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Jonathan Adams, Director
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Dr Jonathan Adams is the lead founder and a Director of Evidence Ltd. He has worked at King's College London (1979-1980), University of Newcastle upon Tyne (1980-1983), University of Leeds (1983-1989) and Imperial College London (1989-1992). He was a member of the science policy staff of the Advisory Board for the Research Councils from 1989-1992 where he was responsible for developing performance indicators for the UK science budget. From 1993, he was Leeds University's Director of Research Strategy and then Dean for Strategic Development. His company, Evidence, specialises in research performance analysis and interpretation. It carries out consultancy for UK and European research funding organisations and produces competitor analysis reports for UK universities and research laboratories. It also publishes the UK Higher Education Research Yearbook.
Evidence Ltd, Leeds, UKThe new geography of science
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Richard Akerman
NRC CISTI, Ottawa, Canada
Library Service-Oriented Architecture to Enhance Access to Science
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Bo-Christer Björk
Hanken, Svenska handelshögskolan, Helsinki, Finland
A model of scientifitc communication of a global distributed information system
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Lars Björnshauge
Lund University, Lund, Sweden
Open access journals and the developing world - experiences from operating the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
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Jan Brase, Irina Sens
German National Library of Science and Technology, Hannover, Germany
A system for easy access to scientific information using DOIs
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Håkan Carlsson, Dr.
Lund University, Lund, Sweden
Open Access - Reaching the Masses
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Tom Cochrane, Deputy Vice-Chancellor
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Professor Tom Cochrane is Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Technology, Information and Learning Support) at the Queensland University of Technology. The position heads a Division which combines the services of the Libraries, Information Technology Services, Teaching and Learning Support Services, Integrated Help Services and University Printing Services in the one structure. The organisation currently comprises approximately 480 equivalent full time staff and oversees an annual expenditure in excess of $50 million, to support a full range of information and technology services as well as learning and academic support for QUT's teaching and research activities.
In his current role Tom’s external duties include Chair, Australian Libraries’ Copyright Committee; Director, Australian Digital Alliance; Director, Australian Partnership for Advanced Computing; and Director, Queensland Cyber Infrastructure Foundation. He is a member of the Australian Research Information Infrastructure Committee established by the Australian Government, and the Reference Group on Platforms for the National Collaborative Research Infrastructure, as well as other cross sectoral committees.
He 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, signal a long standing commitment to access to knowledge, and to research output worldwide.
Global Access to Science – meeting the revolution
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Emily Gillingham
Blackwell Publishing - HINARI/AGORA/OARE, Oxford, UK
Developing World Access to Peer-Reviewed Research - OA in Action
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Lars Juhl Jensen, Ph.D.
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Lars Juhl Jensen studied chemistry at the Technical University of Denmark, where he in 2002 defended his Ph.D. in bioinformatics at the Center for Biological Sequence Analysis (CBS). Since 2003, he has been working in Peer Bork's group at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Heidelberg, Germany.
He is a co-author of over 40 papers on many different topics in computational biology, including visualization of microbial genomes, pattern discovery in promoter sequences, protein function prediction, integration of large-scale experimental data sets, analysis of biological interaction networks, and literature mining.
Biomedical literature mining (and why we really need Open Access)
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Wayne Johnston
University of Guelph, Guelph, Canada
The Library as an agent for transforming scholarly communications
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Marianne Josserand Haska
BioMed Central, London, UK
How open access journals and repositories facilitate public access to publicly funded research
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Eric Kansa
Alexandria Archive Inst., University of Santa Clara, Berkeley, CA, USA
An Open Context for Small-scale Field Science Data
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Alice Keller, Head of Collection Management
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Librarian at Oxford University Library
Alice Keller work as Head of Collection Management at Oxford University Library Services (OULS). Responsible for collections of over thirty university libraries, including the Bodleian Library and electronic resources. Prior to this she has lived and worked in Switzerland at the ETH Library Zurich.
The Disincentive of E-only
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Katarina Larsen
KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
Interactive activities of researchers captured in research impact assessment
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Helle Lauridsen
CSA, Oxford, UK
How researchers use the electronic library?
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David Lawrence
Linköping University Electronic Press, Linköping, Sweden
Support Service for Publication of Open Access Journals
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Manik Mandal, Dr. K. C. Panda
National Institute of Technology, Durgapur, India
Global Access to Science Information: The Changing Dynamics of Access and Practices in India
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Tony McSéan, Daviess Menefee
Elsevier, London NW1 7BY, U K
Not Just Quality Information: HINARI Drives Desirable Change In Teaching & Research
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Peter Morgan, Jim Downing, Peter Murray-Rust, Alan Tonge, Fiona Cotterill, Henry Rzepa, Lorraine Windsor
University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
Imperial College, London, UK
Facilitating the deposit of experimental chemistry data in institutional repositories: Project SPECTRa
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James L. Mullins
Purdue University Library, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA
Enabling international access to data sets: the Distributed Data Curation Center (D2C2)
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Yuko Murakami
National Institute of Informatics (NII), Chiyoda-Ku, Tokyo
The interim evaluation method of the national project for institutional repositories in Japan
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Rune Nilsen, Professor
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Rune Nilsen has been researcher in pathology, immunology and international health since 1975. He has been professor in International health since 1988, Director of Centre for International Health, Vice Rector of UiB(2001-2005). He has been active in the Open Access strategic work as Vice Rector of UiB, through the Norwegian Rectors Conference UHR), and is now member of the Task Force on Open Access of European Associations of Universities (EUA).
University of Bergen, Bergen, NorwayResearch knowledge in a global perspective, a public good or part of a knowledge apartheid.
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Pablo Ortellado, Jorge Machado
Public Policy - University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
The Brazilian Model for Free Access to Scientific Publications
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Paul Peters
Hindawi Corporation, Cairo, Egypt
Beyond Access
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Anisur Rahman
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Senior Asst. Director and Head, Library and Information Division
Northern University Bangladesh, Dhaka, BANGLADESHAccess to Global Information—A case of Digital Divide in Bangladesh
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Hannie Sander
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Executive Director: Library and Information Centres
University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South AfricaChallenging libraries in the alternative dissemination of African scholarly communicastion
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Erik Sandewall, Visiting professor
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Erik Sandewall is professor of computer science at Linköping University (Sweden) and presently visiting professor at KTH. He has been engaged in open access since 1996, when he founded Linköping University Electronic Press. The year after he started an open access journal (the ETAI) that pioneered a new approach to peer review founded on open access principles. His present research addresses the formal representation of the knowledge contents in scientific articles.
Scientific Information and Learning, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, SwedenFrom Full Text Storage to Full Contents Representation: Information Science Between Library Science and Informatics
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Ralph Schroeder, Jennifer A. deBeer, Jenny Fry
Oxford Internet Institute, Oxford, UK
e-Research Infrastructures and Scientific Communication
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Folke Snickars, Björn Marklund, Tom Letcher
KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
Evidence Ltd, UK
International research assessment revisited - A comparison between the research performance of KTH and selected UK universities
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Joris van Rossum
Scirus, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Science-specific Search: Bridging the gap in dissemination of and access to information
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Jens Vigen, Library Director
CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
Open Access and repositories : beyond green and gold
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John Wilbanks, Executive director
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John Wilbanks is currently the Executive Director of Science Commons.
John was the Berkman Center's first Assistant Director (from the fall of 1998 to the summer of 2000) and led efforts in Internet-mediated learning and software development. He was also actively involved in the Berkman Center's work on ICANN (staffing the first eight ICANN meetings). While at the Berkman Center, John founded and served as President & Chief Executive Officer of Incellico, Inc., a semantic database company focused on the pharmaceutical industry (Incellico was acquired in the summer of 2003). John has also served as a Fellow at the World Wide Web Consortium on Semantic Web for Life Sciences.
Prior to joining the Berkman Center, John was a research analyst and network engineer for fonix, a company specializing in human-computer interaction products. From 1994-1997, he worked in politics in Washington, DC, serving on the legislative staff of U.S. Congressman Fortney Stark (CA-13) and as a grassroots coordinator and fundraiser for the American Physical Therapy Association. John attended Tulane University, receiving a bachelor's degree in philosophy in 1994, with a year's study at the Sorbonne in Paris.
New Metaphors in Scientific Communication: Libraries and the Commons
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Rüdiger Voss, Dr.
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Rüdiger Voss obtained a Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Munich in 1982, and is a Senior Physicist at the European Organization for Nuclear Research CERN in Geneva, Switzerland. In parallel to his research activities, he has for a long time taken a strong interest in scientific publication matters. He has chaired the CERN Scientific Information Policy Board and the Advisory Board of the Particle Data Group based at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, USA. He was recently appointed to the "Working Group on Communication in Physics" of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP). In 2006, he chaired the task force that originally proposed the "Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics (SCOAP3).
Physics Department, CERN, Geneva, SwitzerlandOpen Access Publishing in Particle Physics
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Roser Gómez Enrich, Marta López VicancosUPC Libraries, 08034 Barcelona, Spain
UPCommons: Global Access to UPC Knowledge
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Sophia Jones
University of Nottingham, Nottingham NG7 2UH, UK
DRIVER: Supporting Institutional Repositories in Europe
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Krystyna Kaczmarczyk, Dorota Lipinska
The Library of Cracow University of Technology, 31-155 Cracow, Poland
E-science in Poland – current state and perspectives
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Arja Valta, Kirsi Lepistö
Tampere University of Technology Libray, Tampere, Finland
Assessing digital resources at the Tampere University of Technology Library by star rating system
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Elena Vvedenskaia
Engineers Australia, BARTON ACT, Australia
Engineers Australia Collection on Informit
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Peter AhrensEx Libris Germany, Hamburg, Germany
Monitoring Digital Library Activities – Status-, Trend- & Performance-Indicators based on analysis of OpenURL-requests
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