Tony Alves

Tony Alves has worked in scholarly publishing since 1990, focusing on digital publishing, designing workflow management software, and online products.

Tony is SVP of Product Management at HighWire Press, the platforms division of MPS Limited, overseeing a suite of platform products that address the entire scholarly publishing infrastructure, from workflow to hosting to analytics.

Tony promotes industry standardization, particularly system-to-system communications protocols and other industry shared services. He also participates in various initiatives focused on peer review, research integrity, persistent identifiers, and open science. To support those interests, Tony serves on boards and in working groups with organizations like NISO, STM, Crossref, ORCID, OA Switchboard, CSE, and ACSE. He also organizes educational sessions and webinars, and writes articles and blog posts on these topics and others.