BIOGRAPHIES OF BREAKOUT SESSION LEADERS

Group D

KEITH ABBOTT has been working for Wiley since 2003. Originally from a Journals Fulfilment background, Keith now devotes much of his time to contractual issues, particularly around the licensing of online content. He has a particular interest in how authentication methods facilitate access to content and the importance of maintaining clean data, both to ensure libraries comply with the terms of their licences and are able to produce accurate usage statistics from their online holdings.

SIMON BAINS is Head of Research Services and Deputy Librarian at the . His responsibilities include services in support of scholarly publishing and research data management, as well as a range of projects encompassing library building redevelopment, digital humanities, performance measurement and staff training. Previously he was Head of the Digital Library at the , and Digital Library Manager at the National Library of Scotland. Simon has worked nationally and internationally on a range of issues, with a focus on the impact of digital on research libraries. He currently chairs a Research Libraries UK group on Open Access services and is project director of a Jisc Open Access Pathfinder project.

DOM BENSON is Electronic Resources Librarian at University (since 2005). He serves as a member on NISO’s KBART Standing Committee and OCLC’s newly formed EZproxy Community Group. Dom was secretary to the ProQuest Workflow Solutions UK & Ireland User Group from 2012 to 2015. He is currently collaborating with Julie Zhu after attending her IEEE & Discovery Services Workshop.

JAN DONNELLY has worked in Sales and Marketing at many blue chip companies in various sectors, including FMCG and the Drinks Industry, after having qualified at diploma and certificate level with the Institute of Leadership and Management. She joined the Publishing sector a little over ten years ago. As Country Manager for LM Information Delivery in the UK and Ireland she leads the UK team from the Oxfordshire office and she is also involved in the development of new offices across Europe, Africa and the USA. Prior to her move to LM three years ago, she worked as National Sales Manager with EBSCO Subscription Services in the UK and Ireland for nearly seven years.

CLAIRE GRACE is Head of Content & Licensing at The . She is responsible for the strategic and operational functions of The Open University’s Library Service to do with purchasing and licensing of all types of information products. She managed the transition from print to online. Claire’s team licenses content to support learning and teaching, research and scholarship for the OU’s 200,000 user population, most of whom are not present on campus. She works closely with the University’s Rights Department who also clear rights to content and purchase etextbooks. Claire started her career in retail bookselling.

PAUL HARWOOD has been working with librarians and publishers for over 25 years in different roles at 3M, Swets, Content Complete, Jisc and, currently, EBSCO. A qualified librarian, he has crossed the poacher/gamekeeper divide on more than one occasion and has derived enormous job satisfaction on both sides of the fence and in various guises: general management, sales and marketing, customer service and operations, negotiations and licensing. Paul has written and presented regularly on the role of intermediaries in the scholarly publishing chain over the years, including at many UKSG events. He enjoyed a lengthy association with UKSG, serving on the committee in various positions between 1995-2007.

NEIL JACOBS is Head of Scholarly Communications Support at Jisc. In this role he is responsible for a range of Jisc work that enables UK universities to implement Open Access efficiently and effectively, reflecting the policies of UK Government and (inter)national research funders. He is also involved in Jisc’s negotiations with publishers to transition to Open Access without excessive cost to universities. He maintains close ties with UK research funders, libraries, research managers and domain experts. Neil has been working on Open Access for over 10 years, and in the library and information profession for over 20 years, covering policy, economic, technical and organisational aspects of scholarly communication.

HUGH MURPHY was appointed Senior Librarian, Collection Management Services at Maynooth University Library in October 2010, having worked previously in University College Dublin Library and in the National Library of Ireland. Since 2005 he has acted as an occasional lecturer in the School of Information and Library Studies in UCD. He also lecturers on Maynooth University’s MA in Historical Archives and is currently pursuing doctoral studies in early 19 th century history. Hugh’s main professional interests lie in the areas of collection development, library buildings, and resource description.

DAVID PARKES is a National Teaching Fellow, University Librarian and Associate Director of Information Services at , heading up libraries, learning support, learning technologies and archives. A Chartered Librarian and Technologist, David leads a dynamic learning support team of librarians, educational technologists, trainers, IT professionals, study skills staff and web designers to provide a broad array of quality services, resources and learning opportunities. He writes and speaks widely on library buildings/spaces, learning technologies, the provision of information and digital literacy, open source and open educational resources, e-books and emerging technologies to universities, publishers, academics and other librarians. He is also Head of the Special Collections and Archives and runs a museum. He is currently experimenting with the Raspberry Pi, Google Glass and a Ukulele band.

ANDREW PITTS has worked in STM publishing for over twenty years, including ten years as the Director of International Sales for The American Chemical Society. In 2005 Andrew, with his business partner Justin Spence, founded Publisher Solutions International to address the very real problem of subscription fraud, where institutional revenue is lost due to purchasing abuse. The success of the work in the field led to an expansion of the PSI product portfolio and growth in the area of e-content, offering global publishers a service where IP addresses governing access to content are vetted, secure, and free of error.

RAYMOND PUN is currently the first year student success librarian at California State University, Fresno. In this position he is charged to create and co-ordinate the first year library experience and information literacy programme across campus. Previously he worked at NYU Shanghai as a reference librarian providing research, instruction and outreach services. He has published and presented widely on gamification and libraries, student engagement and library instruction. Some of his awards include The Library Journal’s Mover and Shaker profile (2012), ALA’s Emerging Leaders Program (2014) and SLA’s Achievement in Academic Business Librarianship (2015).

ANETTE SCHNEIDER is a librarian who graduated from the Royal School of Library and Information Science in 1978. Since 1995 she has been working with electronic information resources. During the years 2000–2008 she worked with consortia licensing at the Danish Electronic Research Library (DEFF). Since 2008 she has been a Senior Officer at Technical University of Denmark (DTU Library). Her main areas of work are electronic information resources and related areas. She has been part of several project groups, such as ERM systems, new pricing models, perpetual access, open access, etc. Since 1998 Anette has been a member of the Danish Licensing Group for Universities, and was previously also a member of the Knowledge Exchange Licensing group.

SOFIE WENNSTRÖM has a Bachelor’s Degree in Multimedia and Education from Stockholm University, and is working as an Analyst at the Department of Quality at the Stockholm University Library. Sofie has an interest in pedagogical development in higher education in general and the combination with long experience from working in the global academic publishing business has created a field of interest for international scholarly communication in general. She is now working with the development of Stockholm University Press, as well as other tools to expand the knowledgebase and instruments available for the digital academic scholar with a global aim. Further information and works can be found online: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1229-7019

JULIE ZHU is Discovery Service Relations Manager, IEEE. As part of her role Julie manages relationships with Discovery Service and Link Resolver vendors to ensure IEEE content visibility and findability in Discovery Service solutions implemented by IEEE institutional customers. She also manages and co-ordinates efforts to maximise successful resolution of IEEE content links in Discovery Service results and/or third-party interfaces to IEEE Xplore. Julie is an active member of the Delivery to Discovery Topic Committee, the KBART Standing Committee, and the ODI Standing Committee at NISO (National Information Standards Organisation). She also spoke at the NISO Forum: The Future of Library Resource Discovery meeting in October 2015. View Julie's LinkedIn profile. https://www.linkedin.com/pub/julie-zhu/4/1a/299