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Rick Luce is Vice-Provost and Director of Libraries at Emory University. His most recent publication A New Value Equation Challenge: The Emergence of eResearch and Roles for Research Libraries is part of CLIR’s Report No Brief Candle: Reconceiving Research Libraries for the 21st Century.   Rick has held numerous advisory positions centered on information technologies, e-publishing, and...

David Levy is Professor at the Information School, University of Washington.  He earned his Ph.D. in computer science at Stanford University and a diploma in Calligraphy and Bookbinding from the Roehampton Institute in London.  For over 15 years he was a researcher at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, exploring the transition from paper and...

John Lavender is currently Senior Vice President for Publishing & Online Products at CRC Press where he has been for 13 years. He started in publishing working for the Open University Press and then moved to Pergamon Press where he was a marketing manager and then a publisher. From there he moved to Taylor &...

Dr Aleks Krotoski is a researcher and journalist who writes about and studies technology and interactivity. Her academic work focusses on the makeup of online relationships, the social implications of the Web, the influence of online interactions, and how information spreads around online and offline social networks.She writes for The Guardian and Observer newspapers, and hosts Tech Weekly,...

Sue Kesner‘s expertise reflects her more than 15 years of broad industry experience.   Sue is a librarian by training, and began her library career at the University of London and Stanford University Libraries.  Beginning in 1990, she held various library facing roles with SilverPlatter, including Director of Distributor Relations, during which she managed annual...

Terry Hulbert is an independent publishing consultant. He is a frequent speaker at meetings and an active committee member for many of the major trade associations including Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP), Association of American Publishers – Professional Scholarly Publishing division (AAP-PSP), Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP), UK Serials Group (UKSG), and...

Frank L. Hammond III is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the School of Engineering and Applied Science at Harvard University. He earned his Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from Carnegie Mellon University, and M.S. degrees in both mechanical and electrical engineering from the University of Pennsylvania. His current research focuses on the development of microsurgery and...

Kevin Fitzpatrick has been Senior Vice President of Business Development and Entrepreneurship at the American College of Cardiology since December 2008. Prior to coming to ACC, Fitzpatrick was Vice President of Business Development with Lippincott Williams and Wilkins Wolters Kluwer Health. With his long history in the health sector, Fitzpatrick brings to the College a...

Cody Dunne is a PhD student in Computer Science at the University of Maryland Human Computer Interaction Lab. His research focuses on information visualization, specifically on improving the readability of graph drawings and the application of network analysis techniques to real-world problems. These including visualizing citations between academic literature, co-occurrence of terms in trade press...

As Director of Content Strategy, Meagan Cooke is responsible for selecting, prioritizing, packaging and incorporating content into Knovel’s overall product strategy to meet the information needs of its customers – engineers. Cooke works closely with the production and technology teams to ensure the content is dynamic, rigorously maintained and discoverable.   Previously, Cooke was senior...