2013 SSP 35th Annual Meeting
Plenary Session: An International Update on Policy and Research Shifts…
Keynote Presentations
Plenary Session: An International Update on Policy and Research Shifts: In What’s New Around the World?
An international panel will discuss policy shifts in their regions and emerging opportunities for publishers. The panel will include representatives from Europe, Latin America, the Middle East and Asia.
Moderator:
Toby Green, Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development
Speakers
Tarek El-Elaimy, The American University in Cairo Press
Tarek El-Elaimy is Marketing Manager for North America at the American University in Cairo Press. He has over seven years of publishing experience in the Middle East and North America, working in editorial and rights before moving to marketing. He holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration and an MBA from the American University in Cairo. His areas of interest include electronic publishing for education and online marketing. He is currently based in New York.
Mikiko Tanifuji, National Institute for Materials Science
Mikiko Tanifuji, General Manager of Scientific Information Office at the National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), a national research laboratory in Tsukuba, Japan. She is a managing director of NIMS Library, and a publishing director of journal publishing, Science and Technology of Advanced Materials (STAM). STAM now ranks 36th out of 231 journals worldwide in the category Materials Science & Multidisciplinary by Thomson Routers database. She is also involved in a development of NIMS Digital Library. “NIMS eSciDoc” (http://pubman.nims.go.jp, http://imeji.nims.go.jp) is a co-development project with Max Planck Digital Library, which is one of core repository service of the digital library. She has also introduced a researcher directory service, SAMURAI (http://samurai.nims.go.jp) in 2010 which is one of application services extracted from NIMS eSciDoc. She is a member of Society for Scholarly Publishing, Japan Society of Applied Physics, Publishing Board of the Optical Society of Japan, SCOPUS Contents Selection (2005-2011), a working member of Japan Science Council and a Library Advisory Board member for several publishers.
Simon Bell, The British Library
Simon Bell is Head of Strategic Partnerships and Licensing at the British Library. Simon is charged with establishing strategic partnerships with both commercial and non commercial organisations in order to increase access to the collection through digitisation. He has been with the British Library for almost five years and has previously worked in various capacities within the publishing industry for Harper Collins, Oxford University Press, and Routledge.
Abel Packer, SciELO – Scientific Electronic Library Online
Abel L. Packer is Coordinator of the Scientific Electronic Library Online (SciELO) Program of the Sao Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) and Advisor on Information and Communication on Science at the Foundation of the Federal University of Sao Paulo (UNIFESP), Brazil, since June 2010. Previously he was Director of the Latin American and Caribbean Center on Health Sciences (BIREME) of the Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization for 11 years. He participated pro-actively in the conception, management, operation and dissemination of major Latin American and Caribbean multilingual scientific information networks, such as the Virtual Health Library (VHL) and the Scientific Electronic Library Online). In 2013 the SciELO Network indexes and publishes in open access more than one thousand journals. Mr. Packer holds a bachelor degree in Sciences and a Master Degree in Library Sciences.