositories
- Board interlock
PhD Committee
