Deborah Kahn has been closely involved with the changing scholarly communications landscape since, whilst Journals Publisher for Chapman & Hall in the early 1990s, she was responsible for publishing one of the first electronic journals -  launched as a beta test of Adobe Acrobat.  As Product Development Director within the Thomson Corporation (now Thomson Reuters) and subsequently whilst running Publishing Directions, a consultancy serving the publishing industry, she has helped organizations transform their information products to meet the needs of scientists and academics in a rapidly changing information world. For the past year she has been Publishing Director at BioMed Central, leading the publishing teams to provide an excellent experience for BioMed Central’s authors, editors and referees, and for ensuring that BioMed Central continues to grow its portfolio of open access journals.