Speakers
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John WillinskyKhosla Family Professor, School of Education, Stanford University Director, Public Knowledge Project, Stanford University, University of British Columbia, and Simon Fraser University John Willinsky is Khosla Family Professor of Education at Stanford University and sometime professor at the University of British Columbia. He is the director of the Public Knowledge Project at Stanford, UBC, and SFU, which has been working for a decade on improving the scholarly and public quality of research through the development of open source platforms. |
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Mike ConlonAssociate Director and Chief Operating Officer, Clinical and Translational Science Institute, University of Florida Research Associate Professor, Biomedical Informatics, University of Florida Dr. Conlon is Associate Director and Chief Operating Officer of the University of Florida Clinical and Translational Science Institute, Director of Biomedical Informatics, UF College of Medicine, and Principal Investigator of the NIH project “VIVO: Enabling National Networking of Scientists.” His responsibilities include development of academic biomedical informatics, expansion and integration of research and clinical information resources and strategic planning for academic health and university research. |
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Greg TananbaumConsultant, Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) Greg is the Founder and CEO of Anianet (www.anianet.com), and he serves as a consultant to publishers, libraries, universities, and information providers as owner of ScholarNext (www.scholarnext.com). He writes a regular column in Against the Grain covering emerging developments in the field of scholarly communication. |
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Alma SwanDirector, Key Perspectives Ltd. Convenor, Enabling Open Scholarship Hold honorary academic positions, University of Southampton School of Electronics & Computer Science, University of Warwick Business School Alma Swan is a consultant working in the field of scholarly communication. She is a director of Key Perspectives Ltd and holds honorary academic positions in the University of Southampton School of Electronics & Computer Science and the University of Warwick Business School. Alma is Convenor for Enabling Open Scholarship, the global organisation of universities promoting the principles of open scholarship in the academic community. |
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Kirsta StapelfeldtRepository Manager, Islandora Project, University of Prince Edward Island Kirsta Stapelfeldt, (MA, MLIS) is the Repository Manager at the University of Prince Edward Island and manager of UPEI's Islandora project. Through the Robertson Library's Virtual Research Environment Service (VRE service), librarians and developers at UPEI are supporting over 140 repository projects. Kirsta is a graduate of Dalhousie's MLIS program, with a background in project management, online information literacy, knowledge translation, communication, and university teaching. |
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Joel ThiersteinExecutive Director, Connexions, Rice University Associate Provost, innovative and Scholarly Communications, Rice University Dr. Joel Thierstein is Associate Provost at Rice University and Executive Director of Connexions. Prior to coming to Rice, Dr. Thierstein served as an Associate Professor and Director of New Media Communications at Oregon State University. He also served as a professor at Baylor University, Purdue University Calumet, and Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville. Dr. Thierstein served as a visiting professor of Communications Law at Syracuse University. |
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Rachel FrickSenior Program Officer, Digital Library Federation, Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) Rachel L. Frick is the Director of the Digital Library Federation Program at the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR/DLF). Prior to her work at CLIR, she was the Senior Program Officer for the National Leadership Grants Program for Libraries at the Institute for Museum and Library Services (IMLS). |
