2005 Fall Seminars

Institutional Repositories: Opportunity or Threat

When: Monday, November 7, 2005
Where: American Geophysical Union HQ, Washington, D.C.

Institutional Repositories may become the backbone of the Open Access movement as libraries around the world begin implementing or planning on capturing the intellectual assets of their institution. Just what are IRs and why are libraries and consortium building these multifaceted repositories are two questions that this seminar addresses. IRs are becoming a major focus of educational institutions in the UK and Europe as some higher education authorities are mandating that faculty deposit their publications in the IR. In the United States the IR movement is gaining strength with many of our major research libraries building or developing IRs to manage the intellectual capital of their institutions. The real question is what’s the long term impact on scholarly publishing?

The session will address questions such as:

What are IRs and why are libraries building them?
What is the current state of software to support both the building and access?
How do commercial publishers view IRs and how can they work with them?
Will IRs replace the traditional scholarly publisher’s role?
Will IRs fix the funding problem or the high cost of information that libraries face?
Can publishers live with IRs?
Can publishers coexist?
What will the future bring to scholarly publishing when IRs are networked and part of Google Scholar?

Seminar Managers and Moderators:

Isabella Hinds, Senior Director, Content Alliances, WebCT
Jim Mouw, Electronic Resources Officer, The University of Chicago Library
Dan Tonkery, VP, Business Development, EBSCO Information Services

Speaker Biographies:

Susan Gibbons, Assistant Dean for Public Services & Collection Development, University of Rochester, River Campus Libraries. She earned an MLS and M.A. in history from Indiana University and a professional MBA from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She has published and presented on various library information technology topics, including institutional repositories, electronic books and library course management systems.

Heather Joseph, Executive Director, SPARC, Association of Research Libraries, has spent the last 16 years in scholarly publishing, working for both nonprofit and commercial publishers. She was recently appointed Executive Director of SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) to focus on Open Access and advocacy issues, and is the immediate Past President of SSP.

Michael Mabe, Director of Academic Relations, Elsevier, a research and external relations department created in 1999. Since 2001 he has also been a Visiting Professor in the Department of Information Science at City University, London. He began his publishing career as a scientific lexicographer working on OUP's OED Supplement in 1980. After leaving OUP in 1985, he worked in various capacities for the British Standards Institution, Pergamon Press and Elsevier, where he was Publishing Director of their international materials science program.

Richard Newman, Director, Online Business, American Medical Association. Previously at HighWire he was responsible for the customer-contact functions of the online press: the account management team, customer service, and business development. Richard had joined HighWire Press in March of 2001 after a sixteen-year career with the Thomson Corporation. At Thomson, Richard served in a variety of roles including President of UTLAS, a library automation company in Toronto; Chief Technology Officer of International Thomson Publishing; and Senior Vice President of ISI. Richard’s experience prior to Thomson was at Data Phase Corporation, Peat, Marwick, Mitchell & Co. (now KPMG), and the University of Minnesota. Richard holds degrees from Boston College and Indiana University.

MacKenzie Smith, Associate Director for Technology, MIT Libraries, where she oversees the Libraries' use of technology and its digital library research program. She is currently acting as the project director at MIT for DSpace, MIT's collaboration with Hewlett-Packard Labs to develop an open source digital repository for scholarly research material in digital formats. She was formerly the Digital Library Program Manager in the Harvard University Library's Office for Information Systems.

Seminar Managers and Moderators:

Isabella Hinds, Director of Content Alliances at WebCT, the market leader in online teaching tools. WebCT allows faculty to easily design, develop and manage Web-based and Web-enhanced courses. At WebCT, Isabella develops partnerships with a range of content creators, including college text publishers, professional and society publishers, emerging publishers of unique learning objects, and content aggregators, to deliver WebCT-ready content directly to the desktops of faculty and students. These partnerships serve more than 2,250 institutions, 148,000 faculty, and 6,000,000 students, worldwide, on the WebCT platform.

James R. Mouw, Acquisitions Librarian and Electronic Resources Officer, University of Chicago and has previously held positions at the University of Illinois at Chicago and Gardner-Webb College in North Carolina. He is also adjunct professor at Dominican University School of Library and Information Science (formerly Rosary College), where he teaches the class on serials. His most recent presentations were at the 2002 Charleston Conference, where he participated in a pre-conference session on linking and also convened a plenary session on issues related to linking standards.

Dan Tonkery, VP, Business Development, EBSCO Information Services has over 30 years of professional experience in working with library supply and services companies including serving as President of the former Readmore Subscription Company, The Faxon Company and Information Quest. Dan has a background in Biomedical Communications and Biology having graduated from the University of Illinois and completed a Post Graduate Program in Biomedical Communications at the National Library of Medicine. Dan believes that moving from a print based business to a mixed environment where one must service both print and electronic resources requires a major restructure of the business systems. Users now want desktop delivery of content and the distribution agent must again look at a new business model.

Copyright: Developments at the Core of Your Business

When: Tuesday, November 8, 2005
Where: American Geophysical Union HQ, Washington, D.C.

Copyright is at the core of the entire publishing process, but recent industry trends particularly in electronic distribution, are affecting this bedrock. The first half of this day-long seminar will explore broader issues pertaining to copyright assignment and your organization’s “philosophy”, focusing on policy, effects on discourse, and your business. The afternoon will address practical copyright questions, such as ILL, fair use, DRM, versioning, and access.

During the seminar, you will learn about:

Researcher rights, open access, and author’s copyright transfer
Creative Commons licenses and their applicability to STM publishing
Future government objectives and initiatives relating to copyright
What constitutes fair use in ILL of electronic materials?
Licensing revenue and the ROI of rights management
Tracking usage and the resolution of multiple versions
Balancing revenue and access needs of publishers, institutions, authors and readers

Seminar Managers and Moderators:

Todd Carpenter, Director of Business Development, BioOne
Priscilla Markwood, Assistant Director, FASEB Office of Publications
Victor Van Beuren, Associate Director, Professional Book Acquisitions, American Diabetes Association

Speaker Biographies:

Jonathan Band, helps shape the laws governing intellectual property and the Internet through a combination of legislative and appellate advocacy. He has represented clients with respect to the drafting of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA); database protection legislation; the Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act; and other federal and state statutes relating to copyrights, counterfeiting, privacy, spam, spyware, and cyber security. He complements this legislative advocacy by filing amicus briefs in significant cases related to these provisions.

James Boyle, a William Neal Reynolds Professor of Law at Duke Law School. He has written widely on intellectual property, is one of the founding Board Members of Creative Commons, and a columnist for the online edition of the Financial Times. In 2003 he was the winner of the World Technology Award for Law.

Vin Crosbie, President and managing partner, Digital Deliverance in Greenwich, Connecticut. Since 1996, his firm has advised broadcasters and periodical publishers about how to adapt to new media and that media's ramifications. His clients have included the eight largest newspaper corporations in the U.S., plus the BBC, CNN, News Corporation, LexisNexis, the National Cancer Institute, and the Telecommunications Ministry of the People's Republic of China. His work has been featured in most English-language trade journals of the newspaper, magazine, and broadcast industries, and is the subject of the 'Overview' chapter in Editor & Publisher magazine's Digital Delivery of News: A How-To Guide for Publishers.

George Kendall, Production, Marketing, and Licensing Manager, Proceedings of the National Academies of Science. He began his career in commercial publishing as Production Editor for Taylor & Francis and, later, Account Manager for Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. During his tenure at LWW, George was promoted to Production Manager and supervised the publication of society journals, including those of the American Heart Association. Prior to joining the National Academies of Science, George was Managing Editor of Plant Physiology, a research journal published by the American Society of Plant Biologists. Currently, at NAS, he is the Production, Marketing, and Licensing Manager for the Proceedings of the National Academies of Science. In addition to his work in publishing, George also teaches literature courses at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.

Chuck Koscher, Director of Technology, CrossRef. He has been actively involved in improving the linking infrastructure for their member's scholarly publications. As a technologist, his focus is on implementation concerns driven by data management, data quality and on the development of new services and standards initiatives. Chuck has more than 16 years experience in software services relating to content management and structured data delivery systems.

Tom Richardson, Business Manager for the New England Journal of Medicine. Tom is well-versed in managing all aspects of journal publishing, with an emphasis on online publishing. He has worked for the Journal in various marketing and product management roles since 1991. Tom is a frequent speaker at publishing events.

F. Hill Slowinski, J.D. Senior Director, ASCO Publications, American Society of Clinical Oncology, business executive, publisher, editor, and lawyer, specializing in professional and scholarly publishing. Hill is founder and CEO of Worthington International™, an industry consulting firm, and Senior Director of Publications for the American Society of Clinical Oncology. Previously, he was Executive Publisher for Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. Professionally, Hill is active in the Association of American Publishers and is a consultant to their Enabling Technologies Committee on digital rights management.

Carrie Wolinetz, Ph.D. Associate Director of Communications, Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology. Dr. Wolinetz specializes in issues related to animals in research, stem cells, homeland security, and federal funding. She manages communications related to FASEB’s science policy program and coordinates outreach and educational activities. She has a B.Sc. in animal science from Cornell and a doctorate in animal science from Penn State, where her area of research was reproductive physiology.

Session Managers & Moderators:

Todd Carpenter, Director of Business Development, BioOne, manages all sales, marketing, acquisitions, and strategic planning activities of BioOne, a Washington DC-based aggregator of scientific journals. Before joining BioOne, he was the Journals Marketing Manager at The Johns Hopkins University Press, where he directed the marketing of their 60 print journals and participated in the growth of Project MUSE. He has also held marketing positions at the Energy Intelligence Group and The Haworth Press.

Priscilla Markwood, Assistant Director of Publications, Federation of American Societies for Experimental, provides publishing services to non-profit societies within and outside of FASEB, including marketing, advertising representation, and publication management. Formerly, she was Manager of Industry Relations for Cadmus Communications, where she supported education and outreach to the scholarly publishing community. Prior to Cadmus, Priscilla was Managing Editor of The American Journal of Pathology for 10 years and founding Managing Editor of The Journal of Molecular Diagnostics.

Victor Van Beuren, Associate Director, Professional Book Acquisitions, American Diabetes Association has been involved in scholarly publishing for nearly 20 years. Having worked for both societal and commercial publishers (e.g., American Association of Petroleum Geologists, Springer-Verlag, Elsevier), he has had direct experience in STM book publishing, journal and magazine management, and marketing to academicians and professional practitioners.

The ROI of Discoverability: If They Can't Find It, They Can't Use It/Buy It

When: Monday, November 7, 2005
Where: PALINET Headquarters, Philadelphia, PA

Investing in discoverability pays off. Discoverability is affected by what’s in the content and what surrounds it, from first creation through final dissemination. Explore it from the point of view of the creators and the users of information, the librarians and search engines that help them both, and the advertisers that underwrite it.

Seminar Managers and Moderators:

Anne Orens, Director, North American New Business Development Ingenta, Inc.
Mady Tissenbaum, General Manager, Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery, Inc.
Rebekah Darksmith, Assistant Marketing Manager, University of California Press

Speaker Biographies:

Kevin Hannon, Principal Consultant and Founder, Infocurators. After spending many years in the publishing industry, Kevin branched out and how has extensive experience in many industries including Pharmaceutical, Telecommunications, Publishing, Power, Advertising and Consumer Products. Through his extensive experience, Kevin has learned to focus on four key success factors: Listen to your customers; Always provide great service; Quality really IS job one; Stay organized.

Barbara Lange, Director of Publications Business Development and Product Line Management, IEEE. In this role, Barbara leads the development of IEEE’s online delivery platform, IEEE Xplore, and manages online subscription products. She’s also responsible for developing new business opportunities that are in step with IEEE’s strategic planning and vision. Barbara was previously at Springer Verlag. Barbara previously served as Chair of the AAP/PSP Electronic Information Committee and an active speaker on a variety of publishing topics.

Rich Snow, Independent Representative, is a 28-year veteran of the client, agency and Internet sides of the pharmaceutical industry. In his career in the pharmaceutical industry Rich has helped plan for and launch several major brands and drug categories. He now uses his extensive experience in the field within his own firm specializing in sales of online advertising, with representation of The New England Journal of Medicine On Line and MDLinx.com.

JoAnne Sparks, Director of Library Services, Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, formerly worked for Bristol-Myers Squibb's Pharmaceutical Research Institute in Princeton, New Jersey. She has more than 20 years of experience in university and research libraries and has been a key leader in developing services and systems for managing information.

Mary Talmadge-Grebenar, Associate Director, Literature Services, Information & Knowledge Integration at Bristol-Myers Squibb Company. She is responsible for leading a group of professional searchers who provide literature search support in the areas of chemistry, biology, biotechnology, clinical medicine, news and business information, for the Pharmaceutical Research Institute at BMS. Ms. Talmadge-Grebenar joined Bristol-Myers Squibb in November 1993. Previously, she has worked for several research-based chemical and pharmaceutical companies as both a researcher and information professional.

Seminar Managers and Moderators:

Currently Director of New Business Development, North America, Ingenta, Anne Orens has experience in both the consulting and publishing industries, where she has implemented marketing and sales strategies to enrich team development, encourage product enhancement, and business alliances and sales. Previous to Ingenta, Anne held publishing and publishing technology positions at the American Mathematical Society, and the global management-consulting firm, Mitchell Madison Group, and Little, Brown and Company.

Rebekah Darksmith, Assistant Marketing Manager, University of California Press.

At various times, Mady Tissenbaum has been in charge of copyediting, typesetting, IT, and desktop publishing. She has also served as Managing Editor, webmistress, real estate manager, pension administrator, and human-resources manager. She is now General Manager at The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery Inc. and is halfway through coursework for an MBA. She has served on the SSP Education Committee since 2002 and has been co-chair since January 2005.

Embracing Technology and Process Changes to Successfully Transform a Scholarly Publisher

When: Tuesday, November 8, 2005
Where: PALINET Headquarters, Philadelphia, PA

Understanding how to balance the significant gains associated with new technology with the real costs - both human and financial - often linked with widespread change, is often daunting to publishers. This seminar will explore a variety of book and journal technologies, the challenges some publishers have faced when implementing them, how they overcame them, the process changes that worked, as well as where the industry is headed next from a technology perspective.

Seminar Managers and Moderators:

Barry Bealer, President and CEO, Really Strategies, Inc.
Elizabeth Nolan, Vice President, Market & Services Development, SPI Publishing Services

Speaker Biographies:

Lori Barber, Client Development Manager for ScholarOne® Manuscript CentralTM, a leading system for online manuscript submission and review. She joined ScholarOne in early 2000 when Web-based editorial systems were “bleeding edge” technology. Lori formerly managed production and online publishing workflows for The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.

Bob Braughler, is currently overseeing the Materials Research Society’s move to a CMS-managed Web site – a year-long process that involved soliciting and selecting vendors, preparing and re-focusing existing content, and staff training. Prior to joining MRS in 2003, Bob spent over 5 years creating and managing Web content for clients such as Cox Interactive Media, Coca-Cola, and the Pennsylvania Department of Tourism and Economic Development.

Linda Drumheller, Director of Editorial Production, American College of Physicians, where she manages programmers who develop editorial production systems and medical copyeditors who produce content for publication. Her career in electronic publishing spans over 25 years, including positions at McGraw-Hill, Peterson’s Guides, and Franklin Electronic Publishers.

Evan Schnittman, Vice President and Senior Director, Rights, Business Development for Oxford University Press – USA for the past 3 years. Evan is responsible for all rights and licensing of OUP’s products, OUP's public Web site and online bookstore, and for the technical development of OUP's electronic products.

Bill Trippe, has more than 20 years of technical and management experience in electronic publishing, content management, and SGML/XML and related technologies. He brings a unique blend of strategic and hands-on knowledge of the products and trends that are shaping the publishing and content technology marketplace.

Patti Ward, Director of Product Management, Wolters Kluwer Health – Medical Research. With 10 years of publishing experience Patti has been responsible for using today’s innovative technologies to deliver a web enabled end-to-end publishing pipeline, which allows Wolters Kluwer to leverage their publishing assets irrespective of where the content is produced.

Jabin White, Executive Director of Electronic Production, Elsevier, is dedicated to topics such as markup languages and supporting tools, content management, and workflow engineering. He came to Elsevier as part of the acquisition of Harcourt Health Sciences, where he led the Electronic Publishing Services.

Bill Witscher, Associate Director, HighWire Press. He received a BA in Anthropology from Northwestern University in 1965 and an MBA from Stanford University in 1970. He then spent 24 years at Stanford in a variety of positions in finance, information technology and management. After three years at a software consulting firm in San Francisco, he returned to Stanford and joined HighWire Press. Currently he is an Associate Director with primary responsibilities for new products and services, application development, and production content processing.

Session Managers & Moderators:

Since co-founding Really Strategies Inc., Barry Bealer has served as president and CEO of the company, based in Lansdale, Pa. Under his leadership, Really Strategies has grown into a full service consulting and software integration firm that helps publishers bring strategy, content, and technology together.

Elizabeth Nolan, Vice President, Market & Services Development, SPI Publishing Services, brings to SPI over 17 years’ of publishing experience in marketing and business development. She most recently held the position of General Manager, Thompson Interactive for Thompson Publishing Group. Prior to this, Elizabeth served as Vice President for Business Development at The Worldwatch Institute and as Director of Marketing, Society Periodicals for Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.