Susan Skomal, Ph.D., has been President/CEO of BioOne since 2005. BioOne was launched in 2001 as an innovative not-for-profit collaboration among scientific societies, libraries, academe, and the private sector to provide cost-effective access to high quality biological, ecological, and environmental science research. The organization provides a platform, as well as distribution, marketing and sales services to nonprofit publishers for the full-texts of bioscience research journals. In 2013, BioOne launched its own Open Access publication, Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene, designed to facilitate scientific solutions to the challenges presented by this era of accelerated human impact. The project is a collaborative effort between BioOne and five major libraries to ensure that we keep our focus on the publication of timely, high quality research to advance the intellectual agenda of science.

Prior to BioOne, Skomal served for six years as Director of Publications for the American Anthropological Association. During that time, she helped guide the publications program towards the electronic future. Trained as an anthropologist with specialties in archaeology and linguistics, Skomal has a healthy respect for the evolutionary force of natural selection—particularly helpful as the scholarly community undergoes its own transformation in the electronic environment.