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Chris Biemesderfer manages the journal publishing program for the American Astronomical Society. He has been involved with the AAS’ journals for twenty-five years. He was named to his present position in 2007. A long time ago, he was actually trained as an astronomer, but he doesn’t have a clue what dark matter is either, so...

Bob Wing Graduated from University of North Carolina in Mathematics, worked 27 years for Information Handling Services and retired as President and CEO in 2001.   Bob formed his present company in 2005 and his main office is in Miami. Other branch offices in Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Brazil. Bob is married and has...

Soong Sup Lee is a Senior Information Officer at the World Bank in Washington D.C. He is a member of the team that provides open access to the World Bank’s databases and leads the team that produces the World Development Indicators database and publication. Sup has worked in various roles over 25 years for the...

With over twenty-five years’ experience in scholarly and trade publishing, Lisa Nachtigall has been at the forefront of the development of online resources for the academic and public library market. She recently joined John Wiley & Sons as Director of Business Development, Digital Books for the Wiley-Blackwell division. Prior to joining Wiley, she led Oxford University...

Michael Levine-Clark is the Collections Librarian at the University of Denver’s Penrose Library and has also held positions as a reference and documents librarian.  He an MS in Library and Information Science from the University of Illinois, and an MA in History from the University of Iowa. With colleagues from the Colorado Alliance of Research...

James L. Mullins, dean of libraries and professor of library science at Purdue University.    His thirty years plus career includes administrative positions at MIT, Villanova University and Indiana University.   He earned BA and MALS degrees from the University of Iowa and the PhD from Indiana University.   Dr. Mullins has served in leadership positions within...

Dr. David Martinsen served in the Publications Division at the American Chemical Society (ACS) for over 30 years, prior to retiring in 2016. Most recently, he was responsible for tracking new technologies and planning for their incorporation into the scholarly publishing environment, and had a specific focus on policies related to publication of research data...

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 &...