Seminar 6 – Enriching Online Journal Articles with Supplementary Materials….

“Evan Owens is Chief Technology Officer, Ithaka Electronic Archiving Initiative. Prior to joining Ithaka, he worked for the University of Chicago Press as Journals Division Electronic Publishing Manager and as IT Manager. At Chicago he was responsible for the planning and implementation of a wide variety of publishing projects, including SGML
editing, production, and typesetting, online journal publication, and web-based peer review systems.”

Gary King (Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1984) is the David Florence Professor of Government at Harvard University. He also serves as Director of the Institute for Quantitative Social Science.

King has been elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2004), Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1998), Fellow of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (2004), President of the Society for Political Methodology (1997-1999), and Vice President of the American Political Science Association (2003-2004). He was also appointed a Fellow of the Guggenheim Foundation (1994-1995), Visiting Fellow at Oxford (1994), and Senior Science Advisor to the World Health Organization (1998-2003).

King has won the McGraw-Hill Award (2006), the Durr Award (2005), the Gosnell Prize (1999 and 1997), the Outstanding Statistical Application Award (2000), the Donald Campbell Award (1997), the Eulau Award (1995), the Mills Award (1993), the Pi Sigma Alpha Award (2005, 1998, and 1993), the APSA Research Software Award (2005, 1997, 1994, and 1992), the Okidata Best Research Software Award (1999), and the Okidata Best Research Web Site Award (1999), among others. His more than 100 journal articles, 10 open source software packages, and 7 books span most aspects of political methodology, many fields of political science, and several other scholarly disciplines.

Dr. Vickers clinical research falls into three broad areas: randomized trials, surgical outcomes research and molecular marker studies. A particular focus of his work is the detection and initial treatment of prostate cancer. Dr Vickers has analyzed the ‘learning curve’ for radical prostatectomy and is working on a series of studies demonstrating that a single measure of Prostate Specific Antigen (PSA) taken in middle age can predict prostate cancer up to 25 years subsequently.

His work on randomized trials has focused on complementary therapies for the treatment of cancer or treatment related symptoms, such as a clinical trial of music therapy for patients undergoing stem cell transplant. However, he is currently researching methods for integrating randomized trials into routine surgical practice so as to compare different approaches to surgery.

Dr. Vickers methodological research centers primarily on novel methods for assessing the clinical value of predictive tools. In particular, he has developed decision-analytic tools that can be directly applied to a data set, without the need for data gathering on patient preferences or utilities.

Dr Vickers has a strong interest in teaching statistics. He is course leader for the MSKCC biostatistics course, teaches on the undergraduate curriculum at Weill Medical College of Cornell University and writes the statistics column for Medscape.

Julie Harrington is Director, Online Journal Publishing at the AMA . Prior to joining the AMA, Julie was with Professional Publications, Inc. of Belmont, CA. She worked for several V C backed software companies in the Bay Area.

Julie has worked in leadership roles for several traditional publishing companies: she was General Manager of Information Access Company, Publisher of the Research Institute of America Group, and Vice President of Thomson Electronic Publishing. She began her career at O U P.

She has a BS from Michigan State University and an MBA from Columbia University.

Judith Winters is Editor of Internet Archaeology, established in 1995 with the support of the UK government’s Joint Information Systems Committee under the eLib programme.

Internet Archaeology is the first fully refereed e-journal for archaeology and publishes articles of a high academic standing which utilize the potential of electronic publication, such as full color images, photographs, searchable data sets, visualizations, and interactive mapping. International in scope, all journal content is subject to rigorous peer-review.