Concurrent 3D: Measuring Quality in the Digital Environment: Peer Review and

Roger Schonfeld is Manager of Research for Ithaka, with responsibility for Ithakas research agenda and research partnerships with a variety of clients and partners. Schonfeld has led a number of studies, including an examination of the environment for art images at liberal arts colleges, several economic studies focused on libraries and publishers transitioning to electronic-only format for journals, extensive nationwide surveys of academic librarians and faculty members, and the most detailed study to date of the system-wide print book collection. Other research areas have included transaction log analysis studies, citation-impact analyses, and the history and economics of preservation and book survivability. Previously, Schonfeld was a research associate at The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. There, he collaborated on The Game of Life: College Sports and Academic Values with James Shulman and William G. Bowen (Princeton University Press, 2000), principally performing statistical and financial analysis, and wrote JSTOR: A History (Princeton University Press, 2003). Roger has a BA in English Literature from Yale University. (roger.schonfeld@ithaka.org)

Diane Harley directs the Higher Education in the Digital Age (HEDA) project at the Center for Studies in Higher Education, UC Berkeley. At CSHE, she has created and directed research initiatives focusing on the policy implications of integrating information and communication technologies into complex academic environments. Harley is a biosocial anthropologist with a Ph.D. in anthropology; her approach emphasizes the concurrent analysis of social, economic, and academic costs and benefits of technology. She is currently the principal investigator of the Digital Resource Study: Understanding the Use of Digital Resources in Humanities and Social Science Undergraduate Education (funded by the A.W. Mellon Foundation and the William & Flora Hewlett Foundation); and Regulation of E-Learning: New National and International Policy Perspectives (funded by the Ford Foundation). She is co-principal investigator with C. Judson King on a project investigating the Future of Scholarly Communication.

Christopher Surridge graduated with a degree in Biophysics from Leeds University in 1988 and went on to study the dynamics of microtubule assembly at Imperial College London. After post-doc research he moved into scientific publishing as Assistant Editor on Nature Structural Biology in December 1993. In 1995 he moved onto the editorial team at Nature where he handled an eclectic mix of subject areas mainly focusing on biophysics, mathematical and systems biology, and plant science. He also spent some time editing Nature’s Brief Communication section which has never fully recovered. By mid-2005 the allure of reshaping scientific publishing to satisfy the needs of a new century became irresistible and he moved to PLoS’s Cambridge office working on a new project to be launched in 2006. His career as an international playboy and writer of speculative fiction, under the pseudonym Roland Denison, remains permanently on hold.

C. Judson King is the director of the Center for Studies in Higher Education and professor emeritus of chemical engineering at UC Berkeley. At the Center, his research focuses on systemic and institutional concerns as well as issues specific to engineering and technical disciplines. Since joining the University of California in 1963, King has served in a variety of academic and administrative posts on the UC Berkeley campus and the system level, including Provost and Senior Vice President Academic Affairs of the University of California system (1995-2004), system-wide Vice Provost for Research, Provost Professional Schools and Colleges, dean of the College of Chemistry, and chair of the Department of Chemical Engineering. King is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and has received major awards from the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, the American Chemical Society, the American Society for Engineering Education and the Council for Chemical Research. He has been active with the California Council on Science and Technology. At CSHE, the projects in which he is directly involved include The Future of Scholarly Communication, Public Research Universities, and Approaches to Engineering Education.

Mark J. McCabe, Professor of Economics at Georgia Institute of Technology, joined the School of Economics 1998 after 7 years with the US Justice Department’s Antitrust division. While at Justice, his responsibilities included analysis of anti-competitive practices, mergers, and federal economic regulation. During this time, he conducted research on a variety of topics in industrial organization. He also served as an Adjunct Professor at American University, teaching courses in Microeconomics and Game Theory. McCabe’s research has appeared in various scientific journals, including the American Economic Review and the Rand Journal of Economics, and it has been cited in publications such as Le Monde, Nature, the New York Times, Science, and the Wall Street Journal.