2007 SSP 29th Annual Meeting at the Palace Hotel, San Francisco, CA
Seminar 3B – Better Data, Better Business: Applying Usage Data in…
Speakers
Jason Price
Jason S. Price is a self-described recovering Academic turned Science & Electronic Resources Librarian. After ten years as a graduate student at Indiana University, Bloomington, he completed a Ph.D. in Evolution, Ecology and Behavior and an MLS. He thoroughly enjoys applying analytical expertise to the burgeoning datasets available to libraries today. His role as E-journal Package Analyst for the Statewide California Electronic Library Consortium provides opportunities to work with publishers, vendors and libraries to increase pricing equity and attractiveness for all stakeholders involved in providing electronic resource access to information consumers.
Johan Bollen
Johan Bollen is a staff researcher at the Los Alamos National Laboratory,
Research Library (Digital Library Research & Prototyping team). He was an
Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Science of Old Dominion
University from 2001 to since 2006. He was a research assistant at the
Modeling, Algorithms, and Informatics Group at the Los Alamos National
Laboratory from 1999 to 2002, after working as a researcher at the
University of Brussels (VUB). He obtained his PhD in Experimental
Psychology from the University of Brussels in 2001 on the subject of
cognitive models of human hypertext navigation. He has taught courses on
Data Mining, Information Retrieval and Digital Libraries. His research has
been funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, National Science
Foundation, Library of Congress, National Aeronautics and Space
Administration and the Los Alamos National Laboratory. His present
research interests are usage data mining, computational sociometrics,
informetrics, and digital libraries. He has extensively published on these
subjects as well as matters relating to adaptive information systems
architecture. He is presently the Principal Investigator of the Andrew W.
Mellon Foundation-funded MESUR project which aims to expand the
quantitative tools available for the assessment of scholarly impact.
Research Library (Digital Library Research & Prototyping team). He was an
Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Science of Old Dominion
University from 2001 to since 2006. He was a research assistant at the
Modeling, Algorithms, and Informatics Group at the Los Alamos National
Laboratory from 1999 to 2002, after working as a researcher at the
University of Brussels (VUB). He obtained his PhD in Experimental
Psychology from the University of Brussels in 2001 on the subject of
cognitive models of human hypertext navigation. He has taught courses on
Data Mining, Information Retrieval and Digital Libraries. His research has
been funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, National Science
Foundation, Library of Congress, National Aeronautics and Space
Administration and the Los Alamos National Laboratory. His present
research interests are usage data mining, computational sociometrics,
informetrics, and digital libraries. He has extensively published on these
subjects as well as matters relating to adaptive information systems
architecture. He is presently the Principal Investigator of the Andrew W.
Mellon Foundation-funded MESUR project which aims to expand the
quantitative tools available for the assessment of scholarly impact.
Richard Gedye
Richard Gedye has worked in academic journals publishing since 1986, firstly at Macmillan. In 1991 he joined Oxford Journals where he is currently Sales Director. In 2002 he helped found COUNTER (http://www.projectcounter.org/), an international organization which has established a common code of practice for vendor-based online usage statistics, and which he now chairs. He is also chair of a UK Serials Group Project which is investigating the possibility of developing a usage-based measure of journal value to stand alongside the citation based Impact Factor, and co-chair of the NISO/EDItEUR Joint Working Party for the Exchange of Serials Subscription Information.
Dean Smith
Dean Smith is currently the Vice President for Sales & Marketing at the
American Chemical Society. His career spans twenty years in scholarly
and scientific publishing with an emphasis on all aspects of publishing
scientific journals. He has worked for Columbia University Press, Alan
R. Liss, Springer-Verlag, and Chapman & Hall. He has been with ACS
since 1997 and has played an integral role in the development of the
first-ever sales force for the Society and this has resulted in access
to ACS Publications in over 80 countries. He also led the sales and
marketing team in establishing the new ACS Value-Based Pricing Plans for
institutions based on usage, effective in 2008. He was instrumental in
achieving COUNTER compliancy for ACS Journals in 2004.
American Chemical Society. His career spans twenty years in scholarly
and scientific publishing with an emphasis on all aspects of publishing
scientific journals. He has worked for Columbia University Press, Alan
R. Liss, Springer-Verlag, and Chapman & Hall. He has been with ACS
since 1997 and has played an integral role in the development of the
first-ever sales force for the Society and this has resulted in access
to ACS Publications in over 80 countries. He also led the sales and
marketing team in establishing the new ACS Value-Based Pricing Plans for
institutions based on usage, effective in 2008. He was instrumental in
achieving COUNTER compliancy for ACS Journals in 2004.
John Sack
John Sack has been at the center of using IT to support research activity at Stanford University for over 25 years. John is an expert at the introduction of new technologies into large organizations, and at managing the organizational change cycles related to such technology introductions. He has been a pioneer of library and administrative systems that were later made available to the commercial world.
Since 1995, John has been Director of HighWire Press, Stanford’s not-for-profit e-hosting company for independent publishers. HighWire works with society-based, university press, and other scholarly publishers to bring high quality content and the latest ideas in publishing to the research community, making information available, accessible, searchable and, most importantly, relevant to the reader.
