05-Sem5: Authoring Tools

Elizabeth Nolan is the Chief Publishing Officer for The Optical Society. In this role, she oversees all facets of OSA’s publishing program which is comprised of fifteen open access, subscription based and co-partnered journals. Before joining The Optical Society, Elizabeth was Senior Vice President, Global Sales, Marketing and Strategy at SPi where she successfully led some of its largest strategic initiatives as well as developed a host of new innovative services for Scientific, Technical and Medical publishers. Prior to that, she held senior level positions at Thompson Publishing Group, The Worldwatch Institute and Wolters Kluwer. With more than 17 years of experience working with and for global not-for-profit and commercial publishers and an Asia-based publishing service provider, Elizabeth has forged an international career that is rich in journal, book, and electronic publishing expertise.

Bruce Rosenblum, CEO of Inera, has twenty-five years of experience in design and development of electronic publishing solutions. He leads development of eXtyles, Inera’s suite of editorial and XML tools for Microsoft Word used in the production of more than 600 journals worldwide.

Mr. Rosenblum is a member of the NLM DTD Advisory Board and CrossRef Metadata Quality Committee. Prior to joining Inera, Mr. Rosenblum was VP of Software Development at Turning Point Software, where he led the development of products for companies including Microsoft, Word Perfect, and Houghton Mifflin. Mr. Rosenblum speaks frequently at scholarly publishing conferences and he serves on the NISO Board of Directors