STM People

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 &...

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...