Seminar 3A – Better Data, Better Business: Applying Usage Data in…

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.