About the contributors
IJsbrand Jan Aalbersberg was awarded a Ph.D. in theoretical computer science from the University of Leiden in 1987, after which he worked for ten years at Philips Research in both The Netherlands and the US. He is now SVP Journal and Data Solutions for Elsevier, in which role he exploits new technologies to enable scientists to communicate science in ways they weren’t able to do before. Every product development process, he believes, should begin with getting close to users and learning their pain points. Only then is it possible to successfully turn evolving technologies into solutions that really work. IJsbrand Jan first joined Elsevier in 1997, working in a variety of positions to bridge the gap between science, publishing and technology. As Elsevier’s S&T Technology Director from 2002 to 2005 he was one of the initiators of Scopus, responsible for its publishing-technology connection. Between 2009 and 2013 he moved to STM journals to focus on content innovation, where he headed the Article of the Future project, improving the presentation of the scientific article and enriching it with value-add content and context.
Iain D. Craig joined Blackwell Publishing, now part of Wiley, in 2005. He is Director of the Market & Publishing Analytics department based in Oxford, UK, and specializes in bibliometric analysis. Iain has published numerous articles on impact factors and citation analysis, has spoken on the topic in a variety of settings, to both a publishing and academic audience, and since 2010 has led the ALPSP course in Citation Analysis for Publishers. A graduate of the University of Edinburgh, his career in publishing began at Elsevier, Oxford, UK, where he managed and commissioned a portfolio of journals, books and major reference works in materials science, and, latterly, in organic chemistry.
Claire Creaser has been employed at LISU since 1994, and was appointed Director in 2007. LISU is a research unit based in the Centre for Information Management at Loughborough University, and Claire oversees the day-to-day management of the unit, playing a key role in ensuring the quality and reliability of methods of investigation and data gathered for the various projects undertaken. Claire’s main areas of interest are in the use of statistical evidence for library service management, with a focus on benchmarking; in the analysis and interpretation of survey data; and in scholarly communication, with particular reference to researcher behaviours and open access to research outputs. She takes an active role in promoting good statistical practice via a number of external committees and working groups, including as Chair of the BSI Committee for Library and Publishing Statistics, as UK expert on several ISO working groups on international library statistics, and as a member of the Royal Statistical Society Statistics User Forum. She is a graduate in mathematics from the University of Kent and is a chartered statistician.
Jorge Enrique Delgado-Troncoso is currently Director of Editing Services at TotalEdit.com. He is also an instructor in the Department of Administrative and Policy Studies and affiliated faculty of the Center for Latin American Studies at the University of Pittsburgh. His teaching includes courses on Latin American social and public policy and education and society at the University of Pittsburgh. He has also taught the theory and history of comparative education and international organizations in international education at Drexel University. Trained as a dentist in Colombia, Jorge spent 15 years working at the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana as a professor in the Department of Dental Research and Education. He is the editor of the journal Universitas Odontologica from Javeriana University. His recent research has focused on the development of academic journals in Latin America and its relationship with science and technology and higher education policy, on the changing environment of the academic profession, and on the trends in university research and communication of research. Jorge can be contacted at [email protected].
Liz Ferguson joined Blackwell Publishing in August 2003 and is now Associate Publishing Director following the merger with Wiley’s STM publishing division. She leads a multinational team publishing a growing list of more than 80 biological science journals, many of which belong to learned societies, federations and other non-profit organizations. Previously, Liz worked for a variety of publishers, including Lippincott Williams & Wilkins and Thomson Science, managing and developing a range of journals in clinical medicine. Her career in scholarly publishing started with Current Science in 1995 where she worked in an editorial role on a group of medical journals.
Adam T. Finch is an analyst in Science Excellence with the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Organization (CSIRO) in Australia. His work includes a critical review of author citation metrics, which appeared in Bioessays, a contribution to a paper in the British Journal of Urology on the citation performance of British urology researchers and the Stage 3 statistical analysis of the usage factor metric on behalf of CIBER, as well as presentations at several bibliometric seminars and the Australian Research Management Society conference. Adam is the main data analyst for CSIRO’s annual Science Health Report. Prior to 2011, he was the Bibliometrics Analyst for Wiley-Blackwell, based in Oxford, UK, in which role he undertook citation analysis for dozens of high-impact titles and provided bibliometrics training across the globe. Since moving to Australia, he has worked as a research performance analyst for Flinders University and as a solutions consultant for the Scientific & Scholarly Research division of Thomson Reuters.
Gustavo Enrique Fischman is Professor in the Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College, Arizona State University. His areas of specialization are comparative education and critical policy and gender studies in education. He is currently leading a research project aiming at improving the understanding of the quality, impact and reach of open access publishing in scholarly communication in Latin America. His books include Imagining Teachers: Rethinking Gender Dymanics in Teacher Education (Rowman & Littlefield, 2000) and Crisis and Hope: The Educational Hopscotch of Latin America (with Stephen Ball and Silvina Gvirtz) (Routledge, 2003), and his writings include numerous articles on comparative education, higher education and gender issues in education. Dr Fischman serves on numerous editorial boards, he is the lead editor of Education Policy Analysis Archives and he is co-editor of Education Review (Reseñas Educativas).
Karim Javier Gherab Martín is a theoretical physicist and a philosopher of science and technology. He has taught at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid and Universidad del País Vasco (Bilbao), has worked at the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), and has been a visiting scholar at Harvard University, at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and at Université Paris-Diderot. He is currently a professor at Universidad CEU-San Pablo (Madrid). He has written several books for highly respected publishers such as Chandos Publishing, Palgrave Macmillan, Oxford University Press and Deusto, and he has published book chapters and articles in highly respected journals such as Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics and Arbor. His most recent book was co-authored with Phillip Kalantzis-Cope, Emergent Digital Spaces in Contemporary Society: Properties of Technology (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011).
Jean-Claude Guédon has a Ph.D. in the history of science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a B.Sc. in chemistry (with distinction) from Clarkson University. He is Full Professor in the Département de Littérature Comparée at the University of Montréal, a position he has held since 1987. Prior to this he worked at the Institut d’Histoire et de Sociopolitique des Sciences (IHSPS), University of Montréal, as lecturer and full professor. He has been a visiting professor at Johns Hopkins University, at Université Louis Pasteur, and at Université Lumière, and has collaborated with higher education institutions such as Politecnico di Torino, the University of Amsterdam, and the University of São Paulo. During his teaching years he directed 17 Ph.D. theses and 22 masters’ theses. He was the Elected Vice President (research dissemination) of the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences (2006–9) and has won numerous prizes such as the Prix International Charles Hélou de la Francophonie (International Charles Hélou Prize for French-speaking countries), 1996, and the Prize for Outstanding Achievement, Computing in the Arts and Humanities from the Consortium for Computers in the Humanities, 2005. He is the author of more than 100 refereed publications and three books.
Stevan Harnad was born in Budapest, Hungary, and carried out his undergraduate work at McGill University and his graduate work at Princeton University. Currently Canada Research Chair in Cognitive Science at Université du Québec à Montréal and Professor in Electronics and Computer Science at the University of Southampton, his research looks at categorization, communication and cognition. Founder and Editor of Behavioral and Brain Sciences (a paper journal published by Cambridge University Press), he is Past President of the Society for Philosophy and Psychology and External Member of the Hungarian Academy of Science. He has contributed to over 300 publications including Origins and Evolution of Language and Speech, Lateralization in the Nervous System, Scholarly Journals at the Crossroads: A Subversive Proposal for Electronic Publishing (by O’Donnell and Okerson, 1995). His books include Peer Commentary on Peer Review: A Case Study in Scientific Quality Control (Cambridge University Press, 1982), Categorical Perception: The Groundwork of Cognition (Cambridge University Press, 1987), The Selection of Behavior: The Operant Behaviorism of BF Skinner: Comments and Consequences (with A. Charles Catania) (Cambridge University Press, 1988), Cognition Distributed: How Cognitive Technology Extends Our Minds (with Itiel E. Dror) (John Benjamins, 2008) and Essays on the Foundations and Fringes of Cognition (not yet published).
Frans Heeman is part of the User-Centered Design Group at Elsevier. He has a background in computer science, combined with a drive to build things that people enjoy using. He has worked on a wide range of web-based and mobile information tools, in many scientific and engineering domains. His interests include user research, interaction design, prototyping (HTML5, CSS3, jQuery, D3, PHP, MySQL), visualization, end-user programming, accessibility, and scientific research in general.
Rhodri Jackson is Senior Publisher, Law Journals and Oxford Open, at OUP. Rhodri joined OUP in 2004 and moved to the journals division in 2006. He is responsible for OUP’s law titles and manages Oxford Open, OUP’s open access initiative which covers more than 250 titles across all subject areas. Rhodri devised and runs the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers’ course on developing open access and hybrid journals, and was elected to the board of the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association in 2012.
Mary Kalantzis is Dean of the College of Education at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She was formerly Dean of the Faculty of Education, Language and Community Services at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia, and President of the Australian Council of Deans of Education. She was a Professor of Education at James Cook University from 1993 to 1998. With Bill Cope, she is co-author or editor of Multiliteracies: Literacy Learning and the Design of Social Futures (Routledge, 2000), Ubiquitous Learning (University of Illinois Press, 2009), Literacies (Cambridge University Press, 2012) and New Learning: Elements of a Science of Education (Cambridge University Press, 2012). Further information can be found at http://marykalantzis.com.
Claire Kendall, MD, CCFP, M.Sc. (public health) is Associate Professor with the Department of Family Medicine, University of Ottawa, a clinician investigator at the C.T. Lamont Primary Health Care Research Centre, Élisabeth Bruyère Research Institute, and a practising family physician with the Riverside Campus Family Health Team. She holds a Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Fellowship in the area of health services/population health HIV/AIDS research with the aim of understanding HIV/AIDS as a chronic disease. She has acted as an associate editor of the Canadian Medical Association Journal (2003–6) and was a founding editor and currently serves as Deputy Editor of Open Medicine, a Canadian open access general medical journal.
Donald W. King is an honorary university professor at Bryant University in Smithfield, Rhode Island, and an adjunct professor in the School of Information Sciences at the University of Tennessee. He is a statistician who has spent over 45 years describing and evaluating the information and communication landscape, and much of his research has involved scholarly communication. Along with Carol Tenopir, he completed a longitudinal analysis of over nearly 30 years of surveys of information-seeking and reading patterns of science journal readers. He has also conducted in-depth economic cost analyses of libraries and, to a lesser extent, publishing processes. He has co-authored 11 books and edited five others, and has authored approximately 60 journal articles and over 300 other formal publications. He has received a number of honours, including being named a Pioneer of Science Information, Chemical Heritage Foundation; being made a Fellow of the American Statistical Association; and receiving the Research Award and Award of Merit from the American Society for Information Science and Technology.
Martijn Klompenhouwer is currently a UX usability researcher at Booking.com. He studied cognitive psychology and ergonomics at the VU University Amsterdam. After graduating he worked in the usability lab of Exact Software in Delft and later at Razorfish Amsterdam and User Intelligence as a user experience consultant. Martijn was actively involved in Elsevier’s Article of the Future project. He was the UCD lead for the following three domains: parasitology and tropical diseases, materials science and business management.
Li Wu is an associate professor at the School of Media & Design, Shanghai Jiaotong University (SJTU), China. He received his Ph.D. in communication from Peking University (PKU) in 2009. He has worked as a visiting scholar at the Oxford International Centre for Publishing Studies, Oxford Brookes University (2007–8) and he spent six months working at the Brian Lamb School of Communication, Purdue University, in 2012. Dr Li is one of the pioneers of the introduction and promotion of open access in mainland China. Since 2002 he has written more than ten papers on this topic. Based on his master’s thesis and Ph.D. dissertation, he published a monograph entitled Research on the Two Ways to Implement Open Access: OA Journals and OA Repositories (2012). With funding from both China National and the Shanghai Municipal Planning Office of Philosophy and Social Science, Dr Li’s current research is the audience study of digital social reading among teenagers and college students.
Laura Moorhead is a doctoral student with Stanford University’s Learning Science and Technology Design Group within the Graduate School of Education. Her research interests centre around the design and structuring of information and open access, particularly with regard to primary sources and scholarship. Laura has worked in publishing for fifteen years, most recently as a contributing editor and writer at PBS FRONTLINE/World and IDEO, and as a senior editor at Wired magazine.
Sally Murray is a senior lecturer in public health in the School of Medicine, University of Notre Dame, Australia.
Susan Murray is the Managing Director of African Journals OnLine (AJOL), a South African non-profit organization providing the world’s largest online collection of peer-reviewed, African-published scholarly journals. She is a member of the advisory committee of the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) (http://www.doaj.org) and is also a trustee of Umthathi Training Project, a local skills training and development non-profit in the Eastern Cape of South Africa. Susan’s academic qualifications are in development economics and her professional experience is in the non-profit sector in South Africa, and in several other African countries. She has an abiding interest in the role that access to research outputs can play in economic development in low-income and emerging economies, as well as in the practicalities of attaining this. Susan has presented at and has been an invited speaker at numerous African and international conferences and is an advocate of open access in Africa.
Anita Palepu MD, MPH, FRCPC, FACP is Professor of Medicine, Division of Internal Medicine, University of British Columbia. She is the Departmental Clinical Investigator Program Director and also serves on the Departmental Equity and Mentoring committees. She conducts her research at the Centre for Health Evaluation and Outcome Sciences and has a research programme that falls under the broad umbrella of urban health research with particular interest in vulnerable populations such as homeless persons and drug users. She is the Vancouver site Principal Investigator for the CIHR-funded Health and Housing in Transition, which is a longitudinal study of homeless and vulnerably-housed persons in Vancouver, Ottawa and Toronto. She is a supporter of open access scholarly publishing and is the founding editor of Open Medicine as well as an associate editor of the Annals of Internal Medicine.
José Luis González Quirós is Tenured Professor at Rey Juan Carlos University, Madrid. He has worked as a philosophy professor at Universidad Complutense, where he has also held the position of Vice Director of the university’s summer courses. He has taught courses and seminars at the universities of Wyoming, Loyola University at Chicago, Veracruz, Mexico, and Lund, Sweden, and has held the positions of Director of Research at the Official Institute of Radio and Television and Secretary General at Fundesco (Telefónica Foundation). He was a researcher at the Institute of Philosophy of the Consejo Superior de Investigación Científica (CSIC, Madrid) and is also a member of the editorial staff at the journals Revista de Libros, Nueva Revista, Dendra Medica and Revista Hispano Cubana, and founder and first director of the journal Cuadernos de Pensamiento Político. He is the author or co-author of more than 20 books and of more than 200 research and divulgation articles. His works have explored a wide variety of questions which ultimately refer to matters such as the philosophy of the mind, the philosophy of medicine, political philosophy and cultural theory, as well as matters related to the creation and social assimilation of the digital revolution.
Martin Richardson is a consultant who worked in academic publishing for over 35 years, including 20 years at Oxford University Press where he held a variety of positions including Managing Director of the Journals Division and Director of the Oxford English Dictionary. Martin has served on the boards of a number of trade organizations and has chaired the Publishers Licensing Society. He has presented and published papers on the online development of STM publishing, particularly in the areas of new technology and business models, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine. Since retiring from OUP in 2010, Martin has undertaken a number of writing projects and advisory roles as well as tending his citrus grove in Andalucía.
Joss Saunders began his copyright career in 1988 while lobbying for a national newspaper on the Copyright Bill as it passed through Parliament. After a number of years litigating copyright and other intellectual property, he taught law at Warsaw University. Since 1995 he has worked in Oxford, where he is a partner in the publishing law team of Blake Lapthorn solicitors and has advised most of the major publishers in Oxford, as well as many national and international for-profit and not-for-profit publishers. He also works part-time for the international charity Oxfam. He lectures widely on copyright law for the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers, the Publishers Training Centre, and for universities that offer publishing courses.
Sarah L. Shreeves is the co-ordinator for the Illinois Digital Environment for Access to Learning and Scholarship (IDEALS), a set of services and collections supporting scholarly communication (including the institutional repository) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is also the co-coordinator for the Scholarly Commons, a space for expert, interdisciplinary research support services and open workshops for faculty and graduate students to develop skills in areas such as digital content creation, management of research data, understanding copyright issues and author rights, and working with geospatial and numeric data. Sarah is a past faculty member for the Association of College and Research Libraries Scholarly Communications 101 Road Show series. She is a member of the Open Repositories Steering Committee, the DSpace Community Advisory Team, and the steering committee for the DMP Tool. Sarah regularly speaks and publishes on scholarly communication issues, data management services in libraries, and institutional repositories.
Pippa Smart is a research communication and publishing consultant, working for her own company, PSP Consulting. After graduating in publishing from Oxford Brookes University, she worked for several scientific publishers, including Blackwell Science (now Wiley), Cambridge University Press and CABI. For several years she held the position of Head of Publishing with the development organization INASP (International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications). In this role she worked with editors and publishers in Africa and Southeast Asia to help them develop sustainable digital publishing strategies. This involved developing training programmes and establishing initiatives such as African Journals OnLine (AJOL) in order to increase their online publishing and visibility. Pippa now provides training and consultancy services for editorial groups and publishers across the world. She also writes a monthly newsletter for the industry on behalf of the Association of Learned, Professional and Society Publishers (ALPSP) and is a nonexecutive director of Practical Action Publishing.
Carol Tenopir is a Chancellor’s Professor at the School of Information Sciences at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and Director of Research and Director of the Center for Information and Communication Studies, College of Communication and Information. She is the author of five books, including Towards Electronic Journals (SLA, 2000) and Communication Patterns of Engineers (IEEE/Wiley InterScience, 2004) (both with Donald W. King), has published more than 200 journal articles, is a frequent speaker at professional conferences, and since 1983 has written the ‘Online databases’ column for Library Journal. Professor Tenopir holds a Ph.D. degree in library and information sciences from the University of Illinois.
John Willinsky is Khosla Family Professor of Education at Stanford University and Professor (limited term) of Publishing Studies at Simon Fraser University, where he directs the Public Knowledge Project which conducts research and develops scholarly publishing software intended to extend the reach and effectiveness of scholarly communication. His books include Empire of Words: The Reign of the OED (Princeton, 1994), Learning to Divide the World: Education at Empire’s End (University of Minnesota Press, 1998) and The Access Principle: The Case for Open Access to Research and Scholarship (MIT Press, 2006).
Xiao DongFa is Professor of Journalism and Communication at the Institute of Modern Publishing, Peking University. He is the editor of From Oracle Bones to E-Publications: Three Millennia of Publishing in China (Foreign Languages Press, 2009) and a member of the editorial board of Logos.
Elena Zudilova-Seinstra is a content innovation manager for Elsevier’s Journal and Data Solutions. She has been working on the Article of the Future project since joining Elsevier in 2010 as a senior user experience specialist for the User-Centered Design Group. She holds a Ph.D. in computer science and an M.Sc. degree in technical engineering from the St Petersburg State Technical University. Before joining Elsevier she worked at the University of Amsterdam, SARA Computing and Networking Services and Corning Inc.