Seminar 06 – Publishing in 2012 Where Does Copyright Fit In?…

Nancy Blair-DeLeon joined the IEEE in 1984. She is responsible for developing relationships with IEEEs publishing partners, particularly the abstracting and indexing and document delivery partners. Nancy is also the lead on developing policies, procedures, programs and education intended to sustain and continually grow IEEE relationships with its authors while creating strategic opportunities for visibility and recognition for the their work and contribution to IEEEs products, programs and mission. Through policy and procedures she develops with IEEE volunteer Boards and committees, Nancy ensures that proper intellectual licensing practices are adhered to by both IEEE partners and the authors whose work IEEE supports.

Before joining the Publications group in 1995, Nancy was an administrator for IEEE Standards Board Committees. She was also responsible for generating industry support for the development of standards in the form of monetary contributions and government funding. Prior to that Nancy worked in the IEEE Educational Activities Department and was responsible for the Home Video Tutorial (HVT) and Individual Learning Programs (ILP) product lines working on production, duplication and sales and marketing.

Nancy currently serves as a member on the NFAIS Task Group developing a Code of Practice for Discovery Services. She has earned her undergraduate degree in Psychology from the University of Phoenix and is also a certified licensed counselor for domestic violence victims and their families in the states of NJ and MO.

Stephen Welch is the Senior Vice President of Communications for the American College of Chest Physicians (ACCP) and serves as Executive Editor of CHEST, the ACCP’s flagship journal. His responsibilities include all the business and operational aspects of CHEST, as well as oversight of ACCP”s educational publishing efforts and internal editorial processes, IT/Web strategy, as well as Marketing/Public Relations and Social Media strategy.

Steve enjoys engaging with new technologies and writes a blog for the ACCP on physicians and technology tools called, “It Ain’t Rocket Surgery”: http://www.chestnet.org/accp/blogs/steve%20welch. Steve lives in the north suburbs of Chicago with his wife Beth and two great danes Magnus and Carly. When not working, he spends his time traveling, scuba diving, collecting original comic book artwork, and searching for good BBQ.

Jason Wilde is Business Development Director for NPG, running NPG’s innovation process for projects and initiatives from concept through to
launch. Alongside this he oversees the publishing activities of the Nature-branded physical science research titles (including Nature
Physics, Nature Chemistry, Nature Climate Change and Nature Protocols) and NPG’s new Open Access publications Nature Communications and
Scientific Reports. Jason also oversees the ongoing development of the nature.com platform and its delivery of tools and services for
scientists. Jason joined NPG in 2002, initially working on medical titles before creating the Physical Science division of Nature research
journals in 2005. Jason began his publishing career at the Institute of Physics Publishing in 1998 where he was Publishing Editor, and later
Publisher, on their Applied Physics and Plasma portfolio of journals. Jason studied at Dundee University (BEng in Electrical and Electronic
Engineering) and Durham University (PhD in Molecular Electronics).