Rick is the Dean of University Libraries, Professor and Peggy V. Helmerich Chair, and Associate Vice President for Research. Prior to OU, he was Vice-Provost and Director of Libraries at Emory University. Previously Rick was the Research Library director at Los Alamos National Laboratory (1991-–2006). Luce was a co-founder of the Open Archives Initiative to develop interoperable standards for author self-archiving systems. In October 2003 he co-organized the Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities, and in 2004, the Brazilian Declaration on Open Access. He holds numerous advisory and consultative positions supporting digital library development, electronic publishing, and scholarly communication. He was the senior advisor to the Max Planck Society's Center for Information Management (2000–-2006). He was the recipient of the 2005 Fellows' Prize for Leadership at Los Alamos National Laboratory.