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2008 SSP 30th Annual Meeting, Westin Copley, Boston, MA

Seminar 3 – Now What Do We Do? How to Comply with Public Access Mandates

Speakers

Jonathan Band
Jonathan Band received a B.A., magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, in 1982 from Harvard College, and a J.D. from Yale Law School in 1985. Mr. Band’s areas of practice include intellectual property, administrative litigation, and Internet regulation. Mr. Band has written extensively on intellectual property and electronic commerce matters.

Additionally, Mr. Band has been a guest lecturer on intellectual property topics at the Yale Law School, the George Mason University School of Law, and the Columbus School of Law at the Catholic University of America. He has served on the Editorial Board of The Computer Lawyer, and has chaired many committees related to intellectual property including the National Information Infrastructure Subcommittee of the Copyright Committee of the American Intellectual Property Law Association.

Alan Kahan
Alan Kahan, Entomological Society of America
As Director of Communications, Mr. Kahan oversees publication of the ESA’s four journals covering insect science research: Annals of the Entomological Society of America, Environmental Entomology, Journal of Economic Entomology, and the Journal of Medical Entomology. He also serves on the Board of Directors for BioOne.
Jennifer Pesanelli
Jennifer Pesanelli, Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB)
As the Director of Publications, Ms. Pesanelli, oversees the publishing operations for The FASEB Journal and Journal of Leukocyte Biology, as well as directs FASEB AdNet, SPCNet, and FASEB Dues and Subscriptions-three groups that provide advertising sales, institutional subscription sales and membership and journal fulfillment respectively to not-for-profit, society publishers.

Prior to FASEB, Ms. Pesanelli worked for a STM commercial printer in the management and marketing division. She has served on the SSP Education Committee for the past two years and managed seminars including the Researcher Focus Group and the Librarian Focus Group.

Eleanore Tapscott
Eleanore Tapscott, Director of Publications, American Society of Hematology

Eleanore Tapscott has been involved with scientific publishing for over 20 years. As director of publishing for American Society of Hematology for the past 3 years, she is responsible for long-term strategic planning for the society’s publishing program, including content rights licensing. Ms. Tapscott is a graduate of the University of California-Berkeley.

Michele Shipley
Ms. Shipley is responsible for the staff and operations of HSLT’s Collection Management Department and two branch libraries. She has been involved in the selection, licensing, implementation and management of electronic resources including databases, journals and books since 1994. Recently her interests have expanded to include the many changes occurring in scientific publishing.

As a member of the URMC Committee on Scientific Publishing, she is developing services to assist URMC NIH grantees comply with the NIH’s Public Access Policy. Ms. Shipley is a member of the project team that directs the implementation of the University of Rochester’s institutional repository. Along with Julia Sollenberger, HSLT’s Director, she published an article on the state of scientific publishing in the Scandinavian Journal of Public Health.

Ms. Shipley is also a teacher for Mastering Medical Information, a required course for first- year medical students at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry.