Dianne Benham

Dianne Benham is an independent consultant, Product Director for Get Full Text Research (GetFTR), and supports STM on a number of initiatives.

Dianne was the inaugural member of GetFTR, tasked by a consortium of scholarly publishers to build a team to develop and launch the GetFTR entitlements checking service. Today, GetFTR supports many use cases for publishers, discovery tools, librarians and researchers, ensuring streamlined access to the version of record and improving scholarly integrity.

Dianne has extensive experience delivering B2B solutions for her publishing clients at Elsevier, Springer Nature, Wiley, Taylor & Francis, ACS, Retail Week, Nursing Times, WGSN and Condé Nast. Several of her products have achieved ‘best new product of the year’ awards, including Retail Week Prospect, Nursing Times eLearning, and WGSN INstock.

Dianne has an MBA and BSc in Computer Science, and is based in London.