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. He co-ordinates Open Access and Open Data policy studies for the European Commission and is responsible for several CERN initiatives in this field. He previously enjoyed fifteen years as a research physicist, measuring physics constants, looking for the Higgs boson (ten years too early) and searching for extra dimensions at the CERN LEP accelerator.