STM People

Carol Tenopir is a Chancellor’s Professor at the School of Information Sciences at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville and the Director of Research for the College of Communication and Information, and Director of the Center for Information and Communication Studies. She is the author of five books, including Communication Patterns of Engineers and Towards Electronic...

William Park joined DeepDyve as chief executive officer in 2008. Prior to DeepDyve, Mr. Park served at Acxiom Corporation, a global leader in customer information management, where he led the company’s 3D organization, a $225 million business providing data, digital and direct marketing solutions to Fortune 1000 and mid-tier companies. In this position, he oversaw...

Robert J Massie has been President of Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS), a division of the American Chemical Society, since 1992.   CAS is the global leader in chemical information, offering indispensable research tools to pharmaceutical, chemical and life science companies as well as universities and patent offices around the world.  CAS provides the world’s most comprehensive...

David Hoole became Director of IP Policy and Licensing at Nature Publishing Group (NPG) this year, after 7 years Head of Brand Marketing and Content Licensing and a year as NPG’s Internet Strategist. He graduated from Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, in 1990 with a degree in Natural Sciences. From 1991 to 2001 he worked in...

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 (http://blogs.plos.org/mfenner/) to write about scholarly communication from a researcher perspective. He is involved in the Open Researcher & Contributor...

Stephen Dunn is Head of Technology Strategy for Guardian News and Media in the UK. He joined the Guardian in 1999 and has helped guide the technology strategy for the guardian.co.uk multiple award winning network of web sites and services since. At the Guardian Stephen has led several platform initiatives, including the rebuild of the...

Hazel Woodward has been University Librarian and Director of the University Press at Cranfield University for over 10 years. Prior to that she was at Loughborough University as Head of Electronic Information Services. Hazel’s research interests include electronic publishing and scholarly communication (the subject of her PhD thesis) and she has published many papers in...

David Sommer has over fifteen years’ experience in the global publishing industry. He has worked for Blackwell Publishing and Macmillan Publishing Solutions and has developed a range of successful products including Blackwell Synergy, ContentStore, ScholarlyStats, MPS Insight and RiskCheck. David created David Sommer Consulting in February 2009 to help grow people and grow businesses in...

Dr Peter T ShepherdIn a career spanning over three decades, Peter Shepherd has become intimately acquainted with most aspects of STM journal, book and database publishing, having worked as a publisher with Wiley, Pergamon, Elsevier and Harcourt. Since 2002 Dr Shepherd has been Director of COUNTER, the not-for-profit international organization whose mission is to improve...

Tansy Matthews, Associate Director for Technology Support at the Virtual Library of Virginia (VIVA), has worked extensively on developing local solutions to managing and manipulating use data, particularly COUNTER reports. She has traveled internationally to lead workshops on managing and presenting use data. Most recently, Ms.Matthews worked with Project COUNTER to develop a tool for the batch retrieval of COUNTER...