STM People

In his current position as Customer Development Manager, Arthur Eger is responsible for Customer Marketing activities in Library & Governmental markets in Germany, Holland, United Kingdom, France and South Africa. Before this position, Arthur worked in various marketing and sales roles for a large number of leading publishers and journal agents in Europe. Arthur is...

Gary Coker is currently Director of Research & Development at MetaPress, where he is responsible for guiding research into emerging technologies, user experience, and best practices for the world’s largest primary host of scholarly e-content. A long time veteran of the e-content industry and a computer scientist by training, Mr. Coker managed the creation of...

Yvonne Campfens is a consultant with 25 years in publishing. Early in her career she held a publishing position at Elsevier Science and thereafter various positions at Swets Subscription Service, including in publisher relations and as business partner to ALPSP in managing the ALJC (ALPSP Learned Journals Collection). From 2007 – 2012 she led the...

Caroline Black is Editorial Director at BioMed Central with responsibility for the BMC series of journals, the medical evidence portfolio, and the peer review excellence group. Previously she was Managing Director of Portland Press and Group Head of Publishing for the Biochemical Society, and has also held senior positions at Mac Keith Press, Blackwell Publishing,...

Suzan Fiack is Business Development Director, Local Markets in the Global Corporate Sales Team at Wiley-Blackwell. She manages a European sales and editorial team, builds relationships with corporate customers and identifies new product and market opportunities. She is an author of the Wiley-Blackwell Best Practice Guidelines on Publication Ethics. Suzan received her PhD in pharmacy...

Joachim Engelland is the part time Director of Education and Training for STM since April 2009. Joachim has spent 14 years in the publishing industry, working in industry information publishing, educational publishing and scholarly publishing.  In 2001 he joined Walter de Gruyter, where he organized and managed the eJournals and eBooks business. In January 2009...

Anthony Watkinson is the Principal Consultant at CIBER Research, an honorary lecturer at University College London and a director of the Charleston Conference and engaged in other Charleston ventures. . He was director for training and education for STM and now writes reports for Membership Matters. He was a co-author of the 2018 STM Report and...

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...

T. Scott Plutchak has been Associate Professor and Director of the Lister Hill Library of the Health Sciences at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) since 1995.  Prior to that he was Associate Director and then Director of the Health Sciences Center Library at St. Louis University.  He received his Masters Degree in Library...

James R. Mouw is Assistant Director for Technical and Electronic Services at The University of Chicago and has previously held positions at the University of Illinois at Chicago and Gardner-Webb College in North Carolina.  He is also adjunct professor at Dominican University School of Library and Information Science (formerly Rosary College) where he teaches classes on...