Heather Staines is Head of Partnerships for the MIT Knowledge Futures Group, building open infrastructure for researchers, libraries, and publishers. Originally an academic, she has two decades of experience in scholarly communications, working with both books and journals at publishers and vendors.

Articles by Heather Staines

Guest Post: The Time for Open and Interoperable Annotation is Now

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!