Heather Staines is Senior Consultant at Delta Think and Director of Community Engagement for the OA Data Analytics Tool. Her prior roles include Head of Partnerships for the MIT Knowledge Futures Group, Director of Business Development at Hypothesis, as well as positions at Proquest, SIPX (formerly the Stanford Intellectual Property Exchange), Springer SBM, and Greenwood Publishing Group/Praeger Publishers. She is a frequent speaker and participant at industry events including the Charleston Library Conference, Council of Science Editors, ALPSP, ISMTE, and the International STM Association. She is now Past President of the Society for Scholarly Publishing and a Board Member for NASIG. She has a Ph.D. in Military and Diplomatic History from Yale University.
After five years of GetFTR, four librarians discuss how it is working in practice, its value to libraries and researchers, and what opportunities lie ahead.
Heather Staines Presidential Address from the SSP 2025 Annual Meeting.
What are the new directions in scholarly publishing? Check out the unique “reverse roundtable” discussions at SSP’s New Directions seminar!
Heather Staines offers a recap of the most recent Researcher to Reader meeting.
Heather Staines shares highlights of this year’s Library Publishing Coalition Forum, especially the focus on open platforms and tools.
Annotation is increasingly being recognized as a valuable tool in scholarly communications, enabling increased engagement and collaboration and better metrics, and helping improve the quality of scholarly outputs. In this guest post, Heather Staines (Director of Business Development – Hypothes.is) and Alexander Naydenov (Head of Marketing and Co-Founder – Paperhive) tell us why!