Ian Rowlands

Ian Rowlands is Reader in Scholarly Communication at University College London (UCL) and teaches on the new MA Publishing programme.  A life scientist originally, Ian became interested in the world of libraries and publishing upon graduation, and worked in the database publishing sector for ten years before joining academia in 1993.  His research interests focus on journal publishing, information-seeking behaviour and bibliometrics all of which find outlets through the work of the CIBER Group at UCL.