Welcoming a New Chef into the Kitchen: Angela Cochran

I’m very pleased to announce a new voice in The Scholarly Kitchen, Angela Cochran. Angela is the Director of Journals for the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), and previously oversaw the production aspects of all ASCE’s journals, a monthly member magazine and books. Prior to that she was the managing editor for several American Cancer Society journals and currently serves as the Vice President of the Council of Science Editors and an ORCID Ambassador.

Long time readers of The Scholarly Kitchen likely know Angela from her occasional comments left on our posts over the last few years. Angela’s insights have always been welcome, as they tend to cut right to the heart of the practical matters of implementing new technologies and policies, with a real world focus on how to make things work. She adds an important voice from the not-for-profit research society publishing world. So help us welcome Angela aboard, and today we present her first post.

David Crotty

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David Crotty is a Senior Consultant at Clarke & Esposito, a boutique management consulting firm focused on strategic issues related to professional and academic publishing and information services. Previously, David was the Editorial Director, Journals Policy for Oxford University Press. He oversaw journal policy across OUP’s journals program, drove technological innovation, and served as an information officer. David acquired and managed a suite of research society-owned journals with OUP, and before that was the Executive Editor for Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, where he created and edited new science books and journals, along with serving as a journal Editor-in-Chief. He has served on the Board of Directors for the STM Association, the Society for Scholarly Publishing and CHOR, Inc., as well as The AAP-PSP Executive Council. David received his PhD in Genetics from Columbia University and did developmental neuroscience research at Caltech before moving from the bench to publishing.