Seminar 5 – Digital Preservation

Carol is Director of Licensing at SAGE. She has over fifteen years experience in professional and scholarly publishing, and her focus has been on electronic publishing and licensing issues and activities. Carol joined SAGE Publications in 2001 and has focused on delivering journal and book content via electronic means. Carol was instrumental in the development and launching of the SAGE Full-Text Collections as well as their new journals platform, SAGE Journals Online.

Additionally, Carol oversees all contracts and licenses related to journals and books with regard to copyright and delivery. Prior to joining SAGE, Carol was with Lippincott Williams & Wilkins as Director of Licensing where she implemented strategic policies regarding electronic delivery and also automated the Permission Department in order to streamline the workflow. Carol serves on the CrossRef Board of Directors and is a standing member of NISO; she is also a member of the CLOCKSS Board and the HINARI group. Carol frequently speaks at meetings on copyright issues, the delivery of content, creating electronic products, and new business models.

Victoria Reich is the Director of the LOCKSS Program, Stanford University Library, www.lockss.org. The 450 publishers preserving their content in the Global LOCKSS Network enable libraries to fulfill a core library mission – to build and preserve digital library collections. They have ensured their intellectual property and branding are available to authorized readers when their own web sites are unavailable. Using the award winning LOCKSS technology to build and preserve local collections, libraries are guaranteed perpetual access to authorized scholarly content while also delivering all reader traffic to the publishers’ web sites. Vicky helped to launch the CLOCKSS Archive and HighWire Press. She has extensive library experience, having held positions at Stanford University Libraries, the National Agricultural Library, the Library of Congress, and the University of Michigan. Victoria is on several Advisory Boards, including “Stanford Copyright & Fair Use”. She received the 2008 Ulrich’s Serials Librarianship Award.

Eileen Fenton is the founding Executive Director of Portico, a not-for-profit organization which provides a permanent archive of electronic scholarly literature. Since Portico began operations in 2006 nearly 7,400 journals from 50 publishers have been committed to the archive and more than 6 million articles have been preserved.

Previously Eileen was Director of Production at JSTOR, where she oversaw the addition of more than 13 million pages to the archival collection. She has also worked in various positions at the Vanderbilt and Yale University libraries.

Eileen is a librarian and earned her Masters of Science in Information from the University of Michigan and a Master of Arts in English Literature from the University of Kentucky.

Daniel Dollar is the director of collection development for the Yale University Library. Daniel’s work with the Research4Life began at the Yale Medical Library, where he was responsible for metadata management for the HINARI program. His involvement includes co-teaching a week-long HINARI trainer seminar at the University of Guyana in February 2011. Daniel now represents the Yale University Library as a participating partner on the Research4Life Executive Council.

Radhika Murari is General Manager for Apex CoVantage’s Content Solutions. In this capacity, she is responsible for the management of the Content Solutions business unit which focuses on delivering end-to-end solutions for dramatic gains in speed, quality and economy.

Prior to this, Ms. Murari held the position of Director of Corporate Strategy at Apex, where she was responsible for the strategic direction of the company including alliances, acquisitions and systems optimizations.

Previously, Ms. Murari served as Operations Manager for five offshore Apex service centers and a staff of 1,200, where she raised on-time delivery performance to an industry-leading 99% level.

Ms. Murari was also an Associate with Salomon Smith Barney’s Global Loans Group, where she helped to arrange over $3B in financing for 14 new and existing clients.

After graduating from William & Mary College, Ms. Murari received a Masters of Business Administration with a concentration in global strategy and organizational change from Georgetown University in Washington, DC.