Archives: People

Laurie Goodman is the Director of GigaScience Press, and leads an international team made up of editors, biocurators, and IT developers to create journals that are on the leading edge of Open Science communication. She and her team have the goal of turning scientific publishing from a PDF-delivery system, offering readers passive engagement with published work, to developing executable articles that allow readers to have access to, use of, and fully engage with the entirety of the research underlying the published article.

Laurie has nearly 30 years of experience in the scientific publishing arena, working at a variety of journals including Nature Genetics, Genome Research,  and The Journal of Clinical Investigation.

Sarah Phibbs serves as STM’s Director of Research4Life Publisher Partnerships, working to foster global research equity by enabling reciprocal, diverse, and rich scholarly exchange.

Sarah also works as a consultant for societies and publishers focusing on sustainable publishing, strategy, and innovation. Sarah facilitated the development of Research4Life’s new Strategic Plan and Theory of Change having previously served on the Committee reviewing the Feasibility Study for Friends of Research4Life.  

Previously, she was Wiley’s Vice President for society research publishing across life, health, physical and social science & humanities, establishing the society acquisitions and operations teams and ran Global Social Science & Humanities Research at Blackwell.  

Sarah sits on the Board at Edinburgh University Press and has recently completed a Global MBA at Oxford Brookes University.   She has also volunteered with local mental health charity MIND and the ‘Big Gig’, a forum for entrepreneurs on start-up strategy.

Lei Shi is currently the Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Tsinghua University Press(TUP), and the Director of both the Journal Publishing Center and Academic Publishing Center of TUP. He also serves as the Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Tsinghua University (Science and Technology). He has been the Standing Board Member of the China Periodicals Association since 2018. Lei Shi obtained a master’s degree in engineering from Tsinghua University in 1998 and an MBA degree from Tsinghua University in 2005. He joined TUP in 1998, as an acquisition editor on college textbooks at first. From 1999, he served successively as the Editorial Manager of the Computer Textbooks, Director of the Science and Engineering Division of TUP, etc. In 2015, he started supervising academic book publishing of TUP, including both STM and HSS areas. He has been in charge of journal publishing of TUP from 2017. He led the restructuring of the organization, established the Journal Editorial Departments of Climate Change, Information Sciences and Physical Sciences. He also led the development of an international digital publishing platform SciOpen, which was released in June 2022.

Established in 1980, Tsinghua University Press is a department of Tsinghua University. It is one of the leading educational and professional publishers in China, with 2500 new titles published per year. TUP has released 54 academic journals, among which 36 are in English and 13 are indexed by SCIE or ESCI.  A number of high-level international journals, such as  Nano Research and Friction, have gained increasing global influence.

Andy Robinson is Managing Director of the Knowledge Business within CABI, a not-for-profit organization that provides information and applies research expertise to solve problems in agriculture and the environment. He is a member of CABI’s Executive Management Team which leads its international development activities in tackling the global challenges to food and nutrition security, climate change, biodiversity, economic development and gender equity.

The Knowledge Business encompasses: secondary abstracting and indexing databases, and evidence synthesis tools; open access journals and the preprint service, agriRxiv; books; compendia, donor-funded knowledge banks and digital learning.

Before joining CABI, Andy was Senior Vice President for Society Services at Wiley, leading a global team serving over 500 scholarly societies, from anthropology to zoology, delivering a suite of journal, magazine publishing, e-learning and career services. As a result, he has a longstanding appreciation for the vital role played by societies in research, education and professional development.

Prior to that he led Wiley’s global Health Sciences business of journals, books and the Cochrane Library. In 2007 he co-authored the Blackwell Publishing best-practice guidelines on publication ethics, and led its roll out across the health sciences list.

Andy has a long-standing commitment to global research integrity, equity and diversity, and believes that international publishers must do more to directly address the UN Sustainable Development Goals. He is a member of the Research4Life Fundraising Committee, a trustee of British Journal of Urology International, and served on Council of the UK Publisher’s Association from 2015-2017.

Dr. Nandita Quaderi is a Senior Vice President and the Editor-in-Chief for Web of Science at Clarivate. She is a leader in transforming publishing practices, an open research advocate and former scientific researcher. Nandita has a keen interest in supporting publishers maintain the integrity of the scholarly record while shaping the research communications systems of the future.

In her current role she has oversight of the Web of Science editorial division, the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) and the Research Professional News team. She has overall responsibility for editorial strategy, selection of Web of Science content and inclusion in Journal Citation Reports (JCR). She and her team have transformed editorial policies and practices in recent years and continually look for ways to innovate and improve collaborative interactions with publishers. In addition, they work with the research community to tackle new forms of manipulation and fraudulent enterprises that undermine trusted research.

Nandita joined Clarivate in 2018 as an accomplished senior publishing executive with almost 15 years’ experience in open access publishing. Most recently she was Publishing Director, Open Research at Springer Nature with responsibility for the OA Nature Portfolio journals and before that, Editorial Director at BMC where she was instrumental in demonstrating the viability and sustainability of open access in the early years of the movement. Prior to this, Nandita was a Principal Investigator at the MRC Centre for Developmental Neurobiology at King’s College London. Nandita has a BA in Chemistry from the University of Oxford and a PhD in Molecular Genetics from Imperial College.

 

 

Priya Madina is VP, External Affairs and Policy.  Priya joined Taylor & Francis in December 2019. She has extensive experience in developing and positioning global policies with the relevant stakeholders and decision-makers. Priya sits on the company’s Race and Ethnicity Network and the Publishers Association’s Academic Publishers Council.

Before joining the world of publishing, Priya spent ten years at GlaxoSmithKline in a variety of government affairs, policy and market access roles. In her most recent role as Director of Government Affairs, she led the company’s positioning on international intellectual property and global health issues.  She also gained experience in the external affairs function for the International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers & Associations in Geneva.

Priya’s previous roles include working across a wide range of policy and government affairs functions at the World Health Organization, the European Commission and the UK Government‘s Department of Health. Her global and regional experience includes working in the Philippines, Switzerland, Luxembourg, Belgium and France.

Priya has a Masters in Classics and Modern Languages from Oxford University. She speaks English and French and has good knowledge of Hindi and Spanish. Priya is engaged with several charitable organizations.

Ella Colvin is Director of Publishing, Journals at Cambridge University Press & Assessment responsible for the editorial programme across STEM, Humanities and Social Science journals. She is a member of the Academic Board, and of the Academic Publishing Committee of the Press Syndicate that has oversight of the quality, development and performance of the academic book and journal programmes at Cambridge.

Ella’s nearly thirty-year career has been at Cambridge, predominantly in journals editorial, although for a period her responsibilities encompassed the books and journals programmes, during which time she oversaw the successful launch of a mid-form publishing programme, Cambridge Elements.

Ella leads the development and evolution of the journals editorial programme, to broaden coverage and value across the publishing and to respond to opportunities to increase author and peer reviewer representation. She is also interested in driving publishing that better supports research behaviours as well unlocking truly multidisciplinary collaboration and engagement.

A current focus is to support Cambridge’s commitment to transition research content in front of the paywall in a way that is sustainable across the full spectrum of subject disciplines we publish and for the many society partners with whom we work without compromising the commitment to high-quality output. New business models must align sympathetically with editorial strategies and support community publishing needs in order for the transition to be effective globally.  

Michael Cairns is Head of Partner and Channel Development at the American Psychological Association (APA), a publisher of 90 scholarly journals, academic trade and reference titles, online textbooks and children’s books serving the field of psychology. In his role at APA, Michael is responsible for implementing APA’s open access journal program, expanding engagement with channel partners and further developing APA’s PsycLearn educational products.

Michael will bring to the STM board the perspective of a large non-profit social/behavioral sciences publisher and one with a strong focus on diversity, equity, and inclusion. As a leader in these efforts, this practice is present in the APA’s staffing composition, community outreach and publishing output. Additionally, APA Publishing has chosen to expand its publishing output beyond traditional research journals to books, textbooks, and children’s products to broaden its impact on the practice and teaching of psychology and mental health awareness. As a senior leader within APA publishing, Michael is actively involved in supporting all these activities and will bring this experience to the STM board.

Earlier in his career, Michael held senior management positions with Reed Elsevier, R.R. Bowker/ProQuest, Wolters Kluwer, Macmillan, Inc., Berlitz International, Inc. and Ingenta, plc. As a business strategy consultant, Michael has worked with academic and scholarly publishers and professional membership organizations including IEEE, APA, Wiley, Cengage, American Library Association, Book Industry Study Group, American National Standards Institute, AARP and OCLC.

Michael has served on the boards of several industry groups and associations including the Association of American Publishers, the International ISBN Agency (where he served as Chairman), ONIX (founding board member), CrossRef, CHORUS, and the Book Industry Study Group. Born in England, he has lived in five countries and currently resides in Hoboken, New Jersey. He has an undergraduate degree from Boston University and an MBA from Georgetown University

Ian Burgess is Director, Publishing and Open Research at the Health division of Wolters Kluwer. He leads open access strategy for both the Lippincott and Medknow medical journal portfolios including transformative journals, gold open access, diamond open access, hybrid business models, and open access publishing policies.

Ian began his career with Wolters Kluwer in 1999 and has held various editorial, production, and publishing positions before taking on his current role in 2017. As a member of the senior leadership team, Ian has direct input into the business’ strategic initiatives and implementation plans. His remit also includes editorial and author services and strategy; new journal and product launches; and open science advocacy. He leads publishing teams in the UK and India and provides strategic guidance to teams in China and the US. 

Under Ian’s leadership, the compound annual growth rate of gold open access journal articles has grown 32% from 2016 to 2021. He has also led the journals publishing revenue growth in Europe and Asia during his tenure.

Ian is a member of both the Academic Publishers Council of the Publishers Association (UK) and the STM’s Policy and Advocacy Committee, and has been a speaker and panelist at the World Association of Medical Editors International Conference. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Literature from the University of East London and currently resides in North London with his wife, Allison. 

Steven Heffner is currently the Managing Director, Publications, for IEEE, where he is responsible for the strategic vision and general operations of the Institute’s portfolio of learned journals, books (through IEEE Press), and magazines, including Spectrum and The Institute.  Steven and the publications leadership team work with IEEE’s volunteers to advance the IEEE’s science-based humanitarian objectives, meet the practical needs of researchers and engineers in academia and industry, and uphold the highest standards of scholarly integrity.

Before joining IEEE in 2020, Steven was Vice President of Product Strategy at Wolters Kluwer Health, with direct responsibility for the Lippincott line of journals in medicine and nursing, the medical education and practice book portfolio, the institutional research platform Ovid, and other digital solutions for education, medical practice, and industry. 

Prior to joining Wolters Kluwer in 2014, Steven held various editorial and management positions in business, trade, and policy publishing, including 7 years at the helm of Simba Information, a leading research and advisory firm to the publishing industry, particularly the STM sector. 

Steven has served on the Executive Council of the Professional & Scholarly Publishing (PSP) Division of the American Association of Publishers, on the board of the scholarly dark archive CLOCKSS, and as the co-chair of the PROSE Awards for excellence in scholarly and professional publishing for which he is still a judge.