Open Access Monographs in the Humanities
and Social Sciences Conference
1 and 2 July 2013, The British Library, London
Speaker Bios
Janneke Adema
Janneke Adema is a PhD student at Coventry University. She has conducted research for
both OAPEN and DOAB, and is the author of amongst others the OAPEN report Overview
of Open Access Models for eBooks in the HSS (2010) and the DOAB User Needs Analysis
(2012). She has published in amongst others The International Journal of Cultural Studies;
New Media & Society; New Review of Academic Librarianship; Krisis; and Logos, and she has
co-edited a living book on Symbiosis (Open Humanities Press, 2011). Currently she is writing
a dissertation on the future of the scholarly book. Her research practice focuses on issues of
openness, remix and authorship and on the material production of the book, through which
she explores and critically analyses the discourse and power struggle surrounding the
academic monograph. Her research, which can be seen as both a theoretical and practical
intervention into this debate, can be accessed and followed, as it develops, on
www.openreflections.wordpress.com.
Philippe Aigrain
Dr. Philippe Aigrain was trained in maths and computer science. Active as a researcher in
media software from 1983, he joined the European Commission R&D programmes in 1996
where he was head of sector “Software technology and society” until 2003. He initiated and
coordinated the policies in support to free/open source software innovation. He is the CEO
of Sopinspace, a company developing F/OSS tools and services for collaborative and
participatory activities. He is the author of 3 open access monographs on intellectual rights
issues, and culture/media economics and policy, the latest being sharing: Culture and the
Economy in the Internet Age, Amsterdam Univ. Press, 2012. Dr. Aigrain is one of the
founders of La Quadrature du Net, a director of the Software Freedom Law Center (NYC)
and a trustee of the NEXA Center for Internet & Society (Torino).
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Jon Andrews
Jon Andrews is an academic librarian with experience of several institutions. He currently
works at the University of Birmingham as a Subject Advisor for Engineering subjects and in
Acquisitions with a remit for ebooks: he has a particular interest in mobile devices.
Graham Bell
Graham Bell is the Chief Data Architect at EDItEUR. Graham is focussed on the continuing
development and application of ONIX for Books, and on other EDItEUR standards for both
the book and serials sectors. He joined EDItEUR in 2010. Graham previously worked for
HarperCollins Publishers in the UK where most recently he was Head of Publishing
Systems. He led the development of bibliographic and digital asset management systems,
and was involved with the launches of many recent HarperCollins digital initiatives
including e-audio, e-books and print-on-demand programmes. He has over a decade of
experience with ONIX for Books. Prior to HarperCollins, he worked as an editor and in IT
roles within the magazine industry with Redwood Publishing.
Simon Bell
Simon Bell is Head of Strategic Partnerships and Licensing at the British Library. Simon is
charged with establishing partnerships with both commercial and non commercial
organisations in order to increase access to the collection through digitisation. He has been
with the British Library for five years and has previously worked in various capacities within
the publishing industry for Harper Collins, Oxford University Press, and Routledge. Simon
represented the Library on the Finch Group.
Will Booker
Will Brooker is director of research in film and television at Kingston University, London.
His most recent book is Hunting the Dark Knight: 21st Century Batman.
Annemarie Bos
Annemarie Bos is managing director of the Division of the Humanities of the Netherlands
Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) and chair of the Steering Group of OAPEN-NL.
Carl-Christian Buhr
Dr. Buhr is an economist and computer scientist. Since 2010 he has been a member of the
cabinet of Digital Agenda Commissioner and European Commission Vice-President Neelie
Kroes. Among others, he advises her on ICT research policy, Horizon 2020, Digital Science,
Open Access as well as standardisation and interoperability policies. He previously dealt
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with antitrust and merger control investigations by the Commission, such as the Microsoft
antitrust case and the Oracle/Sun Microsystems merger.
Mercedes Bunz
Mercedes Bunz is the director of the Hybrid Publishing Lab located at the Leuphana
University Lüneburg. Before, she has been the technology reporter of the Guardian. Her
forthcoming book on the digitalization of knowledge will be published with Palgrave
Macmillan. Her studied at the Free University of Berlin and holds a PhD in media studies.
Carrie Calder
Carrie Calder is Director of Market Development at Palgrave Macmillan and responsible for
strategic marketing and communications across the company’s products and publications,
as well leading the development of new initiatives, including open access.
Carrie comes from an open access background, before joining Palgrave, she worked at
open access publisher BioMed Central for over 8 years where, in her role as Head of
Marketing and Digital Sales, she gained strong experience in digital publishing and
emerging business models. Carrie also led the company’s ‘Open Access Africa’ programme.
Carrie has a degree in English Literature and Language, and is CIM qualified.
Tom Cochrane
Professor Tom Cochrane is the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Vice-President) at the Queensland
University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia. The position heads a Division which
combines the services of the Libraries, Information Technology Services, eLearning
Services, Learning Environments and Technology Services and QUT Printing Services in the
one structure.
In his current role, Professor Cochrane's external duties include: Director, Australian Digital
Alliance; Director, Queensland Cyber Infrastructure Foundation; Member, Board of
Queensland Museum; Member, Publications Board of CSIRO; Member, Advisory
Committee of the Australian Law Reform Commission 2012-2013; Member, Book Industry
Collaborative Council Scholarly Book Publishing Expert Reference Group (ERG); Member,
Advisory Board of Knowledge Unlatched (UK); Member, Board of Enabling Open
Scholarship (Europe).
Professor Cochrane is a Director on the Board of bluebox, QUT's technology transfer and
commercialisation company, and is co-leader of the Creative Commons project for which
QUT is the institutional partner for Australia. This project, together with other open access
initiatives locally based at QUT, signals a long standing commitment to access to
knowledge, and to research output worldwide.
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Ellen Collins
Ellen Collins is a Research Consultant at the Research Information Network, where she has
initiated, developed and managed projects for clients including academic publishers,
librarians, funders and policymakers. She is particularly interested in how researchers find,
use and share information, and the ways that their behaviour is changing in response to
new communications platforms and business models. She has worked on several projects
around researcher use of Web 2.0, and is currently working with publishers to explore the
research community’s aspirations around open access. She is also the lead researcher on
OAPEN-UK, a collaborative research project to explore open access scholarly monograph
publishing in the humanities and social sciences.
Caroline Edwards
Dr Caroline Edwards is currently Lecturer in English at the University of Lincoln (but from
September 2013 will be Lecturer in Modern & Contemporary Literature at Birkbeck,
University of London). Caroline specialises in 21st-century literature and is author of the
forthcoming monograph Fictions of the Not Yet: Time in the Twenty-First-Century British
Novel (2015) and co-editor of two collections on living writers: China Miéville: Critical
Essays (Gylphi, 2014) and Maggie Gee: Critical Essays (Gylphi, 2014). Caroline has published
articles, interviews and reviews in a number of journals, including Modern Fiction
Studies, Contemporary
Literature, Textual
Practice, Telos, Radical
Philosophy, Subjectivity, Left Lion Magazine and the New Statesman. Caroline is Founding
and Commissioning Editor of the open-access journal of c21st literary criticism Alluvium
and is Co-Director of the Open Library of Humanities.
Martin Eve
Dr. Martin Paul Eve is a lecturer in English at the University of Lincoln, specialising in
contemporary American fiction, primarily the works of Thomas Pynchon, Don DeLillo and
David Foster Wallace. In addition, Martin is well-known for his work on open access,
appearing before the UK House of Commons Select Committee BIS Inquiry into Open
Access, writing for the British Academic Policy Series on the topic and founding the Open
Library of Humanities.
Eelco Ferwerda
Eelco Ferwerda is director of the OAPEN Foundation since 2011. Before that he managed
OAPEN as EU co-funded project at Amsterdam University Press. He joined Amsterdam
University Press in 2002 as Publisher of Digital Products. Before joining AUP, he worked in
various new media subsidiaries at the former Dutch newspaper publisher PCM, lastly as
Manager Business Development for PCM Interactive Media. Ferwerda is co-founder of the
Association of European University Presses (AEUP, 2010) and of the Directory of Open
Access Books (DOAB, 2012). Eelco is the conference organiser with Caren Milloy.
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Kathleen Fitzpatrick
Kathleen Fitzpatrick is Director of Scholarly Communication of the Modern Language
Association and Visiting Research Professor of English at New York University. She is
author of Planned Obsolescence: Publishing, Technology, and the Future of the Academy
(NYU Press, 2011) and The Anxiety of Obsolescence: The American Novel in the Age of
Television (Vanderbilt University Press, 2006). She is co-founder of the digital scholarly
network MediaCommons, where she has led numerous experiments in open publishing and
open peer review.
Rupert Gatti
Dr. Rupert Gatti is a co-founder and Director of Open Book Publishers. Rupert Gatti is a
Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, where he is a Director of Studies in Economics. His
published academic work includes microeconomic analysis of competition in online
markets, game theory and search theory. He has held visiting positions at MIT and
University of Florence, acted as an Economic Advisor on several EU competition studies,
and is on the advisory board for a range of Open Access enterprises.
Toby Green
Toby Green, Head of Publishing at OECD, joined OECD Publishing in 1998 and launched, in
2000, an i-library comprising full-text books, journals and statistical databases. In 2004, he
launched OECD’s StatLink service, linking full text publications to underlying data. In 2007,
OECD switched to a freemium business model, making all books free to read online in a
basic form, on any device, with revenue earned from premium online services and print. He
previously worked for Academic Press, Applied Science Publishers, Pergamon Press, and
Elsevier Science. He is Past-Chair of ALPSP, an association of not-for-profit learned society
publishers and is a regular speaker at industry events in UK, France and USA.
Jean-Claude Guédon
With a Ph. D. in history of science, Jean-Claude Guédon teaches comparative literature
(really digital culture) at the University of Montreal in Canada. His main research interests
are network societies, digital documents and the whole issue of open access in scientific
and scholarly communication. One of the original signatories of the Budapest Open Access
Initiative in 2002, he has since published and lectured widely on the topic.
Andrea Hacker
Andrea Hacker is managing editor at the Cluster of Excellence "Asia and Europe in a Global
Context" at the University of Heidelberg, where she oversees a book-series and the openaccess (gold) journal Transcultural Studies. She gained her PhD in Slavic languages and
literatures from the University of California Los Angeles, has extensive experience with
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editing and translation, and has been teaching academic writing to native and non-native
English speakers at colleges and universities in the US, Ireland, Russia, and Germany.
Kim Hackett
Kim Hackett is based in the research policy team at the Higher Education Funding Council
for England (HEFCE), where she has worked for the past three years. She has a background
in the humanities, holding a PhD in history from the University of York, which she
completed before joining the Council in 2009. Kim has worked on various aspects of
research policy development and implementation, and has been centrally involved in
HEFCE’s policy development on open access for the past year.
Martin Hall (Conference Chair)
Martin Hall is Vice Chancellor of the University of Salford, Manchester. He is also Professor
Emeritus, University of Cape Town, where he is affiliated with the Graduate School of
Business. Previously Professor of Historical Archaeology, he was inaugural Dean of Higher
Education Development and then Deputy Vice-Chancellor at UCT (from 1999 to 2008). He
is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. a Fellow of the Royal Society of South Africa, a Life
Fellow of the University of Cape Town and past-President of the World Archaeological
Congress. He is an accredited mediator with the Africa Centre for Dispute Settlement. He
is a member of the Boards of the Greater Manchester Chamber of Commerce and of JISC,
the UK’s information technology service for higher and further education, and the Chair of
the Open Access Implementation Group.
Sally Hardy
Sally Hardy is the Chief Executive of the Regional Studies Association which is a social
science learned society with both a global membership and a global reach. The Association
runs a publishing programme including three journals and is about to launch Regional
Studies and Regional Science as an Open Access journal. Also published are two magazines
one of which is largely authored by early career researchers and a popular book series –
Regions and Cities. The Association has an international conference programme, and this
year will open a satellite office in Beijing, China with additional offices planned for North
America and Eastern Europe. A key area of activity centres on knowledge exchange and the
Association works closely with a number of international organisations such as the
European Commission, the United Nations and the OECD. Sally is also a member of the
Editorial Advisory Board of Princeton Press and is a member of both the Academy of Social
Science Chief Executive Officer Group and of the Academy’s International Advisory Group.
Sally has been a commentator on open access, journals and learned societies speaking at
several recent high profile conferences.
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Doris Haslinger
Doris Haslinger is working with the FWF for nearly seventeen years and he is the ProgramManager of the Stand-alone publications at the Austrian Science Fund. He is also
responsible for the FWF-E-Book Library.
Birgitta Hellmark Lindgren
Birgitta Hellmark Lindgren is Head of communications and Deputy Library director at
Stockholm University Library. Prior to that, between 2007 and 2012 she was head of
communications and publishing at The Nordic Africa Institute. She completed her PhD in
Cultural Anthropology, University of Uppsala in 2006 and has a BA in journalism.
Brian Hole
Brian Hole is the CEO of Ubiquity Press, a researcher-led open access publisher based in
London. Brian is also a researcher working within the humanities and information science,
with a focus on ethics and inclusive systems. At UCL, his PhD research looks at public
archaeology in India, specifically at issues of community engagement and utilisation of
cultural heritage.
Angela Holzer
Angela Holzer is Programme Officer at the German Research Foundation (DFG).
Neil Jacobs
Neil Jacobs directs Jisc innovation work in the areas of scholarly communication and digital
infrastructure such as repositories. He has a long-standing interest in open access, is a
member of the UK Open Access Implementation Group, and sits on the OAPEN-UK
steering group.
Shana Kimball
Shana Kimball is Business Development Manager for Digital Initiatives at the New York
Public Library, where she is primarily focused on promoting and supporting the
development of Knowledge Unlatched. Prior to joining NYPL, she was Head of Publishing
Services, Outreach, and Strategic Development for Michigan Publishing, the primary
academic publishing division of the University of Michigan.
Rachael Lammey
Rachael Lammey has been with CrossRef since March 2012. She is a Product Manager on
the CrossCheck and CrossMark initiatives and works on other CrossRef tools for publishers.
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She previously worked in journals publishing for Taylor & Francis for nearly six years. Her
background is in English Literature and Publishing Studies.
Mark Llewellyn
Professor Mark Llewellyn is Director of Research at the Arts and Humanities Research
Council (AHRC) on secondment from the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, where he
holds the John Anderson Research Leadership Chair in English. At the AHRC, Mark has
overall responsibility for the Programmes Directorate including all schemes, themes,
research and postgraduate areas together with activities in International, Knowledge
Exchange and Partnerships, Public Policy, Peer Review and Research Career Development
and Training.
Caren Milloy
Caren Milloy is Head of Projects at JISC Collections and specialises in research on business
and licensing models for academic ebooks. Caren leads the OAPEN-UK project - a
collaborative research project, working with stakeholders to generate knowledge about
open access monograph publishing in the humanities and social sciences. She also oversees
the Jisc APC platform, JISC Historic Books, JISC Journal Archives and JISC MediaHub. She
previously managed a UK wide etextbook project and undertook negotiation and licensing
for online resources. She is the conference organiser with Eelco Ferwerda.
Lucy Montgomery
Dr Lucy Montgomery is a Vice Chancellor’s Research Fellow at Queensland University of
Technology and Research Director for Knowledge Unlatched: A London-based not-for
profit company committed to creating sustainable routes to open access for scholarly
books.
Lucy trained as a China specialist at the University of Adelaide, before going to complete a
PhD in Media and Cultural Studies at Queensland University of Technology. As Research
Director for Knowledge Unlatched she is coordinating a critical program of research
alongside the pilot of a global library consortium sharing the costs of making high quality
scholarly books available to the world on open access licenses.
Pierre Mounier
Pierre Mounier is associate director of OpenEdition, a platform for open access publishing
in humanities and social sciences. He teaches about digital humanities at EHESS in Paris.
He published several books about social and political impact of ICT (Les Maîtres du Réseau,
les enjeux politiques d'Internet 2001), digital publishing (L'Edition électronique, with Marin
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Dacos, 2010) and digital humanities (Read/Write Book 2, Une introduction aux humanités
numériques, 2012).
Cameron Neylon
Cameron Neylon is Advocacy Director for the Public Library of Science, a research
biophysicist and well known agitator for opening up the process of research. He
speaks regularly on issues of Open Science including Open Access publication, Open Data,
and Open Source as well as the wider technical and social issues of applying the
opportunities the internet brings to the practice of science. He was named as a SPARC
Innovator in July 2010 for work on the Panton Principles and is a proud recipient of the Blue
Obelisk for contributions to open data. He writes regularly at his blog, Science in the Open.
Ed Pentz
Ed Pentz is the Executive Director of CrossRef, a not-for-profit membership association of
publishers set up to provide a cross-publisher reference linking service. Ed was appointed
as CrossRef’s first Executive Director when the organization was created in 2000. Prior to
joining CrossRef Ed held electronic publishing, editorial and sales positions at Harcourt
Brace in the US and UK and managed the launch of Academic Press’ first online journal, the
Journal of Molecular Biology, in 1995. Ed is the Chair of the ORCID, Inc board of directors.
Ed has a degree in English Literature from Princeton University and lives in Oxford,
England.
Frances Pinter
Dr Frances Pinter is the founder and Executive Director of Knowledge Unlatched. She was
the founding Publisher at Bloomsbury Academic, specialising in Humanities and Social
Sciences where she made use of Creative Commons licensing for monographs.
She was Publishing Director at the Soros Foundation (now Open Society Foundations)
working in 30 transition countries supporting publishing development, translations and
education after the fall of communism. In the late 90s she devised the business model and
established, EIFL, the library consortium that now straddles nearly 50 countries. Earlier in
her career she founded Pinter Publishers that also owned Leicester University Press and
established the imprint Belhaven Press. Frances is a Visiting Fellow at the London School of
Economics.
Ernesto Priego
Ernesto Priego is Lecturer in Library Science at City University London. He’s affiliated to
the UCL Centre for Digital Humanities, where he did his PhD. He is a member of the ad hoc
Communications Committee of the Alliance of Digital Humanities Associations (ADHO)
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and of the executive council of the Association for Computers in the Humanities (ACH). He
is a member of the LibTech committee of the Open Library of Humanities, and editor in
chief of the born digital, open access, open peer-reviewed project Comics Grid: Journal of
Comics Scholarship.
Adam Purser
Adam Purser became Bibliographic Services Manager at Palgrave Macmillan in 2011,
assuming control of the quality and export of Palgrave’s data globally. He has also worked
on innovative new projects such as Palgrave Pivot, liaising with data and supply chain
experts to address potential issues.
Previously he has worked in stock control and proof reading positions within publishing, but
began his working life as a designer, creating 3D digital models of exhibition spaces, in
addition to traditional graphic design.
Adam is also due to join the BIC Metadata Committee later this year.
Jill Russell
Jill Russell is the Digital Assets programme Manager at the University of Birmingham. Jill is
responsible for supporting open access publishing activity and manages the University of
Birmingham’s institutional repository.
Bas Savenije
Bas Savenije graduated in philosophy in 1977. Since then, he has held a range of positions
at Utrecht University, among which director of Strategic Planning and director Budgeting
and Control. From 1994 until 2009 he was university librarian of Utrecht University,
managing the comprehensive university library. He has initiated a pervasive innovation
program for the library aimed at implementing and continuously improving electronic
services. One of the results is an e-press within the university library of Utrecht for
electronic publishing and archiving services.
Since June 2009 Bas is Director General of the KB, National Library of the Netherlands.
He is, among others, president of FOBID (the Dutch Federation of Organisations in the
Field of Libraries, Information and Documentation) and chairman of the board of OAPEN.
Veronika Spinka
Veronika Spinka graduated from Stuttgart Media University with a degree in ‘Media
Publishing’ and a focus on electronic publishing processes. As Open Access Coordinator at
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Springer she is responsible for the open access (OA) books program ‘SpringerOpen books’,
Springer’s hybrid OA option for journals ‘Open Choice’, and the self-archiving policy.
Ralf Schimmer
Dr Ralf Schimmer holds a PhD in Sociology and a German library degree. He is Head of
Scientific Information Provision at the Max Planck Digital Library, where he is responsible
for the electronic resources licensing programme for the entire Max Planck Society and for
a broad range of library related information services. Ever since the Berlin Conference in
2003, he has been deeply involved in the open access agenda of the Max Planck Society. He
is responsible for the open access publication charge agreements of the Max Planck
Society, and he serves on the Library Advisory Boards of several major publishers and other
national and international committees. Ralf is also very active in helping to establish
SCOAP3 (Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics).
Michiel Thijssen
Michiel Thijssen is a physicist who has been in scholarly publishing for 14 years,
predominantly in the natural sciences. He is Sr Acquisitions Editor for Biology and History
of Science with Brill. After 7 years at Elsevier he came to Brill in 2007, lending his journals
publishing experience and deepening his knowledge of e-publishing and open access. He
has a track record in implementing publishing technologies like OA, managing complex
publication projects in demanding markets and negotiating with learned societies seeking
publishing services.
Alessandra Tosi
Alessandra Tosi is a co-founder and Director of Open Book Publishers. Alessandra Tosi is a
specialist in nineteenth-century Russian fiction, literary reception and gender studies. A
past Wingate Fellow and MHRA Research Fellow and a visiting fellow at Harvard University,
Alessandra has held academic positions at Corpus Christi College, University of Cambridge
and at the University of Exeter. She is presently a Life Fellow at Clare Hall, Cambridge.
Joscelyn Upendran
Joscelyn Upendran has previously worked with Creative Commons UK and Wikimedia UK
and is an experienced lawyer and lecturer with a keen interest in open content & knowledge
sharing. Joscelyn is founder & CEO of Zilpa – www.zilpa.org which is due to launch in
autumn 2013. Zilpa helps to craft & surface expertise & interests via ‘social knitting’ of
content and people whereby all contributors to content receive attribution.
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Benjamin White
Benjamin White is the Head of Intellectual Property at the British Library. He has a
background in publishing having worked for Pearson Education internationally, as well as
for Ordnance Survey. He is active in the Intellectual Property field within the UK having sat
on a number of bodies including the BBC's Creative Archive Advisory Board, the UK
Government's Creative Economy Programme (Competition and Intellectual Property),
i2010 Digital Libraries Programme, CBI Intellectual Property Board as well as the Institute
of Public Policy Research's Advisory Board on Intellectual Property and the Public Sphere.
He currently chairs the copyright group of the Council for European National Librarians; he
sits on the UK Intellectual Property Office’s Copyright Research Expert Advisory Group and
the Digital Copyright Exchange Launch Group, and is a member of the advisory panel for
the Digital Copyright Exchange.
Simon Worthington
Simon Worthington is working at the Hybrid Publishing Lab, where he heads the
development of a multiplatform software system. He is co-founder of Mute Magazine and
its Digital Director and was skilled as an artist at The Slade School of Fine Art, UCL, London
and at CalArts, Valencia, Calif.
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