15-Concurrent 2C: Digital Preservation: Greatly Desired, Greatly Unknown

Rebecca Simon is the Associate Director of the University of California Press, one of the largest and most innovative university presses in North America and the world.

Long active in a variety of professional and scholarly publishing organizations, Rebecca oversees the publishing of forty scholarly journals in a wide array of major academic disciplines, including biology, food studies, architecture, ethics, history, and psychology. Many of her journals have won major awards.

Rebecca and her colleagues have just completed a major strategic review of the press.

Eileen Fenton is the founding Executive Director of Portico, a not-for-profit organization which provides a permanent archive of electronic scholarly literature. Since Portico began operations in 2006 nearly 7,400 journals from 50 publishers have been committed to the archive and more than 6 million articles have been preserved.

Previously Eileen was Director of Production at JSTOR, where she oversaw the addition of more than 13 million pages to the archival collection. She has also worked in various positions at the Vanderbilt and Yale University libraries.

Eileen is a librarian and earned her Masters of Science in Information from the University of Michigan and a Master of Arts in English Literature from the University of Kentucky.