Speaker Bios

Mr. Marcus is the founder and President of Aaron Marcus and Associates, Inc. (AM+A). A graduate in physics from Princeton University and in graphic design from Yale University, in 1967 he became the world’s first graphic designer to be involved fulltime in computer graphics. In the 1970s he programmed a prototype desktop publishing page layout application for the Picturephone ™ at AT&T Bell Labs, programmed virtual reality spaces while a faculty member at Princeton University, and directed an international team of visual communicatiors as a Research Fellow at the East-West Center in Honolulu. In the early 1980s he was a Staff Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory in Berkeley, founded AM+A, and began research as a Co-Principal Investigator of a project funded by the US Department of Defense’s Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). In 1992, he received the National Computer Graphics Association’s annual award for contributions to industry. He was the keynote speaker for ACM/SIGGRAPH 1980, the organizer and chair of the opening plenary panel for ACM/SIGCHI 1999, and the closing keynote plenary speaker for UPA 2005, the Usability Professional’s Association’s annual conference. In 2006, he was co-nominated as an AIGA Fellow for 2007 by the AIGA Cross-Cultural Design Center. He is the Editor-in-Chief of User Experience (UX), Editor of Information Design Journal, and is a regular columnist of Interactions. He is also on the Editorial Boards of Visible Language, Universal Access Journal, and the International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction.

Mr. Marcus has written over 250 articles; written/co-written five books, including (with Ron Baecker) Human Factors and Typography for More Readable Programs (1990), Graphic Design for Electronic Documents and User Interfaces (1992), and The Cross-GUI Handbook for Multiplatform User Interface Design (1994) all published by Addison-Wesley; and contributed chapters/case studies to five handbooks of user-interface design, information appliances, and culture. Mr. Marcus focuses his attention on the Web and wireless communication, mobile devices, helping the industry to learn about good user-interface and information-visualization design, providing guidelines for globalization/localization, the challenges of “baby faces” (small displays for consumer information appliances) of ubiquitous devices, and cross-cultural communication. Mr. Marcus has published, lectured, tutored, and consulted internationally for more than 35 years and has been an invited keynote/plenary speaker at conferences internationally. He is a visionary thinker, designer, and writer, well-respected in international professional communities, with connections throughout the Web, user interface, human factors, graphic design, and publishing industries.

Adrian Stanley is The Chief Executive Officer for The Charlesworth Group
(USA), prior to this Adrian worked for 4 year as Director for Charlesworth
China, setting up the Beijing office which now employs more than 150 staff,
working on Rights and Licensing agreements for US and UK publishers, and
Composition services, which include automated XML pagination workflows.
Adrian works closely with a wide range of North American publishers, helping
them fully understand and maximize the potential in the China market. He is
also an active committee member for the SSP (Society for Scholarly
Publishers), The Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers
(ALPSP North American Chapter) and the Council of Science Editors CSE; he
has 20 years experience working in the publishing/printing sector.

Alex Kim has worked as a Web Designer/Producer for various publications of the American Chemical Society, including C&EN Online, Analytical Chemistry, and Environmental Science & Technology. Alex currently serves as the technical lead within the Web Innovation group, ensuring that the back-end development, front-end design, and the business needs of the Publications Division are all in sync.

Ammy Vogtlander recently founded BlueInsights, an internet venture and consulting practice. BlueInsights focuses on new initiatives that aim to improve customer interaction through social communities and other emerging web concepts and technologies.

Previously, Ammy worked as Director of Search within Elsevier’s corporate strategy group, where she was responsible for identifying new opportunities to maximise the dissemination of Elsevier’s content, building
strong relationships with search partners as well as for developing and executing Elsevier’s search plans.

Before, Ammy was Head of Product for Scirus, Elsevier’s free Web search engine.

Before joining Elsevier, Ammy worked as a senior strategy consultant at a Dutch consulting firm, NeXtrategy – Boer & Croon, where she assisted clients in developing and executing Internet strategies. Ammy started her career at AMS, an American IT consultancy. Ammy
holds a MSc in Physics from the University of Groningen.

Andrea Powell joined CABI in May 1991 after two and a half years with
Reuters Ltd in the City of London. After three years in Marketing, she
moved into Product Development and in 1999 took on additional
responsibility for Production and IT within the Publishing business unit
of CABI, a not-for-profit intergovernmental organization. Andrea was
appointed to the new role of Executive Director, Publishing, in May
2005, and is now responsible for all aspects of CABI’s publishing
operation. Andrea served as Chair of ALPSP for three years from 2003 to
2005, and is a member of the Copyright Clearance Center’s Publisher
Advisory Group.

Andrew Bridges, a litigation partner in the San Francisco office of the international law firm Winston & Strawn LLP, has litigated many important cases involving copyright, the Internet, new technologies, and new business models. He currently defends Google in Perfect 10 v. Google, which challenges Google’s image and web search under every copyright infringement theory; he also defends MasterCard in a case, also brought by Perfect 10, seeking to hold VISA and MasterCard responsible for infringements by web sites that sell subscriptions that can be charged on consumers’ credit cards. He successfully defended the maker of the first MP3 player, the Rio by Diamond Multimedia, against the recording industry’s efforts to block its introduction. He also successfully defended ClearPlay, the developer of DVD player navigation software that allows consumers to enjoy modified “airline version” or “familiy friendly” playback of genuine Hollywood motion picture DVDs, against efforts by the motion picture industry and the Directors Guild of America to outlaw the technology. He has represented many other prominent technology, Internet media, or e-commerce companies such as Netscape, Napster, McAfee Software, eBay, Apple Computer, and StreamCast Networks, as well as traditional publishers and consumer products companies, in both litigation and counseling matters.Mr. Bridges received an A.B. in Greek and Latin, with distinction, from Stanford University; a B.A. (Hons.) and M.A. in Literae Humariores from the University of Oxford; and a J.D. cum laude from Harvard Law School. He is on the Board of Trustees of the Copyright Society of the USA, the Board of Trustees of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, and the Board of Directors of Ronald McDonald House at Stanford. He serves as an Early Neutral Evaluator for the United States District Court for the Northern District of California and a domain name arbitrator for the World Intellectual Property Organization.

Anurag Acharya is a Distinguished Engineer at Google. In previous lives, he has been an undergrad at the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, a graduate student at Carnegie Mellon, a postdoc at the University of Maryland and an Assistant Professor at UC Santa Barbara. At Google, he has worn several hats, most recently working on Google Scholar and Google News Archive Search.

Arend Küster was born in Stuttgart, Germany and now lives and works in Oxford, UK. As the Director for PCG Europe, he is develops marketing campaigns for publishers both in the US and in Europe to reach out to academic and professional markets in Europe and the US. On behalf of all of PCG’s global publishing clients he has explored European Markets and increased the publishers visibility and relationship with European markets and consortia, where he has successfully negotiated agreements on behalf of these clients. With his knowledge of the European publishing and library communities, Arend offers PCG clients customized solutions that directly address their needs, interests and opportunities. More recently, he has been exploring and extending the reach of scholarly publishers into central and eastern European Markets. Arend looks back at over 15 years of experience in publishing, where he held positions in sales, client management, content negotiating and marketing in scholarly publishing and e-learning at Chadwyck-Healey (now ProQuest), the Bertelsmann Reference Group and within the Holtzbrinck Group

Brewster Kahle, Digital Librarian, Director and Co-Founder. Brewster has built technologies, companies, and institutions to advance the goal of universal access to all knowledge. He currently oversees the non-profit Internet Archive as founder and Digital Librarian, which is now one of the largest digital archives in the world.

As a digital archivist, Brewster has been active in technology, business, and law.

Judson King is the director of the Center for Studies in Higher Education and professor emeritus of chemical engineering at UC Berkeley. At the Center, his research focuses on systemic and institutional concerns as well as issues specific to engineering and technical disciplines. Since joining the University of California in 1963, King has served in a variety of academic and administrative posts on the UC Berkeley campus and the system level, including Provost and Senior Vice President Academic Affairs of the University of California system (1995-2004), system-wide Vice Provost for Research, Provost Professional Schools and Colleges, dean of the College of Chemistry, and chair of the Department of Chemical Engineering. King is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and has received major awards from the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, the American Chemical Society, the American Society for Engineering Education and the Council for Chemical Research. He has been active with the California Council on Science and Technology. At CSHE, the projects in which he is directly involved include The Future of Scholarly Communication, Public Research Universities, and Approaches to Engineering Education.

Catherine Candee has been leading the CDLs eScholarship Publishing Services since May 2000. The services were founded to provide low-cost, alternative publication services for the UC community, to support widespread distribution of the materials that result from research and teaching at UC, and to foster new models of scholarly publishing through development and application of advanced technologies. These services are increasingly offered through a joint effort of CDL and the University of California Press as UC strives to redefine the role of the university in scholarly publishing. The speaker will discuss how our largest public research university is addressing the challenges and opportunities of 21st century scholarly publishing and the role of the institutional repository in it.

Professor Benton is Consultant to the PG&E Pacific Energy Center and was Principal Investigator of Vital Signs: a Curriculum Materials Development Project. He has lectured and published extensively on topics of curriculum development, field evaluation methods, thermal comfort, and daylighting. Professor Benton has received two Progressive Architecture Research Awards and an AIA Education Honors Honorable Mention. He teaches courses in the areas of energy and environmental management, daylighting analysis using physical models, technology transfer, and field evaluation of building performance. Current research interests include field investigation of thermal comfort, visualization of sunlight and shadow patterns, and post-occupancy measurement of physical building performance.

Charles J. Henry, President of the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR), was previously vice provost and university librarian at Rice University, where he was responsible for the Digital Library Initiative and Digital Media Center. He was also publisher of the Rice University Press. He is a trustee of the Digital Library Federation and chair of the advisory committee for the Information Resource Center at the International University of Bremen. He serves on the advisory board of Stanford University Libraries and on the ACLS Commission on Cyberinfrastructure in the Humanities and Social Sciences.

Charles Watkinson is Director of Purdue University Press, a unit of Purdue University Libraries. He previously worked as Director of Publications at the American School of Classical Studies in Princeton, NJ. He has over 15 years experience in various scholarly publishing roles including management jobs in book distribution, marketing, and bookselling. By background an archaeologist, he also has extensive fieldwork experience in the Mediterranean region and has written and published on subjects related to the ancient world and on digital data. He is a member of the Executive Board of the Society for Scholarly Publishing and a member of the Library Relations Committee of the Association of American University Presses. He is currently working on an IMLS-funded research project on strategies for success in library-based publishing, in collaboration with colleagues from Georgia Tech and University of Utah, as well as Purdue.

Prior to co-founding ebrary.com, Christopher consulted at Stanford University to help develop a method in which University Presses could implement an electronic workflow solution for the delivery of their publications for electronic distribution. He also provided feasibility research for Octavo Corporation, which publishes and preserves rare books and manuscripts using advanced digital tools and formats. From 1991-1996, he worked at Adobe Systems as a Systems Engineer, Project Manager, and Project Marketing Manager for Adobe Acrobat. Mr. Warnock holds a B.S. in Philosophy from the University of Utah.

Christopher Surridge graduated with a degree in Biophysics from Leeds University in 1988 and went on to study the dynamics of microtubule assembly at Imperial College London. After post-doc research he moved into scientific publishing as Assistant Editor on Nature Structural Biology in December 1993. In 1995 he moved onto the editorial team at Nature where he handled an eclectic mix of subject areas mainly focusing on biophysics, mathematical and systems biology, and plant science. He also spent some time editing Nature’s Brief Communication section which has never fully recovered. By mid-2005 the allure of reshaping scientific publishing to satisfy the needs of a new century became irresistible and he moved to PLoS’s Cambridge office working on a new project to be launched in 2006. His career as an international playboy and writer of speculative fiction, under the pseudonym Roland Denison, remains permanently on hold.

Charles (Chuck) Eckman has served as Director of Collections at UC Berkeley since June 2006. Prior to that he worked for eleven years in various capacities including head of social science libraries at Stanford University. He served at Berkeley from 1987 to 1995 as a librarian in Environmental Design and Government Documents libraries.

Clifford Lynch has been the Director of the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) since July 1997. CNI, jointly sponsored by the Association of Research Libraries and Educause, includes about 200 member organizations concerned with the use of information technology and networked information to enhance scholarship and intellectual productivity. Prior to joining CNI, Lynch spent 18 years at the University of California Office of the President, the last 10 as Director of Library Automation. Lynch, who holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley, is an adjunct professor at Berkeleys School of Information. He is a past president of the American Society for Information Science and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the National Information Standards Organization. Lynch serves on the National Digital Preservation Strategy Advisory Board of the Library of Congress; he was a member of the National Research Council committees that published The Digital Dilemma: Intellectual Property in the Information Infrastructure and Broadband: Bringing Home the Bits, and now serves on the NRCs committee on digital archiving and the National Archives and Records Administration.

Chairman and founder of EPs (Electronic Publishing Services Ltd), David Worlock has wide print and electronic publishing experience in educational, academic, and professional information fields. From 1967 when he joined Thomson Corporation as a trainee until 1985, he held various publishing positions, including group executive publisher managing Thomson’s school-based publishing program and CEO of the pioneer development of EUROLEX, the United Kingdom’s first online service for lawyers. In 1985 he founded EPS, a research and consultancy company that has worked alongside the digital-content industry in developing strategies for products and markets in consumer and business sectors.

Dean Smith is currently the Vice President for Sales & Marketing at the American Chemical Society. His career spans twenty years in scholarly and scientific publishing with an emphasis on all aspects of publishing scientific journals. He has worked for Columbia University Press, Alan R. Liss, Springer-Verlag, and Chapman & Hall. He has been with ACS
since 1997 and has played an integral role in the development of the first-ever sales force for the Society and this has resulted in access to ACS Publications in over 80 countries. He also led the sales and marketing team in establishing the new ACS Value-Based Pricing Plans for institutions based on usage, effective in 2008. He was instrumental in achieving COUNTER compliancy for ACS Journals in 2004.

In January 2007, Diane Carroll became the Head of Collections and Acquisitions for Washington State University Libraries. Prior to this position she was the Collection Development Librarian at Oregon Health & Science University (OSHU) in Portland. She has seven years of experience licensing electronic resources for individual institutions and assisting with negotiations of some Orbis Cascade Alliance licenses. Her second career is as a Ruminant Nutrition where she gained tenure in the Animal Sciences Department at Oregon State University in 1998 and then worked for Purina Mills feed company as a PhD Dairy Consultant. Her training in sales and experience in supporting a sales force has been invaluable when working with publisher representatives.

Diane Harley directs the Higher Education in the Digital Age (HEDA) project at the Center for Studies in Higher Education, UC Berkeley. At CSHE, she has created and directed research initiatives focusing on the policy implications of integrating information and communication technologies into complex academic environments. Harley is a biosocial anthropologist with a Ph.D. in anthropology; her approach emphasizes the concurrent analysis of social, economic, and academic costs and benefits of technology. She is currently the principal investigator of the Digital Resource Study: Understanding the Use of Digital Resources in Humanities and Social Science Undergraduate Education (funded by the A.W. Mellon Foundation and the William & Flora Hewlett Foundation); and Regulation of E-Learning: New National and International Policy Perspectives (funded by the Ford Foundation). She is co-principal investigator with C. Judson King on a project investigating the Future of Scholarly Communication.

Dom Mitchell has been the web manager with the BMJ Group since 1999 when the first of the Group’s 26 specialist sites launched with HighWire Press. He has presented at HighWire Publishers’ Meeting and the annual meeting for the Council of Science Editors.

Douglas LaFrenier is Director of Publication Sales & Market Development at the American Institute of Physics. He has held previous positions at Macmillan, McGraw-Hill, the Scientific American Library, and Robert Ubell Associates, a publishing consulting firm in New York City. He is a member of the Special Libraries Association, the North American Serials Interest Group, and SSP, where he is a past member of the Board of Directors. He is on the PSP Journals Committee and the STM marketing advisory committee. He has been a frequent speaker at meetings of SSP, PSP, CESSE, and the Charleston Conference.

Eileen Kiley, Manager of Archival Publications, Materials Research Society, is responsible for all aspects of print and online publication of MRS’s monthly archival journal as well as approximately 45 proceedings volumes each year.

Since joining MRS in 2000, Eileen has overseen the implementation of electronic peer review systems for both books and journals and has guided these publications through an array of changes to keep pace with new developments in publishing.

Prior to joining MRS, Eileen spent 5 years in book acquisitions at the University of Pittsburgh Press. She is an active member of the SSP Education Committee.

Prior to joining the Environmental Design Library in 1984, Elizabeth Byrne served as Head of the Design, Architecture, Art and Planning Library at the University of Cincinnati; as Assistant Head of the Fine Arts Department at the Detroit Public Library; and as Head of the Art Library at the University of Louisville. She received the Mellon Library Fellowship for Teaching and Learning from UC Berkeley in 2004-05, the Holway R. Jones Distinguished Service Award from the Council of Planning Librarians in 1997, and a UC Berkeley Distinguished Librarian award in 1991.

Ezra T. Ernst – Chief Executive Officer, Swets North America
Ezra Ernst joined Swets as Chief Executive Officer, North America in September 2005. A leading innovator of electronic media and business models, Ezra most recently served as Vice President, Business Development of Wolters Kluwer Health, Medical Research Division, where he successfully developed and executed the print to electronic migration strategy, leveraging the full range of medical research content, tools and services from Ovid Technologies and Lippincott, Williams and Wilkins. Previously, Ezra was the Director of Business Development for WK International Health & Science, and has held positions at Internet Partnership Group, Aspen Publishers, Little, Brown and Company, and John Wiley and Sons.

Fiona Bennett graduated from the University of Hull in 1995, with a BA Hons in Economic and Social History and began her career in publishing in 1996, as a Rights Assistant at Elsevier. She joined Oxford University Press in 1998 as Journals Copyright Manager and has progressed over the last 8 years to Head, Rights and New Business Development. Her current remit includes managing the sale and licensing of new rights and the archiving/long term preservation strategy for the Oxford Journals. Fiona represents Oxford Journals on the ALPSP Copyright Committee, and has represented ALPSP at the British Copyright Council and various other groups such as the ALPSP/BL working group and the Digital Content Forum. In addition to this, she was co-Chair of the EASY Project (electronic interlibrary loan project co-run by the University of Lancaster and Ingenta) and is a member of the Project MUSE Advisory Board and CLOCKSS Steering Group. Away from her busy role at Oxford Journals, Fionas time involves being mum to two-year old Holly, reading (crime fiction, biographies etc.) and catching up with friends.

Mr. Haber is Vice President and General Counsel of Copyright Clearance Center, Inc., a not-for-profit corporation that grants permissions and licenses to corporations, universities and other organizations and individuals for the use of the copyrighted works of publishers, authors and other copyright rightsholders, and collects and distributes royalties for those uses. Most recently, CCC has developed RIGHTSPHERE, the first Web-based rights advisory and management service that helps organizations promote collaboration and the free flow of published information while respecting copyright. Mr. Haber is responsible for all legal affairs of CCC, including the legal aspects of its copyright licensing businesses. He has participated in the development of each of the Companys licensing programs and counsels senior management in the development of new programs and products, as well as in the regular business affairs of a 200-employee organization.Prior to joining CCC, Mr. Haber was a Senior Attorney at R.H. Macy & Co., Inc. (the original corporate parent of the Macys chain of department stores) with primary responsibility for its private-label design and manufacturing division and for all licensing and intellectual property matters. Prior to joining Macys, Mr. Haber was of counsel to the New York City-based law firm of Weil, Gotshal & Manges, LLP, practicing intellectual property, trade regulation and antitrust law. There, his clients, which he represented in litigation, commercial and counseling matters, were concentrated in the publishing and retailing fields. Mr. Haber holds bachelors (government), masters (American history) and law degrees from schools of Harvard University. He is admitted to practice law in Massachusetts, New York and Connecticut.

Geoff Bilder joined CrossRef as Director of Strategic Initiatives in December 2006, prior to which he was a Publishing Technology Consultant at Scholarly Information Strategies Ltd. since October of 2005. He has over 15 years experience as a technical leader in scholarly technology. He co-founded Brown University’s Scholarly Technology Group in 1993 to provide advanced technology consulting on issues related to academic research, teaching and scholarly communication.

He later served as head of R&D in the IT department of Monitor Group, a management consulting firm based in Cambridge, MA. From 2002 to 2005, Geoffrey was Chief Technology Officer at Ingenta. He has since worked and consulted extensively with publishers and librarians on how emerging social software technologies are likely to affect scholarly and professional researchers.

Ivy Anderson is the Director of Collection Development and Management at the California Digital Library, where she directs and provides leadership to a broad range of shared collection activities, including the systemwide negotiation and licensing of shared digital materials, the development of shared print collections across the ten campuses of the University of California, and the Universitys mass digitization efforts. Prior to joining the CDL in December 2005, Ivy spent 8 years at the Harvard University Library as the Program Manager for E-Resource Management and Licensing, where she developed and managed a shared licensing program on behalf of Harvards many libraries. While at Harvard, Ivy was a major contributor to the Digital Library Federation’s Electronic Resource Management Initiative and was also the chief architect of Harvards local e-resource management system. Currently Ivy serves on the SERU working group, a project jointly sponsored by NISO, ARL, SPARC, ALPSP, and SSP to develop a best practices document for electronic resource acquisitions that can be used to transact business in lieu of a negotiated license agreement, and on the License Expression Working Group jointly sponsored by NISO, DLF, Editeur, and the Publishers Licensing Society. Her prior professional activities have included co-editing a column on Scholarly Communication for C&RL News and conducting workshops for ACRL, MLA and other organizations on the topic of licensing and electronic resource management.

Prior to 1998, Ivy served as Head of Information Systems at the Brandeis University Libraries. Ivy holds a B.A in music from New York University and an M.L.S. from Simmons College. Before acquiring her library degree, Ivy pursued doctoral studies in music history and theory at Brandeis University.

After completing a masters in English Literature, Jason became the managing editor for a bimonthly nursing journal in 1994. He held marketing, licensing and editorial positions at Blackwell from 1996 – 2003. He joined NPG in 2003 as Acquisitions Publisher and took on a similar role at Cell Press/Elsevier in 2005.

Jason S. Price is a self-described recovering Academic turned Science & Electronic Resources Librarian. After ten years as a graduate student at Indiana University, Bloomington, he completed a Ph.D. in Evolution, Ecology and Behavior and an MLS. He thoroughly enjoys applying analytical expertise to the burgeoning datasets available to libraries today. His role as E-journal Package Analyst for the Statewide California Electronic Library Consortium provides opportunities to work with publishers, vendors and libraries to increase pricing equity and attractiveness for all stakeholders involved in providing electronic resource access to information consumers.

Johan Bollen is a staff researcher at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, Research Library (Digital Library Research & Prototyping team). He was an Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Science of Old Dominion University from 2001 to since 2006. He was a research assistant at the Modeling, Algorithms, and Informatics Group at the Los Alamos National Laboratory from 1999 to 2002, after working as a researcher at the University of Brussels (VUB). He obtained his PhD in Experimental Psychology from the University of Brussels in 2001 on the subject of cognitive models of human hypertext navigation. He has taught courses on Data Mining, Information Retrieval and Digital Libraries. His research has been funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, National Science Foundation, Library of Congress, National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the Los Alamos National Laboratory. His present research interests are usage data mining, computational sociometrics, informetrics, and digital libraries. He has extensively published on these subjects as well as matters relating to adaptive information systems architecture. He is presently the Principal Investigator of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation-funded MESUR project which aims to expand the quantitative tools available for the assessment of scholarly impact.

John Ober is Director, Policy, Planning and Outreach, Office of Scholarly Communication, University of California, Office of the President. He serves on the NISO/ALPSP Working Group on Journal Article Versions. John previously served at the California Digital Library as Director of Education and Strategic Initiatives and as interim Director of Technologies. He is a member of the SPARC Steering Committee, and is co-chair of the ACRL’s scholarly communication committee. His held previous positions at California State University, Monterey Bay, and the UC Berkeley School of Library and Information Studies. He was also an ALA Library Bookfellow in Benin, West Africa.

John Sack has been at the center of using IT to support research activity at Stanford University for over 25 years. John is an expert at the introduction of new technologies into large organizations, and at managing the organizational change cycles related to such technology introductions. He has been a pioneer of library and administrative systems that were later made available to the commercial world.

Since 1995, John has been Director of HighWire Press, Stanford’s not-for-profit e-hosting company for independent publishers. HighWire works with society-based, university press, and other scholarly publishers to bring high quality content and the latest ideas in publishing to the research community, making information available, accessible, searchable and, most importantly, relevant to the reader.

Jonathan Morgan has been with the American Chemical Society for 7 years, working within the Sales & Marketing team to advance the value and recognition of ACS Journals within the STM Publishing market. Roles with the organization have included Circulation Manager and Manager, Product Marketing, overseeing marketing strategy and implementation for the societys biological and medicinal chemistry journal program. He also recently helped to launch the award-winning ACS Chemical Biology, a new community-focused, web-centric publication introduced in 2006. Jonathan currently leads the Web Innovation group within the Publications Division and is tasked with reinventing the user experience for the online editions of the 34 peer-reviewed journals currently published by the society.

Joseph J. Esposito is President of Portable CEO, an independent consultancy providing strategy assessment and interim management to the information industries. Over the course of his career, Mr. Esposito has been associated with various publishers in all segments of the industry and was involved from an early time with new media publishing. He has served as an executive at Simon & Schuster and Random House, as President of Merriam-Webster, and CEO of Encyclopaedia Britannica, where he was responsible for the launch of the first Internet service of its kind. Mr. Esposito has also served as CEO of Internet communications company Tribal Voice and SRI Consulting, both of which he led to successful exits. Among Mr. Esposito’s clients have been such technology companies as Microsoft and Hewlett Packard, various publishers of all stripes, and a growing number of not-for-profit organizations (e.g., Ithaka Harbors/JSTOR, the University of California Press, and the American Nationals Standards Institute). Recent projects range from business development for a large not-for-profit institution, electronic textbooks, The Processed Book Project (experimental interactive texts; see http://prosaix.com/pbos), and consultation on mergers and acquisitions. He has participated in numerous trade shows and has written extensively in trade magazines and journals. He is currently researching new economic models for a post-copyright age and can be reached at espositoj@gmail.com.

Joy Moore is the Publisher for the society publishing program within Nature Publishing Group. She began her career in STM publishing as Managing Editor for the Journal of Investigative Dermatology, and subsequently held medical society journals publishing management and electronic publishing positions with Blackwell Science (later Blackwell Publishing). She joined NPG in September 2003 to drive the development of the online journal and custom web publishing projects for NPGs society clients, and was appointed Publisher in 2005. She also launched NPGs Nature Network Boston social networking site in 2006, and is excited about what user participation and online communities can bring to scientific journals and learned societies. Joy serves as a Committee Chair for the Council of Science Editors and regularly presents at various industry conferences such as Society for Scholarly Publishing and STM.

Karla Hahn has been the Director of the Office of Scholarly Communication at the Association for Research Libraries (ARL) since May 2005. In this position she provides leadership for the assessment and implementation of selected new models of scholarly communication; encourages and facilitates alliances to advance development of new functionally complete systems of scholarly communication that serve their communities among groups of research institutions, other organizations serving research libraries and their institutions, the for-profit and nonprofit publishing sectors; and works to enhance outreach efforts to inform the educational and research communities on trends, findings, opportunities, and their impact on promotion and tenure, on teaching and research, and on university budgets.

Prior to joining the ARL staff, Hahn was the Collection Management Team Leader for the University of Maryland Libraries. She worked previously at the Welch Medical Library, Johns Hopkins University, and at the University of Michigan Libraries.

Hahn has a Ph.D from the University of Maryland College of Information Studies, an M.L.S. from Syracuse University, an M.S. from the University of Chicago, and a B.S. Wittenberg University. Her writings include the book, Electronic Ecology: A Case Study of Electronic Journals in Context and numerous articles on issues relating to publishing and electronic communication.

Kent Anderson is the CEO/Publisher for the Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery. He has been the Executive Director of Product Development for the New England Journal of Medicine, the Publishing Director for NEJM, and Director of Medical Journals at the American Academy of Pediatrics. He’s worked in healthcare publishing for 20 years, and has been a writer, editor, designer, copy editor, managing editor, and publisher. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the Scholarly Kitchen, writes fiction under his pen name Andrew Kent, and has degrees in English and business.

Kim Collins has worked as an academic librarian since 2000, with 8 previous years experience in the museum field (NGA and High Museum of Art). She is currently the collection management subject liaison coordinator at Emory Universitys Robert W. Woodruff Library. Her responsibilities include approving electronic resource requests, helping with budget allocations, and overseeing team projects, such as Emorys recent EBL e-book pilot.

Leigh Dodds is the Chief Technology Officer for Ingenta, where he oversees the engineering and technology strategy for Ingenta’s publisher and library products.

Leigh is an experienced software engineer specializing in Java, XML, and Semantic Web technologies. As a freelance author Leigh has also contributed articles and tutorials to sites including IBM developerWorks and XML.com.

Leigh has presented papers at several technical conferences, and has acted as technical reviewer for a number of books covering core XML technologies. His personal website is at http://www.ldodds.com

In the year 2000, Lori Ayre left her Director of Technology job behind to provide technology guidance to the institution she so valued – the library. She started up a consulting business called The Galecia Group.

As a national consultant, Lori has worked with a wide variety of city and county libraries as well as consortia and other organizations that support libraries. She specializes in resource sharing and delivery, Internet filters, RFID, all things 2.0, and public access computing.

Her experience as a manager of people and technology provided her with an appreciation for the effect of change on people, and when and how to select and introduce technology to yield the best results.

She is an inspirational speaker and writer who brings her Midwestern practicality together with her dry sense of humor to nudge her colleagues out of their ruts and open their minds to new ideas.

In addition to consulting with libraries, Ayre teaches half day and full day workshops, and presents and produces webcasts. She maintains her own weblog, Mentat and also contributes to TechEssence. She has written pieces for ALA publications including Library Technology Reports and the Whole Library Handbook 4, and contributed a chapter to the Addison Wesley book “RFID-Applications, Security and Privacy.” Lori makes most of her work freely available on her website at www.galecia.com.

In 2006, Lori received her MLIS degree from San Jose State University after which time she pledged to spend more time riding her Icelandic horses and playing tennis. She has been moderately successful in this pledge. However, her commitment to the future of libraries and the changes that must be made to ensure that future keep her from taking too much time off.

Madelyn Wessel is Special Advisor/Liaison to the General Counsel for the University of Virginia Libraries, focusing on a broad range of library system legal issues including intellectual property, copyright, licensing, and special issues arising in the area of digital scholarship. She has lectured on copyright, digital responsibilities, legal and policy frameworks for sustaining digital scholarship, fair use and censorship in recent years to groups as diverse as the College and University Auditors, Digital Library Federation, Music Library Association, Educause, and the Visual Resources Association. Ms. Wessel has taught at the University of Virginias Graduate School of Education and at the School of Law. She has been admitted to practice in Virginia, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Oregon. Ms. Wessel served as Deputy and later Chief Deputy City Attorney for Portland, Oregon from 1989-2001, practicing in a wide range of areas including constitutional, employment, civil rights and government relations. Prior to her position in Portland, Ms. Wessel served as an Assistant Attorney General and Chief of the Opinions Division, Massachusetts Department of Justice. Ms. Wessel holds a BA from Swarthmore College and a J.D. from Boston University.

Mady Tissenbaum came to The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery (JBJS) as a copy editor in 1973 and over time has served as head of copy editing, desktop publishing, and IT. She has also been webmaster and Managing Editor. During that time, the organization doubled in size. She has been General Manager since 1998, her duties ranging from implementing Board initiatives to business policy, property management, human resources, and pension administration.

Mady served on the SSP Education Committee as a member from 2002-2004 and as Co-Chair from 2004-2006. She is currently Co-Chair of the SSP Membership Committee.

Mary Waltham founded her own consulting company (www.MaryWaltham.com) in 1999 to help scholarly publishers confront the rapid change that the networked economy poses to their traditional business models and to develop new opportunities to build publications that deliver outstanding scientific and economic value. Mary has worked at a senior level in science and medical publishing companies across a range of print and online media, which include textbooks, magazines, newsletters, journals, and open learning materials.

Matt joined Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) in October 2004 and is currently the Executive Director, Cooperative Collection Services with responsibility for Resource Sharing section, WorldCat Content Services, and Business Intelligence Services.

Prior to joining OCLC, Matt worked for Fretwell-Downing Informatics (FDI) for 4 years and Geac Computers for 7 years. In both companies he was involved with increasing levels of responsibility for product direction and creation. His final position at Geac was Global Product Manager for the Library Division and at FDI served as Executive Vice President for the US subsidiary.

Matt has a good foundation in this field starting with his work as a cataloguer at the BL Fisher Library in 1980. During this period, he was involved in the early days of automation first using the OCLC cataloguing system, and later writing a grant to create the first COM-Cat for the BL Fisher Library. Matt continued his interest in automation for the library world working for Durham County Council and the Coastal Plain Regional Library – the latter receiving a Governors Award for Technical Excellence in 1992.

Matt graduated with an MSLS from the University of Kentucky in 1978 and an MA Religion from Asbury Theological Seminary in 1980. He has been an active member of various NISO committees.

Since she joined Project MUSE® in 1996, her major responsibilities have been developing a comprehensive marketing strategy for the online scholarly journals collection, managing global sales and outreach activities, negotiating consortia subscription arrangements, contributing to product development plans, addressing customer satisfaction issues, and representing MUSE at a variety of conferences and meetings. Project MUSE, which currently offers online subscription access to over 300 full-text humanities and social science journals from some 60 publishers, is managed by The Johns Hopkins University Press, in collaboration with the participating publishers and the Sheridan Libraries at Johns Hopkins.

In 2002 Michael Jensen was appointed Director of Web Communications for the National Academies. He remains Director of Publishing Technologies at the National Academies Press, which makes more than 3600 books (more than 600,000 pages) from the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, the Institute of Medicine, and the National Research Council fully browsable and searchable online for free (www.nap.edu). This site receives more than a 1.5 million visitors per month, and boasts of some of the most advanced search and discovery tools available on any publisher’s site, most of which were initially developed by Mr. Jensen. In 2001, Michael Jensen received the National Academies’ “President’s Award,” its highest staff honor. Previously, Michael Jensen was Electronic Publisher at the Johns Hopkins University Press, and Electronic Media Manager at the University of Nebraska Press. He has been involved in publishing on the Internet since 1989, serves on several Boards of Directors, and is a frequent speaker and consultant on electronic publishing issues.

Since 1993, Michael Newman has been the Head Librarian and Bibliographer at Falconer Biology Library, Stanford University. In this position, he has worked with HighWire Press since its inception, applying a librarian’s knowledge and skills to a wide range of publishing projects. He has also worked as an information services librarian at Stanford’s Lane Medical Library. He holds an M.L.S. degree from the University of Oklahoma and degrees in botany from Miami University in Ohio, and the University of California, Berkeley.

Education:
M. A. in Library and Information Science, Keio University, 1985.

Work Experience:
Nov. 2005 – present. Operating Director, Kitasato Memorial Medical Library, Keio University,.Responsible for the operation of the Kitasato Memorial Medical Library.

Dr. Nancy Fried Foster is Lead Anthropologist for River Campus Libraries and manager of the Digital Initiatives Unit. She is a principal investigator on both an IMLS funded study of next-generation repository users and the eXtensible Catalog project, which is funded by the Mellon Foundation. She has conducted studies on research and library practices of faculty and students, as well as several small studies of librarian work practices. With a Ph.D. in applied anthropology, Dr. Foster has extensive research experience in the Amazon and Papua New Guinea as well as in educational and other institutions in the US and UK. She has received Fulbright, Woodrow Wilson, and Spencer Foundation grants for her anthropological research projects.

Nathan is in the first year of a 3-year Masters of Architecture Program at UC Berkeley. His professional experience includes environmental planning and middle school education. He received a BA degree in Economics from Yale University in 1999.

Dr. Dev serves as Director of the Stanford University Medical Media & Information Technologies (SUMMIT) Program, where she has led the Stanford University School of Medicine on innovating in the use of computers in medical education. SUMMIT researchers have been in the forefront in applying hypermedia, web, simulation and virtual reality to the learning of anatomy, surgery and other medical topics. Networked courseware, developed at SUMMIT, is in use in several medical courses at Stanford and elsewhere.
Dr. Dev completed her doctoral degree in Electrical Engineering at Stanford University in 1975. Since then, she has worked at M.I.T, the V.A. and Stanford on computational biology, and at CEMAX, an imaging company, on 3D medical imaging for surgical planning. At Stanford, her research is on Internet2 access to virtual reality and visualization learning environments, including simulation and game-based learning environments. She has a particular interest in collaborative learning environments implemented over high bandwidth networks and grid technologies.

Dr. Dev is a frequent speaker on the future of technology in learning. She is an advisor on various national and university committees, and on the advisory boards for CTIS, Inc., a bioinformatics and HealthGrid company, and Forterra Systems, a serious games company.

Paul Duguid is adjunct professor in the School of Information at the University of California, Berkeley and professorial research fellow at Queen Mary, University of London. His interest in a multidisciplinary, collaborative approach has led him to work with social scientists, computer scientists, economists, linguists, and management theorists. He is co-author, with John Seely Brown, of The Social Life of Information. His latest research project involves an investigation of the history and development of trademarks.

Perry Cartwright is Manager of Contracts and Subsidiary Rights at the University of Chicago Press. With two decades of experience at the Press, he has served in this capacity for over ten years. During his early years at Press, he worked as the permissions editor under Estelle Stearn, a legendary figure in scholarly publishing. Before coming to the Press, Perry had an extensive background in commercial business. His undergraduate degree is in economics, with additional graduate work in political science at the University of Chicago. He is a frequent participant in scholarly publishing panels and draws on a wide range of experiences in a variety of print and other media. His daily work consists of advising authors and editors, reviewing materials (contracts, letters) for consistency and potential problems, managing correspondence over sensitive issues (including serving as a liaison between the Press and University Counsel), and selling rights to various clients, including book clubs, copublishers, reprinters, and the occasional film or theater production.

Peter Brantley is the Executive Director for the Digital Library Federation, a not-for-profit international association of libraries and allied institutions. His background includes significant experience with research libraries and digital library development programs. Before joining the DLF, he was Director of Technology at the University of California’s California Digital Library; he served previously as the Director of IT Services for the Libraries and Press at New York University. Peter has also worked in academic IT Director positions at UCSF and UC Berkeley. He was the first IT Manager for Rapt, a SF startup providing pricing optimization for online advertising delivery for media businesses. He has also worked as a senior
systems analyst in the mass market division of Random House. Peter is a member of the Board of Directors for the International Digital Publishing Forum.

Over a 25-year career, Peter Shepherd has gained experience in all aspects of STM journal, book and database publishing, initially with Wiley and subsequently with Elsevier and Harcourt. During that time he has launched a wide range of products, and has been actively involved in the development of new online publishing models.

Dr Shepherd is now an independent publishing consultant. Since 2002 he has been Director of COUNTER, the international initiative to improve the reliability of online usage statistics.

Peter Shepherd received a PhD in chemistry in 1978 from St Andrews University and joined the publishing industry in 1980, following a post-doctoral research fellowship at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Under his nom de plume, Tom Angus, he also writes fiction and in 2005 published a satirical novel based in the STM publishing world – Let Them Eat Cake.

Phil Wallas has been involved in the information industry since 1982, long enough ago to remember acoustic couplers. After completing an MLS at Simmons he took a training position at Lexis-Nexis which evolved into a sales role. Representing legal, business and scholarly information providers including Thomson Financial, IDC and EBSCO, his responsibilities have included sales, product management, content licensing and business development, as well as participating in development of systems for royalty payments and article usage reporting. Currently at EBSCO Information Services, he focuses on building strong partnerships with publishers.

At ASIP, Priscilla is responsible for government affairs and other communications related to science and publishing, as well as non-profit society management. She previously held publishing-focused positions at Cadmus Communications and FASEB. Priscilla served on SSPs Education Committee, which she co-chaired in 2006. She is presently North American Editor of Learned Publishing.

Raym Crow has over twenty years experience in academic and business publishing, specializing in strategic business planning, market development, and product management. His experience includes 12 years at LexisNexis Academic and Library Solutions, where he served as Publisher and Vice President of Product Development.Crow is a Senior Consultant for the SPARC Consulting Group and Managing Partner of Chain Bridge Group, an independent consulting firm providing publishing and business planning services to learned and professional societies, university presses, academic institutions, museums, and other nonprofit and commercial organizations. Crows educational background includes a B.A. from Whittier College and an M.A. and a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania.

Richard Gedye has worked in academic journals publishing since 1986, firstly at Macmillan. In 1991 he joined Oxford Journals where he is currently Sales Director. In 2002 he helped found COUNTER (http://www.projectcounter.org/), an international organization which has established a common code of practice for vendor-based online usage statistics, and which he now chairs. He is also chair of a UK Serials Group Project which is investigating the possibility of developing a usage-based measure of journal value to stand alongside the citation based Impact Factor, and co-chair of the NISO/EDItEUR Joint Working Party for the Exchange of Serials Subscription Information.

Richard O’Beirne is Online Publishing Manager with Oxford Journals, the journal publishing division of Oxford University Press. He has worked in publishing since 1994, initially with Helicon, and until 2003, Blackwell Publishing. As well as overseeing the online publication of Oxford’s 200+ prestigious journal titles, Richard represents Oxford Journals on a number of industry organizations, and is a strong advocate of the adherence to open standards in web publishing.

Rick Anderson is Director of Resource Acquisition for the University of Nevada, Reno Libraries. He serves on the editorial boards of numerous journals and the advisory boards of several major publishers. His book, Buying and Contracting for Resources and Services: A How-to-Do-It Manual for Librarians, was published in 2004 by Neal-Schuman.

Roger Schonfeld is Manager of Research for Ithaka, with responsibility for Ithakas research agenda and research partnerships with a variety of clients and partners. Schonfeld has led a number of studies, including an examination of the environment for art images at liberal arts colleges, several economic studies focused on libraries and publishers transitioning to electronic-only format for journals, extensive nationwide surveys of academic librarians and faculty members, and the most detailed study to date of the system-wide print book collection. Other research areas have included transaction log analysis studies, citation-impact analyses, and the history and economics of preservation and book survivability. Previously, Schonfeld was a research associate at The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. There, he collaborated on The Game of Life: College Sports and Academic Values with James Shulman and William G. Bowen (Princeton University Press, 2000), principally performing statistical and financial analysis, and wrote JSTOR: A History (Princeton University Press, 2003). Roger has a BA in English Literature from Yale University. (roger.schonfeld@ithaka.org)

Dr. Zeiger is currently a Product Manager at Google where he works on health-related search. He has worked as a primary care physician, in urgent care, and has served as a Clinical Instructor of Medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine. Dr. Zeiger received his MD from Stanford and completed an internal medicine residency at the University of California, San Francisco. He was a fellow in medical informatics at Veterans Affairs in Palo Alto, California, and received a masters degree in biomedical informatics from Stanford University.

Sandra Hopps is a Senior Marketing Manager for SAGE journals, and has been with the company for over four years. Her duties include supervising the social science journals lists, and working closely with some of SAGEs top society partners. Additionally, she led the marketing and branding efforts for SAGEs online journal delivery platform, SAGE Journals Online upon its launch in 2004. Since then, she has developed strategic marketing plans aimed at increasing usage and content alerts registrations.

Stephen Welch is the Vice President of Publications and Editorial Resources for the American College of Chest Physicians (ACCP). He is also Executive Editor of CHEST, the ACCPs flagship journal. His responsibilities include all the business and operational aspects of CHEST, as well as oversight of ACCPs educational publishing efforts and internal editorial processes. Steve has worked for ACCP and CHEST for more than 13 years. Prior to joining ACCP he worked in the educational testing, medical certification examination development, and medical publishing fields. In the past 13 years he has focused on growing the technologic and business aspects of CHEST, and leveraging its brand extension especially licensing, translations, and institutional subscriptions in order to support the growth and financial goals of ACCP overall. Steve lives in the north suburbs of Chicago with his wife, three great danes, and two iguanas. When not working, he spends his time scuba diving, collecting original comic book artwork, and searching for (and drinking) good wines.

Stewart Wills, who has been an editor and writer for more than 25 years in a variety of staff and freelance positions, is currently the online editor at the journal Science, a position he has held since January 2000. At Science he has managed usability evaluations, has helped to plan long-term site direction and policy, and oversaw the 2005 redesign and relaunch of the Science Web sites; he has also planned and executed a variety of efforts in Web-only content and multimedia. He has a B.A. in English from UCLA and a Ph.D. in geology and geophysics from Columbia University.

Ted Fons is the Senior Product Manager at Innovative Interfaces. He is responsible for the management of Innovative’s Electronic Resource Management, Acquisitions, Serials, WebBridge LR and Pathfinder Pro products. His most recent development project was to bring to general release the first Standardized Usage Statistics Harvesting Initiative (SUSHI) client in an Electronic Resource Management system.

Ted has been with Innovative since 1996. He has a Masters in Library Science degree from Syracuse University and has worked in Acquisitions, Cataloging and Reference in academic libraries.

Tim has been instrumental in the development of Scitation, the hosting service for physical science and engineering publishers. He is project leader of the multi-publisher project to develop a comprehensive set of Unicode-based fonts, the STIX Fonts. He was active in the founding of CrossRef and is Treasurer of ASIDIC.

Tony joined the Institute of Physics Publishing in April 2000, and is responsible for all of journal and related product sales and marketing activity world-wide excluding North America, Latin and South America. Tony worked previously for the academic publisher, Chadwyck-Healey Ltd., now part of Bell and Howell Information and Learning, where he was Head of Sales world-wide outside of North America.

OBJECTIVE:
Development of Document Retrieval System for JST Bibliographic database named JDreamII

SUMMARY:
– 2001-2002 Operation of Document Retrieval System for JST Bibliographic database named JOIS-IV
– 2002-2004 Development and Operation of E-Journal site named J-STAGE
– 2004- Development of Document Retrieval System for JST Bibliographic database named JDreamII

Tracy L. Thompson currently serves as the Executive Director of the New England Law Library Consortium, Inc. (NELLCO). In that capacity she negotiates on behalf of 101 law libraries throughout the U.S., Canada and the U.K. for access to electronic resources. Prior to joining NELLCO in 2001 Ms. Thompson was International Reference Librarian at the Lillian Goldman Law Library at Yale Law School. She is an active member of the American Association of Law Libraries, having served as Treasurer and then Chair of the Foreign, Comparative and International Law Special Interest Section, Chair of the Special Committee on Licensing Principles for Electronic Resources, and currently serves as incoming Chair of the Committee on Relationships with Information Vendors (CRIV). Ms. Thompson is a graduate of the University of South Florida and the Yale Law School. She resides in Keene, New Hampshire with 3 busy boys, a demanding dog, a songbird and some nice quiet fish.

Wendy Wu is the Director of Business Development for Everwell Corporation. She has developed Chinese versions of CHEST and PEDIATRICS in last two years, oversees the business and in-house editorial process as well as other projects of Everwell. Wendy Wu actively participated in publishing societies in China.

Wendy Wu completed her undergraduate in Pharmacy, Fudan University, obtained her Master of Science from School of Pharmacy, State University of New York at Buffalo, and her MBA from Fairleigh Dickinson University.

Wendy Wu worked for Johnson & Johnson for 8 years in New Jersey. She was the authors of 10 scientific papers and 4 patents, the recipient of Achievement Award of J&J. In 2000, Wendy Wu moved back to China. She served as Director of Media Service for e-SinoMed, developed the Chinese version Ophthalmology Times and became the publisher of the journal before she joined Everwell.

Education : Graduate of Seikei University, School of Engineering, Tokyo, 1971

Work Experiences : July 1987 Present President, Igaku-Shoin Ltd.
April 1976 Joined Igaku-Shoin Ltd.
April 1971-December 1975 CBS Publishing Group, New York

Present Positions : Vice President, Japan Book Publishers Association
President, Japan Medical Publishers Association
Vice President, International Publishers Association

Igaku-Shoin is a publisher of books and periodicals in professional medicine, nursing and other health science subjects. Igaku-Shoin publishes approximately 200 book titles annually and 35 periodicals.

Joined USACO Corporation in 1985 soon after the graduation of Kanda Institute of Foreign Language and have been working in the company mainly to implement the migration from print to electronic publishing through CD-ROM database to Internet subscriptions. In 2002, took position as VP Sales and Marketing.