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Salvatore Mele (Featured Speaker)

 Salvatore Mele is Head of Open Access at CERN and Strategic Director for INSPIRE, the digital library for the worldwide High-Energy Physics community. His team of software developers and information scientists is exploring innovative ways to disambiguate authors; text-mine the literature for relevant metadata; build citation networks; publish high-level research data and crowd-source curation. Salvatore  leads the SCOAP3 initiative to convert High-Energy Physics journals to Open Access, through a global partnership of publishers and thousands of libraries.

Cyril Oberlander

Cyril Oberlander is the Director of Milne Library at the State University of New York at Geneseo since January 2011, and is the Principal Investigator for the Open SUNY Textbook Project.  He was previously the Associate Director of Milne Library since January 2008, and prior to that, the Director of Interlibrary Services at the University of Virginia Library from 2005-2008; the Head of Interlibrary Loan at Portland State University from 1996-2005, and served in various roles in Access Services since 1987. 

Nick Shockey

Nick Shockey is the Director of Programs and Engagement for the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) and founding director of the Right to Research Coalition (R2RC). Supported by SPARC, the R2RC is an international alliance of local, national, and international student organizations that advocate for researchers, universities, governments, and students themselves to adopt open scholarly publishing practices.

Ron Chrisman

Ron Chrisman is director of the University of North Texas Press in Denton, Texas. He received his bachelor's degree in psychology from Occidental College in Los Angeles and his master's degree in social science from Syracuse University. While at Syracuse he began his publishing career in the editorial department of Syracuse University Press. In 1993 he moved to the University of Oklahoma Press to manage the Oklahoma paperbacks program and acquire book manuscripts in military history for the Campaigns and Commanders Series.

John Sherer

John Sherer was named the seventh director of the University of North Carolina Press in June of 2012. Prior to that, he was the publisher of Basic Books where he published numerous best-selling and award-winning authors including Douglas Hofstadter, Chris Hedges, Henry Louis Gates, Diane Ravitch, Eduardo Galeano, Thomas Sowell, Richard Florida, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Walter Mosley, Åsne Seierstad, and William F. Buckley. He had previously been the Marketing Director at Basic and has held marketing positions at Henry Holt, the Brookings Institution, and the University of North Carolina Press.

Lisa Norberg

As Dean of Library and Academic Information Services at Barnard College, Lisa provides leadership, management and planning for all aspects of library and teaching and learning with technology, including classroom design. Prior to joining Barnard, she was the Coordinator of Instructional Services then Director of Public Services at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Rebecca Kennison

As Director of the Center for Digital Research and Scholarship at Columbia University, Rebecca is responsible for developing the programs and services of the Center and for coordinating these efforts with other library divisions. Her primary objective for the Center is to facilitate scholarly research and the communication of that research through technology solutions, and she works closely with faculty and researchers to address the issues that affect them.

Keynote: Peter Binfield on New Business Models for Open Access

What lessons has the field  learned to date about effective strategies for sustaining OA publications? How do OA publications fit into the larger cycle of scholarly communication? Binfiled will review lessons learned from leading PLoS ONE and PeerJ to speculate on where the economics scholarly publications are going, and what the landscape of Open Access will look like in a few years.

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