Seminar 1 – Content Licensing: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow

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

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.

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.

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.

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.