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CVs - Lectures Dr Stevan Harnad Stevan Harnad was born in Hungary, did his undergraduate work at McGill University and his graduate work at Princeton University and is currently Canada Research Chair in Cognitive Science at University of Quebec/Montreal and adjunct Professor in Electronics and Computer Science at Southampton University, UK. His research is on categorisation, communication and cognition. Founder and Editor of:
Dr Alma Swan (Director, Key Perspectives Ltd) Alma Swan obtained a degree in zoology in 1974 and a PhD in cell biology in 1978 from Southampton University. After research fellowships funded by the Cancer Research Campaign at Southampton General Hospital and St. George’s Hospital Medical School (London), she took a position as Lecturer in Zoology at the University of Leicester. Her research was in medical cell biology and she taught a range of courses from vertebrate biology to the biology of cancer. In 1985, she moved into science publishing as managing editor of a Pergamon Press (later Elsevier Science) biomedical research indexing service, published both in print and online. In 1996, she jointly founded Key Perspectives, a consultancy serving the scholarly publishing industry. Though she has worked in the commercial sphere for 20 years, she retains links with academic life: for four years she was tutor and consultant for the Open University Business School’s MBA programme and since 1991 has been tutor for two business strategy courses on Warwick Business School’s MBA programme. She holds honorary roles as business mentor and teacher for the Institute for Entrepreneurship (part of the School of Management) at Southampton University. Alma has an MBA from Warwick Business School and is a Member of the Institute of Biology. Eugene Garfield, Ph.D. This summary of Dr Garfield´s long and impressive career is based on his biographical information found on http://www.garfield.library.upenn.edu/
The goal of the project was to examine basic and applied problems of medical information retrieval, and the application of new methods to indexing the biomedical literature. A key objective was to improve the currency of the Current List of Medical Literature, through machine methods of compilation. This led to the Index Medicus , later MEDLINE, and to the first Subject Heading Authority List, the prototype of MeSH. Garfield became interested in using machines to automatically generate indexing terms that effectively describe a document's contents without human intervention. As a consequence of investigating the linguistic structure of review articles and traditional indexing methods, he was able to take advantage of a fortuitous encounter with legal citations. This led to the development of the concept of citation indexes for scientific literature. In 1958, he was contacted by the Nobel Laureate Dr Joshua Lederberg, who was interested in to the citation index Garfield had proposed in 1955 in Science. Their correspondence led to a meeting with the NIH genetics study section and funding to produce and distribute a Genetics Citation Index. This included a multi-disciplinary index to the science literature of 1961. The NIH and NSF declined the opportunity to publish the latter index, so Garfield began regular publication of the Science Citation Index in 1964 through the Institute for Scientific Information, the name his firm assumed in 1960. The SCI uniquely indexed the references cited in the articles it indexed. This allowed users, for the first time, to take advantage of the associations and connections that researchers themselves made through the references they cited in their papers. The SCI was later followed by citation indexes for the social sciences (SSCI) and the arts and humanities (A&HCI). The SCI database has fostered the growth of the fields of bibliometrics, informetrics, and scientometrics, all using .SCI data to reveal longitudinal trends in scientific communication, comparing nations, institutions, departments, research teams, or journals by their productivity and impact in various fields. In 1986, dr Garfield founded The Scientist, a bi-weekly newspaper for the research professional. He has published over 1,000 weekly essays in Current Contents over the past twenty-five years, and has published and edited commentaries by the authors of over 5,000 Citation Classics. In recent years, he developed and patented the HistCiteTM system, which enables researchers and librarians to differentiate the most significant works on any given topic when conducting searches on the electronic version of the SCI, SSCI, and/or A&HCI. Dr Garfield is a member of several scientific and professional association’s and he has received numerous awards, prizes and honorary doctorates in many countries. Johannes (Jan) Velterop Originally a marine geologist, Jan has worked in the publishing industry for more than 30 years and has a wealth of experience, especially with scientific journal publishing. Since August 2005 he is Director of Open Access at Springer, and before that he was the publisher of the BioMed Central Group. Throughout the '90s, he was the Managing Director of Academic Press Limited. He has also held high profile positions at Macmillan Publishers where he was the Publishing Director of Nature Publishing Group and President of Nature Inc, and at the Dutch Media Group, Wegener, where he was the Managing Director of one of their newspaper titles. Following his postgraduate study in marine geology, he started his publishing career at Elsevier in Amsterdam as Acquisitions Editor responsible for a number of Books & Journals publishing programmes in various disciplines. In addition to the above he has worked as a consultant within the scientific publishing and information industries. Professor Jean-Claude Guédon was born in Le Havre, France, February 28th 1943. He has a B.Sc. in chemistry Clarkson University and a Ph.D in history of science from University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1974.He is since 1987 a Professeur titulaire (full prof.) at the Dépt. De Littérature compare at Univ. de Montréal, Canada. He is the founder and director of Surfaces, the first Canadian scholarly electronic journal which began in 1991. Between 2002 and 2004 he was a member of the Ethics Committee for Science and Technology (Government of Québec, Science Council). He was named on the Information Sub-Board of the Open Society Institute (Soros Foundation) in 2002. In addition he has delivered lectures at conferences on all continents on the subject scholarly communication and scientific publishing. Mark Patterson Having graduated from the University of Cambridge in 1982, Mark Patterson obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Manchester, where he worked on yeast cell cycle genetics. Mark then moved into human genetics and carried out post-doctoral research at Oxford University and Stanford University. In 1994, after four years as a lecturer at the University of Cambridge, Mark made the move into scientific publishing as the Editor of Trends in Genetics. In 1999, he was appointed as the Biology Reviews Editor at Nature and was subsequently involved in the launch of the Nature Reviews Journals as the Editor of Nature Reviews Genetics. Mark joined the Public Library of Science in 2003 as a Senior Editor for PLoS Biology, and was appointed as the Director of Publishing in May, 2005. Natasha Robshaw Natasha joined BioMed Central in 2001 and is responsible for heading up BioMed Central's marketing, sales and PR activity. Prior to joining BioMed Central, Natasha worked at Macmillan Publishers where she was Marketing Manager in the institutional marketing department at Nature Publishing Group. Natasha studied at Reading University where she gained a BSC in Biological Sciences and specialised in Virology. Graham V Lees, MA, PhD Dr. Graham Lees received his PhD in neuroscience from the University of Cambridge and performed postdoctoral studies near Paris. He embarked on a successful career in scientific publishing holding senior positions at Elsevier (Amsterdam), Raven Press (New York), Academic Press (San Diego, New York, London) and TheScientificWorld (San Diego, Oxford, Newbury). He co-conducted Elsevier's first experiments in going online in 1984/5 with Brain Research, first publicly demonstrated in Budapest in 1987. He was chiefly responsible for putting AP's first journal online - JMB - in 1995, and was one of the chief architects of AP's IDEAL. He has been responsible for innumerable journals including 6 of the top 30 neuroscience journals, and many books including the major textbook Fundamental Neuroscience. He invented and designed the organization of TheScientificWorldJOURNAL (TSWJ) to reflect the nature of scientific discovery. TSWJ was the first journal to offer Open Choice. His paper "Offering choice in the era of open access" was published in June 2005 in Research Information. He is a co-author of "Drug Discovery: from Bedside to Wall Street" published in December 2005 by Academic Press/Elsevier. He is currently the Founding Editor & Publishing Director of TheScientificWorld and a consultant via Corpus Alienum to scientific societies, and the publishing & pharmaceutical industries. Robert Terry Mr.Terry joined the Wellcome Trust in January 2000 as Senior Policy Adviser in the Trust's Strategic Planning and Policy Unit. He is responsible for co-ordinating the Trust's policy making process and public affairs activities. He has drafted Wellcome Trust policies on a number of areas including: intellectual property, good research practice, access to bioinformatic resources, the use of animals in medical research and open access initiatives. His previous position was as Head of International Programmes at the Royal Society. His scientific background is in agricultural development, genetics and plant breeding where he has worked previously for ICI and at the Plant Breeding Institute. He has worked in a number of developing countries for the United Nations Association, Oxfam, DFID and Voluntary Service Overseas where he was a manager for the natural resources, health and technical sectors. He has a degree in Botany from the University of Sheffield and an MPhil in Plant Breeding from the University of Cambridge. CVs - Workshops Dr Sara Schroter, Senior Researcher BMJ Sara first went to work at the BMJ in 2001 to coordinate a randomised controlled trial of the effects of training peer reviewers. She now runs the research programme at the BMJ Publishing Group and this includes substantial research into peer review and authorship. Projects undertaken include a comparison of author and editor suggested reviewers in terms of review quality, timeliness, and recommendation for publication; author surveys on the use of statistical expertise in medical research, preferences for presentational style of scientific research, perceptions of electronic publishing, attitudes towards open access publishing; reader surveys to determine the effect of competing interest statements on the perceived credibility of research; and a survey of editors’ attitudes towards declaring their own conflicts of interest. Dr David Herron David Herron PhD has a research background in cell biology and also has experience in clinical chemistry. For several years, he has been working as an educational developer in the area of medical information retrieval. He currently teaches Entrez on a Writing Science and Information Literacy course for post-graduate students at the Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden. Annette Persson Annette is a Legal counsel at the Department of Legal Affairs, Lund University, since 2002. Her main assignments are to negotiate research agreements and copyright issues. Her work experience is as follows: Attorney at law, Ernst & Young Law, Stockholm, 1999 - 2002 Law clerk, Svea Court of Appeals, Stockholm, 1998 - 1999 Legal intern, Lawfirm of Sussman Sollis Ebin Tweedy & Wood, New York, USA, 1997 - 1998 Law clerk, District Court, Skövde, 1995 - 1997 Degree of Master of Laws, Lund University, 1991 - 1995 Hampus Rabow has participated in a number of bibliometric evaluations of Swedish research institutions. He has also done research in the fields of scientometrics and bibliometrics. His current research activities focus on the characteristics of highly cited papers in the life sciences. Simon M. Pratt Simon graduated from the University of East Anglia with a BSc in Chemistry in 1994, and is currently studying for a MA in Electronic Communication and Publishing at the School of Library, Archive and Information Studies of University College London. After working for 2 years at the US National Library of Medicine in Bethesda Maryland, Simon joined the Tokyo office of ISI (Thomson Scientific) in 1998 and relocated to the London office in 2004. Currently, Simon works as a product specialist for the ISI Web of Knowledge and has extensive experience working with librarians and end users around the world. |
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