STM Future Lab Committee
This is a high level brainstorming group on 'Technology Trends.' Working on behalf of the membership, the remit of the Committee includes the monitoring of new technology trends and their impact on the STM publishing industry. The Committee will alert the Board to key developments and trends in the area of standards and technology and will propose joint STM strategies wherever useful or ncessary. It will also act as the Program Committee for the annual Innovations Seminar in London in December.
Kent Anderson is the CEO/Publisher for the Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery. He has been the Executive Director of Product Development for the New England Journal of Medicine, the Publishing Director for NEJM, and Director of Medical Journals at the American Academy of Pediatrics. He's worked in healthcare publishing for 20 years, and has been a writer, editor, designer, copy editor, managing editor, and publisher. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the Scholarly Kitchen, writes fiction under his pen name Andrew Kent, and has degrees in English and business.
Geoffrey Bilder (2009) is Director of Strategic Initiatives at CrossRef, and has over 16 years experience as a technical leader in scholarly technology. He co-founded Brown University's Scholarly Technology Group in 1993, providing the Brown academic community with advanced technology consulting in support of their research, teaching and scholarly communication. He was subsequently head of IT R&D at Monitor Group, a global management consulting firm based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. From 2002 to 2005, Geoffrey was Chief Technology Officer of scholarly publishing firm Ingenta, and just prior to joining CrossRef, he was a Publishing Technology Consultant at Scholarly Information Strategies, where he consulted extensively with publishers and librarians on emerging technologies and how they may affect scholarly and professional researchers.
Gerry Grenier (2009) is currently Staff Director of Publishing Technologies for the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in Piscataway, New Jersey. He leads an electronic publishing team at the IEEE whose projects include development and operation of IEEE Xplore -- a digital library containing 2.0 million journal articles, conference papers, and standards in electrical engineering and computer science. Prior to joining the IEEE Gerry was Director of Publishing Technologies at John Wiley & Sons, serving as a key member of the team that developed Wiley Interscience. He is member of the American Society of Information Science & Technology and the IEEE Computer Society.
Gillian Howcroft (2009) has worked for Taylor & Francis for just over 2 years now as their Director of Editorial Electronic Projects within the Editorial Department. She is responsible with her team for gathering business and technical requirements to enhance our journal content as well as IT systems to improve the function of the Department. She is a member of the STM Future Lab Committee.
After finishing her degree in French, Spanish and Business Studies, she qualified as a stockbroker and worked as Assistant to the Director of Venture Capital for 4 years @ American Equities Overseas. In 1990 she joined Datastream, who were the first company to bring financial research online and lead their Global Data Acquisition Department for 8 years. She was then headhunted to run Thomson Financial Research in Europe where she was responsible for the procurement, production and delivery of accurate and timely historic market data for various Thomson Financial products such as First Call Earnings Estimates and CDA Spectrum Institutional Holdings Database amongst others. She then set up her own consultancy which she ran for 4 years, including amongst her clients, Financial Times Interactive Data and the London Stock Exchange. She then moved to California with her family for 12 months, returning to the UK in 2006 where she decided to find a more local job, hence arriving at Taylor & Francis
Richard Kidd (2009) is Manager of Informatics at Royal Society of Chemistry Publishing, running a production department integrated with an R&D group breaking new ground in semantic markup. He's worked on the production of databases, books, magazines and journals for over 20 years, and believes that the potential benefits to all stakeholders of structured data capture are enormous.
David Martinsen has been at the American Chemical Society (ACS) for over 20 years, working in various capacities in the Publications Division and in IT. In his current role, he is responsible for tracking new technologies and planning for their incorporation into the scholarly publishing environment. Prior to joining ACS, he worked for a chemical software/database company, with responsibilities in database curation and in the development and maintenance of online search/retrieval systems for chemical data, after earning a PhD degree in physical chemistry from the University of Minnesota. He is currently Past-Chair of the ACS Division of Chemical Information, and serves on the Committee for Printed on Electronic Publications of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC).
Timothy Murray (2010) is Manager of Electronic Publishing Development at Cambridge University Press where he recently lauched Cambridge books online.
His current efforts involve future business models for the scholarly monograph in STM and HSS. He has been developing online publications since the mid 1990's for publishers including Marcel Dekker, AIP, Springer, Lippincott, and Pearson Education.
Howard Ratner is Chief Technology Officer, Executive Vice-President, for the Nature Publishing Group. Based in New York, Howard is in charge of US operations and has global responsibilities for Production and Manufacturing, Emerging Technologies, Web Development and Operations, and IT across all NPG products. Howard's prior positions include Director, Electronic Publishing & Production for Springer and a member of the production staff at John Wiley & Sons. He serves on the board of directors for CrossRef and CLOCKSS, as well as leading CrossRef Web Services, and is a member of the CCC Publisher Advisory and the STM Future Lab committees. He also contributes to the SSP's Scholarly Kitchen blog.
Philippa Scoones has a degree in English and Art History. She has worked for Blackwell (now Wiley-Blackwell) for 26 years, where she is currently Web Publishing Director. Prior to this she worked as a bookseller, in trade publishing and had careers in books and journals, sales and marketing. Prior to Wiley acquisition of Blackwell Publishing Philippa had overall responsibility for the development of Blackwell-Synergy. Philippa's current responsibilities include the coordination of business requirements for the new Wiley-Blackwell content delivery platform and custom website development.
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.
John Shaw, Executive Director of Publishing Technologies, has been with SAGE Publications for 15 years. During his tenure, John has held management roles in Composition, Abstracts Production, and Journals Production. John currently heads up SAGE and CQ Press's global electronic publishing program, including electronic peer review, journal and books hosting systems, electronic production systems, content management strategies, content archiving, and content conversion. John was named SAGE's Employee of the Month in 1996 and Employee of the Year in 2001. John attends and frequently speaks at numerous industry conferences throughout the year.
Eefke Smit works as an independent consultant in new business development, e-publishing and web-products. For the International Association of Scientific, Medical and Technical Publishers (STM Assoc) she is the part-time Director of Standards and Technology.
Eefke's professional background includes responsibility for the development of several successful scholarly information products, among which ScopusTM, ScirusTM and ScienceDirectTM. She has also spent many years in the print world of academic publishing in areas such as Physics, Astronomy, Engineering, Computer Science and Mathematics and took a proactive role in the e-migration during the mid- and late nineties when working at Elsevier.
After her university studies in the mid-eighties, she started her working life as a newspaper journalist for NRC Handelsblad writing on research and high-tech developments. Early this century she spent a few years in B-2-B and consumer publishing. In 2006 she started a business of her own under the name Bronfonteyn (Springfountain), located in Amsterdam.
David Smith is Business Innovations Manager at CABI (www.cabi.org). The role of his innovations team is to focus on the implications and applications of online developments, and effectively advise, explain, champion and incorporate these into appropriate strategies that enable CABI to deliver on its mission statement. Prior to taking on this role, David was a Publishing Editor and then Managing Editor at CABI. He joined CABI from BioMedCentral in 2001. David has a D.Phil (Molecular Parasitology) from the University of York.
Full Bios will follow shortly for the following committee members:
- Thomas Connertz, Thieme (2009)
- Terry Hulbert, AIP
- John Shaw, Sage (2009)
- James Walker, IOPP
- IJsbrand Jan Aalbersberg - Elsevier
