Welcoming a New Chef into the Kitchen: Charlie Rapple

In case you haven’t noticed, we’ve been adding to our team of Chefs at The Scholarly Kitchen as of late, in an effort to bring in some new voices and different points of view. Our latest addition is Charlie Rapple, whose first post is available today.

Charlie is a co-founder of Kudos, which helps researchers, institutions, funders and publishers maximize the visibility of research (covered in 2013 in this post). Charlie is also the Associate Director of strategic publishing consultancy TBI Communications, Treasurer of UKSG, and an Associate Editor of Learned Publishing. I think what’s particularly interesting about having Charlie at the Kitchen is that she very proudly identifies herself as a marketer, and will bring that perspective to her posts to help us all understand the continuously growing value and importance of that function in our business.

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.