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Ruen's research focuses on scholarly communications, open access, copyright, fair use, information literacy, open educational resources, textbook affordability programs, scholarly publishing, and digital collections services. Key publications include "Open partnerships: Identifying and recruiting allies for open educational resources initiatives" (2018, co-authored with R. Cummings-Sauls, S. Beaubien, J. Smith), "The Notion and Assessment of 'Predatory' in Scholarly Publishing" (2023, co-authored with T. Schultz et al.), "Introducing RJJR" (2023, co-authored with T. Schultz), "The Case for OER as the Advancement of Knowledge/Creative Expression" (2022, co-authored with A. Dierking, S. Schlicker), and OER curations such as "BUS 201: Legal Environment for Business OER Curation" (2022, with E. L. Schiller) and "Intermediate French II: Language and Culture OER Curation" (2021, with C. Bowley). He edited "Re-think It Conference Proceedings" (2016). In 2018, Ruen received the first annual Library Publishing Coalition Award for Exemplary Service for his leadership as chair of the LPC Program Committee, which oversaw growth in the Library Publishing Forum. He has presented at events including the Library Publishing Forum, Open Education conferences, and Michigan Library Association Academic Libraries Conference, and instructed workshops on library publishing.