Bev Acreman became Commercial Director at the Open Access Publisher, BioMed Central (www.biomedcentral.com) in 2009. A key part of this role is communicating the benefits of Open Access and liaising with universities, and their libraries, about how Open Access is beneficial to the process of publishing for the communities they serve. Previously she worked at Taylor & Francis for fifteen years as global marketing and customer services director.  Bev is actively involved in the UKSG (www.uksg.org) and is on her second term on  the Main Committee, and newly involved in The Mapp (www.themapp.net) as customer service correspondent.   Prior to T&F, Bev worked at Elsevier Advanced Technology.  

For more information, see http://www.linkedin.com/in/bevacreman. 

Bev is co-chair of the STM Library Relations Committee and sees its role as an informal, collegial discussion group between major stakeholders in academia and publishing of the major issues of the day.

Elizabeth (Liz) Chapman

Deputy Director of Library Services

UCL (University College London)

Associate Researcher in UCL's CIBER Group Founder member of the Fiesole Retreat UCL (20,000 students, 4,000 academics) is a multi-site, multi-disciplinary university in London with a large faculty of Biomedicine.

Research-intensive, it ranks internationally and nationally and has 15 libraries across several sites in north London.

Many of these libraries serve hospital staff as well as researchers and students.

Roland Ehrenfels

Sales and Marketing Director for the OUP Journals Division

Before: 8 years at BertelsmannSpringer

Last position: Vice President Sales Books at Springer SBM

The benefits I seek from participating in this STM committee - Understanding the common "chances/threats/activities/changes" in the markets/community

E-mail: roland.ehrenfels@oxfordjournals.org

Warren Holder has been a librarian at the University of Toronto since 1978. During his time at the university Warren has been the head of the undergraduate library as well as the head of the circulation department (book stacks, periodical reading room, document delivery etc) of the Robarts Graduate Library.

Currently Warren is the Electronic Information Resources Co-ordinator with responsibility for identifying content, negotiating site licenses and vetting legal agreements that will allow access to electronic resources for the faculty, staff and students at the University of Toronto.

Warren might suggest that while not complete, the University of Toronto Library has licensed a critical mass of e-journals and e-index and abstract databases and so has now turned his attention to the purchasing - and licensing where appropriate - of e-books.

Warren had also been concerned about how difficult it is to find information and so is also involved in the evolving discovery tools that are being introduced to " replace " the library OPAC.

Karen Hunter is a Senior Vice President within the Global Academic and Customer Relations group at Elsevier.  She joined Elsevier in 1976, working previously at Cornell University Libraries and Baker & Taylor.  She has focused on corporate strategy, the journals transition from paper to electronic, copyright, and library policies and relations.  She led early electronic journal experiments and the start-up of ScienceDirect.  Hunter is on the boards of the Copyright Clearance Center, CLOCKSS, and CrossRef.

Maurice Kwong has 25 years of experience in publishing in his career  development after he graduated in Business Management in 1983. Maurice joined Springer in 1987 as the manager of the Asian representative office and has gradually developed the Springer operation in Asia into a full publishing service entity as of today. Maurice was named Managing Director of Springer Asia in 1993. He was a member of the International Management Board of BertelsmannSpringer before the merger with Kluwer Academic Publishers in 2003. Since then, he has been a member of the Senior Management of Springer Science and Business Media.

Maurice was a graduate in Business Management and has a MBA degree in Strategic Marketing. He likes many types of ball games, music and reading. He has a family with a 16 year old son. The Kwong family resides in Hong Kong.

Michael publishes and speaks regularly on the scholarly publishing system at international conferences and is a Visiting Professor in Information Science at University College London, and at the College of Communication at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA.

Since 1996, Ann Okerson has been at Yale, following experience in academic library management, the commercial sector, and as senior program officer at the Association of Research Libraries, where she was launched the new Scholarly Communications program.

In 1996, she organized the Northeast Researh Libraries consortium (NERL), a group of 27 large and over 50 smaller libraries negotiating for electronic information and engaging in other cooperative activities.

Ann is one of the active, founding spirits of the International Coalition of Library Consortia (ICOLC).  Activities include many projects, publications, advisory boards, and speaking engagements around the world, as well as professional awards.  She is a leader in licensing electronic scholarly resources, developing a model contract used by libraries and organizations everywhere.  She is a Principal Investigator on several grants for building components of a Middle East Virtual Library and a Foundation grant for improving liberal arts teaching through use of library special collections.

E-mail: ann.okerson@yale.edu

T. Scott Plutchak has been Associate Professor and Director of the Lister Hill Library of the Health Sciences at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) since 1995.  Prior to that he served as Associate Director, and then Director, of the Health Sciences Center Library at St. Louis University in St. Louis, Missouri.  He received his Masters Degree in Library Science from the University of Wisconsin in 1983, and was a post-graduate Library Associate at the US National Library of Medicine.

From 1999 through 2005 he was the editor of the Journal of the Medical Library Association (JMLA), and presently serves on the editorial board of Evidence Based Library and Information Practice.  He is currently a member of the Board of Directors of the Medical Library Association.  He is a frequent guest speaker to publisher and library groups on topics ranging from intellectual property to scholarly communication to the future of librarianship, and leads the international librarian rock band, The Bearded Pigs.

John Sack is a founder of Stanford University's HighWire Press, starting the organization with a team of five in 1995.  Before launching HighWire, during a 20-year career in information systems, he was responsible for architecting and leading the delivery of campus-wide and international information system and system infrastructure, with a special focus on large-scale text-based systems.  John has worked in several functions in information systems: from consulting, documentation and training early in his career; to application and system development as a programmer for search engines, data base systems, library automation systems, and decision support systems; and with roles from project and functional management to general management of the IT function.  John works at the interface of users and technology, with a particular interest in the introduction of new technologies, innovation diffusion, user interface design, and the translation of user needs into technology services.  He graduated Phi Beta Kappa and magna cum laude with a B.A. in English and Religious Studies from the University of Virginia, and with an M.A. in English from Stanford University.  John has served on the boards of several organizations: volunteer-service, banking, and publishing industry; and he is a regular speaker at publishing conferences.

E-mail: sack@stanford.edu

Gene D. Sprouse

Gene D. Sprouse, is Editor in Chief, American Physical Society and a Distinguished Professor of Physics at Stony Brook University(on leave).  He is a research physicist and teacher and has recently focussed his attention on the journals of the APS.

Nol Verhagen, University of Amsterdam