2013 SSP 35th Annual Meeting
Speaker Bios
Euan Adie is the founder of altmetric.com, which tracks the conversations around scholarly articles online. He was previously a senior product manager at Nature Publishing Group where he worked on projects such as Connotea and Nature.com Blogs.
Kent Anderson is the CEO/Publisher for the Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery. Prior to this, he worked in executive positions at the New England Journal of Medicine and the American Academy of Pediatrics. He has been in publishing for more than 20 years, and has worked as a writer, editor, designer, managing editor, and publisher. He runs the Scholarly Kitchen, and has degrees in English and business.
Rick Anderson is Interim Dean of the J. Willard Marriott Library and University Librarian at the University of Utah, where he has ppreviously served as Associate Dean for Scholarly Resources and Collections. He earned his B.S. and M.L.I.S. degrees at Brigham Young University, and has worked previously as a bibliographer for YBP, Inc., as Head Acquisitions Librarian for the University of North Carolina, Greensboro and as Director of Resource Acquisition at the University of Nevada, Reno. He serves on numerous editorial and advisory boards and is a regular contributor to the Scholarly Kitchen blog, as well as writing a regular column for Library Journal’s Academic Newswire His book, Buying and Contracting for Resources and Services: A How-to-Do-It Manual for Librarians, was published in 2004 by Neal-Schuman. In 2005, Rick was identified by Library Journal as a “Mover & Shaker” one of the “50 people shaping the future of libraries.” In 2008 he was elected president of the North American Serials Interest Group, and he was named an ARL Research Library Leadership Fellow for 2009-10. He is a popular speaker on subjects related to the future of scholarly communication and information services in higher education.
Marc Ardizzone is Information Architect and UX/UI Designer who for more than 15 years has been creating beautiful, dynamic and highly usable websites, web-apps, and mobile interfaces. He has worked across a variety of exciting sectors including nonprofit, IT, financial, health, and publishing. He now leads the UX efforts at Publishing Technology with a focus on enhancing their publishing platform pub2web. He loves solving UX problems both big and small and is excited about new and emerging approaches to design such as Mobile First and Responsive Design.
Marguerite Avery is a senior acquisitions editor at The MIT Press where she acquires scholarly, trade, and reference work in Science and Technology Studies, Information Science, Communications, and Internet Studies. She works closely with these scholarly communities s and these interactions inform her thinking as to the value of scholarly publishers as well as the severe limitations they place on rapidly changing models of scholarship. She is the Digital Publications Chair of the Society for the Social Studies of Science (4S), a member of the Digital Public Library of America’s Content & Scope group, serves on the Board of Directors for Anvil Academic Press, is on the Academic Steering & Advocacy Committee for the Open Library of Humanities, and is a fellow at metaLAB@harvard
Patricia K. (Patty) Baskin, MS, is Executive Editor of the Neurology® journals, Neurology and Neurology: Clinical Practice. Patty is also Editor-in-Chief of the Council of Science Editors quarterly publication, Science Editor. Previously, she held positions of Executive Managing Editor, Manager of Program Operations, Managing Editor, and Associate Managing Editor at various bioscience journals, facilitated setting up editorial offices, and served as a freelance consultant and manuscript editor for other scientific journals and technical publications. She has served on the SSP Education Committee for four years, two years as co-chair.
Ashley Bass is Senior Product Manager at Serials Solutions and is responsible for several e-resource management and assessment services for library collection management. She is a recognized subject matter expert in ERM and frequently speaks at industry conferences. She has a deep understanding of the challenges facing academic libraries, and a fundamental understanding of the complexities of library management and discovery. Prior to Serial Solutions, Ashley held various positions in publishing, is a published author, and is certified in Pragmatic Marketing. She holds a BA in English from the University of Texas at Austin.
Gurvinder Batra is a Founder and CTO of Kiwitech. He leads the design and development of innovative smartphone and tablet apps. Over the past 20 years he has developed a reputation with clients as the ‘go-to’ person for new publishing technologies. In his previous position as CTO of Aptara, Gurvinder helped create XMLpublish, the industry’s first front-end XML workflow process that ensures the simultaneous production of high-quality content for a full range of publishing formats, both print and electronic. With his guidance, KiwiTech is an industry leader in creating enhanced, interactive mobile apps for the publishing, medical, entertainment and finance industries. In 1988, Gurvinder co-founded Aptara which has become one of the largest publishing services company in the world, with over 4,300 employees in the U.S., U.K., Australia, Germany and India and was named one of the Inc. 500 Fastest Growing Companies list in 2000, 2001 and 2002. In 2009, Gurvinder co-founded KiwiTech. KiwiTech leverages technology to provide cutting edge distribution alternatives for e-books. Prior to launching Aptara, Gurvinder started Calligraphics, a desktop publishing firm In India Earlier in his career he worked for D.C.M. Data Products, a computer manufacturing company with headquarters in New Delhi. Gurvinder graduated in 1987 from the prestigious engineering school, Jamia Millia Islamia University in New Delhi, where he earned an engineering degree in electronics and communications. Gurvinder is a frequent speaker in technology related conferences and was selected among the top 10 CTO’s in the Washington DC area.
Kaveh Bazargan is a physicist by training. He founded River Valley in 1988, in order to introduce computer generated illustrations to UK publishers. The company is based in UK with production in Kerala, India. The “bread and butter” is typesetting for STM publishers, using the only “pure” XML-first system in the industry. In recent years River Valley has been working on cloud-based platforms for publishers, including a peer review system (ReView) and an online collaborative authoring tool.
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.
Pete has worked in the academic publishing world for almost 20 years. Since gaining a PhD in Optical Physics, he has held positions at Institute of Physics, Kluwer Academic, Springer, SAGE and most recently the Public Library of Science (PLoS). At PLoS he ran PLoS ONE, and developed it into the largest and most innovative journal in the world. He is a respected authority in the academic publishing and Open Access worlds and has made numerous presentations to industry and academia. He is currently a member of the International Advisory Committee of the International Society of Managing and Technical Editors (ISMTE) as well as being on the Advisory Committee of the MedicineX conferences. He is passionate about academic publishing and believes that publishing needs to be in service to the academic community to best facilitate the rapid and broad dissemination of research findings.
Anh Bui is Director of Product Strategy and the DIAGRAM Center at Benetech’s Access to Literacy program. In these roles she leads the development and implementation of Literacy’s overall product strategy, in conjunction with Literacy’s management team; she also manages the DIAGRAM Center, which is devoted to research and development that make it faster, easier and more cost effective to create and use accessible digital images. Before joining Benetech in February 2012, Anh served as the Associate Director of Product Management at HighWire Press, a Division of the Stanford University Libraries that provides technology for publishers of leading peer-reviewed journals and other scholarly content. Anh holds a PhD in English from UC Berkeley.
Anjanette is passionate about creating websites that are maintainable, scalable, and are accessible to all users regardless of whether they’re using a screen reader or a smart phone. She developed the initial implementation strategy for responsive web design as JSTOR’s approach to mobile and demonstrated how responsive principles could be built upon existing interface patterns and implemented in a 8 week development project without a major redesign. Anjanette has worked for ITHAKA/JSTOR for 8 years and currently serves as the Lead Interface Developer. When not working on the web, she knits sweaters and other things.
In the role of VP and Director, Open Access for Wiley’s STM business, Rachel is responsible for the strategic direction and development of Wiley’s open access initiatives. Rachel joined Wiley in 2007 as Publisher for life sciences journals. Prior to that she spent 7 years at Nature Publishing Group in sales and publishing roles.
Mimi manages the Stanford University Libraries’ facilities and business services departments, and also serves as a policy coordinator for the organization. In addition, she manages a variety of special projects, with a special emphasis on copyright issues. Example copyright projects include the Stanford Copyright Renewal Database, and managing the intellectual property rights for the works of William Saroyan. Within the Facilities department, her department manages both daily maintenance and capital construction projects.
Bert Carelli, Senior Publication Manager, HighWire Press-Stanford, is a veteran of the online information industry. Prior to HighWire, he worked with many scholarly publishers as head of business development for Access Innovations and for DeepDyve. Earlier in his career, he led content acquisition teams for Dow Jones/Factiva and Dialog at the time two of the three largest global professional information services. Throughout his career, Mr. Carelli has focused on building value for content providers by leveraging new technologies for finding, managing, and productizing information. He received his BA degree from Stanford University and earned an MBA degree from St. Marys College of California.
Christine Charlip is the Director of ASM Press, the book publishing division of American Society for Microbiology. She leads the development of new content, including textbooks, reference manuals, monographs, general interest titles, and periodicals that review focused microbiology topics as well as the strategies for monetization. Among the many tasks of a publisher, driving discoverability and use of digital book content is the new priority, and Christine is approaching these challenges via content presentation—book metadata, content slices, doi use—and content connections—abstracting, indexing, discovery services, link resolvers, and SEO. Christine has published books and journals for American Gastroenterological Association, National Association of Home Builders, and American Diabetes Association.
William Chesser has been with Ingram since July of 2006. Mr. Chesser was instrumental in the early design, development, and implementation of the VitalSource Bookshelf e-textbook platform. Prior to moving to Vital Source, Mr. Chesser was Assistant Director of Training for the National Paideia Center and K-12 teacher-training and instructional-development organization in the School of Education at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In that role, Mr. Chesser worked with a high-profile collection of educators from around the U.S. to develop classroom innovation strategies and techniques and to deliver them to school systems across the country. Before working at the Paideia Center, Mr. Chesser worked in the central office for Durham Public Schools, and was a teacher and coach. He holds a bachelor of arts in English Literature from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a master’s in English Literature from North Carolina Central University.
Anne Coghill is employed by the American Chemical Society Publications Division. She’s currently working in Peer Review Operations where she and her colleagues work with over 350 editorial offices responsible for managing the peer review process for ACS’s journals. In her tenure with ACS, Anne has worked in both the journal and book publishing programs. She has a bachelor of science in chemistry from Illinois State University and a master’s in management from Northwestern University. Anne is also the coeditor The ACS Style Guide, third edition. She lives in central Illinois with her family, and when not working, Anne is an enthusiastic golfer.
Keith is Co-Founder and Managing Director of Rubriq, an independent peer review service focused on putting time back into research. Keith also leads business development activities for Research Square LLC, a company that owns both Rubriq and American Journal Experts. Prior to joining Research Square in 2012, Keith was a Vice President in the Scientific and Scholarly Research business for Thomson Reuters where he was General Manager of ScholarOne, the leading peer review system for scholarly publishers and associations. Keith has degrees in Business Management and Information Systems from Baylor University and a Masters Degree in Instructional Technology from the University of Virginia.
Kathleen Cottay is the Senior Manager for Taxonomy and Semantic Analytics at Gannett Company, Inc, a media and marketing solutions company with a diverse portfolio of broadcast, digital, mobile and publishing businesses. A librarian by training and personality, Kathleen’s experience in content management ranges from The National Enquirer to NASA. Prior to joining Gannett, Kathleen led the taxonomy and semantic text mining services at Hearst Newspapers, where she also managed a variety of content optimization and monetization products. She holds a BA from Indiana University and an MLIS from Louisiana State University.
Patrick Crisfulla is responsible for journal-branded digital products at Elsevier. Patricks teams operate over 500 unique & customized journal-branded website domains (e.g. www.TheLancet.com) and 50+ journal-branded mobile apps (e.g. The Journal of the American College of Cardiology iPad app). These services are available to over 1.2M society members and individual publication subscribers to stay current in their profession. Patrick has led digital product management and development groups at Reed Elsevier for 19 years. Over the last six years Patrick split time between Elsevier Corporate Strategy and the Global Medical Research eProducts team, launching NYTimes noted medical professional offerings such as OncologySTAT.com. Patricks responsibility has recently been expanded to the Science &Technology fields. Prior to Elsevier at LexisNexis Group for 10 years Patrick led the transformation of legal publications to online business models and product formats and was a founding team member for award-winning services such as www.Lawyers.com.
David Crotty is a Senior Editor with Oxford University Press’ journal publishing program. He currently oversees a suite of society-owned medical and life sciences journals. David has previously served as an Executive Editor with Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, creating, acquiring, and editing new science books, creating and running new journals, and managing the Press’ online content. David received his PhD in Genetics from Columbia University and did postdoctoral research at Caltech before moving from the bench to a science publishing house. As one of the Society for Scholarly Publishing’s “chefs” at The Scholarly Kitchen blog, David regularly writes about the intersection of technology and publishing.
Sioux Cumming is the Programme Manager for the Journals Online (JOL) project at INASP, where she has worked for 10 years. There are five JOLs in the project at this time: BanglaJOL (Bangladesh), LAMJOL (Latin America), MongoliaJOL (Mongolia), NepJOL (Nepal) and SLJOL (Sri Lanka). Sioux works with the journal editors to maintain their content , and works with local administrators to transfer responsibility for the sites to local management. She is also involved in training the editors to use the online journal management system available on the JOLs. Prior to joining INASP, Sioux was a lecturer in Zimbabwe for 23 years where she was also the editor and manager of a journal for a number of years.
Darcy Dapra is a Partner Manager for Google Scholar, responsible for external relations with the scholarly publishing and library communities. Prior to her current post with Google and her now eleven-year stint in the scholarly publishing arena, in roles both at the University of California Press and Stanford University’s HighWire Press, Darcy traveled to Korea on a Fulbright grant in 1999, teaching English and American culture, and subsequently completed a Master’s degree in Art History at the University of California, Davis. In her free time, Darcy enjoys spending time with her family, reading as many online news articles as humanly possible, and experimenting in the kitchen.
Phil Davis is an independent researcher, analyst and consultant in science publishing. He holds a PhD in science communication from Cornell University (2010), has extensive experience as a science librarian (1995-2006), and was trained as a life scientist. His research has focused on the dissemination of scientific information, rewards and incentives in academic publishing, and economic issues related to libraries, authors and publishers. Phil is a prolific author of many scientific and popular articles on science communication, blogs for The Scholarly Kitchen, and speaks regularly at national conferences. He has received rewards for his work in citation analysis. He is located in Ithaca, NY. http://phil-davis.org
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.
Jill Emery is the collection development librarian at Portland State University Library and has over fifteen years of academic library experience from various higher education institutions within the United States of America. She is a past-president of the North American Serials Interest Group (NASIG) and the social media specialist for the Electronic Resources & Libraries, LLC. Jill serves as a current member of the Charleston Advisor editorial board and is the columnist for “Heard on the Net.” She will be joining the editorial board of Insights in April 2013.
A pioneer in the development of network- and Internet-based marketing, Brian Erwin is Special Advisor to Slicebooks. For eight years he was Vice President, Sales & Marketing of O’Reilly Media, a leading technology information company, where he led or participated on the teams that launched the company’s entry into Internet publishing, created the worlds first commercial Web portal, launched the first desktop Web server, and organized of the first Open Source conference. Prior to that, he founded the media office of the national Sierra Club and was a publishing executive in New York, Los Angeles, and San Francisco for Harper/Collins and William Morrow. He has served on the boards of directors and in advisory capacities for several for-profit and non-profit organizations. He is an award-winning screenwriter.
Joseph J. Esposito is president of Processed Media, a management consultancy working primarily in the worlds of publishing, software, and education. Joe’s clients include both for-profits and not-for-profits. A good deal of his activity concerns research publishing, especially when the matter at issue has to do with the migration to digital services from a print background. Prior to setting up his consulting business, Joe served as CEO of three companies (Encyclopaedia Britannica, Tribal Voice, and SRI Consulting), all of which he led to successful exits. Typically he works on strategy issues, advising CEOs and Boards of Directors on direction; he has also managed a number of sticky turnarounds. Among other things, Joe has been the recipient of grants from the Mellon, MacArthur, and Hewlett Foundations, all concerning research into new aspects of publishing.
Prof. Ferric C. Fang is a physician-scientist who obtained his undergraduate and medical education at Harvard. Since 2001 he has been a Professor of Laboratory Medicine and Microbiology at the University of Washington, where he directs a clinical laboratory and performs basic research on bacterial pathogenesis. Prof. Fang has written more than 150 peer-reviewed articles and has been elected to the American Society for Clinical Investigation, the American Academy of Microbiology and the Association of American Physicians. He became an Editor of Infection and Immunity in 2002 and has served as Editor-in-Chief of that journal since 2007. In collaboration with his colleague Arturo Casadevall, Prof. Fang has authored a series of commentaries on the nature of the contemporary scientific enterprise and opportunities for reform. In 2012 he was the lead author of an article in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that analyzed over 2,000 retracted research articles in the life sciences literature.
Martin Fenner graduated from the Medical School of the Free University Berlin, and is a board-certified oncologist who has worked many years treating cancer patients and doing cancer research. In 2008 he started the blog Gobbledygook to write about scholarly communication from a researcher perspective. He is involved in Open Researcher & Contributor ID, and in May 2012 joined the Open Access Publisher Public Library of Science (PLOS) to become the technical lead of their Article-Level Metrics project.
Catherine Flack is Textbook Development Manager at Cambridge University Press responsible for textbooks for higher education courses in the social sciences, science and engineering across the globe. Catherine’s 20+ years in publishing includes seven years on the west coast with Cambridge and Pearson, as well as consultancy work with UK and US textbook publishers. Her current focus is keeping on top of market changes while making the most of Cambridge’s depth and breadth of content and the opportunities that fragmentation and enhancement of content brings to college publishing.
Sara Fleming is manager of online solutions at the NEJM Group, which publishes the New England Journal of Medicine and NEJM Journal Watch. She has worked in scholarly publishing and software development for more than 15 years, and has a Masters in Library Science. Sara’s current focus at NEJM Group is working with business and editorial groups to analyze and apply technology solutions that support digital product development (Web, e-mail, mobile, and next).
Norman Frankel is a publishing consultant helping STM publishers develop new licensing opportunities. He has performed strategic planning and content licensing management services for many STM organizations and publications including: AAFP, AAN, ACP, AAAS, AMA, JBJS and NEJM. Norman serves as licensing representative for STM and other publishing organizations and specializes in maximizing publisher licensing revenue. While at the American Medical Association he directed the Department of Digital and International Licensing. Norman was an Editor at Greenwood Press as well as St. James Press. He was a medical library director and member of the faculty of Library and Information Science at the SUNY at Buffalo, Western Michigan University and Queens University of Belfast. Norman served as President of SSP for 2005-2006, member of the SSP Board, numerous SSP and AAP/PSP committees and was a member of the of the American Heart Association Scientific Publishing Committee from 2007-2011. He has presented to a wide range of library and publishing organizations around the world.
Paul Gee joined the JAMA Network product development team in July of 2012 where he leads development efforts for a new line of mobile products that will disseminate content from the 10 JAMA Network journal s to their worldwide physician audience. In his 12 years in the medical publishing industry, Paul has held a wide array of roles ranging from editorial management, electronic product training and support, peer review and production system development, journal publishing, and now mobile development.
Barbara Goldman joined ASM as Director of Journals in January 2008. She works closely with the Chair of the ASM Publications Board and the 12 journal Editors-in-Chief to set publication policies, maintain consistently high standards, and implement new technologies, systems, and journal features. Since joining ASM, Barbara has helped launch two open access journals, mBio® in 2010 and Genome Announcements (genome™) in 2013. Barbara has over 25 years’ experience in scientific publishing and a research background in life sciences. She received her Ph.D. in developmental biology from the University of Chicago, followed by an NIH postdoctoral fellowship in cell biology at Rockefeller University. In her publishing career, Barbara most recently served as Senior Director of Scientific Programs at the Society for Neuroscience. There, she was responsible for The Journal of Neuroscience, the annual Neuroscience meeting scientific program, and several new neuroinformatics initiatives. Her previous positions include posts at the New York Academy of Sciences, John Wiley & Sons, Chapman & Hall, and Springer-Verlag New York.
Gus Gostyla is VP of Business Development (BD) at Inkling where he is focused on building new partnerships with publishers, distributors, and mobile platforms. Gus has made a career of helping to develop ecosystems around great consumer products and brands. In previous lives he headed BD at Flipboard and held similar roles at Microsoft’s Xbox Live and Windows Phone groups, as well as a number of startups in Silicon Valley. A graduate of Middlebury College in Vermont and Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business in New Hampshire, Gus majored in skiiing during his academic years. Gus grew up in the SF Bay Area and after years in the Northeast, PNW, and Argentina, he is happy to be back home and lives with his wife and 3 children in Portola Valley, CA.
Toby Green, Head of Publishing at OECD, joined OECD Publishing in 1998 and launched, in 2000, an i-library comprising full-text books, journals and statistical databases. In 2004, he launched OECDs StatLink service, linking full text publications to underlying data. In 2007, OECD switched to a freemium business model, making all books free to read online in a basic form, on any device, with revenue earned from premium online services and print. Having worked for Academic Press, Applied Science Publishers, and Pergamon Press now all owned by Elsevier – he reckons hes safe at OECD. He is Past-Chair of ALPSP and is a regular speaker at industry events in UK, France and USA.
Gerry Grenier is currently Senior Director of Publishing Technologies for the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in Piscataway, New Jersey. He leads a 46 person electronic publishing team responsible for the technologies that are used to create and distribute content, including development and operation of IEEE Xplore — a digital library containing 3.5 million journal articles, conference papers, and standards in electrical engineering and computer science. Prior to joining the IEEE Gerry was Director of Publishing Technologies at John Wiley & Sons, serving as a key member of the team that developed Wiley Interscience. He is an active member of the scholarly publishing community, serving on the Boards of CrossRef, International STM Association and NISO. He is currently the chair of STM’s Future Lab Committee whose mission is to identify the technologies that will most affect STM publishing. On a personal level, he is a supporter of his local public library – serving as Trustee and as a founding board member of the library’s foundation.
Scott Grillo is Vice President and Group Publisher for McGraw-Hill Medical, a division of McGraw-Hil’s Higher Education, Professional, and International segment. In this role he is responsible for all print and digital medical publishing initiatives. His group publishes approximately 125 titles each year in clinical medicine and has developed a suite of online subscription services including several highly specialized, media-rich services for students and clinicians in key medical specialties such as AccessMedicine.com, AccessSurgery.com, AccessEmergencyMedicine.com, AccessPharmacy.com, AccessAnesthesiology.com, and JAMAevidence.com. Scott also leads the editorial team responsible for the 20-volume McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology and its online counterpart, AccessScience. Scott began his publishing career with Prentice Hall and has held a variety of positions in marketing, editorial, and product development in his 15-year career.
Dr. William Gunn is the Head of Academic Outreach for Mendeley, a research management tool for collaboration and discovery. Dr. Gunn attended Tulane University as a Louisiana Board of Regents Fellow, receiving his Ph.D in Biomedical Science from the Center for Gene Therapy at Tulane University in 2008. Frustrated with the inefficiencies of the modern research process, he left academia and established the biology program at Genalyte, a novel diagnostics startup. From there, Dr. Gunn moved to Mendeley to pursue his mission of bringing modern network efficiencies to academic research.
Michael Habib is a Product Manager at Elsevier and holds an MS in Library Science from the School of Information and Library Science at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a member of the Scopus team where he focuses on streamlining the scholarly literature research workflow. Michael has previously held roles in such varied institutions as a public library, academic libraries and a print-on-demand publisher.
Steven Hall is managing director of IOP Publishing. He has worked in academic publishing for more than thirty years, holding senior positions at Chadwyck-Healey, ProQuest, Blackwell and Wiley-Blackwell before joining IOP Publishing. He serves on the boards of the International Association of Scientific, Technical and Medical Publishers and of CrossRef. Steven has been engaged in digital publishing since the mid-1980s and has taken a close interest in evolving business models and related copyright and licensing issues, including open access. He was a member of the Finch working group in the UK which published its recommendations on expanding access to research publications in June 2012. IOP Publishing itself publishes seven open access journals in its portfolio of more than sixty titles, including one of the earliest open access journals, the New Journal of Physics, launched in 1998.
Michael Healey is Executive Director of Author and Publisher Relations at the Copyright Clearance Center and has been extensively involved in a variety of positions regarding publishing rights including being one of the key trustees of the Google Trust.
Jay Henry is the Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Ringgold. He has been working with electronic content and metadata for more than 13 years. Prior to joining Ringgold in early 2012, he worked as consultant to publishers and ebook aggregators, served as the Director of Digital Services at Blackwell North America, and worked as a Producer for Ingenta in Cambridge, Massachusetts. His current role includes responsibilities for developing products to provide metadata creation and dissemination services for academic publishers that also meet the needs of academic libraries and researchers. He continues to reside in the great book city of Portland, Oregon where he can explore the mountains and rivers he loves.
Mike joined The Sheridan Group companies in 1994 after graduating with a B.S. in Printing Management and Sciences from the Rochester Institute of Technology. In his 16 years he has served in a variety of managerial positions both in the printing and the publishing services divisions. Since 2002 his focus has been primarily on the development of XML-based publishing workflows and custom software development for both internal and external facing systems. In his current capacity as Director of Technology Strategy at Dartmouth Journal Services, he provides strategic direction for the companys technology innovations and provides leadership and technical vision for the future of the company. Splitting the majority of his time between sales support and technology development, he has amassed a wide range of technical knowledge covering everything from peer review systems and editorial workflows through XML-based composition, online journal hosting systems, and mobile content delivery.
Kristi Holmes, PhD is a Bioinformaticist at Washington Universitys Becker Medical Library where she works to develop and support cross-disciplinary initiatives across a variety of subject areas and audiences. Her professional interests include collaboration support, open science, the Semantic Web, and understanding the impact of research efforts (http://becker.wustl.edu/impact-assessment). Dr. Holmes is a member of the Washington University Institute of Clinical and Translational Sciences Tracking and Evaluation team as well as the leadership team for the Semantic web-based discovery platform, VIVO, where she also serves as Outreach Lead for the effort.
Rachael Hu, User Experience Design Manager for the California Digital Library, has a keen understanding of academic users and the challenges they face while conducting research. She translates user needs into effective design solutions for many of CDL’s online services. At CDL, she has led the design of a number of projects, including the Online Archive of California and the reimagining of the CDL and University of California Libraries’ websites. Rachael has served on the NISO/NFAIS Supplemental Materials Group and the DataONE Usability Working Group. She holds an MS in Information from the University of Michigan.
Simon Inger has worked in the journals industry for over twenty-five years. In this time, he has worked for Blackwell, CatchWord, Ingenta and, since 2002, as an independent consultant. Simon was Founder and Managing Director of CatchWord Ltd, the worlds largest e-journal platform of the time, from its inception in 1995 to its sale to Ingenta in 2001. Simon has worked extensively in journal sales, marketing and pricing; e-journal delivery and platform selection; fulfilment and editorial systems selection; business reviews; management; financial planning; product development; market research; content development; and library technology. In addition, he runs training courses for librarians in the UK and Ireland on e-journal technology and management, as well as courses for publishers on best practice in e-journal dissemination. Simon’s clients include societies, university presses and commercial publishers from across Europe and North America.
Rick Johnson is the Chief Technology Officer, and one of the founders of VitalSource Technologies, Inc. VitalSource, a division of the Ingram Content Group, is the maker of Bookshelf®, the most widely used platform for delivery of electronic textbooks in the world. As CTO, Rick manages the strategic direction of the fast growing platform, guiding the architecture, and implementation of its clients and systems. Ricks career has been focused on bringing together his three passions: technology, publishing, and education. He is a frequent speaker on electronic textbooks, their integration into an institutional environment, and how the accessibility needs of individual students can best be accommodated with their delivery. He served on the working groups responsible for version 2 and version 3 of the EPUB standard, is on the executive committee for the IMS Global Learning Consortium, and is the co-inventor of 3 international patents dealing with electronic books and their distribution.
Jean is an avid reader and early adopter of eBooks and eBook-related technology, going back to 1996. Her publishing production past includes work as an XML Architect for Cengage Learning, a Systems Analyst for Pfizer Global Research and Development, and an XML Consultant at Arbortext. Jeans introduction to typography and publishing production involved a calculator, some printed galleys, and a pica stick back in 1992. Follow her occasional tweets at @JeanKaplansky.
Bill Kasdorf, General Editor of The Columbia Guide to Digital Publishing, is Vice President and principal consultant of Apex Content Solutions, a leading supplier of data conversion, editorial, production, and content enhancement services to publishers and other organizations worldwide. Active in many standards initiatives, Bill serves on the IDPF Working Group developing the EPUB 3 standard (he was coordinator of its Metadata Subgroup and is now active in the Indexing Working Group); the IDEAlliance working group developing the nextPub PSV source format for magazines and other design- and feature-rich publications (chairing its Packaging PSV as EPUB Committee); he is Chair of the BISG Content Structure Committee; and he is a member of the Publishing Business STM/Scholarly Advisory Board and the NISO eBook SIG. Past President of the Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP) and recipient of SSP’s Distinguished Service Award and the IDEAlliance/DEER Luminaire Award, Bill has led seminars, written articles, and spoken widely for publishing industry organizations such as SSP, O’Reilly TOC, NISO, BISG, IDPF, DBW, AAP, AAUP, ALPSP, STM, Seybold Seminars, and the Library of Congress. Most recently, he is the author of the chapter on EPUB metadata and packaging for OReilly’s EPUB 3 Best Practices. In his consulting practice, Bill has served clients globally, including large international publishers such as Pearson, Cengage, Wolters Kluwer, and Sage; scholarly presses and societies such as Harvard, MIT, Toronto, ASME, and IEEE; aggregators such as CourseSmart and netLibrary; and global publishing organizations such as the World Bank, the British Library, and the European Union.
A pioneer in the field of Digital Publishing, Bob Kasher was the founder of Database Directories one of Canadas first digital publishers in 1994. He was an early driving force behind the development of mobile publishing and e-book technology through his involvement in the development of MPS Mobile and its Global Reader service and has lectured extensively on the subject at industry forums throughout the world. Currently he is a member of the IDPFs EPUB 3 Working Group as well as with the Book Industry Study Groups (BISG) Rights and Permissions Automation Initiative and Content Structure Committee and involved in work with a variety of companies to develop Rights Automation systems as well as new multi-media outputs for digital content such as streaming video, interactive 3D and Augmented Reality. He is also an expert on digital work flow management for the production of multiple format outputs for print and digital production.
Roy Kaufman is Managing Director of New Ventures and is responsible for expanding service capabilities as CCC moves into new markets and services. Prior to CCC, Kaufman served as Legal Director, Wiley-Blackwell, John Wiley and Sons, Inc. He is a member of the Bar of the State of New York and, among other things, the Copyright Committee of the International Association of Scientific Technical and Medical Publishers. He formerly chaired the legal working group of CrossRef, which he helped to form, and belonged to the legal working group of ORCID (Open Researcher & Contributor ID) project. He speaks frequently on issues of copyright, artists rights and anti-piracy, having presented to groups including: AAP’s Rights and Permissions Advisory Committee, the New York City Bar Association, the Evangelical Christian Publisher’s Association and Nurture Art. Roy is Editor-in-Chief of Art Law Handbook: From Antiquities to the Internet and author of two books on publishing contract law. He has lectured extensively on the subjects of copyright, licensing, new media, artists rights, and art law. Roy is a graduate of Brandeis University (B.A., European Cultural Studies) and Columbia Law School (J.D.), where he served as Executive Notes Editor of the Columbia-VLA Journal of Law and the Arts.
George Kerscher began his IT innovations in 1987 and coined the term “print disabled.” George is dedicated to developing technologies that make information not only accessible, but also fully functional in the hands of persons who are blind or who have a print disability. He believes properly designed information systems can make all information accessible to all people and is working to push evolving technologies in this direction. As Secretary General of the DAISY Consortium and President of the International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF), Kerscher is a recognized international leader in document access. In addition, Kerscher is the Senior Officer of Accessible Technology at Learning Ally in the USA. He chairs the AISY/NISO Standards committee and the W3C’s Steering Council for the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI). George is one of the authors of the EPUB 3 Standard, and also serves on the USA National Instructional Materials Accessibility Standard (NIMAS) Board.
Mirjam Kessler is a metadata manager at Springer Science and Business Media in Heidelberg, where she is responsible for metadata development and strategy with a focus on library data standards (MARC, AACR2, RDA, Linked Data and Semantic Web). She holds Master’s degrees in both Linguistics and Library and Information Science, and has been working in the field of metadata standards, data exchange, digital libraries and information retrieval for more than ten years. Before joining Springer in 2011, she served as a research assistant at the German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence and as a project coordinator at the German National Library.
As Vice President, Professional Publishing at PreMedia Global (PMG), Byron Laws is responsible for the health and wealth of the professional content division, which provides editorial, production and technology services to scholarly publishers. He heads marketing and new business development, and manages all existing customer accounts. During his 15+ years in the publishing industry, he has held positions at Aptara and Ovid Technologies (WK Health). He has been an active member of SSP for more than 10 years and has served on the Membership Committee, as liaison to the Education Committee, on the webinar planning subcommittee, and as co-Chair of the Marketing Committee.
Franny Lee is Co-Founder and Vice President, University Relations and Product Development of SIPX. Originally a composer and jazz musician, Franny was drawn to the fields of copyright and digital communication by experiencing firsthand its effect on the music industry. She has worked on a variety of complex copyright issues for over 10 years. Franny is a lawyer in both the United States and Canada, and has litigated digital rights and internet questions in the entertainment, media and communications industries. Franny also clerked for the Copyright Board of Canada in copyright collective certification proceedings and orphan works applications, and consulted for the Board on research issues, policy initiatives and administration of copyright collecting societies.Franny holds a BFA from York University, a LLB / JD from Queen’s University, and a LLM in Law, Science & Technology from Stanford University. She served as Resident Fellow for CodeX (the Stanford Center for Legal Informatics), focusing on using technology to improve the copyright landscape and driving the research that led to the creation of SIPX, Inc.
Laura Leichum is the Intellectual Property Manager at Georgetown University Press. Her decade of experience in scholarly publishing encompasses the areas of digital publishing, rights, marketing, publicity, and sales. She is a member of the Association of American University Presses and serves on the AAUP Copyright Committee.
Wayne Manos is Director of Product Development and Marketing at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press. Prior to this, he was Program Director for E-Commerce at the American Institute of Physics. In addition to more than 20 years in publishing and online development, he has worked as a consultant in marketing and advertising for a variety of companies including IBM, MasterCard, New York University, and Revlon.
Bill is responsible for business development activities including marketing, new publisher sales, and strategic partnership. Joining HighWire in late 2010, Bill has over 25 years of experience and progressive responsibility within the marketing research, online publishing, and information industries, including his first 16 years at A.C. Nielsen. Bill then joined I/PRO in 1996, the web’s first website traffic verification service. As one of the company’s original architects, he built and managed I/PRO’s Account Management and Sales organizations, eventually being appointed President until 2004 when the company changed ownership. Shortly after, Bill joined TACODA, a NYC based media technology company, to launch their west coast operation where he spent 4 years until being acquired by AOL in 2007. Most recently, Bill ran business development for NetSeer, a web based technology company focused on understanding user intent within a semantic framework.
Based in New York since 2009, Guillaume Mazieres has a responsibility for growing TEMIS business in North America as well as the leadership on the global publishing market. Guillaume was previously serving as Worldwide Vice-President, Sales and Marketing, based in Paris. He built a successful sales and marketing team in Europe that grew the business exponentially in all TEMIS strategic verticals. Guillaume has a 15-year track record of increasing success and responsibilities within the software industry and a solid enterprise sales expertise acquired in Europe and in North America.
Sarah McClung is the Collection Development Librarian at the University of California, San Francisco. She received her Masters of Information Sciences degree from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville in 2012. Before relocating to the Bay Area, she worked at the Tompkins-McCaw Library for the Health Sciences at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia.
Daniel A. McFarland is an Associate Professor of Education, Sociology, and Organizational Behavior at Stanford University, and is the director of Stanfords certificate program in Computational Social Science. He holds a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Chicago and has published widely on organizational behavior in sociology’s top journals. Dan has taught courses in organizational behavior and social network analysis at Stanford for over a decade and received a 2006 award for student advising in the Graduate School of Education.
Thad McIlroy is an electronic publishing analyst and author based in San Francisco and Vancouver, BC. His site, The Future of Publishing, is the most in-depth on the industry. During the past 25 years he has educated and entertained audiences around the world on every aspect of digital publishing. His latest book (co-authored) is The Metadata Handbook: A Book Publishers Guide to Creating and Distributing Metadata for Print and Ebooks.
Andrea Michalek is the co-founder of Plum Analytics. Previously Andrea was Director of Technology at Serials Solutions and helped launch Summon® web-scale discovery service which won an SIIA Codie award in 2011. Andrea earned a Bachelor of Science degree in computational biology from Carnegie Mellon University and a Masters of Science in computer science from Villanova University.
Ian Michiels is a recognized thought leader and accomplished speaker in the fields of marketing automation, marketing operations, and demand generation. Michiels has a background in creative and analytical marketing roles at Fortune 500 organizations. Michiels is responsible for a wide body of published thought leadership on sales and marketing technology adoption, automated demand generation, digital marketing, marketing operations, the customer experience, and more. He has a master’s degree from Santa Clara University with concentrations in marketing management, entrepreneurship, ecommerce, and managing innovation.
Till Moepert is Director, eCommerce, Springer Science + Business Media. Tills first encounter with a computer was in the mid 80ies at an East German research facility where he played on a Russian BESM-6 mainframe computer. Later on he switched to the legendary Commodore 64, taught himself programming languages and writing assembler code but then decided to pursue a career in Business Management rather than in coding. Doing his first on line purchase in 1992 (a Guns n Roses tour T-Shirt) even before the first ever web browser was available, ecommerce soon became the cornerstone of his career. He managed one of the first German web shops for software licenses in 1998, worked in different positions at eBay for over 8 years and moved on to Springer in 2011. At Springer he is responsible for the global B2C-business. In his opinion ecommerce currently is where the automobile business was in the 1930ies the future is yet to come.
Jonathan Morgan is currently the Director of Digital Strategy & Platform Development for the Publications Division of the American Chemical Society.Jonathan is responsible for the strategic development, front-end design, production and site maintenance, online community development, and metadata delivery associated with ACS Publications’ digital publishing platform. At ACS Jonathan has also overseen the development of ACS Mobile, an award-winning iOS/Android application that delivers a multi-journal, real time stream of peer-reviewed research content. He is a digital publishing professional with 13 years of experience in web design & development, electronic journal marketing, and journal subscription licensing for the institutional library market.
Rena Morse is Director of Semantics at Silverchair Information Systems, where she is responsible for semantic product management and taxonomy development for the SCM6 publishing platform. During her tenure at Silverchair, she has co-architected the automated semantic tagging system underpinning SCM6 and managed projects to develop and implement usable taxonomies, thesauri, and metadata services for STM clients. Rena has over ten years experience in publishing and has an academic background in English and historical linguistics.
Allyson Mower, MA, MLIS is the Scholarly Communications & Copyright Librarian at the J. Willard Marriott Library at the University of Utah. She provides information, tools, and services related to both publishing and copyright. Previous to this position, Allyson spearheaded the digitization of the health sciences theses and dissertations at Eccles Library and co-created a copyright permission tool called University Scholarly Knowledge Inventory System (U-SKIS) which is used by several libraries across the U.S. Allyson and colleagues from Purdue University and Georgia Tech libraries received a grant in 2010 from the Institute of Museum and Library Services to explore the state of library publishing services which, in turn, fostered a recent digital publishing collaboration with Oxford University Press. She received her MLIS from the University of Washington in 2009 and holds an MA in Liberal Arts from St. John’s College and a BA in American Studies from Utah State University. Allyson was a Library Journal Mover & Shaker in 2008 and was nominated as a 2012 Society for Scholarly Publishing Emerging Leader.
Adrian Mulligan is a Research Director in the Research and Academic Relations department at Elsevier Ltd. He has 15 years of experience in STM publishing, the last 12 of which has been spent in research. He oversees all of Elsevier’s Customer Insights Programs. These ongoing studies are used to drive action in the business and help shape Elsevier strategy. Alongside these large in-house tracking studies, Research and Academic Relations works in partnership with other groups to deepen understanding of the scholarly landscape across the industry, most recently they worked on a large scale study completed with Sense About Science, which examined the attitudes of researchers towards peer review. He has presented on a range of research related topics at various conferences, including STM, ESOF, AAP and APE. Adrian’s background is in archaeology with a B.A. Honours degree and a Master of Science from Leicester University. He also has a diploma in Market Research from the Market Research Society.
Marty Murphy, 3rd is the VP of Publishing Technology & Global Business Development at AlphaMed Press, publisher of three internationally renowned peer-reviewed journals in oncology, stem cells and translational medicine. Prior to joining AlphaMed Press in 2007, Marty was VP of State and Local Government Enterprise Application Sales at Oracle Human Capital and Financial Systems after his consulting work as Western US Sales Director for PeopleSoft. Marty leveraged his expertise and experience with the use of technology to deliver critical content to end users on demand and guided AlphaMed Press in the development of the industrys first content management system accessible via mobile devices. This proprietary platform provides instantaneous access to peer-reviewed content at no cost to users with the support of advertisers that utilize its interactive ad capabilities.
Jeremy Nielsen is the Managing Director of Publications at the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) where he oversees the strategic and operational development of all journal related products and services. Prior to joining RSNA, Jeremy served in numerous publishing roles at the American Medical Association, most recently as the journal sales manager for the Asia Pacific region. Jeremy is an active member of the SSP Marketing Committee and holds a B.A. in Marketing from Kent State University along with an M.B.A. from Loyola University Chicago.
Andy is Head of Business Development at the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), and part of RSC’s Strategic Innovation management team. He has a combination of scientific, STM publishing and commercial experience, with expertise in new product development, acquisition, business development and business intelligence. He has worked in publishing for over 10 years, where his role has included the development and launch of a number of scientific journals, partnerships and acquisition. Prior to this he has held various new product development roles, as a chemist, working for the likes of Johnson Matthey PLC. He has also worked in business services with Deloitte.
Michelle Norell manages Strategic Accounts at CCC, a nonprofit global rights broker. Michelle has held sales, marketing, and business development roles at John Wiley and Thomson Reuters. She has co-chaired the Marketing and Education Committees for the Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP), received SSP’s Emerging Leader Award, and joins SSP’s Board of Directors in 2013.
Allen Noren is VP Online at O’Reilly Media. He’s been with the company since 1992 when one of his first jobs was to maintain the O’Reilly Gopher site. He was a founding member of the GNN team that built one of the first commercial web portals, and was part of the group that created Safari Books Online, the O’Reilly ebook program, and online events. Allen is in charge of oreilly.com, the company’s ecommerce, news, and marketing portal.
Rob is Electronic Publishing and Production Director at The Rockefeller University Press. He is responsible for strategies, initiatives, and workflow solutions surrounding many aspects of press functions including print and online production and publication, apps and mobile web, multimedia, content management, and ebooks. In his 20+ years in STM publishing Rob has initiated and managed numerous transitions to new technologies, starting way back with electronic text and image editing through online publishing, SGML, XML, multimedia integration, podcasting, and mobile delivery, among others.
Jill O’Neill is the NFAIS Director of Planning & Communication. She has been a part of the information community for approximately twenty years, holding positions with firms such as Elsevier, Thomson Scientific (now ThomsonReuters), and John Wiley & Sons. Her focus is on the emergence of Web-based applications for the creation, discovery and dissemination of content and the potential value of those tools to the global information community. She has been blogging about books since 2007 on a number of platforms. She actively participates in online communities, such as LibraryThing, and maintains a profile on major social networks, including Facebook, LinkedIn, GoodReads, and GooglePlus.
Tim O’Reilly is the founder and CEO of O’Reilly Media Inc., thought by many to be the best computer book publisher in the world. O’Reilly Media also hosts conferences on technology topics, including the O’Reilly Open Source Convention, the Web 2.0 Summit, Strata: The Business of Data, and many others. Tim’s blog, the O’Reilly Radar “watches the alpha geeks” to determine emerging technology trends, and serves as a platform for advocacy about issues of importance to the technical community. Tim is also a partner at O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures, O’Reilly’s early stage venture firm, and is on the board of Safari Books Online, PeerJ, Code for America, and Maker Media, which was recently spun out from O’Reilly Media. Maker Media’s Maker Faire has been compared to the West Coast Computer Faire, which launched the personal computer revolution.
Gareth is Chief Architect at GPSL, the worlds leading provider of bespoke publishing systems. Gareth has 12 years’ experience in sales, development, implementation and support of publishing systems in the Enterprise space, and many years prior experience in the eLearning industry. Gareth also has a strong technical background, having started software programming on PCs at age 9, and consequently obtaining a Bachelor of Information Technology at Griffith University (Gold Coast). Gareth has spent the last four years designing, developing and supporting a large digital publishing system for books and journals for the American Chemical Society. This innovative system allows for almost complete automation of document composition and a number of world first inventions were devised along the way. As a result of this solution, ACS enjoys a 20% reduction in production time and 80% reduction in composition costs. While the ACS system is a world leading solution for production of traditional books and journals, Gareth is keenly interested in exploring the next stage of innovations in the scholarly publishing space.
Ivan Oransky, M.D., is executive editor of Reuters Health and blogs at Embargo Watch and at Retraction Watch. Before taking his current position in June 2009, he was the managing editor for Scientific American online, deputy editor of The Scientist, co-editor in chief of Pulse, the medical student section of the Journal of American Medical Association, and of Praxis Post, an online magazine of medicine and culture. Co-author of The A—Z Symptom Answer Guide (McGraw—Hill, 2004), he has written for publications including the Boston Globe, The New Republic, and USA Today. Before leaving medicine to become a full-time journalist, Oransky received his bachelor’s degree from Harvard University, where he was executive editor of The Harvard Crimson, his medical degree from New York University, and completed an internship at Yale. Treasurer of the Association of Health Care Journalists’ board of directors, he also holds appointments as an adjunct professor of journalism and clinical assistant professor of medicine at New York University. He lives in New York City and Northampton, Mass.
Evan Owens has been involved in publishing technologies since early 90s, including serving as US technical representative for ISO 12083, on the NLM DTD advisory panel, and NISO JATS. He has served on the NISO Architecture Committee, the CrossRef technical working group, the CrossRef board of directors, and the British Library external technical advisory panel. He began his career in publishing at The University of Chicago Press where he led the transition from paper-based to SGML-based electronic publishing. In 2003 he became CTO of Portico (a unit of ITHAKA), where he led the design and implementation of a pioneering digital preservation archive. In 2010 he joined the American Institute of Physics as CIO of the publishing division, now AIP Publishing, LLC.
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.
Émilie Paquin works for Érudit.org, the largest scholarly content dissemination platform in Canada, as the Publishing and Partnerships Coordinator. She is in charge of publisher relations and collection development. Since 2008, she has worked closely with over 100 publishers to assist their shift to the digital environment and jump on the new opportunities online publishing allows. She has a widespread experience with large-scale digitization projects including effective dissemination strategies and marketing solutions. She is currently heavily involved in the redefinition of the Érudit business model.
Thomas Parisot is in charge of institutional relations at Cairn.info, an initiative launched in 2005 by French and Belgian publishers, with the support of public institutions as the French national Library. Cairn nowadays offers one of the most comprehensive collection of publications in French language available online in full text: over 350 journals, magazines, research eBooks, proceedings, encyclopedias, etc. Since the beginning, this project has been funded on open principles such as mutualization (a mutualized platform for all types of publications and all publishers, www.cairn.info), a mix between free (metadata, archives and, sometimes, current issues for journal which have opted for a complete OA model, eBooks introductions, etc.) and paying content (full-text of most of journals current issues and eBooks), simple and efficient possibilities to promote these publications for libraries, and unlimited access to contents.
The company’s CEO is William (“Bill”) Park who previously served at Acxiom Corporation (NSDQ: ACXM) where he led the company’s $225M Data, Digital and Direct Marketing Services Organization. Mr. Park joined Acxiom in 2005 thru its acquisition of Digital Impact (NSDQ: DIGI) where he served as founder, chairman and CEO since 1997.
Jan Peterson manages publisher relations for Reprints Desk, a Los Angeles-based company whose workflow tools service both corporate and academic libraries for document delivery and corporate libraries for commercial reprints. Jan is an STM publishing industry veteran with an emphasis on content licensing. She helped to establish document delivery as a legitimate revenue stream for publishers and coined the term “Article Economy”. Jan has been very engaged with the standards community over the years, having served as Chair of the Board of Directors for the National Information Standards Organization (NISO) and the International Committee for EDI in Serials (ICEDIS). She began her career at Academic Press, and was Fulfillment Director when AP launched IDEAL, the first online journal program.
Jean-Christophe Peyssard is director of the freemium programs at Open Edition, a comprehensive environment for open access publication and communication in humanities and social sciences. Open Edition offers several platforms for journals (Revues.org hosts approximatively 380 journals), scientific announcements (Calenda published 21 000 announcements since its beginning en 2000), scholarly blogs with Hypotheses.org and its 600 blogs, and, finally books (Open Edition Books opened in 2013). Open Edition promotes “freemium” as a sustainable economic model for open access publishing. Freemium is a combination of free access to information and commercialization of premium services to libraries and the general public as well.
T. Scott Plutchak is the Director of the Lister Hill Library of the Health Sciences at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. From 1999 through 2005 he was the editor of the Journal of the Medical Library Association (JMLA), and presently serves on the editorial board of Evidence Based Library and Information Practice. He is a founding member of the Chicago Collaborative and in 2009 was a member of the Scholarly Publishing Roundtable, convened by the US Congress to develop recommendations on providing public access to federally funded research results. He is a frequent speaker to publisher and library groups on topics ranging from intellectual property to scholarly communication to the future of librarianship, and leads the international librarian rock band, the Bearded Pigs.
Jason S. Price is Interim Library Director at the Claremont Colleges Library. He earned a doctorate in plant evolutionary ecology from Indiana University Bloomington where he gained in depth experience as a teacher and researcher before pursuing a Masters in Library Science. He thoroughly enjoys applying hard won analytical skills to current library challenges. His role as Electronic Resource Consultant for the Statewide California Electronic Library Consortium provides opportunities to work with libraries, consortia and publishers to improve products and increase pricing equity. A practiced dabbler, he enjoys being involved in as many levels of academic library teaching and research as he can handle (and sometimes a few more!). He has been publishing and speaking about electronic resource usage, discovery and access since 2005.
Richard Price is the Founder and CEO of Academia.edu. Richard did his Ph.D at Oxford in philosophy, where he was a Fellow of All Souls College. He founded Academia.edu in 2008 after finishing his PhD, and seeing a need for academics to create a brand online, and build visibility for themselves. Academia.edu now has 2.3 million users, and over 5,000 academics join each day. Academia.edu provides readership analytics to their users, to help them quantify their online impact. Academics can also follow each other on Academia.edu, and keep up with each other’s latest work. Academia.edu is based in San Francisco, and has raised $6.7 million in venture capital from Spark Capital and True Ventures.
Jason Priem is a PhD student and Royster Fellow, studying information science at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. Since coining the term “altmetrics,” he’s organized the annual altmetrics workshops, giving invited talks, and publishing peer-reviewed altmetrics research. Jason is a co-founder of ImpactStory, an open-source web tool that helps scholars track and report the broader impacts of their research.
Kristen Fisher Ratan is the Chief Publications and Product Officer at the Public Library of Science (PLOS). She joined PLOS in the summer of 2011 in order to focus her efforts on using policy, best practices, tools and technologies to transform scholarly communication. Kristen has a 20 year history in the information industry leading strategic innovations at HighWire, Atypon, and BIOSIS. She holds a Masters in Biomedical Science from Mount Sinai Medical School, with a focus in Neuroscience, and a Bachelors degree in Anthropology from the University of Chicago. She lives in the San Francisco area with her family.
Jan is Co-Founder and President of Mendeley (www.mendeley.com), a London- and New York-based technology startup. Since its launch in 2009, Mendeley has grown into one of the world’s largest research collaboration platforms and crowdsourced research databases, with more than 2m users and 350m uploaded documents. Together with his co-founders, he has been awarded “European Founder of the Year 2013”. Jan was also a lecturer in Electronic Business and Information Management at the University of Cologne and served as an advisor to SAPs supervisory board. Besides this, hes totally fascinated with Latin-American dances (such as Salsa), regularly attending (very non-academic) dance congresses.
Danielle Reisch is a Senior User Experience Analyst for Wiley’s Technology Design & Innovation group. With a background in front-end development and human-computer interaction, she is focused on several initiatives at Wiley to better deliver our scholarly content across many channels and devices. This includes researching end-user behavior and designing information architecture and content presentation to support the growing needs of researchers, authors, and our publishers. She most recently led the user experience design of the iPad app for Angewandte Chemie International Edition, and is active in the evolution of Wiley Online Library, Wiley’s platform for more than 1600 peer-reviewed journals and 13,000 books..
Tara Robenalt leads product management for HighWire and drives the product roadmap for delivering high-quality, innovative solutions to the STMS publishing industry. With extensive experience in product management, she worked at Oracle Corporation and for 11 years at IXL Learning, an educational technology company where she led the development of three successful e-learning web products, including an online books platform. She holds a B.S. in Industrial Engineering from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo.
John Sack is one of the founders of HighWire Press and focuses on market assessment, client relations, technology innovation, and industry-forward thinking. John’s role is to determine where the technology and publishing industries are going, how one of those might leverage the other, and how HighWire can best support its customers, and its customers’ customers – the libraries, students, researchers, and clinicians they serve. John considers himself a “futurist” or “trend-spotter” in that he tries to watch what is happening in consumer and scholarly services and identify patterns that are just beginning to emerge.
David Sampson is an Executive Publisher in Elsevier’s health sciences journals division where he has P&L and strategic responsibility for several specialty portfolios. One of his other roles at Elsevier is to advise fellow publishing colleagues on international growth initiatives. Prior to joining Elsevier, David worked at Lippincott Williams & Wilkins in various marketing, sales, business development, and publishing roles, including five-and-a-half years as managing director of LWW’s ex-Japan Asia office in Hong Kong where his team published local books and journals. David also worked for two years as an executive vice president for Conference Archives, now part of Coe-Truman Technologies, where he developed and launched a society event knowledge product. He is a graduate of Cornell University and has an MBA from the Kellogg Northwestern-Hong Kong University of Science & Technology executive MBA program. David recently spoke at the International Society of Managing and Technical Editors on expanding journals internationally and served as a co-chair for the 2011 Society for Scholarly Publishing’s IN Meeting where he lead the innovation session.
Lisa Schiff is a Technical Lead for the California Digital Library’s Access & Publishing Group. She is the co-chair of the ORCID Business Steering Group and serves on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication. Previous to joining the CDL, she was an Information Engineer at Interwoven. She received her Ph.D. in Library and Information Studies from the University of California, Berkeley, and is the author of Informed Consent: Information Production and Ideology, published by Scarecrow Press.
Stephanie Schmitt is the Asst. Technical Services Librarian at the UC Hastings Law Library. Having worked in both academic and special libraries in the USA for over ten years, in 2006 she left to work in libraries overseas including Zayed University in Dubai, Bahrain Polytechnic and the American University of Afghanistan in Kabul. Stephanie has published articles on legal publishing, resources management and practicing librarianship in the Middle East and Central Asia. She is currently researching ebooks options and their presence in the legal education system.
Robert Schoenvogel is vice president and general manager of EBSCO Information Services Europe and the newly-created Open Access (OA) division for EBSCO Information Services. In the Open Access role, Schoenvogel is responsible for developing an innovative suite of intermediary services for publishers, authors, libraries, and funders focused on OA transaction management. Before his current roles, Schoenvogel served as director of operations for EBSCO Information Services and had oversight responsibilities for strategic planning, acquisition integration, and execution of division-wide projects. And prior to joining EBSCO, he worked in mergers and acquisitions for JPMorgan Chase & Co. and served as an equity analyst for Priderock Management. Schoenvogel obtained both his undergraduate degree in History and MBA from the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia.
John Shaw, Vice President of Publishing Technologies, has been with SAGE Publications for 18 years. During his tenure, John has held management roles in Composition, Abstracts Production, and Journals Production. John leads SAGE’s Global Electronic Publishing Technology program, including electronic peer review, content hosting platforms, and content management strategies.
David traded life as a scientist for a life in publishing some 12 years ago. His formative experiences were at Current Science Group (In-House Editor) and then BioMed Central (Web Manager). He joined CABI in 2001 (first as a Publishing Editor and then Managing Editor). He is now Head of Innovation for the Plantwise initiative that CABI is spearheading. http://www.cabi.org/?site=170&page=2912
MacKenzie Smith is the University Librarian at the University of California, Davis, and is a seasoned academic research library leader specializing in information technology and digital knowledge management. Prior to joining UC Davis in 2012, she was the Associate Director for Technology and Research Director at the MIT Libraries, where she oversaw their technology strategy, operations, research and development. Her research has focused on information technology applications to research libraries, such as Semantic Web-based scholarly communication platforms and digital research data curation including long-term preservation and archiving. She was the Project Director for MITs collaboration with Hewlett-Packard to build DSpace, the open source digital archive platform now in worldwide use, and has led many other research projects that advanced the international digital library agenda. She is a Research Fellow at the Creative Commons working on science and data governance policy, and has consulted widely to the library field. Prior to MIT, MacKenzie managed the Harvard University Librarys Digital Library Program Manager and held IT positions at Harvard and the University of Chicago.
Heather Ruland Staines is Vice President Publisher Development for SIPX (formerly Stanford Intellectual Property Exchange), a start up out of Stanford, created to manage copyrights and deliver digital documents for the higher education marketplace. Originally a book acquisitions editor, she spent the last five years at Springer Science + Business Media, first as the Global eProduct Manager for SpringerLink and later as Senior Manager eOperations. Board Member-At-Large for SSP, she serves as the Liaison to the Annual Meeting Programming Committee and also on the Organizational Collaboration Committee. She is Chair of the American Library Association’s ALCTS CRS Holdings Information Committee and a Member of the Transfer Working Group. Her professional interests include Digital Preservation and the role of Massive Open Online Courses in Higher Education. She holds a Ph.D. In Military and Diplomatic History from Yale University.
Adrian has over twenty years’ experience in the Global STM publishing industry, having lived and worked on 3 continents (Europe, Asia and North America). In his role as CEO for The Charlesworth Group (USA), he works with global network of staff and clients, offering strategic advice and business services to STM publishers on globalization, collaboration and innovation issues. Adrian has been instrumental in pioneering innovative sales and marketing approaches for customers within the unique China market, as well as supporting and developing technical cloud and office based XML typesetting solutions. Adrian is also a Board Member at large for SSP and heads up SSP’s Global Strategic Task Force.
Dr. Stebbins is Assistant Director for Biotechnology at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy where he is responsible for life sciences, and biotechnology issues. He previously served as a science advisor to the Obama Campaign and on the Obama Presidential Transition Team. He is the former Director of Biology Policy for the Federation of American Scientists and President of Scientists and Engineers for America Action Fund. He is a co-founder and served on the Board of Directors for Scientists and Engineers for America. Dr. Stebbins is a former and Adjunct Professor of Bioethics at UPenn, has worked as a Legislative Fellow for U.S. Senator Harry Reid and a Public Policy Fellow for the National Human Genome Research Institute. Before coming to Washington, Dr. Stebbins was a Senior Editor at Nature Genetics. He received his B.S. in Biology at SUNY Stony Brook and his Ph.D. in Genetics while working at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, where he developed inducible systems for controlling gene expression in transgenic animals.
Carly Strasser is a Data Curation Specialist at the California Digital Library, part of the University of California Office of the President. She has a PhD in Biological Oceanography, which informs her work on helping researchers better manage and share their data. She is involved in development and implementation of many of the UC3 (UC Curation Center) services, including the DMPTool (software to guide researchers in creating a data management plan) and DataUp (an application that helps researchers organize, manage, and archive their tabular data). UC3: www.cdlib.org/services/uc3 Carly’s website: http://carlystrasser.net
Brad Strong is Manager of Online Content and Strategy for Specialty Products at Elsevier Health Sciences. He is part of the team behind the recently launched PracticeUpdate.com, a free resource for health care professionals. Brad has spent the past several years working both internally and as a consultant for educational and medical publishing companies, creating products that provide users with approachable interfaces and delightful experiences while engaging with information. Brad holds both a a BA in Film and Media Arts from Temple University as well as a MSc in Design and Digital Media from The University of Edinburgh.
Greg Tananbaum is the owner of ScholarNext Consulting, focusing on issues at the intersection of technology, content, and academia. Clients include Microsoft, SPARC, PLOS, Annual Reviews, NISO, the American Heart Association, and eLife. Greg has more than 15 years’ experience in the scholarly communication space. In addition to his consulting work, he has served as President of The Berkeley Electronic Press, as well as Director of Product Marketing for EndNote. Greg writes a regular column in Against the Grain covering emerging developments in the field of scholarly communication. He has been as an invited speaker at dozens of conferences, including the American Library Association, the Society for Scholarly Publishing, the Association of Professional and Learned Society Publishers, and Online Information UK. He holds a Master’s Degree from the London School of Economics and a B.A. from Yale University.
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.
Anneliese Taylor is the Assistant Director for Scholarly Communications and Collections at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) Library. Anneliese leads scholarly communication activities and oversees collection development and technical services at UCSF. She has been with UCSF since 2003. Prior to UCSF, she worked as a librarian at Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania and at George Mason University in Virginia. She earned her MLIS from the University of Texas-Austin and her BA from Sarah Lawrence College.
Tom Taylor is President of Dragonfly Sales and Marketing Consulting. Dragonfly manages the sales efforts of independent publishers through a global network of sales organizations. Before forming Dragonfly, Tom was Vice President of Marketing and Sales at SAGE in California. Tom has been in academic publishing for 32 years starting in 1979 as a sales representative at Addison Wesley (Pearson) where he moved into positions in marketing, editorial and sales management. In 1995, Tom became a sales manager at Prentice Hall (Pearson) and in 1998 was hired as executive vice president of sales and marketing at Course Technology, a Thomson Learning (now Cengage) company.
Lora Templeton is the Marketing Manager for Professional Development Subscription Content at Wiley. With a background in traditional marketing and circulation management of consumer and B2B periodicals, she oversaw the transition of print to web-based marketing for thirty subscription titles at Wiley and the development of a comprehensive online strategy for all products for her team. She was one of the recipients of the Wiley Presidents Team Award for Outstanding Technological Achievement in 2011 and the Wiley Award for Outstanding Accomplishment in the Professional/Trade Group. She currently serves on the Wiley Global Social Media Work Group to facilitate the knowledge and adoption of best practices in social media throughout Wiley.
Ryan is Learning Solutions Consultant for Pearson Higher Education. Specializing in customizing Pearson’s print and digital content for courses across all academic disciplines for colleges in the Bay area. Media customizations include Pearson etexts in all formats, ancillary multimedia in Pearson’s proprietary MyLab and Mastering platforms, and customizations of our content to run seamlessly across various campus learning management systems.
Alex Wade is Director for Scholarly Communication at Microsoft Research, where he oversees a portfolio of research-focused products and services. Alex holds a Bachelor’s degree in Philosophy from U.C. Berkeley, and a Masters of Librarianship degree from the University of Washington. During his career at Microsoft, Alex has managed the corporate search and taxonomy management services; has shipped a SharePoint-based document and workflow management solution for Sarbanes-Oxley compliance; and served as Senior Program Manager for Windows Search. Prior to joining Microsoft, Alex was Systems Librarian at the University of Washington, and held technical library positions at the University of Michigan and the University of California at Berkeley.