Posie Aagaard

Posie Aagaard

As Assistant Vice Provost for Collections and Curriculum Support at the University of Texas at San Antonio, Posie Aagaard oversees departments that acquire and promote discovery of all kinds of scholarly resources, in addition to providing researcher support and scholarly communication services. She is currently working on an MSIT (cybersecurity concentration).

View Bio and Articles
Anna Abalkina

Anna Abalkina

Anna Abalkina is a research fellow at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. She has a background in international economics but recently she concentrated her research on academic misconduct, plagiarism, and predatory and hijacked journals. Anna also serves as an expert for Dissernet.

View Bio and Articles
Axelle Ahanhanzo

Axelle Ahanhanzo

Axelle Ahanhanzo is a Customer Success Manager at Elsevier, where she has been working for the past three years. Next to her work, she volunteers as the co-leader and co-founder of Embrace, an Elsevier Employee Resource Group (ERG) focused on race and ethnicity. She holds a BA in modern languages and European studies from the University of Birmingham (UK), an MSc in corporate communication from the University of Amsterdam (The Netherlands) and a certificate in DE&I in the workplace from the University of South Florida Muma College of Business.

View Bio and Articles
Maxine Aldred

Maxine Aldred

Maxine Aldred has been a publishing professional for more than 25 years and has been a devoted leader in the industry. Maxine has been recognized for her forward-thinking initiatives and creative solutions that optimize resources to achieve outstanding results. She has served in numerous roles, including Program Manager, Group Manager, Director, Books Development and her current role, Director of Publications Production. Presently, at the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), Maxine manages staff, budgets, and vendors, in addition to providing oversight and direction for 35 scientific journals and more than 50 books annually. Maxine’s noteworthy and scholarly publishing experience can be credited to ASCE, the Endocrine Society, and AGU.

View Bio and Articles
Justin Alexander

Justin Alexander

Justin Alexander is the Web Accessibility Lead at ITHAKA, with a focus on improving the experience for all individuals. Previously working to advance accessibility within Michigan State University’s IT department, he came to ITHAKA with a background in both User experience and Accessibility.

View Bio and Articles
Tony Alves

Tony Alves

Tony Alves has worked in scholarly communications since 1990 and leads a team of product managers at Highwire Press, ranging from online platforms and content management systems to analytics tools to access and entitlement software, to e-commerce and order fulfillment systems. 

View Bio and Articles
Lynnee Argabright

Lynnee Argabright

Lynnee Argabright is an Open Access Research Assistant at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s University Libraries, and pursuing an MS in Information Science in UNC’s School of Information and Library Science.

View Bio and Articles
José R. F. Arruda

José R. F. Arruda

José R. F. Arruda is a Full Professor of Mechanical Engineering with the University of Campinas. He holds a Doctoral degree from UPMC, Paris. He is currently an advisor for scientific collaboration and Open Science of the São Paulo State Foundation (Fapesp). He is Associate Editor of Acta Acustica. His research involves structural dynamics and elastic metamaterials.

View Bio and Articles
Sabrina Ashwell

Sabrina Ashwell

Sabrina J. Ashwell was a member of the Research & Writing team for the Guidelines on Inclusive Language and Images in Scholarly Communication. She is senior copyeditor for Chemical & Engineering News at the American Chemical Society, where she also leads work on the ACS Inclusivity Style Guide.

View Bio and Articles
Liz Bal

Liz Bal

Liz Bal is Director of Open Research Services at Jisc, a non-profit organization focused on providing digital services and solutions for research and education. A biologist by education, Liz has over 10 years of experience in open access publishing and scholarly communication. Prior to joining Jisc, she held various publishing roles at BioMed Central and Springer Nature.

View Bio and Articles
Edward J. Balleisen

Edward J. Balleisen

Edward J. Balleisen is Professor History and Public Policy and Vice Provost for Interdisciplinary Studies at Duke University. His administrative duties include supporting collaborative research, pedagogical innovation, and civic engagement across Duke’s ten schools, and cultivating student-centered PhD education. His most recent book is Fraud: An American History from Barnum to Madoff (2017).

View Bio and Articles
Mary Beth Barilla

Mary Beth Barilla

Mary Beth Barilla is Program Director for the Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP). She is also a former co-chair of SSP’s Annual Meeting Program Committee and a winner of the 2017 SSP Appreciation Award.

View Bio and Articles
Christopher Barnes

Christopher Barnes

Christopher A. Barnes is Assistant Professor and Digital Publishing Librarian at Adelphi University, where he oversees the institutional repository and the University Libraries’ open access publishing program. He serves as production editor for the Journal of Critical Study of Communication and Disability and his research focuses on the reform of scholarly communications and the use of open educational resources.

View Bio and Articles
Daniel Barr

Daniel Barr

Daniel Barr is the Principal Research Integrity Advisor at RMIT University, Australia. He is involved in management, teaching, and research in research integrity and ethics, and is co-author of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation’s Guiding Principles for Research Integrity. He was Co-Chair of the 6th World Conference on Research Integrity in Hong Kong in 2019, and Co-Chair of the Asia-Pacific Research Integrity Network Conference in Seoul and online in 2021. He was awarded the Paul Taylor Medal for Excellence in Research Integrity by the Australasian Research Management Society in 2021.

View Bio and Articles
Peter Barr

Peter Barr

Peter Barr is Head of Content & Collections at the University of Sheffield Library. He was appointed in September 2019 to lead the development of the Library’s Comprehensive Content Strategy (adopted 2021). Through this, and more broadly, he is interested in the role libraries can play in developing an ethical, community-owned alternative to commercialized academic publishing, and the limits to which this can be achieved from within marketized institutions.

View Bio and Articles
Patricia K. Baskin

Patricia K. Baskin

Patricia K. (Patty) Baskin, MS, is Executive Editor of the four Neurology® journals published by the American Academy of Neurology: Neurology, Neurology: Clinical Practice, Neurology: Neuroimmunology & Neuroinflammation, and Neurology: Genetics. She is a former SSP Program Committee co-chair and is past president of the Council of Science Editors (CSE). She serves as CSE’s representative to the Coalition for Diversity and Inclusion in Scholarly Publications (C4DISC).

View Bio and Articles
Lisa Bayer

Lisa Bayer

Lisa Bayer has been the Director of the University of Georgia Press since 2012. She was President of the Association of University Presses 2021/2022. Prior to moving to Georgia, she worked for the University of Illinois Press and the Minnesota Historical Society Press.

View Bio and Articles
Allison Belan

Allison Belan

Allison Belan is Director for Strategic Innovation and Services at Duke University Press. She directs DUP’s technology and digital publishing operations, including IT, product management, digital content and hosting. Her remit includes digital content strategies, practices, and systems. Additionally, Allison oversees two service offerings to other non-profit scholarly publishers, Project Euclid and the Scholarly Publishing Collective. In her twenty year career in scholarly publishing, Allison has been an active contributor to the Society of Scholarly Publishing, AUPresses, the Triangle Scholarly Scholarly Communications Institute, and numerous other industry groups and conferences.

View Bio and Articles
Rebecca Benner

Rebecca Benner

Rebecca Benner (she/her) is a publishing professional with over 20 years of experience in STM journal publishing. Currently, she is the Managing Editor of Anesthesiology, the flagship journal of the American Society of Anesthesiologists. In this role, she is responsible for planning and implementing journal editorial strategies and editorial operations. For nine years, Rebecca was an instructor in George Washington University’s Master of Professional Studies in Publishing program, teaching courses on managing editorial staff and the professional editor role. Rebecca is a current Co-Chair of SSP’s Early Career Subcommittee and is committed to helping early career professionals have a successful start to their career journeys.

View Bio and Articles
Tracy Bergstrom

Tracy Bergstrom

Tracy Bergstrom is the program manager for collections and infrastructure within Ithaka S+R’s Libraries, Scholarly Communication, and Museums program. In this role, she collaborates on a variety of projects that examine contemporary challenges relating to the management, access, and discovery of analog and digital collections held by libraries, archives, museums, and community organizations.

View Bio and Articles
Peter Berkery

Peter Berkery

Peter Berkery has served as the Executive Director of the Association of University Presses since early 2013. Berkery came to AUPresses (then AAUP) from Oxford University Press, where he served for the previous five years as Vice President and Publisher for the US Law Division. Prior to that he worked for Wolters Kluwer for 11 years in a series of positions, publishing works on securities licensing examination training, securities law, taxation, and financial planning. He began his publishing career at a division of Thomson Reuters.

View Bio and Articles
Swarnali Bhattacharya

Swarnali Bhattacharya

Swarnali Bhattacharya is a publishing professional at Enago Academy. He is actively involved in developing comprehensive and easy-to-understand resources for researchers and assisting them in their publication journey. Through the Global Risk Assessment initiative, He is also working on identifying, assessing, and raising awareness of global risk factors that potentially affect the researcher community.

View Bio and Articles
Aliaksandr Birukou

Aliaksandr Birukou

Aliaksandr (Alex) Birukou is an Editorial Director at Springer Nature. His team in Computer Science (CS) Editorial publishes the conference proceedings in CS (~850 volumes/year, including the Lecture Notes in Computer Science, LNCS, series).

View Bio and Articles
Sara Bosshart

Sara Bosshart

Sara Bosshart is the Open Access Publisher at IWA Publishing, the publishing division of the International Water Association, where she is responsible for implementing a strategic transition towards Open Access. Originally a marine geologist, Sara began her publishing career at Frontiers where she launched and managed a suite of new OA journals in the Physical and Life Sciences, including Frontiers in Marine Science.

View Bio and Articles
Amy Brand

Amy Brand

Amy Brand is Director of the MIT Press and Co-Founder of the MIT Knowledge Futures Group. She headed business and product development at Crossref from 2001 to 2008, and currently serves on the Crossref Board of Directors.

View Bio and Articles
Brittany Brannon

Brittany Brannon

Brittany Brannon is Research Support Specialist at OCLC Research. She received her MLIS from Kent State University and MA from the University of Kansas. Her research interests are in information seeking behavior, academic research skills, and scholarly communication.

View Bio and Articles
Eric Broug

Eric Broug

Eric Broug spent ten years working for a British academic publisher as their business manager for Africa and the Middle East, and latterly the Benelux & Scandinavia. His job was to grow revenue and reputational capital.

View Bio and Articles
Rebecca Bryant

Rebecca Bryant

Rebecca Bryant, PhD, is Senior Program Officer with OCLC. She previously served as Assistant Dean in the University of Illinois Graduate College and Director of Community at ORCID. Her research interests include research information management (RIM), persistent identifiers, and institutional scholarly communication practices.

View Bio and Articles
Rachel Caldwell

Rachel Caldwell

Rachel Caldwell is scholarly communication librarian at University of Tennessee Knoxville. She has a dual Master’s degree in Information Science and Library Science from Indiana University Bloomington. Prior to her position in scholarly communication, Rachel worked in museums and as an instruction librarian.

View Bio and Articles
Melissa H. Cantrell

Melissa H. Cantrell

Melissa H. Cantrell is the Scholarly Communication Librarian at the University of Colorado Boulder. Melissa’s research focuses on the shifting nature of the scholarly communication landscape, specifically relating to open access and assessing the efficacy of different publishing models.

View Bio and Articles
Mark Carden

Mark Carden

Mark Carden is the director of the Researcher to Reader Conference, and a Managing Consultant at recruitment firm Mosaic. Mark has worked in the publishing and libraries sector for over 20 years, including holding senior sales and marketing positions at Ingenta, Ingram, and Dynix.

View Bio and Articles
Lori Carlin

Lori Carlin

Lori Carlin is Chief Commercial Officer and Senior Consultant at Delta Think, and has held numerous positions in scholarly communications throughout her career, mainly focused on business strategy, market research, and customer engagement. She is currently serving as co-chair of the SSP Annual Meeting Program Committee.

View Bio and Articles
Jamie Carmichael

Jamie Carmichael

Jamie Carmichael brings nearly 20 years’ experience in publishing to her current role as Senior Director, Information & Content Solutions at CCC. In this position, she owns go-to-market strategy for the company’s open scholarly communications portfolio.

View Bio and Articles
MIchael Casp

MIchael Casp

Michael Casp is the Director of Business Development at J&J Editorial. His background in production, peer review management, and scientific research helps him develop innovative solutions for scholarly publishers.

View Bio and Articles
Maria Sviridova Chandis

Maria Sviridova Chandis

Maria Sviridova Chandis is a bilingual Russian/English MPS Publishing candidate at George Washington University with experience in production, process engineering, raw materials trading, logistics, budget, and documentation management.

View Bio and Articles
Chhavi Chauhan

Chhavi Chauhan

Chhavi Chauhan, Ph.D. (She/Her) is Director of Scientific Outreach at the American Society for Investigative Pathology (ASIP) and Director of the Continuing Medical Education (CME) Program at the Journal of Molecular Diagnostics. She is a past Co-Chair of the Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, & Accessibility (DEIA) Committee of the Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP) and a current staff member of the Committee for Equal Representation and Opportunities (CERO) at ASIP.

View Bio and Articles
John Chen

John Chen

John Chen supervises Tech Science Press’s general operations, all communications and correspondence. He is also involved in all strategic projects including the journals’ development and logistics, and working cross-organizationally and collaboratively with all liaisons to develop large scale initiatives that make progress to increase the impact.

View Bio and Articles
Tony Chen

Tony Chen

Tony Chen, Ph.D. (he/him) is a Journal Publishing Manager at Wiley, where he manages a portfolio of journals in Oncology, Pathology, and Basic Medical Science under the Health Sciences banner. He is passionate about diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (DEIA) and entered publishing with the goal of making it a more diverse, equitable, inclusive, and accessible industry for all marginalized individuals.

View Bio and Articles
Lindsay M. Chervinsky

Lindsay M. Chervinsky

Lindsay M. Chervinsky, Ph.D. is a historian at the White House Historical Association, and an expert in Early American history, the presidency, and the government – especially the president’s cabinet. Chervinsky shares her research by writing everything from op-eds to books, speaking on podcasts and other media, and teaching every kind of audience. Chervinsky has been featured in the Law and History Review, the Journal of the Early Republic, Presidential Studies Quarterly, TIME, and the Washington Post. Her book, The Cabinet: George Washington and the Creation of an American Institution, was published by the Belknap Imprint of Harvard University Press on April 7, 2020.

View Bio and Articles
Shein Ei Cho

Shein Ei Cho

Shein Ei Cho is Senior Editorial Research Associate at Public Library of Science (PLOS), where she works to advance the mission of Open Science and diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in the peer review process.

View Bio and Articles
Alex Christopher

Alex Christopher

Alex Christopher is the Australian Publishers Association’s Communications Manager. The Association represents Scholarly & Journal, Tertiary & Professional, Schools & Education, Trade, Children’s and Independent Publishers across the country.

View Bio and Articles
Tom Ciavarella

Tom Ciavarella

Tom Ciavarella is the head of Public Affairs and Advocacy in North America for Frontiers and runs Smarter Learning, a consultancy that works with startups and STM publishers. He is formerly manager of Publisher Relations for Clarivate Analytics, where he coordinated communication and content strategy with the Web of Science Group from both the US and UK.

View Bio and Articles
Geraldine Cochran

Geraldine Cochran

Geraldine Cochran is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy and the Office of STEM Education at Rutgers University. As a physics education researcher, Cochran investigates strategies for modifying physics curricula to support students underprepared in math and ways to broaden participation in physics. Cochran also provides organization-wide inclusion/climate assessments.

View Bio and Articles
Niccole Coggins

Niccole Coggins

Niccole Coggins is the editorial, design and production coordinator and assistant project editor for the University of Virginia Press. Before UVA, she was a Mellon University Press Diversity Fellow at the University of Washington Press where she combined her lifelong interests in racial identity and indigenous sovereignty working on books in Asian American and Indigenous studies, and American and environmental history. She is a PhD candidate in history at the University of California Santa Barbara.

View Bio and Articles
Alexa Colella

Alexa Colella

Alexa Colella is the marketing manager for journals at the University of Illinois Press. Alexa is interested in advancing journal scholarship in the humanities and social sciences with creative and innovative projects and initiatives.

View Bio and Articles
Dana Compton

Dana Compton

Dana Compton is the Managing Director and Publisher for the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), having previously served in the role of Editorial Director for ASCE. Prior to joining ASCE in 2018, she was a Senior Consulting Associate with KWF Consulting, served as Publication Director at PNAS, and held production positions at the American Society of Clinical Oncology and Thompson Publishing Group. Dana also served as the 2019-2020 President of the Council of Science Editors.

View Bio and Articles
Lynn Silipigni Connaway

Lynn Silipigni Connaway

Lynn Silipigni Connaway is the Director of Library Trends and User Research at OCLC Research. She has numerous journal publications, is an international speaker, and is co-author of Basic Research Methods for Librarians, 4th and 5th editions, and of Research Methods in Library and Information Science, 6th and 7th editions.

View Bio and Articles
Rod Cookson

Rod Cookson

Rod Cookson currently runs IWA Publishing, which spreads knowledge about the world’s most valuable resource, water. He is a Director and Council Member of ALPSP and a Council Member of the Society Publishers’ Coalition. Before joining IWA Publishing, Rod spent ten years at Taylor & Francis, variously running the Medical and Life & Environmental Science journal portfolios. He has also worked for Blackwell Publishing and Reed Education.

View Bio and Articles
Hilary Craiglow

Hilary Craiglow

Hilary Craiglow leads library consulting at Attain Partners, a higher education consulting firm. In her role, she oversees the Library Cost Study and is undertaking a review of its methodology and implementation procedures.

View Bio and Articles
Christopher Daley

Christopher Daley

Christopher Daley has over ten years’ experience working in both academic and professional services positions within higher education. He holds a PhD in English Literature from the University of Westminster and originally worked as a Visiting Lecturer before moving into research support roles, initially within scholarly communications and more recently in posts focused on research development and research strategy. Christopher continues to actively participate in research, peer reviewing for a number of journals and undertaking his own projects exploring the interaction between scholarly research cultures and the external funding landscape. He works in the Department of Research and Innovation at Royal Holloway, University of London.

View Bio and Articles
Nadia Dawood

Nadia Dawood

Nadia Dawood is a Library Marketing Manager at the American Psychological Association and serves as a member of the Society for Scholarly Publishing’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee.

View Bio and Articles
Jason De Boer

Jason De Boer

Jason De Boer, Growth Partner with Kriyadocs and an independent consultant, brings 30 years of experience in the publishing industry. His previous roles include Aries Systems, Elsevier, The Charlesworth Group, and British Standards Institution.

View Bio and Articles
Joseph DeBruin

Joseph DeBruin

Joseph DeBruin is a former neuroscientist at Johns Hopkins and current Head of Product Management at ResearchGate, where he leads product development for ResearchGate’s active network of scientists around the globe.

View Bio and Articles
Jeremy Dean

Jeremy Dean

Jeremy Dean is Vice President of Education at Hypothesis, a mission-driven software company dedicated to improving online discourse through annotation. He was previously the Director of Education at Genius where he facilitated educational applications of their interactive archive of literary and historical texts.

View Bio and Articles
Caroline Desrosiers

Caroline Desrosiers

Caroline Desrosiers is the Founder & CEO of Scribely, a company on a mission to make images and videos more accessible to blind and visually impaired people and more discoverable to search engines. Scribely’s team of expert writers specialize in writing alt text for images and audio description for videos, helping digital media providers create born-accessible visual content for a more inclusive, equitable, and sustainable world.

View Bio and Articles
Annika Deutsch

Annika Deutsch

Annika Deutsch is an MS/LIS candidate at the iSchool at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Annika works at Grainger Engineering Library Information Center, which supports research for the College of Engineering, and will be joining the University of Utah as a Science and Engineering Librarian after graduation. 

View Bio and Articles
Michael R. Donaldson

Michael R. Donaldson

Michael R. Donaldson is the  Open Access Program Manager for Canadian Science Publishing. Michael is interested in all aspects of open science and taking innovative and experimental approaches to accelerate the transition to a sustainable and equitable open future.

View Bio and Articles
Tina Donnelly

Tina Donnelly

Tina Donnelly is an Assistant Managing Editor at Penguin Random House Audio. She is a recent graduate of the Master’s in Publishing program at George Washington University and lives in Brooklyn, New York.

View Bio and Articles
Betsy Donohue

Betsy Donohue

Betsy Donohue is the VP of Publisher Business Development for Digital Science. Before joining Digital Science in 2013, Betsy worked in a variety of marketing, sales and business development positions, including at the Ingram Content Group, Scope eKnowledge and SWETS.

View Bio and Articles
Brooke Doyle

Brooke Doyle

Brooke Doyle is a Senior Project Coordinator at OCLC splitting her time between the Library Trends and User Research and WebJunction. Her work at OCLC has been varied including the Improving Access to Civil Legal Justice project and the Supercharged Storytimes project.

View Bio and Articles
Christina Drummond

Christina Drummond

Christina Drummond has built a career helping efforts scale their operational capacity. In addition to advising on the sunsetting of the Digital Preservation Network (DPN), and acting as lead facilitator for the It Takes a Village: Open Source Software Models of Collaboration & Sustainability project, she previously served as Director of Strategic Initiatives for Educopia from 2015-2017, and currently serves as the founding Executive Director of the OA Book Data Trust, a global effort to establish trusted mechanisms that facilitate the ethical, direct data exchange, aggregation and benchmarking of open and proprietary book usage data.

View Bio and Articles
Dawn Durante

Dawn Durante

Dawn Durante is the Editor in Chief at the University of Texas Press. Dawn’s master’s thesis was on trust, peer review, and ebooks, and she is a member of the editorial collective for the Feeding the Elephant scholarly communications forum on the H-Net Book Channel. You can follow her on Twitter @dawnd.

View Bio and Articles
Mark Edington

Mark Edington

Mark Edington is the founding director of the Amherst College Press and the publisher of Lever Press, two initiatives to build a pathway for peer-reviewed, digitally native scholarship from a liberal arts perspective through a platinum open access model.

View Bio and Articles
Katie Einhorn

Katie Einhorn

At the time of this writing, Katie Einhorn (pronouns: she/her) was a Peer Review Manager at the American Psychological Association (APA), where she served as a Journals program operations and project manager, guiding the strategy for peer review and implementing best practices for both open science and equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) in peer review. Katie worked closely with Aries to implement process improvements that streamline APA journals based on individualized needs, drive strategic goals of the organization, and sustainably scale the peer review program. Katie now works in a knowledge management role for GetUpside, a startup that personalizes brick-and-mortar commerce to help communities thrive.

View Bio and Articles
Sally Ekanayaka

Sally Ekanayaka

Sally Ekanayaka is the Scholarly Communications Manager at MyScienceWork, with a focus on reinforcing the dissemination and popularization of research outputs. In her previous roles, Sally has worked in various functions related to editing and reviewing articles, marketplace operations and community building strategies.

View Bio and Articles
Christina Emery

Christina Emery

Christina Emery is senior marketing manager for Palgrave Macmillan’s and Springer’s open access books programmes at Springer Nature. She studied French with German at the University of Leeds and went on to work for the European Patent Office in Munich. Before her current role, she was Partnership Manager at Knowledge Unlatched. Christina is a member of the Editorial Advisory Board for the OAPEN Open Access Books Toolkit.

View Bio and Articles
Holly J. Falk-Krzesinski

Holly J. Falk-Krzesinski

Holly J. Falk-Krzesinski, PhD, is the Vice President, Research Intelligence on the Global Strategic Networks team at Elsevier, where her responsibilities center on how insights from data, metrics, and analytics guide strategic planning for research, funding and policy organizations, as well as how open science is advancing to strengthen the research enterprise.

View Bio and Articles
Ixchel M. Faniel

Ixchel M. Faniel

Ixchel M. Faniel is a Senior Research Scientist at OCLC Research. She conducts user and library studies related to research data management, reuse, and curation practices and online information behavior.

View Bio and Articles
Emily Farrell

Emily Farrell

Emily Farrell is the Director of Open Research, Americas, at Taylor & Francis. She worked previously at the MIT Press and De Gruyter in sales and editorial roles. She holds a PhD in sociolinguistics from Macquarie University, Sydney.

View Bio and Articles
Laura Feetham

Laura Feetham

Laura Feetham is Reviewer Engagement Manager at IOP Publishing. She has over 13 year’s experience in scholarly publishing, working at The Lancet and BMJ before moving to IOP Publishing. Laura works on innovations that future-proof peer review, ensure that reviewers are recognised and rewarded for their work, and safeguard the integrity of the scientific record. These innovations include the launch of IOP Trusted Reviewer status, a comprehensive peer review training programme, and co-review, among others.

View Bio and Articles
Ashley Fernandes

Ashley Fernandes

Ashley Fernandes is a publishing professional at Enago Academy. She is actively involved in developing comprehensive and easy-to-understand resources for researchers and assisting them in their publication journey. Through the Global Risk Assessment initiative, she is also working on identifying, assessing, and raising awareness of global risk factors that potentially affect the researcher community.

View Bio and Articles
Victoria Ficarra

Victoria Ficarra

Victoria Ficarra is a Researcher for Research Consulting, where she works to deliver trusted advice to regional, national, and global academic communities, public institutions, and private actors to improve the effectiveness and impact of research and scholarly communication. Victoria supports the wider team as a researcher on a variety of projects, covering research, scholarly communication, and knowledge exchange.

View Bio and Articles
Georgie Field

Georgie Field

Georgie is an Associate Publisher working for PLOS. She has been working in the publishing industry for almost 5 years, having held a variety of Editorial and Publishing roles. Her current role focusses on supporting strategy for the PLOS journals portfolio, and she has worked on PLOS CAP and Global Equity business models to ensure the ongoing sustainability of Open Access in STM.

View Bio and Articles
Richard Fisher

Richard Fisher

Richard Fisher has worked in academic publishing since 1983. Previously Managing Director of Academic Publishing at Cambridge University Press, he is now Deputy Chairman of Yale University Press (London), a non-executive director of Edinburgh UP and Vice-President and Chair of Publications for the Royal Historical Society. He also writes a regular blog for the Independent Publishers Guild in the UK on the intersection of academic publishing and public policy.

View Bio and Articles
Yael Fitzpatrick

Yael Fitzpatrick

Yael Fitzpatrick is Editorial Ethics Manager at the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and has worked in a variety of roles within the scholarly communications community for over 25 years, including as Art Director for the Science family of journals. She is currently serving in her fourth and final year as co-chair of the SSP Annual Meeting Program Committee.

View Bio and Articles
Annette Flanagin

Annette Flanagin

Annette Flanagin is Vice President and Executive Managing Editor of JAMA and JAMA Network. Annette is also the Executive Director of the International Congress on Peer Review and Scientific Publication.

View Bio and Articles
Michelle Fleetwood

Michelle Fleetwood

Michelle Fleetwood, PhD (she/her) is the Publishing Integrity Manager within the American Chemical Society’s Publication Division. She focuses on the advancement of ACS’ core value of diversity, equity, inclusion and respect (DEIR) in the peer review and publishing processes.

View Bio and Articles
Domiziana Francescon

Domiziana Francescon

Domiziana Francescon serves as the Elsevier Foundation Partnerships Manager and is a strong supporter of the company’s Corporate Responsibility program. Domiziana also works on a number Elsevier’s externally focused partnerships, especially in sustainability and women in technology spaces. Additionally, she is the Co-Chair of the Communications team of Research4Life, a UN-publisher partnership to bridge access gaps for researchers and doctors in developing countries. Domiziana obtained a master’s degree in Book and Digital Media Studies at Leiden University in the Netherlands, with a specialization in Publishing Studies.

View Bio and Articles
Jennifer Frederick

Jennifer Frederick

Jennifer Frederick is a senior surveys analyst at Ithaka S+R on the Libraries, Scholarly Communication, and Museums team. She leads projects surveying directors and staff of libraries, museums, and other scholarly organizations. She uses a mix of quantitative and qualitative methods to examine organizational culture, with a focus on diversity, equity, and inclusion, and is interested in improving outcomes related to access and feelings of belonging.

View Bio and Articles
Camille Gamboa

Camille Gamboa

Camille Gamboa is Associate Vice President, Corporate Communications at Sage. She sits on the Banned Books Task Force for the Association of American Publishers, convenes representatives from across the trans-Atlantic to support a healthy future for social and behavioral science, and is a regular blogger for the Charleston Hub. She has a Master of Arts in communication from Pepperdine University and a certificate for women and leadership from Antioch University..

View Bio and Articles
Lily Garcia Walton

Lily Garcia Walton

As Chief People Officer, Lily Garcia Walton drives Silverchair’s people strategy, enabling the success of Silverchair’s exceptional professionals. She has more than two decades of experience leading technology, education, media, and professional services organizations through transformative change while preserving a strong culture and a sense of mission.

View Bio and Articles
Roohi Ghosh

Roohi Ghosh

Roohi Ghosh is the ambassador for researcher success at CACTUS. She is passionate about advocating for researchers and amplifying their voices on a global stage. Through strategic outreach and engagement efforts, she works to build bridges between researchers and industry stakeholders, fostering productive partnerships that lead to greater success and impact for the research community.

View Bio and Articles
Matt Giampoala

Matt Giampoala

Matt Giampoala serves as the Vice President for Publications for the American Geophysical Union (AGU) where he oversees its journals, books, and preprint programs. Matt has led efforts in expanding access and engagement through open science and reproducibility initiatives and is an advocate for promoting equity and inclusion in scholarly publishing. Matt has a Ph.D. in Neuroscience from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.

View Bio and Articles
Shalu Gillum

Shalu Gillum

Shalu Gillum is the Head of Public Services for the Harriet F. Ginsburg Health Sciences Library at the University of Central Florida College of Medicine. She presented at MLA InSight on the Challenges in Promoting Information Literacy in an Academic Medical Center.

View Bio and Articles
Gisela Concepción Fosado

Gisela Concepción Fosado

Gisela Concepción Fosado is the Editorial Director at Duke University Press and publishes books in a wide range of areas in the humanities and social sciences. She also co-leads Duke University Press’ Task Force for Equity and Inclusion. Gisela holds an A.B. from Princeton University and a Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology and a Certificate in Women’s Studies from the University of Michigan.

View Bio and Articles
Maribel Gomez

Maribel Gomez

Maribel Gomez is a dedicated graduate student at The George Washington University, pursuing a Master’s degree in Publishing. With a background spanning over a decade in the field of education, Maribel possesses a deep-seated commitment to empowering underrepresented voices and fostering diversity, equity, and inclusion as an active member of the DEIA committee at the Society for Scholarly Publishing. Her fervor for intellectual property and copyright clearances is at the heart of her aspirations, and she aims to establish herself as a proficient expert in this pivotal domain. Her extensive academic coursework and practical experience, coupled with her proactive involvement in the scholarly publishing sector, position her as a promising advocate and professional in the field.

View Bio and Articles
Nicko Goncharoff

Nicko Goncharoff

Nicko Goncharoff is an entrepreneur and business executive with more than 20 years’ experience in scholarly research software, data and publishing. His company, Osmanthus Consulting, provides global business and operational strategy services for the STM publishing and research technology sectors, with a focus on Greater China.

View Bio and Articles
Juanita Goossens-Roach

Juanita Goossens-Roach

Juanita Goossens-Roach has been in peer review management for nearly 20 years, initially as an Editorial Assistant and currently as Peer Review Group Manager, in Editorial Operations at Cambridge University Press, she manages inter-relations three units in the Peer Review Group: recognizing OPRS (online peer review systems) and PRA (peer review administration) challenges and proactively managing demanding project work driving improvement in responsiveness and service, how these units intersect and interact, as well as third unit of external administrators providing comparable administrative and peer review management.

View Bio and Articles
Chris Graf

Chris Graf

Chris Graf is the Research Integrity Director for Springer Nature. He volunteers as chair of the governance board for the STM Integrity Hub, volunteers as program committee member for the World Conference on Research Integrity, and was volunteer Trustee at COPE until 2019.

View Bio and Articles
Sarah Greaves

Sarah Greaves

Sarah Greaves is an independent consultant working across STEM publishing. Sarah has over 20 years of experience in the industry. She was originally an academic researcher before joining the editorial team at Nature Cell Biology after which she became the Publisher for Nature. She launched Nature Communications and Scientific Reports and was recently the Chief Publishing Officer at Hindawi. 

View Bio and Articles
Craig Griffin

Craig Griffin

As the Vice President of Solutions Engineering at Silverchair, Craig Griffin works with clients, end users, architects, and user experience designers to develop Platform solutions for our client’s success. This role includes market evaluation, feature analysis, business case development, technical review, and prioritization. ChatGPT did not write this bio (yet).

View Bio and Articles
Michael Groth

Michael Groth

Michael Groth is Director of Marketing at KnowledgeWorks Global Ltd. where he oversees strategy and implementation of digital, social, advertising, PR, and event programs. Mike has spent over 25 years in marketing for scholarly publishing, previously at Emerald, Ingenta, NEJM, and Wolters Kluwer.

View Bio and Articles
Darrell Gunter

Darrell Gunter

Darrell Gunter has held key senior executive positions for leading companies in the electronic intellectual property industry including; Dow Jones Financial News Services, Elsevier, Collexis, The American Institute of Physics (AIP) and Allerton Press, Inc. He heads up his own strategic consultancy firm the Gunter Media Group, Inc.

View Bio and Articles
David Haber

David Haber

David Haber is the Director of Publishing Operations at the American Society for Microbiology, which publishes 15 peer-reviewed journals from food microbiology to genomics and the microbiome. He collaborates with a team responsible for all content and publishing activity from submission into the peer review system, through article flow during production, and to eventual publication and distribution online. For the past twenty years, he has held a wide range of positions in the STM ecosystem, from copyediting manuscripts to typesetting articles, from digital conversion modeling to solution architecture for publishing support systems, from old-school, print workflow management to speedy OA publication models.

View Bio and Articles
Mark Hahnel

Mark Hahnel

Mark Hahnel is the CEO and founder of Figshare, which he created whilst completing his PhD in stem cell biology at Imperial College London. Figshare currently provides research data infrastructure for institutions, publishers and funders globally. He is passionate about open science and the potential it has to revolutionize the research community. For the last eight years, Mark has been leading the development of research data infrastructure, with the core aim of reusable and interoperable academic data. Mark sits on the board of DataCite and the advisory board for Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ). He was on the judging panel for the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Wellcome Trust Open Science prize and acted as an advisor for the Springer Nature master classes.

View Bio and Articles
Kathleen Kelly Halverson

Kathleen Kelly Halverson

Kathleen Kelly Halverson is the Editorial Projects Editor for the Serial Publications and Editorial Services Division of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA). ASHA is the national professional, scientific, and credentialing association for 228,000 audiologists; speech-language pathologists; speech, language, and hearing scientists; audiology and speech-language pathology personnel; and students. ASHA’s mission is “making effective communication, a human right, accessible and achievable for all.”

View Bio and Articles
Gabe Harp

Gabe Harp

Gabe Harp leads the Digital Products & Software Services team at the MIT Press, where he is neck-deep in digital books, journals, open access, and exploring new ways of working. Before joining the MIT Press he spent many years with Cell Press / Elsevier. He will be joining the Society for Scholarly Publishing Board of Directors as of the 2020-2021 term.

View Bio and Articles
Susan J. Harris

Susan J. Harris

Susan J. Harris is managing editor of American Psychologist, the flagship journal of the American Psychological Association, where she combines her interests in psychology and publishing. She also serves on SSP’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion committee.

View Bio and Articles
Melissa Harrison

Melissa Harrison

Melissa Harrison is the Chair of JATS4R. Melissa also serves on the Board of Directors of Crossref and contributes to various working groups and taskforces via her role as Head of Production Operations at eLife.

View Bio and Articles
Alan Harvey

Alan Harvey

Alan Harvey has been the Director at Stanford University Press since 2012, having joined the Press in 2002 as Editor-in-Chief. Prior to Stanford, Alan worked for Cambridge University Press as Executive Editor for the Sciences, working from Cambridge, New York, and California.

View Bio and Articles
Jo Havemann

Jo Havemann

With a background in Evolution and Developmental Biology, Dr. Jo Havemann is a trainer and consultant in [Open] Science Communication and [digital] Science Project Management. Her work experience covers NGOs, a science startup and international institutions including the UN Environment Programme. With a focus on digital tools for science and her label Access 2 Perspectives, she aims at strengthening global science communication in general – and with a regional focus on Africa – through Open Science.

View Bio and Articles
Johanna Havemann

Johanna Havemann

With a background in Evolution and Developmental Biology, Dr. Jo Havemann is a trainer and consultant in [Open] Science Communication and [digital] Science Project Management. Her work experience covers NGOs, a science startup and international institutions including the UN Environment Programme. With a focus on digital tools for science and her label Access 2 Perspectives, she aims at strengthening global science communication in general – and with a regional focus on Africa – through Open Science.

View Bio and Articles
Kate Heaney

Kate Heaney

Kate Heaney is the Product Manager for the Journal Citation Reports, among other products, at Clarivate. Prior to joining Clarivate, she managed journals at Taylor & Francis and developed and acquired books for medical professionals at Wolters Kluwer. She also serves on the Career Development Committee for SSP.

View Bio and Articles
Hannah F. Heckner

Hannah F. Heckner

Hannah F. Heckner is VP of Product, Silverchair. She has served as Product Strategist at Silverchair since the start of 2020. In this position she provides detailed product visioning, helps to prioritize and execute on the platform development plan, and oversees the Silverchair Universe program. She previously served as the Associate Director of Product Development and the Science Partner Journal Program within the Office of Publishing at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). In that capacity she aided in horizon scanning for and executing on new product ideas for the Science family of journals and its supporting advertising and partnerships business lines while also helping to develop and manage the Science Partner Journal program, launched at the end of 2017. Hannah has worked within the scholarly publishing arena since 2010 and has experience within commercial publishers, non-profit publishing societies, and is excited to have made the recent transition to a platform provider.

View Bio and Articles
Rachel Helps

Rachel Helps

Rachel Helps is the Wikipedian-in-residence at the Brigham Young University library. She was on the editorial board for the Wikijournal of Humanities from 2018 to 2020. She and her student employees create and edit Wikipedia pages related to the library’s collections.

View Bio and Articles
Ana Heredia

Ana Heredia

Ana Heredia is a former researcher turned scholarly communications specialist. A biologist by training, after an MSc in Neurosciences, a PhD in Sciences, and two postdocs, Ana joined the STM publishing world, developing expertise in scientific information infrastructure, analytics, and publishing. During more than 20 years of research and professional experience, Ana developed knowledge and a vision of the different components in the research ecosystem, and solid connections globally at universities, research funding and government agencies. She is an engaged member of SSP and C4DISC, and part of the NISO Plus Advisory Committee. Ana is particularly committed to open research, the responsible use of metrics in research evaluation, and bibliodiversity and multilingualism as part of the inclusion and diversity in scholarly communication agenda.

View Bio and Articles
Melody Herr

Melody Herr

Melody Herr, PhD, has more than 20 years of professional experience in scholarly communications and scholarly publishing. Formerly an acquisitions editor for the University of Michigan Press, she currently heads the Office of Scholarly Communications at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. She recently published Writing and Publishing Your Book: a Guide for Experts in Every Field (2017).

View Bio and Articles
Philipp Hess

Philipp Hess

Philipp Hess studied Engineering and Industrial Design in the Netherlands and Japan, before getting into scholarly content while working for Kiron, a platform that offers higher education to refugees. He is currently the Head of Publisher Relations at the Knowledge Unlatched GmbH and is pursuing a complimentary Master Degree at the Hochschule St.Gallen and the University of Arts Berlin in “Leadership in digital Innovation”. His goal is to make knowledge accessible to everyone, everywhere and to help shape the future dissemination of scholarly content.

View Bio and Articles
Maura Hiney

Maura Hiney

Maura Hiney is Adjunct Professor of Research Culture in University College Dublin, and was previously a senior manager at the Health Research Board Ireland. She has been involved in advancing research integrity (RI) policy for many years, is Treasurer of the World Conference on RI Foundation and Co-chair of the 8th WCRI. She is on the Embassy of Good Science Foundation Board, Chair of the ALLEA Permanent Working Group on Science and Ethics, where she co-authored the European Code of Conduct for RI and was Vice-Chair of ENRIO until 2022. She sits on several EU Policy and Stakeholder Advisory Boards.

View Bio and Articles
Marjorie Hlava

Marjorie Hlava

Marjorie M.K. Hlava is Chief Scientist, Chairman, and founder of Access Innovations, Inc. She served on the NISO board for five years and the NISO Content Board. She is past president of several organizations: NFAIS (2002-2003), American Society for Information Science and Technology – 1993 (ASIST), Documentation Abstracts 1990-1991, Hubbell Society Museum and Library (1994-1998).

View Bio and Articles
Simon Holt

Simon Holt

Simon Holt is Head of Central Strategies, Content Acquisition at Elsevier. He is also Disability Confidence Manager for the organization, working to identify and remove barriers that prevent people with disabilities achieving their potential at work. He lives in Oxford, UK.

View Bio and Articles
Iain Hrynaszkiewicz

Iain Hrynaszkiewicz

Iain Hrynaszkiewicz is Director, Open Research Solutions at Public Library of Science (PLOS), where he leads a programme of activity to increase adoption of open science practices, and increase the benefits of adopting open science. This includes PLOS’ initiatives relating preprints, open data, open code, and open methods and protocols.

View Bio and Articles
Sylvia Izzo Hunter

Sylvia Izzo Hunter

Sylvia Izzo Hunter is Manager, Product Marketing, Community & Content, at Wiley Partner Solutions; previously she was marketing manager at Inera and community manager at Atypon, following a 20-year career in scholarly journal and ebook publishing. She is a member of the SSP Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility Committee. She lives in Toronto.

View Bio and Articles
Mark Huskisson

Mark Huskisson

Today’s post is by Mark Huskisson. Mark is the Publishing Development Specialist at the Public Knowledge Project and the co-chair of the Assembly of the Commons for the European Research Infrastructure, OPERAS.

View Bio and Articles
Adam Hyde

Adam Hyde

Adam Hyde is the co-founder of the Collaborative Knowledge Foundation (Coko) where he leads technical projects, building platforms, methodologies, and communities to support open source collaborative knowledge production and publication as part of the academic process.

View Bio and Articles
Yvette Hyter

Yvette Hyter

Yvette D. Hyter is Professor Emeritus of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences at Western Michigan University, owner of Language and Literacy Practices, LLC, and co-managing editor of the Journal of Critical Study of Communication and Disability. Her areas of research are culturally responsive practices, social pragmatic communication in children with histories of trauma, and social justice and equity in curricula, research, policies, and practices.

View Bio and Articles
Mary Grace Hébert

Mary Grace Hébert

Mary Grace Hébert is the Content Development Specialist at the National Communication Association. Mary Grace received her Ph.D. in communication from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in August 2019. She draws on her experiences working in a learned society to reflect on the benefits of hiring PhDs into staff roles.

View Bio and Articles
Violaine Iglesias

Violaine Iglesias

Violaine Iglesias is CEO & co-founder of Cadmore Media, the first video hosting platform dedicated to scholarly information. Cadmore’s vision is to provide the best on-demand streaming technology and service to scholarly and professional organizations so they can publish media content in the same expert way they do journals and books. With prior roles at SAGE Publishing, GVPi and Random House, Violaine has 18 years of experience in academic and trade publishing, including 8 years working with video publishing solutions.

View Bio and Articles
Steven Inchcoombe

Steven Inchcoombe

Steven Inchcoombe is Chief Publishing Officer at Springer Nature. He is a member of the Management Board and his responsibilities cover all the research publishing and editorial activities of Springer Nature, the services provided to its authors, peer-reviewers, editors and societies, the experience of its customers when using its products and publishing platforms, and its Open Access and Open Research activities. Previously Steven was Head of House and CEO at Nature Publishing Group (NPG) and Palgrave Macmillan (PM).

Prior to this Steven was UK Publisher for The Financial Times and led ft.com. From 1990 to 2000 he was at IDC where he held commercial, development, marketing and general management positions, ultimately responsible for group strategy and corporate development and the EMEA region. Steven was awarded a scholarship to Merton College, Oxford, where he read Physics specializing in atomic and solid-state physics and qualified as a chartered accountant with PWC in 1990.

View Bio and Articles
Simon Inger

Simon Inger

Simon Inger is a Consultant with Renew Consultants and has been working in the scholarly information space for over thirty years. His work with Renew is largely in strategy-setting with scholarly societies in North America and Europe. In addition to his role at Renew, Simon is the COO and Co-founder at Cadmore Media, a specialist streaming media solutions provider for societies, a Board Advisor to Accucoms, and Conference Chair of the Society Street series of conferences.

View Bio and Articles
John Ioannidis

John Ioannidis

John Ioannidis is the C.F. Rehnborg Chair in Disease Prevention, Professor of Medicine, of Health Research and Policy, of Biomedical Data Science, and of Statistics; co-Director, Meta-Research Innovation Center at Stanford; Director of the PhD program in Epidemiology and Clinical Research, at Stanford University.

View Bio and Articles
Jerry A. Jacobs

Jerry A. Jacobs

Jerry A. Jacobs is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania, where he has taught since earning his Ph.D. in sociology at Harvard in 1983. He has served as the Editor of the American Sociological Review, President of the Eastern Sociological Society, Founding President of the Work and Family Researchers Network, and was a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford in 2018-2019.

View Bio and Articles
Emma Jellen

Emma Jellen

Emma Jellen is the Interim Director for the Center for Workplace Mental Health at the American Psychiatric Association Foundation, where she develops innovative, high-impact web-based educational content and resources for employers to advance workplace mental health. Emma builds external relationships with corporate leaders and produces the Center’s monthly Mental Health Works publication.

View Bio and Articles
Annie Johnson

Annie Johnson

Annie Johnson is the Associate University Librarian for Publishing, Preservation, Research, and Digital Access at the University of Delaware Library, Museums and Press. Previously, she was the Assistant Director for Open Publishing Initiatives and Scholarly Communications at Temple University Libraries and Press.

View Bio and Articles
Joshua Luke Johnson

Joshua Luke Johnson

Joshua Luke Johnson is the Director of Data & IT for Uptown Stories, a nonprofit that provides creative writing and storytelling workshops to children of Manhattan. He also serves as Managing Editor for the George Washington University Journal of Ethics in Publishing. He lives in Washington Heights, New York.

View Bio and Articles
Deborah Kahn

Deborah Kahn

After many decades of working in scholarly publishing, Deborah Kahn now devotes herself to helping to address the challenges of research integrity and ethics in scholarly communications, primarily in her roles as Co-Chair of United2Act and as a Trustee of COPE.  

View Bio and Articles
Bill Kasdorf

Bill Kasdorf

Bill Kasdorf, is Principal of Kasdorf & Associates, LLC, a consultancy focusing on editorial and production workflows, XML/HTML/EPUB content modeling, standards and best practices, and accessibility.

View Bio and Articles
Daniel S. Katz

Daniel S. Katz

Daniel Katz is the Chief Scientist at National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) and Research Associate Professor in Computer Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering, and the School of Information Sciences, at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He is working to make research software more sustainable by encouraging scholarly incentives and academic career paths for those who work on it, policy changes for its recognition and support, and best practices to make it easier to develop and maintain. He is an Associate-Editor-in-Chief at the Journal of Open Source Software, leads the FORCE11 Software Citation Implementation Working Group’s journals task force, and is the Steering Committee Chair for the Research Software Alliance (ReSA).

View Bio and Articles
Panagiotis Kavouras

Panagiotis Kavouras

Panagiotis Kavouras is a senior researcher at the School of Chemical Engineering of the National Technical University of Athens. He is a physicist, with an MSc and a PhD in Physics. For several years he had been involved in research on industrial solid waste management and on the characterization of physical and engineering properties of materials at the micro- and nano-scale. During the last six years he has focused his research interests on research integrity through his participation in several relevant EU-funded projects. He is involved in capacity-building and awareness-raising activities for research integrity in Greece by writing articles in Greek on several topics relevant to research integrity and by giving seminars and lectures about research integrity. He has the pleasure and the honor to be a member of the local organizing committee of the 8th World Conference on Research Integrity.

View Bio and Articles
Curtis Kendrick

Curtis Kendrick

Curtis Kendrick currently serves as Binghamton University Libraries Faculty and Staff mentor, having most recently served as dean of libraries for the University. Prior to his positions at Binghamton, Kendrick served as university dean for libraries and information resources at the City University of New York (CUNY), and has held library administrative positions at Columbia University, Harvard University, Stony Brook University and Oberlin College.

View Bio and Articles
Patricia Kershaw

Patricia Kershaw

Patricia Jones Kershaw is the senior journals production manager at the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) where she oversees the production of 35 journals. Tricia began working in scholarly publishing in 1993 and joined ASCE in 2015 where she has served in both production and editorial roles. Tricia holds a bachelor’s in political science from the American University and a Master of Urban and Environmental Planning from the University of Virginia.

View Bio and Articles
Sarah Ketchley

Sarah Ketchley

Sarah Ketchley, PhD is a senior digital humanities specialist at Gale and an Egyptologist, art history scholar and a lecturer in the Department of Near Eastern Languages & Civilization at the University of Washington, where she teaches introductory and graduate-level classes in digital humanities.

View Bio and Articles
Reem Khamis

Reem Khamis

Reem Khamis is Professor of Speech-Language Pathology and director of the Neurophysiology in Speech-Language Pathology Lab at Adelphi University. She is a co-managing editor of the Journal of Critical Study of Communication and Disability and editor of the language section for the Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research.

View Bio and Articles
Shaun Khoo

Shaun Khoo

Shaun Khoo is a postdoctoral fellow at the Université de Montréal where he studies the neuroscience of addiction. He is the founder of Episteme Health Inc., non-profit association that aims to provide free open access neuroscience publishing.

View Bio and Articles
Véronique Kiermer

Véronique Kiermer

Véronique Kiermer is the Chief Scientific Officer at PLOS where she oversees the editorial department and the development of services, products, and policies to promote open science. Before joining PLOS in 2015, she held various editorial roles with the Nature journals, and worked in R&D in the biotechnology industry. She currently serves on the Board of Directors of Keystone Symposia, ORCID and on the Steering Committee of PREreview.

View Bio and Articles
Paul Killoran

Paul Killoran

Paul is a published researcher who founded Ex Ordo in 2011, and is driven by a passion for improving the scholarly conference experience through exceptional software. When he’s not pouring his energy into the future of scholarly society events, you’ll find him spending time with his growing family, or enjoying a pint of Guinness by an open fire.

View Bio and Articles
David Kim

David Kim

David Kim is Business Development Manager, Career Center Publishing for Wiley, where he partners alongside society leaders to elevate strategic solutions for member career value and industry partnerships. He’s passionate about uncovering and driving creative projects that improve diversity and equity in the scholarly space, such as serving the Women In Medicine Summit as Co-Editor of its annual compendium and as Board Advisor to the Women In Science At Columbia group. David was previously Associate Editor/Journal Publishing Manager at Wiley, responsible for a portfolio of society-owned journals in finance, economics, statistics, demography, geography and health policy. David is currently pursuing an MS in Education, specializing in Digital Age Learning & Education Technology at Johns Hopkins University, where he combines his passions for innovative solutions that improve learning and access to education. He received his BA in Political Science from Columbia University and is a proud member of the Columbia Dragon Boat racing team of New York.

View Bio and Articles
Danny Kingsley

Danny Kingsley

Dr Danny Kingsley is a thought leader in the international scholarly communication space. She works as a consultant and is a Visiting Fellow at the Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science.

View Bio and Articles
Rebecca Kirk

Rebecca Kirk

Rebecca Kirk is Publisher, Portfolio Development at PLOS, where she has a focus on developing journals that embed equitable practices to address global societal challenges. She is also a Co-Chair of the SSP DEIA Committee and a HESI SDG Publishers Compact Fellow.

View Bio and Articles
Duleeka Knipe

Duleeka Knipe

Dr Duleeka Knipe is suicide epidemiologist and a Vice Chancellor’s Elizabeth Blackwell Institute Research Fellow at University of Bristol. She is part of the Bristol Suicide and Self-harm group and is a commissioner and section lead on the Lancet Commission on suicide and self-harm.

View Bio and Articles
Philipp Koellinger

Philipp Koellinger

Philipp Koellinger is a professor of Economics at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. He co-founded DeSci Labs and serves as the president of the DeSci Foundation, which supports the development of a more verifiable, open, and fairer ecosystem for science and scientists. His research on behavioral genetics has been published in journals such as Nature, Science, Nature Genetics, Nature Neuroscience, and Nature Human Behavior.

View Bio and Articles
Thilo Koerkel

Thilo Koerkel

Thilo Koerkel is the publisher of the New Ground journal, based near Frankfurt am Main in Germany. He was an editor of physics and astronomy at Spektrum der Wissenschaft, the German edition of Scientific American, and, until 2022, a Strategic Partnerships Manager of Nature Research, the publisher of Nature.

View Bio and Articles
Dror Kolodkin-Gal

Dror Kolodkin-Gal

Dr Dror Kolodkin-Gal, PhD is a life sciences researcher who specializes in new ex-vivo explant models to help understand disease progression and treatments. Recognizing the significant impact that image errors have on both colleagues and journals, he aimed to establish a method for upholding the utmost standards in publication integrity. Dror and his team created Proofig AI’s artificial intelligence algorithms to help detect image duplication and manipulations in scientific papers. The software checks papers prior to submission and publication, preventing unexpected rejections and helping to improve article quality and credibility.

View Bio and Articles
Holly Koppel

Holly Koppel

Holly Koppel is a wife and mother of two girls living in the Washington D.C. metro area. She is a Senior Managing Editor, Peer Review with the American Society of Civil Engineers and is an active member of the Wizards of Ahs Toastmasters group. 

View Bio and Articles
Julia Kostova

Julia Kostova

Julia Kostova, PhD is Executive Editor at Wiley’s Global Research division, where she manages a portfolio of high-profile journals in the life sciences published on behalf of leading international scholarly societies. Prior to joining Wiley, Julia was Senior Editor at Oxford University Press, where she oversaw the Press’s digital and scholarly reference publishing program in the humanities. She is chair of the Generations Fund Subcommittee at SSP, as well as a member of the Finance Committee.

View Bio and Articles
Alicia J. Kowaltowski

Alicia J. Kowaltowski

Alicia J. Kowaltowski is an MD/PhD (State University of Campinas – Unicamp) and Full Professor of Biochemistry at the University of São Paulo, Brazil, where she heads the Energy Metabolism Lab. She is interested in scientific dissemination, responsible research assessment, and, above all, everything related to mitochondria.

View Bio and Articles
Shaina Lange

Shaina Lange

Shaina Lange is Senior Manager, Publishing Integrity Office at the American Chemical Society. She oversees the strategy, policies, and activities to support publishing integrity across the ACS journals portfolio, with a focus on embedding ACS’ core value of diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect (DEIR) in the peer review and publishing processes.

View Bio and Articles
Brian Lavoie

Brian Lavoie

Brian Lavoie is a Senior Research Scientist with OCLC. Brian’s research interests include computational analysis of library data, the evolution of the scholarly record, and the organization of library services and infrastructure.

View Bio and Articles
Rebecca Lawrence

Rebecca Lawrence

Rebecca Lawrence is Managing Director of F1000. She was responsible for the launch of F1000Research in 2013 and has led the launch of many funder- and institution-based publishing platforms partnering with the EC, the Gates Foundation, Wellcome and others, that aim to provide a new trajectory in the way scientific findings are communicated. She was a member of the EC’s Open Science Policy Platform, and has co-Chaired many working groups for Research Data Alliance (RDA) and ORCID. She is a Steering Committee member of DORA (San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment), a member of the Board of Directors of Open Research Central, and has worked in STM publishing for over 20 years.

View Bio and Articles
Erica Leeman

Erica Leeman

Erica Leeman is the Metadata Associate at the MIT Press (MITP), where she assists with developing, implementing, and maintaining metadata standards and workflows to help the Press become a more metadata-informed publisher.

View Bio and Articles
Stuart Leitch

Stuart Leitch

Stuart Leitch is the Chief Technology Officer at Silverchair. Stuart leads the strategic evolution and expansion of The Silverchair Platform, designing and leading technology initiatives for greater platform scalability and capability while enhancing Silverchair’s unparalleled flexibility for new product development. Stuart joined Silverchair in 2012 and has twenty years of enterprise architecture, system design, and software development experience in the education, engineering, nonprofit, and investment industries.

View Bio and Articles
Allison Leung

Allison Leung

Allison Leung is the Assistant Director, Researcher Products & Engagement at the American Chemical Society. She oversees a team who manage products that support authors, reviewers, and editors through the publication process and beyond.

View Bio and Articles
Rachael Levay

Rachael Levay

Rachael Levay is a Paths in Publishing cofounder, Editor-in-Chief at the University Press of Colorado, and acquires for the Utah State University Press imprint. She was the Marketing and Sales Director at the University of Washington Press and has experience mentoring several generations of incredible university press staff.

View Bio and Articles
Tim Lloyd

Tim Lloyd

Tim Lloyd is founder and CEO of LibLynx, a company providing Identity, Access, and Analytics solutions for publishers and libraries. He is a member of the SeamlessAccess Governance committee and co-chair of their Outreach committee, and serves on a COUNTER working group exploring reporting on usage of Open Access and unpaywalled content. He previously spent over a decade in a variety of product development and operational roles in publishing.

View Bio and Articles
Cason Lynley

Cason Lynley

Cason Lynley is the Director of Marketing and Sales for books and journals at Duke University Press and has served for several SSP committees since 2010, including serving as the Annual Meeting co-chair for two years.

View Bio and Articles
Sowmya Mahadevan

Sowmya Mahadevan

Sowmya Mahadevan, Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer of Kriyadocs, is an author, speaker, and strategy execution expert with 20 years of experience across industries, including publishing and software development. With a background in leading operations and strategic direction, she drives growth and operational excellence at Kriyadocs.

View Bio and Articles
Stewart Manley

Stewart Manley

Stewart Manley is a lecturer at the Faculty of Law, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. His work in the scholarly communications area focuses on high-profile litigation involving publishers and publishing ethics.

View Bio and Articles
Marco Marabelli

Marco Marabelli

Marco Marabelli, PhD is an associate professor of Information and Process Management at Bentley University where he currently teaches grad courses on business analytics; PhD classes on information systems theories and qualitative methods.

Marco’s research focuses on the ethical/DEI implications of the use of emerging technologies (social media, sensor technologies, the metaverse) in organizations and society and the reasons behind institutional inertia in addressing potential misuses of algorithms. Marco is currently studying automatic (algorithmic-led) decision-making processes in large organizations and negative effects for underrepresented populations. Marco is also interested in the future deployment of the metaverse, the platform’s privacy implications and its potential to exacerbate surveillance and discriminatory practices. In the past two years Marco conducted COVID-related research concerning the role of algorithms in access to care disparities (in the US) and unequal availability of vaccines (US and worldwide).

View Bio and Articles
Laura Martin

Laura Martin

Laura Martin is a Senior Manager, Project & Program Management at Wiley, where she co-chairs the Women of Wiley Employee Resource Group. She has written about the importance of inclusion in delivering business change that “sticks” in The Scholarly Kitchen and is on the SSP Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee. Laura has worked in strategy and business change roles in academic publishing for over eight years and is passionate about cultivating a cross-functional and inclusive approach to transformational business change. She lives in Oxford, UK.

View Bio and Articles
Rachel Martin

Rachel Martin

Rachel Martin is the Global Director of Sustainability at Elsevier, where she is driving transformational change in the priority areas of sustainability and SDGs, with a focus on climate action.

View Bio and Articles
Allegra Martschenko

Allegra Martschenko

Allegra Martschenko is a Paths in Publishing cofounder and an Acquisitions Editor at the University Press of Colorado. They started in publishing as a Sales intern at Princeton University Press and spent a year at Cornell University Press as a 2020-2021 Mellon Diversity Fellow.

View Bio and Articles
Kari Mattison

Kari Mattison

Kari Mattison is the Editor in Chief at the Journal of Emerging Investigators (JEI) where she oversees and leads the publication of all JEI manuscripts as well as the development of new resources to help JEI’s young author base. Kari has been involved with JEI since 2018, having previously been an Associate and Managing Editor with the journal. She is also a PhD Candidate in Genetics and Molecular Biology at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. 

View Bio and Articles
Rachel Maund

Rachel Maund

Rachel Maund is the Director of the UK-based Marketability (UK) Ltd, an international publishing consultancy specializing in marketing and training. She works with many of the UK’s academic and specialist publishers and training providers, and regularly conducts training workshops and programs overseas, including in Singapore, China, Mexico, Australia, the US, and Europe.

View Bio and Articles
Timothy McAdoo

Timothy McAdoo

Timothy McAdoo is a content development manager on the APA Style team at the American Psychological Association. He helped shape the seventh edition of the Publication Manual, and he manages and contributes to the APA Style blog, newsletter, and social media.

View Bio and Articles
Sarah McCormack

Sarah McCormack

Sarah McCormack is the Director of Publications for the American Society for Nutrition, where she uses data-driven approaches to publishing to advance the science, education, and practice of nutrition to achieve a healthier world.

View Bio and Articles
Leslie D. McIntosh

Leslie D. McIntosh

Leslie D. McIntosh is an academic turned entrepreneur, she founded Ripeta (now part of Digital Science) in 2017 to improve research quality and integrity by developing trust markers. She is currently the VP of Research Integrity at Digital Science focused on trust and mistrust in science.

View Bio and Articles
Nathan Mealey

Nathan Mealey

 Nathan Mealey is Associate University Librarian for Discovery & Access at Wesleyan University. Nathan co-chaired the Boston Library Consortium’s Controlled Digital Lending Working Group in 2020–21.

View Bio and Articles
Andolyn Medina

Andolyn Medina

Andolyn Medina is a naval officer, currently in her third year of her doctoral degree in clinical psychology at George Washington University. In 2017, she graduated with her MA in forensic psychology, summa cum laude, and in August 2020, she received her MPsy in clinical psychology. In addition to being a full-time student, Andolyn is also seeing patients via teletherapy.

View Bio and Articles
Tasha Mellins-Cohen

Tasha Mellins-Cohen

Tasha Mellins-Cohen, Executive Director at COUNTER and Founder of Mellins-Cohen Consulting, joined the scholarly publishing industry in 2001. She has held roles within learned societies and commercial publishers across operations, technology, editorial and executive functions, while donating time to key industry initiatives and bodies such as UKSG, ALPSP and STM. From 2022 she took over the running of COUNTER, the usage metrics standard, alongside her consulting work with not-for-profit publishers.

View Bio and Articles
Jessica Meylikhov

Jessica Meylikhov

Jessica Meylikhov is a Senior Journal Publishing Assistant for the Oncology Editorial team at Wiley. She is also the co-leader of Wiley’s Boston Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion committee, and a member of SSP’s DE&I committee.

View Bio and Articles
Jessica Miles

Jessica Miles

Jessica Miles is Vice President, Strategy and Investments at Holtzbrinck Publishing Group. She leads strategic planning, mergers & acquisitions, and investments in science and technology to support the development of new products and services for advancing research and science communication.

View Bio and Articles
Naveen Zehra Minai

Naveen Zehra Minai

Naveen Zehra Minai holds a PhD in Gender Studies from the University of California, Los Angeles. She has taught in Pakistan for the past three years. Her research is interdisciplinary, and  focuses transnational literary and visual cultures in South Asia and North America.

View Bio and Articles
Mary Miskin

Mary Miskin

Mary Miskin is Operations Director for Charlesworth, an Enago company. Charlesworth is recognized by STM publishers worldwide as the trusted partner for sales representation, author marketing, and author experience solutions in China. Additionally, she is a Board Director for the International Society of Managing and Technical Editors (ISMTE), a community that connects, educates and provides resources for professionals who are passionate about the operations of peer-reviewed publications.

View Bio and Articles
Rachel Moriarty

Rachel Moriarty

Rachel Moriarty has been working in academic publishing since joining Springer Nature as a Senior Editorial Assistant in 2009, following completion of an MSc in Publishing. Thirteen years on, she is an experienced Publisher, based in the UK, and working for Oxford University Press on their Medical Journals. Rachel is passionate about contributing to the wider publishing community, and held the Early Career Publisher seat on the Board of the STM Association until December 2021. She was the Chair of the STM’s Early Career Publishers Committee (ECPC) until October 2020, and remains on the ECPC as the Chair of the Mentoring sub-Committee who are responsible for the STM Mentoring Programme. She regularly participates as a panellist and speaker at industry events, with a particular focus being those aimed at developing the next generation of publishing professionals.

View Bio and Articles
Sheila Morrissey

Sheila Morrissey

Sheila Morrissey is a Senior Researcher at Portico. Sheila came to Portico with many years’ experience in the design and development of complex software systems and in the management of large-scale software engineering projects, including projects for higher education and for print and electronic publishing.

View Bio and Articles
Aurelia Munene

Aurelia Munene

Aurelia Munene is a social science researcher and founder of Eider Africa, an organization committed to co-creating research environments where emerging researchers in Africa can take leadership in driving responsible knowledge production and utilization in the continent. She is also the Executive Director of Nascent Research and Development Organisation. Aurelia has expertise in designing research mentorship initiatives for individuals, groups and universities. Aurelia is an AuthorAID Steward at AuthorAID INASP UK, coordinates the AuthorAID online Social Sciences Journal Club and a Guest Facilitator of the Research Writing for the Sciences Course. Aurelia is the Research Committee Lead at Association for Faculty Enrichment in Learning and Teaching (AFELT) and is leading an initiative on Transforming Research Capacity Development in African Universities. Aurelia is a member of the Research Data KE Working Group . She holds a Masters in Development Studies, Major in Social Policy for Development from Erasmus University International Institute of Social Studies (ISS), The Hague Netherlands. She is trained in Learning Design and Facilitating Online Learning. 

View Bio and Articles
Hollydawn Murray

Hollydawn Murray

Until recently, Holly was the Head of Data and Software Publishing at F1000Research where she led on data and software sharing policy and strategy.   She is an open research advocate and is involved in several professional organisations, working groups, and boards dedicated to making science more transparent.  Holly holds a PhD from the National University of Ireland Galway, and currently works as Research Manager at Health Data Research UK.

View Bio and Articles
Bob Nardini

Bob Nardini

Bob Nardini is Vice President, Library Services at ProQuest Books. In 1985, a few years out of library school at the University of Toronto, he began to work in academic bookselling and has been involved with library book collections ever since. Bob is based in ProQuest’s office in La Vergne, Tennessee, outside of Nashville.

View Bio and Articles
George Neame

George Neame

George is a Publishing Executive at BMJ with an interest in preprints and peer review models. He currently works across thirteen medical journals and is involved in the day-to-day operations as well as the journals’ overall strategy.

View Bio and Articles
Wangari Joyce Ngugi

Wangari Joyce Ngugi

Wangari Joyce Ngugi is a Consultant Psychologist and Research Mentor. She is the Lead Research Mentor at Eider Africa, with a Certificate in Research Mentorship, where she is involved in the Design Team curating Research Mentorship programs including, among others, Study Smart and Monthly Cocktail for holistic wellbeing and academic mental health. She is a Research Steward under AuthorAID in the UK, where she co-facilitates the AuthorAID Social Sciences Journal Club group. She is a Candidate of Doctor of Psychology, PsyD, Clinical Psychology, a practitioner-scholar program, where she is researching Deaf mental health in Kenya. She matriculated with a Masters, Counseling Psychology, and Bachelor’s (Honors) in Psychology. She is certified in research ethics and is the Director, Gwira Communications Foundation, where she leads film and Psychology programs for social impact. She was a Doctoral Teaching and Research Assistant at the Centre for Cognitive and Developmental Research, United States International University-Africa (USIU-Africa), where she designed and ran experimental studies on brain memory and language under Associate Professor, Dr. Dana Basnight-Brown. See https://www.wangari.africa/ for more details.

View Bio and Articles
Thomas Niederkrotenthaler

Thomas Niederkrotenthaler

Dr Thomas Niederkrotenthaler is an internationally recognized expert in the area of media and suicide. He is research group lead for suicide prevention at the Medical University of Vienna (Austria) and current Vice-President of the International Association for Suicide Prevention (IASP).

View Bio and Articles
Kalyn Nowlan

Kalyn Nowlan

Kalyn Nowlan is an MS/LIS candidate at the iSchool at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign who works at the Funk Library, which supports research for the college of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences. When Kalyn graduates in May, she is interested in pursuing academic librarianship, with a focus on scholarly communications and supporting student success.

View Bio and Articles
Paulo A. Nussenzveig

Paulo A. Nussenzveig

Paulo A. Nussenzveig is Professor of Physics at the University of São Paulo (USP), Brazil, where he co-heads the Lab for Coherent Manipulation of Light an Atoms. His main scientific interest is in Quantum Optics and Quantum Information Science. He follows very closely discussions on scientific integrity, scientific dissemination, responsible research assessment. He is currently Provost for Research and Innovation at USP and promotes the concept of responsible research and innovation.

View Bio and Articles
Johanssen Obanda

Johanssen Obanda

Johanssen Obanda is a Social Innovator who works with AfricArXiv to build the organization’s scholarly community in Africa. After spending nearly five years working in communication and strategy development, Johanssen knows what truly drives conversations and actions that lead to positive social impact. It is how well you connect with people you are trying to help and communicate your understanding back to them. In addition to his extensive social innovation experience, Johanssen is a trained Biochemist from Egerton University.

View Bio and Articles
Oded Olsha

Oded Olsha

Oded Olsha recently retired from the Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem, Israel, where he worked as a general surgeon for over thirty years and was the head of the Breast Surgery Unit. Oded was a staff member of the Hebrew University’s Faculty of Medicine.

View Bio and Articles
Christine Orr

Christine Orr

Christine Orr is the Director of Sales and Marketing for BioOne. Christine holds a master’s degree in library science and has held roles spanning business development, library relations, marketing communications, and consortia licensing.

View Bio and Articles
Erin Osborne-Martin

Erin Osborne-Martin

Erin Osborne-Martin is Associate Director, Strategic Analytics at Wiley. Erin has worked in a variety of roles within learned society and scholarly publishing, and is a disability advocate working with Back Up (a spinal cord injury charity) and Transport for All (a disabled-led advocacy group working to increase access to transport and streetspace across the UK).

View Bio and Articles
Joy Owango

Joy Owango

Joy Owango is the Founding Director of the Training Centre in Communication (TCC Africa) an award winning  Trust registered in Kenya set up in 2006 and is the first African-based training center to teach effective communication skills to scientists. TCC Africa is in partnership with the University of Nairobi, Kenya and provides capacity support in improving African researchers output and visibility through training in scholarly and science communication to African higher education stakeholders. Joy currently sits on the Steering Committee of the International Science Council Steering Group on the Project on the future of scientific publishing and also sits on the board of AfricArxiv, Africa’s  preprint  repository, and as a project partner we support African researchers and institutes on how they can improve their data output, sovereignty and visibility through effective use of preprints and personal identifiers.  

View Bio and Articles
Danielle Padula

Danielle Padula

Danielle Padula heads up marketing and community development at Scholastica, a scholarly publishing technology provider with peer review, production, and open access journal hosting solutions. Prior to joining Scholastica, Danielle worked in academic book publishing. She enjoys creating resources to help publishers navigate the evolving research landscape and is co-chairing Peer Review Week for 2021.

View Bio and Articles
Nick Paolini

Nick Paolini

Nick Paolini (pronouns: he/him) is a Product Manager at Aries Systems where he implements third party integrations and user experience improvements within Editorial Manager. In addition, he develops accessibility improvements to ensure the system is inclusive and usable for all users.

View Bio and Articles
David Parker

David Parker

David Parker is the co-founder and Publisher of Lived Places Publishing. In previous professional roles, David founded Business Expert Press, which has more than 1,000 titles in its catalog today. He was also editor-in-chief at Pearson Education early in his career.  David later launched Alexander Street’s Academic Video Online, the largest subscription collection of academic videos in use today in universities around the world. 

View Bio and Articles
Trevor Parry-Giles

Trevor Parry-Giles

Trevor Parry-Giles is the Executive Director of the National Communication Association (NCA) and a professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Maryland. He has served as editor of Communication Quarterly and is a Distinguished Research Fellow and a Distinguished Teaching Fellow of the Eastern Communication Association. Parry-Giles’ research and teaching focus on the historical and contemporary relationships between rhetoric, politics, law, and popular culture.

View Bio and Articles
Jenny Peng

Jenny Peng

Jenny Peng was project co-lead for the Guidelines on Inclusive Language and Images in Scholarly Communication. She is a senior publisher on Oxford University Press’s open access team and is part of the OUP Diversity, Equity, Inclusivity, and Accessibility (DEI&A) journals project working group.

View Bio and Articles
Andrew Pitts

Andrew Pitts

Andrew Pitts is the Co-Founder and CEO of PSI, an independent third-party, which enables libraries, publishers and membership societies to work together securely and confidentially towards the common goals of facilitating legitimate access to scholarly content, eliminating subscription abuse, eradicating IP misuse, and combating cybercrime.

View Bio and Articles
Jessica Polka

Jessica Polka

Jessica Polka is the Executive Director of ASAPbio, a researcher-driven nonprofit working to promote innovation and transparency in life sciences publishing. Jessica leads initiatives related to peer review and oversees the organization’s general administrative and strategic needs.

View Bio and Articles
Dan Pollock

Dan Pollock

Dan Pollock is the Chief Digital Officer at Delta Think. His background includes executive leadership and strategic advisory roles, and senior positions managing products, operations and change in organizations ranging from startups to complex non-profits and commercial corporations. At Delta Think, Dan focuses on data analytics, market intelligence, and strategy.

View Bio and Articles
Steph Pollock

Steph Pollock

Steph Pollock (pronouns: she/her) is the Associate Publisher, Community Initiatives at the American Psychological Association (APA), where she drives strategy and publishing partner engagement for the APA Journals program and serves as the Journals program lead for equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) initiatives. With more than ten years of experience in scholarly publishing and a master’s degree in publishing from The George Washington University, Steph is committed to improving equity in both the field of psychology and in the scholarly publishing industry. She is a co-author on the C4DISC Antiracism Toolkit for Organizations, a member of the Association for Women in Psychology, and has served on SSP’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee since 2018.

View Bio and Articles
Steph Pollock

Steph Pollock

Steph Pollock (she/her/hers) is an Associate Publisher, Journals for the American Psychological Association (APA) and leads the APA Journals program’s equity, diversity, and inclusion working group.

View Bio and Articles
Vanessa Proudman

Vanessa Proudman

As Director to SPARC Europe, Vanessa is responsible for developing and implementing SPARC Europe’s Strategic Plan. She is working to make Open the default with Europe’s other Open Science organizations.

View Bio and Articles
Iratxe Puebla

Iratxe Puebla

Iratxe Puebla is Director of Strategic Initiatives & Community at ASAPbio and is a member of the ASAPbio preprint review cultural norms Working Group, which has recently developed principles for a positive and constructive culture of review and commenting on preprints. 

View Bio and Articles
Bernd Pulverer

Bernd Pulverer

Bernd Pulverer studied in Cambridge and London, followed by research positions in Toronto, Seattle and Innsbruck. Bernd was Senior Editor at Nature until 2002, Editor in Chief of Nature Cell Biology and, since 2009, of The EMBO Journal as well as Head of Scientific Publications at EMBO; he serves on the boards of bioRxiv, DORA, the PREMIER Project, CMMC and ESOF 2020.

View Bio and Articles
Minhaj Rais

Minhaj Rais

Minhaj Rais is Senior Manager, Strategy & Corporate Development at CACTUS. Minhaj collates industry insights and conducts in-depth analyses to help shape global organizational strategy and product incubation. In his previous roles, Minhaj has worked in various functions related to editing and reviewing research manuscripts, freelance hiring, marketplace operations, and social media management.

View Bio and Articles
Jayashree Rajagopalan

Jayashree Rajagopalan

Jayashree Rajagopalan (MA, ELS) is Senior Manager, Global Community Engagement at CACTUS, where she oversees R Voice – a community forum for researchers globally. She has been part of the scholarly communication industry for over 15 years, playing various roles that helped her learn more about researchers’ aspirations, needs, and the struggles they face while navigating their unique academic and publication journeys. Jayashree is co-chair of Peer Review Week 2021.

View Bio and Articles
Miguel Ramos

Miguel Ramos

Miguel Ramos is a librarian who has worked in academic and public libraries, as a Usability Designer for a non-profit healthcare system, and as an educator at a Tribal College. He is currently a project manager for SPIE’s Digital Library, leading efforts in accessibility improvements to its platform, as well as volunteering with C4DISC to help create the Toolkit for Disability Equity.

View Bio and Articles
Abhaya Ranganathan

Abhaya Ranganathan

Abhaya Ranganathan, Business Strategist at Kriyadocs, brings over a decade of extensive experience in academic research and publishing. With a diverse background spanning various roles across the scholarly publishing lifecycle, Abhaya drives strategic initiatives at Kriyadocs.

View Bio and Articles
Jennifer Regala

Jennifer Regala

Jennifer Regala is the Director of Publications/Executive Editor at the American Urological Association, where she oversees the scholarly publications program, which includes two peer-reviewed journals, The Journal of Urology® and Urology Practice®; the organization’s newsletter/membership digital ecosystem; annual meeting-related publications; and a CME product. Currently, Jennifer is managing the launch of JU Open Plus, a new Gold Open Access journal that will begin publication in January 2023. Jennifer is also overseeing the implementation of open peer review for The Journal of Urology®, the AUA’s flagship journal. Jennifer is the Co-Chair of SSP’s Marketing and Communications Committee and the SSP-DC Regional Subcommittee. Jennifer has worked in scholarly publication for more than 20 years at Cadmus, Sheridan, and the American Society of Plant Biologists. Jennifer’s personal motto is: “It’s free to be nice and to comb your hair.”

View Bio and Articles
Kasia Repeta

Kasia Repeta

Kasia Repeta is Analyst for Global Outreach and Publishing Systems at Duke University Press. She is a member of the SSP Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility Committee and leads the work of the SSP’s DEIA Accessibility Subcommittee. She is also a co-chair for the Disability and Accessibility Working Group at Duke University Press.

View Bio and Articles
Oya Y. Rieger

Oya Y. Rieger

Oya Y. Rieger is a senior strategist on Ithaka S+R’s Libraries, Scholarly Communication, and Museums team. She spearheads projects that reexamine the nature of collections within the research library, help secure access to and preservation of the scholarly record, and explore the possibilities of open source software and open science.

View Bio and Articles
Cathy Rimer-Surles

Cathy Rimer-Surles

Cathy Rimer-Surles is a lawyer/librarian, and she serves as the Assistant Director for Contracts and Intellectual Property at Duke University Press. Together, they co-founded the Equity and Inclusion Interest Group at Duke University Press.

View Bio and Articles
Nancy Roberts

Nancy Roberts

Nancy Roberts is the founder of Business Inclusivity, a social enterprise that provides diversity and inclusion consultancy and executive coaching. She has worked in the publishing industry for over 20 years in a variety of production, operations and consultancy roles.

View Bio and Articles
Mark Robertson

Mark Robertson

Mark Robertson is a private consultant and non-executive director specializing in research and educational publishing, career and leadership mentoring, and business in Asia Pacific. Mark is the Development Director for Asia Pacific for CHOR Inc (CHORUS), deputy chair of the Media Centre for Educational Research, Australia (MCERA), a non-executive director of Therapeutic Guidelines Ltd, and consults for STM.

View Bio and Articles
Amanda Rogers

Amanda Rogers

Amanda Rogers is Marketing Communications Associate and DEIBA Liaison at BioOne and is a member of the SSP Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility Committee. As a professional
new to the publishing community, she brings her experience in environmental and educational nonprofit communication.

View Bio and Articles
Stephanie Rosen

Stephanie Rosen

Stephanie Rosen  is Associate Librarian and Accessibility Specialist at the University of Michigan Library, where she promotes equitable access to library resources for all users, regardless of ability or background. She holds a PhD in English from the University of Texas at Austin, and brings a background in disability studies to library administration and digital education.

View Bio and Articles
Adeline Rosenberg

Adeline Rosenberg

Adeline Rosenberg is a Medical Writer in the Patient Engagement and Open Pharma teams at Oxford PharmaGenesis. She serves as a rare disease patient advocate on the steering committee for the Oxford Patient Engagement Network for Arthritis and Musculoskeletal Conditions (OPEN ARMS) at the University of Oxford, and is the patient engagement workstream lead for the Social Media and Web-Based Metrics Working Group at the International Society for Medical Publication Professionals (ISMPP). She is also an author of the Open Pharma recommendations for plain language summaries of peer-reviewed medical journal publications.

View Bio and Articles
Mike Rossner

Mike Rossner

Mike Rossner is a consultant about image manipulation in biomedical research through his company Image Data Integrity, Inc. Mike’s career in publishing included time as the Managing Editor of The Journal of Cell Biology and then as the Executive Director of The Rockefeller University Press.

View Bio and Articles
Louise Russell

Louise Russell

Louise Russell has over 25 years of experience in the scholarly communications sector spanning editorial, product/digital, and senior leadership roles. In her current role as Director of Tutton Russell Consulting, Louise provides specialist consultancy to publishers, societies, universities, and vendors internationally. In an evolving and increasingly dynamic landscape, Louise brings an external perspective – supporting organizations as they explore new products and business models, review current processes, operations and commercial arrangements, and refocus their strategy for the future.

View Bio and Articles
Einar Ryvarden

Einar Ryvarden

Einar Ryvarden is the Digital manager of The Journal of the Norwegian Medical Association (Tidsskrift for Den norske legeforening). He has worked with online media since 1994 as an editor-in-chief and head of the development department in a Norwegian media group, running 15 websites.

View Bio and Articles
Ariel Mariano Silber

Ariel Mariano Silber

Ariel Mariano Silber is a Full Professor at the University of São Paulo. Since 2006 he heads the Laboratory of Biochemistry of Tryps – LaBTryps. His scientific interests are related to the “unusual logics” behind the metabolism and bioenergetics of pathogenic protists. Some of his other academic interests are related to human rights, gender and minorities in academia, early career researchers’ career development, responsible research assessment, science publications equity and fairness.

View Bio and Articles
John Sack

John Sack

John Sack. John is the Founding Director of HighWire, which facilitates the digital dissemination of more than 3000 journals, books, reference works, and proceedings. John is also the Co-Director of the International Congress on Peer Review and Scientific Publication.

View Bio and Articles
Daniela Saderi

Daniela Saderi

Daniela Saderi, PhD is the Co-Founder and Director of PREreview, an open project with the mission to bring more equity and transparency to the evaluation of research content, giving systematically excluded researchers better ways to find, train, and contribute to peer review. Daniela holds a PhD in Neuroscience from Oregon Health & Science University during which she studied mechanisms of auditory processing in mammals, and she is a former Mozilla Fellow for Science 2018/2019.

View Bio and Articles
Matthew Salter

Matthew Salter

Matthew Salter is the Founder and CEO of Akabana Consulting LLC, (www.akabanaconsulting.com), a boutique publishing consultancy that offers strategic publishing, editorial, marketing, business development, and Japanese language services to learned societies, scholarly publishers, educational organizations, and publishing service vendors. Previously, he was the Publisher of the American Physical Society, and before that the Associate Director, Journal (APAC) for IOP Publishing, and the Editor-in-Chief and Publisher of MacMillan Science Communication (then a division of Nature Asia-Pacific) based in Tokyo. By training, Matthew is a chemist and holds a BSc in chemistry and a PhD in Organic Chemistry from Imperial College. Prior to transitioning into STEM publishing, he pursued a career in academic research and teaching at leading universities in the UK and Japan. Matthew’s work is driven by a passion for science, communication, and scholarship and he has a particular interest and experience in Asian publishing and business environments.

View Bio and Articles
Tony Sanfilippo

Tony Sanfilippo

Tony Sanfilippo co-owned and managed Svoboda’s Scholarly Books in State College, Pennsylvania for almost a decade until he closed it in 2000. He has since worked in university press publishing. He is currently the director of the Ohio State University Press.

View Bio and Articles
Ylann Schemm

Ylann Schemm

Ylann Schemm is a corporate responsibility professional specialized in building strategic, mutually beneficial nonprofit and UN partnerships. As the Elsevier Foundation’s Director, Ylann Schemm drives technology-enabled partnerships to advance diversity in science, build research capacity and support global health around the world

View Bio and Articles
Ylann Schemm

Ylann Schemm

Ylann Schemm is a corporate responsibility professional specialized in building strategic, mutually beneficial nonprofit and UN partnerships. As the Elsevier Foundation’s Director, Ylann Schemm drives technology-enabled partnerships to advance diversity in science, build research capacity and support global health around the world

View Bio and Articles
Rob Schlesinger

Rob Schlesinger

Rob Schlesinger is a doctoral student at Manhattanville College in Purchase, NY.  Rob received a BA from Harvard College and a JD from the University of California, Berkeley School of Law.  Rob has worked in higher education administration in both the US and abroad for over 25 years, and is licensed to practice law in New York and California.

View Bio and Articles
Colleen Scollans

Colleen Scollans

Colleen Scollans is a Marketing & Digital Transformation Consultant. She loves to advise on the strategic and operational aspects of Marketing. She is passionate about driving business transformation through a data-driven and customer focused modern marketing strategy and operating model. 

View Bio and Articles
Megan Seyler

Megan Seyler

Megan Seyler is a Senior Journal Publishing Assistant at Wiley, where she co-founded the Boston office’s DE&I Committee and co-chairs the Global Working Group for Journal Publishing Assistants. Since 2020, she has served as an Advisory Board Member on the DE&I Research Editorial Workstream and as a member of C4DISC’s Communications & Outreach Committee.

View Bio and Articles
John Sherer

John Sherer

John Sherer is the Spangler Family Director of the University of North Carolina Press. He is the chair of the Association of University Presses Open Access Committee and is the Primary Investigator in the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation funded, Sustainable History Monograph Pilot.

View Bio and Articles
Thea Sherer

Thea Sherer

Thea Sherer is the Director of Group Communications for Springer Nature. She is responsible for the Springer Nature Group’s sustainability strategies and reporting, working closely with both the global responsible business steering group and the company’s environment committee. 

View Bio and Articles
D. Robert Siemens

D. Robert Siemens

Dr. Siemens is Professor and former Chair of the Department of Urology at Queen’s University and is Director of the Center for Applied Urological Research. Dr. Siemens is cross-appointed to the Departments of Oncology and Biomedical and Molecular Sciences and has published over 300 peer-reviewed original manuscripts and book chapters. His collaborative basic and translational science units have held continuous funding from granting agencies including Prostate Cancer Canada, USDOD CDMRP, NSERC and CIHR. Dr. Siemens’ interests have focused on the effects of micro-environmental changes on cancer behavior and particularly the ability of cancer cells to evade immune detection. He has built a strong collaborative with other principal investigators in the Departments of Biomedical and Molecular Sciences, as well as Pathology and Molecular Medicine and School of Computing. Dr. Siemens has also formed a research network including epidemiologists, radiation and medical oncologists, nursing and cognitive psychologists focused on numerous prostate and bladder cancer survivorship issues, including patient information and decision aids, as well as indicators of quality of surgical care. He has recently been appointed as Editor-in-Chief of The Journal of UrologyⓇ and is the President-elect of the Canadian Urological Association. 

View Bio and Articles
Emily Singley

Emily Singley

Emily Singley is Head of Library Systems at Boston College, and has previously held technology positions at Harvard University, Southern New Hampshire University, Curry College, and the University of Minnesota. She serves on the SeamlessAccess Outreach Committee, and her primary research interest is in how users access Library resources.

View Bio and Articles
Mark Sinyor

Mark Sinyor

Dr Mark Sinyor is a psychiatrist at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre and an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto. He is lead author of the Canadian Psychiatric Association guidelines for responsible reporting on suicide.

View Bio and Articles
Katherine Skinner

Katherine Skinner

Katherine Skinner is the Executive Director of the Educopia Institute, which she helped to found in 2006 to empower collaborative communities to create, share, and preserve knowledge. In this role, she has assisted dozens of communities in developing or refining their organizational frameworks, governance structures, and economic models to optimize their impact and their sustainability, as chronicled in Educopia’s Community Cultivation Field Guide (2018).

View Bio and Articles
Andrew Smeall

Andrew Smeall

Andrew Smeall is Vice President, Workflow Solutions in Wiley’s Partner Solutions group. He works with a team of Product Managers to deliver software solutions at all stages of the manuscript journey, from authoring to typesetting.

View Bio and Articles
Arfon M. Smith

Arfon M. Smith

Arfon M. Smith is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Open Source Software, and Staff Product Manager for Data at GitHub. Previously he was the founding Head of the Data Science Mission Office at Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore – the home of the Hubble Space Telescope and the MAST NASA archive. He is interested in broadening the range of creditable activities in modern research, especially recognizing open source software contributions. 

View Bio and Articles
Chris Smith

Chris Smith

Chris Smith is a professional writer, researcher, and entrepreneur. He is co-founder of Prolifiko, a digital coach for writers and has 15 years experience working in communications consultancies. He is the founder of Swarm, an agency he set up to work with not-for-profit, third sector, and business clients, and a former lecturer in continental philosophy at Staffordshire University in the UK.

View Bio and Articles
Dean Smith

Dean Smith

Dean Smith is Director of Duke University Press. His career in publishing spans more than 30 years and includes experience in scholarly, STM, university press, and trade- and association-based publishing.

View Bio and Articles
Dustin Smith

Dustin Smith

Dustin Smith is the Co-founder and President of Hum, which provides AI and data intelligence solutions for publishers. For over 15 years, he’s worked at the cross-section of scholarly publishing and tech innovation. He leads Hum’s product vision, strategy and development, and oversees solutions that leverage AI to unify and activate first-party data, including Alchemist, Hum’s deep AI suite. He’s particularly passionate about helping publishers harness data to drive reader engagement, content intelligence, author/reviewer recruitment, and more.

View Bio and Articles
Damita Snow

Damita Snow

Damita Snow, CAE, ENV SP is Director, Accessibility & Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, Publications & Strategy at the American Society of Civil Engineers. She worked on all three Toolkits for Equity, was co-lead of the Antiracism Toolkit for Organizations, is a member of the 2023 Workforce Equity Survey committee and is an immediate past co-chair of the SSP Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility Committee. Snow is also an SSP Board member, ASAE Black Association Executives Board member and former Advisory Board member of AMP Network Associations Council.

View Bio and Articles
Susan Spilka

Susan Spilka

Susan is winding down a long career working with publishers, societies, and technology services to develop and advance public relations, communications (internal and external), marketing, and business development programs. She is a co-founder of the Workplace Equity Project and co-author of Evaluating Equity in Scholarly Publishing, which mapped bias across the global scholarly publishing industry in 2018. She led global internal and external communications at scholarly and professional publisher Wiley for 20 years during a period of tremendous company and industry change. Over the past decade, she helped to build CHORUS as its first Communications & Marketing Director and served on its Communications Working Group. She has also contributed to pioneering initiatives such as Knowledge Unlatched, CLOCKSS, and Crossref.

View Bio and Articles
Rebecca Springer

Rebecca Springer

Rebecca Springer is a qualitative analyst with Ithaka S+R’s Libraries, Scholarly Communication, and Museums program, where she draws on her research and teaching experience to develop and communicate scholar-centric insights into information technologies.

View Bio and Articles
Eleni Spyrakou 

Eleni Spyrakou 

Eleni Spyrakou is a senior researcher at the School of Chemical Engineering of the National Technical University of Athens. She has studied Philosophy, and she holds an MPhil in Philosophy focusing on Ethics and Political philosophy (King’s College London, UK) and a PhD (Hons) in Political Philosophy (University of Ioannina, Greece). Her main research interests include applied ethics (bioethics, environmental ethics, business ethics, research ethics and integrity), the ethics-politics relation and its epistemological problems, the methodology/ies of social sciences. During the last 4 years she has focused on research ethics and research integrity through Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe projects.

View Bio and Articles
Avi Staiman

Avi Staiman

Avi Staiman is the founder and CEO of Academic Language Experts, a company dedicated to assisting academic scholars to prepare their research for publication and bring it to the world. He also is the co-host of the New Books Network ‘Scholarly Communication’ Podcast. Avi has been a guest lecturer at NYU’s Master’s Program in Translation & Interpreting, The University of Tokyo, and the Hebrew University. His essays have appeared in the Cambridge University Press Blog, Multilingual, and Times Higher Education.

View Bio and Articles
Nathan A. Stevenson

Nathan A. Stevenson

Nathan A. Stevenson is Associate Professor in the College of Education, Health, and Human Services at Kent State University. He currently serves as Associate Editor for the journal Assessment for Effective Intervention. 

View Bio and Articles
Karen Stoll Farrell

Karen Stoll Farrell

Karen Stoll Farrell is Head of Scholarly Communication at Indiana University Libraries, Bloomington. In a recent past life, they were the Librarian for South and Southeast Asian Studies, where they focused on cooperative collection development and web archives. In this current life, they serve as the co-project manager for the Toolkit for Disability Equity and devote time to research about feminist management practices and about Autistic librarians and students.

View Bio and Articles
Anne Stone

Anne Stone

Anne Stone is owner of Stone Strategic Marketing Services serving the associations, publishers and organizations in the research ecosystem. She has worked in marketing and publishing for over 20 years at organizations including TBI Communications, Wiley, Blackwell, Pearson, and Constant Contact.

View Bio and Articles
Madelyn Stone

Madelyn Stone

Madelyn Stone is the Membership Administrator for the Society for Scholarly Publishing. Previously she has worked as a journalist, an educator, and an editorial assistant for an economic history journal. She completed her PhD in history at Emory University on policing in colonial southern Africa. In her spare time she is active in advocacy efforts for underserved communities and the long-term project of reshaping her dissertation into a book.

View Bio and Articles
Jessica Thibodeau

Jessica Thibodeau

Jessica Thibodeau is Senior Director, Information and Content Solutions at CCC, responsible for the strategic direction of CCC’s Ringgold portfolio and go-to-market efforts for products and services across the scholarly publishing ecosystem.

View Bio and Articles
Mark Thomas

Mark Thomas

Mark Thomas is an ALPSP tutor, and helps STEM professionals communicate complex ideas in a more engaging way. His company, Glass Box Thinking, specializes in facilitating corporate leadership and communication workshops both online and offline.

View Bio and Articles
Randy Townsend

Randy Townsend

Randy Townsend, MPS, (he, him, his) is President of the Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP) and has served in leadership positions for the Council of Science Editors, and AM&P Network’s Association Council, and has co-chaired DEIA Committees for AM&P Network and SSP. He has actively supported C4DISC and contributed to the development of many of their freely available resources. At Origin Editorial, Randy takes innovative approaches to lead and implement peer review strategies. Randy was the inaugural Editor in Chief for the GW Journal of Ethics in Publishing and is an Associate Professor of the MPS in Publishing program in the College of Professional Studies at George Washington University.

View Bio and Articles
Jon Treadway

Jon Treadway

Jon Treadway is the Director of Great North Wood Consulting, working with organizations across the research sector and creative industries. He has worked previously as Chief Operating Officer for Digital Science, as a Senior Analyst at Holtzbrinck Publishing Group, and ran the UK’s largest funding program for the cultural sector at Arts Council England.

View Bio and Articles
Michelle Urberg

Michelle Urberg

Michelle Urberg is SaaS Implementation Manager /Metadata Consultant and Librarian for EBSCO Information Services. Michelle is a publishing professional and trained librarian and musicologist, with deep knowledge of metadata standards, metadata creation, the library and publishing software industries. She has worked in academic libraries and as a metadata librarian for the ExLibris business unit of ProQuest. She is currently a private consultant specializing in content management implementation and metadata enhancement, as well as being a SaaS Products Implementation Project Manager at EBSCO. Recent research projects include identifying options for standard identifiers and metadata exchange of audio-visual content and improving metadata for digital humanities projects. Michelle holds a PhD in Music History and a MS in Library and Information Science. She was previously active with Metadata 2020. She is currently active in SSP, NISO, and ACRL. She is an active member of NISOs VAMD working group and the Peer Review Terminology working group.

View Bio and Articles
Erik Van Winkle

Erik Van Winkle

Erik Van Winkle is the head of business development for DeSci Labs, FAIR Implementation facilitator for the GO FAIR Foundation, and the lead of the dPID Working Group for the DeSci Foundation. His interests include metadata formatting, persistent identifier implementation, and reproducibility.

View Bio and Articles
Ravi Venkataramani

Ravi Venkataramani

Ravi Venkataramani, the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Kriyadocs, is a speaker, author, and member of the ALPSP Education Committee. With over 20 years of experience in the publishing industry, he spearheads Kriyadocs’ growth strategy, focusing on leveraging technology to unlock human potential.

View Bio and Articles
Derek Victor

Derek Victor

Derek Victor is a cisgender, white, queer, disabled educator, writer, and activist based in Ireland. He works with academic and corporate organizations on anti-prejudice activities, with a focus on the experiences of students and workers with disabilities, neurodiversities, learning differences, and mental health differences. He also offers training on the intersection of protected, marginalized, and privileged identities and the practices of diversity and inclusion through the lens of disability. He also works as a communications consultant, combining his knowledge of intersectionality, his background in biology and linguistics, and his talent for storytelling, to help people in academia and industry to get their message across in a contemporary way.

View Bio and Articles
Eloisa Viggiani

Eloisa Viggiani

Eloisa Viggiani is a specialist in bibliographic databases and science evaluation, providing analysis, insights and recommendations around science evaluations and the responsible use of indicators for the assessment of research institutions and individual researchers. Her experience includes more than 15 years in delivering consulting services to universities, research funding agencies, and government organizations in Latin America around the assessment and evaluation of research and higher education, and around topics of special interest in the region, such as Open Science, academic mobility/Brain Drain, and regional inequalities. Eloisa has a bachelor’s degree in Engineering and a PhD in Education in Sciences from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.

View Bio and Articles
Hannah Vinchur

Hannah Vinchur

Hannah Vinchur is an Editorial Coordinator at Science Advances, the open access, interdisciplinary journal at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). She oversees manuscripts through every aspect of the editorial process and manages the editors in the Earth, Environmental, Ecological, and Space Sciences discipline. Previously, she worked as a writing consultant at the University of Nebraska-Omaha and University of Nebraska Medical Center and for a SEO company, children’s literature publisher, and travel magazine. She once spent Halloween on the Brontë moors. She holds a MA in Eighteenth-Century Literature and Romanticism from Queen Mary, University of London, a BA in English and editing, and her name is a palindrome.

View Bio and Articles
Miranda Walker

Miranda Walker

Miranda Walker is an Associate Director at Wolters Kluwer Health where she and her team navigate and implement the strategic publishing goals for select Wolters Kluwer proprietary journals and society partners.

View Bio and Articles
Jiayun Wang

Jiayun Wang

Jiayun Wang was recently awarded her doctorate degree in publishing science at Wuhan University in China. Her research focuses on scholarly publishing and open science culture. Jiayun hopes to act as a bridge between China and the western world and to drive strategies for the sustainable development of scholarly communication.

View Bio and Articles
Lillian Wang Selonick

Lillian Wang Selonick

Lillian Wang Selonick is an assistant managing editor at the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. In addition to managing a team of five editorial coordinators who oversee peer review from submission to acceptance, she leads the Corrections team, which handles all post-publication update requests.

View Bio and Articles
Deirdre Watchorn

Deirdre Watchorn

Deirdre Watchorn is an insights professional with over 20 years’ experience consulting for multinational brand and marketing teams globally. She has led the insights and analysis team at De Gruyter since 2019. 

View Bio and Articles
Emma Watkins

Emma Watkins

Emma Watkins is Head of Marketing and Communications at technology consultancy 67 Bricks, having previously worked for over a decade in various roles in marketing at IOP Publishing. During her time at IOPP, she received the SSP Travel Grant for Early Career Publishing Professionals and was an ALPSP trainer, delivering the course ‘Effective Journals Marketing’ for several years. 

View Bio and Articles
Charles Watkinson

Charles Watkinson

Charles Watkinson is Director of University of Michigan Press and Associate University Librarian for Publishing at the University of Michigan. He previously held a similar role at Purdue University. He is President Elect of the Association for University Presses and a member of the Board of Directors of the OAPEN Foundation, the infrastructure service for open access books.

View Bio and Articles
Gwen Weerts

Gwen Weerts

Gwen Weerts is the Journals Manager at SPIE, and the Editor-in-Chief of the SPIE Society magazine, Photonics Focus. Gwen joined SPIE in 2008 and has 16 years of experience in scholarly publishing.

View Bio and Articles
Ruth Wells

Ruth Wells

Ruth Wells is the Founder at Inventing Change. Ruth has 20 years experience in academic publishing including roles in technology, operations and sales. She is now an innovator in publishing and social change and an advocate in diversity and inclusion, particularly for mental health. She has recently written a book on leadership, inspired by leaders and managers in organizations where she has worked. Ruth offers a practical approach to cultural change based on personal experience and helps run Publishing Inclusion Enabled which supports people from all walks of life in their publishing careers.

View Bio and Articles
Rebecca Welzenbach

Rebecca Welzenbach

Rebecca Welzenbach is Research Impact and Information Science Librarian at the University of Michigan. She has been a librarian at U-M since 2009, working on various aspects of digital humanities, scholarly publishing and communications, open access, and research impact. As research impact librarian, she empowers scholars to create the conditions under which they can establish a strong public identity, a coherent account of their contributions to the scholarly enterprise, and a persuasive body of evidence for the impact of their work within the academy, and for the public.

View Bio and Articles
Abeni Wickham

Abeni Wickham

Abeni Wickham is a researcher turned founder of SciFree AB in Stockholm, Sweden. SciFree is a software company focused on providing tools to reduce the workload of researchers, university libraries, and publishers in the transition towards open access. Abeni is a new member of the NASIG Digital Preservation Committee.

View Bio and Articles
Ginger Williams

Ginger Williams

Virginia Kay (Ginger) Williams recently left Texas State University to become Coordinator of Collection Strategies at Wichita State University. At Texas State, she led acquisitions and collection development with a focus on cooperation and innovation to improve access to information.

View Bio and Articles
Susan Willner

Susan Willner

Susan Willner is the Associate Director, Publications for the American Society of Nephrology where she sits at the intersection of technology and marketing leveraging the power of analytics to drive strategic recommendations and direction for the ASN publishing program. Susan joined ASN from HighWire where she managed a large portfolio of society publishers. She has over 20 years of experience with scholarly publishing working as both a publisher and distributor of content for companies such as Westlaw, Thomson Reuters, Dialog, and Disclosure.

View Bio and Articles
Emma Wilson

Emma Wilson

Emma Wilson is the Director of Publishing at the Royal Society of Chemistry. She has responsibility for editorial, product and policy development across the Royal Society of Chemistry’s portfolio of journals, books and databases.

View Bio and Articles
Annette Windhorn

Annette Windhorn

AUPresses’ External Communications Manager since 2018, Annette Windhorn previously managed the Organization of American Historians Distinguished Lectureship Program and served in a variety of marketing and sale capacities at the Smithsonian Institution Press, University of Nebraska Press, and Duke University Press.

View Bio and Articles
Isaac Wink

Isaac Wink

Isaac Wink is the Research Data Librarian at the University of Kentucky. He recently graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with an MS in Library and Information Science and an MA in History.

View Bio and Articles
Susie Winter

Susie Winter

Susie Winter co-chairs the Scholarly Networks Security Initiative Communications Working Group and is VP, External Communications at Springer Nature. She joined Springer Nature from the Publishers Association, the trade association for the publishing industry in the UK where, as Director of Policy and Communications, she was responsible for developing and leading the PA’s work across the policy agenda as well as promoting the contribution made by the UK publishing industry at both a UK and European level. Prior to that she was the first Director General for the Alliance for Intellectual Property, working to ensure that the importance of IP rights to the UK economy is recognized.

View Bio and Articles
Kate Wittenberg

Kate Wittenberg

Kate Wittenberg is Managing Director of Portico. Previously, Kate served as project director of client and partnership development for Ithaka S+R, and worked at Columbia, where she was the editor-in-chief of Columbia University Press until 1999.

View Bio and Articles
Christine Wolff-Eisenberg

Christine Wolff-Eisenberg

Christine Wolff-Eisenberg, manager of surveys and research at Ithaka S+R, leads a team of researchers in studying student and faculty needs, academic support services, and organizational leadership in collaboration with educational and cultural organizations.

View Bio and Articles
Paige Wooden

Paige Wooden

Paige Wooden serves as Senior Program Manager, Publication Statistics for the American Geophysical Union (AGU). She works on data projects on editorial operations, post-publication metrics, and member data to inform department and enterprise strategy. She has held various positions in the Publications Department at AGU in the past 12 years of her tenure including peer review manager of AGU’s journal portfolio. She holds a Master of English Literature from University of Maryland, College Park, and a BA in English from University of California, Berkeley.

View Bio and Articles
Jie Xu

Jie Xu

Professor at the School of Information Management, Wuhan University of China. Dr. Xu is also a Senior Academic Associate of CIBER Research Ltd. Her research interests are scholarly communication and information behavior. 

View Bio and Articles
Ralph Youngen

Ralph Youngen

Ralph Youngen is Senior Director of Technology Strategy & Partnerships at the American Chemical Society. He is past Co-Chair of RA21, a member of the SeamlessAccess governance committee, and one of the founders of GetFTR.

View Bio and Articles
Betty Yu

Betty Yu

Betty Yu is a Professor in the Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences at San Francisco State University and a managing co-editor of the Journal of Critical Study of Communication and Disability. Her research and clinical interests are in how communication access among racially-minoritized, disabled children in multilingual communities are shaped by institutional practices/policies, family socialization, and dominant ideologies about race/language/disability.

View Bio and Articles
Hong Zhou

Hong Zhou

Hong Zhou is Director of Intelligent Services and Head of AI R&D for Atypon, part of Wiley Partner Solutions, where he is responsible for overseeing the implementation of artificial intelligence–driven information discovery technologies. He has published 14 articles for various computer science journals and conferences.

View Bio and Articles
Richard de Grijs

Richard de Grijs

Editor’s Note: Today’s post is by Richard de Grijs. Richard is Professor of Astrophysics at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. He served as scientific editor of The Astrophysical Journal from 2006–2012 and Deputy Editor of The Astrophysical Journal Letters from 2012–2018. Richard is currently Associate Editor of the Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage and Specialty Chief Editor (Fundamental Astronomy) of Frontiers in Astrophysics and Space Sciences.

View Bio and Articles
Richard di Santo

Richard di Santo

Richard di Santo, Director of Operations at JMIR Publications, has over 20 years of experience in publishing operations, technologies, and mentorship. Richard is driven by a commitment to innovation, scalable growth, and efficient workflows. He is dedicated to forging new, sustainable ways of publishing while ensuring the integrity and accessibility of meaningful content.

View Bio and Articles
Erich van Rijn

Erich van Rijn

Erich van Rijn is Executive Director at the University of California Press. From 2019 through 2021 he chaired the Association of University Presses Open Access Task Force, which is now a standing committee of the Association. He is also currently co-principal investigator with John Sherer at the University of North Carolina Press on an NEH-funded project that is studying the impact of the availability of open access ebooks on the sales of print copies using data gathered from university presses.

View Bio and Articles
Cem Özel

Cem Özel

Cem Özel is the User Services Manager at the Sabancı University Information Center and a member of the Turkish Librarians’ Association and University and Research Librarians’ Association. He is a member of the Turkish Librarianship journal’s editorial board. Previously Cem served as an information services specialist at Sabanci University, and before that worked or Istanbul Bilgi University Library.

View Bio and Articles