Seminar 03 – A Comprehensive Overview of the China Market, from Author to Reader

Mr. Yan Shuai, Associate Chief Editor of Tsinghua University Press (TUP) and TUPs Director of Journal Publishing. The journals published by TUP now include Tsinghua Science and Technology (English), Nano Research (English), Building Simulation (English), Journal of Advanced Ceramics (English), Friction (English), Journal of Tsinghua University (Science and Technology) (Chinese with English Abstracts), Computer Education (Chinese), Science-Technology & Publication (Chinese), Physics and Engineering (Chinese), and Chinese Birds (English), Journal of Automotive Safety and Energy (Chinese with English Abstracts), Experimental Technology and Management (Chinese with English Abstracts), Tsinghua Financial Review (Chinese), Journal of Economics (Chinese), Journal of Traditional Chinese Medical Sciences (English) . Yan has been the president of Society of China University Journals (CUJS, www.cujs.com) since 2004, and the vice president of China Periodicals Association (CPA) since August 2012. Yan has also been working for Chinas Association for Science and Technology (CAST) as a member of CASTs Committee for Academy and Society Activities since 2011.

Philippa J. Benson, PhD is the Director of Education and Authors Services for The Charlesworth Group, an international organization that supports publishers around the world. In this capacity, she travels overseas regularly developing training programs for both scientific authors as well as for editors and publishers. She received her PhD from Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) where she studied reading and writing processes of native and nonnative speakers of English. She has developed and taught science writing and technical communication at institutions including CMU, Georgetown, the United Nations, and the National Institutes of Health. Benson has published extensively about science and technical writing, and has also launched scientific publications for two conservation organizations. Her book with co-author Dr. Sue Silver, What Editors Want: An Author Guide to Journal Publishing, will be available from the University of Chicago Press in the fall of 2012.

Laura Ricci is a market analyst for Outsell, Inc., a research and consultancy firm focusing solely on the information industry. In this capacity, she provides clients in-depth coverage of the education, training, and STM markets with a focus on subsegment and country-level analysis, supported by Outsells ongoing dialogue with key industry executives and stakeholders. Laura graduated summa cum laude from the University of Notre Dame with a bachelors in English (Honors) and Philosophy and completed a postgraduate course at the University of Denver Publishing Institute. She spent the early part of her career in the higher education publishing industry with Houghton Mifflin and Pearson Education, and in 2009 took an assignment with Pearson Education India in support of its custom textbook publishing program. She afterwards earned a Masters with Distinction in International Publishing from Oxford Brookes University in the UK, where she completed her dissertation on new publishing models in Latin America, before joining Outsell in 2011. She is the recent author of Outsell’s STM in China 2012 Market Size, Share, and Forecast report, alongside lead analyst Mark Ware.

David Sampson is an Executive Publisher in Elsevier’s health sciences journals division where he has P&L and strategic responsibility for several specialty portfolios. One of his other roles at Elsevier is to advise fellow publishing colleagues on international growth initiatives. Prior to joining Elsevier, David worked at Lippincott Williams & Wilkins in various marketing, sales, business development, and publishing roles, including five-and-a-half years as managing director of LWW’s ex-Japan Asia office in Hong Kong where his team published local books and journals. David also worked for two years as an executive vice president for Conference Archives, now part of Coe-Truman Technologies, where he developed and launched a society event knowledge product. He is a graduate of Cornell University and has an MBA from the Kellogg Northwestern-Hong Kong University of Science & Technology executive MBA program. David recently spoke at the International Society of Managing and Technical Editors on expanding journals internationally and served as a co-chair for the 2011 Society for Scholarly Publishing’s IN Meeting where he lead the innovation session.

Edward Colleran serves as the Senior Director of the International Division at Copyright Clearance Center (CCC), the world’s premier provider of copyright licensing solutions. He oversees strategic initiatives focused on CCC’s international activitiesspecifically, providing rightsholders around the world with new content licensing solutions and revenue-generating initiatives based on CCCs products and services. Edward also provides the vision for the advancement of CCC’s rights management services and is a key contributor on other long-term strategic issues facing the information industry.

An industry veteran, Edward is a member of the Software and Information Industry Association (SIIA) board of directors and also serves on the NA Steering and Copyright committees of ALPSP. Edward is also a past member of the board of the Society for Scholarly Publishers (SSP). He is a featured speaker and editorial contributor on issues such as navigating copyright requirements and the challenges and opportunities of managing content in a digital environment. A regular speaker at industry events, Edward has recently presented at the annual conferences of SSP, ALPSP and SIIA as well as London Online and the Frankfurt Book Fair.

Dr John Inglis is Executive Director and Publisher of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, a not-for-profit, educational division of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory that serves science professionals and students. During his tenure, he has initiated seven journals, two electronic services, hundreds of books, and a commercial start-up.