Michael Jubb

Dr Michael Jubb is Director of the Research Information Network (RIN). He has worked as an academic historian; an archivist; a civil servant; Deputy Secretary of the British Academy; and Deputy Chief Executive of the Arts and Humanities Research Board (AHRB) from 1998 to 2005. Since then he has been Director of the RIN, a research and policy unit focusing on the changing needs and behaviours of key players in the scholarly communications landscape: researchers (in all disciplines), funders, publishers, libraries, and universities. He has been responsible sine 2005 for over 30 reports on key aspects of the changing scholarly communications landscape, ranging from researchers' use of libraries, through  cataloguing and discovery services, to the economics of scholarly communications.