Come along to our Academic & Journal Publishing Q&A, where you can talk to some of the top professionals in the industry about their careers and the future of publishing in general!
CONFIRMED SPEAKERS:
Alastair Horne, Social Media & Community Manager, Cambridge University Press – EVENT COMPERE!
Alastair Horne has worked in digital publishing for a decade, and is currently Social Media and Community Manager at Cambridge University Press. He remains keenly interested in the future of the industry, speaks regularly at publishing events, including the Frankfurt and London Book Fairs, and has given talks on publishing to students at numerous universities.
PANEL:
Matt Kibble, Digital Publisher, Bloomsbury
Matt Kibble recently joined Bloomsbury Publishing as Digital Publisher, with responsibility for developing new academic products for the global library market. Before that he spent 12 years as a product manager at ProQuest, managing specialist resources such as The Vogue Archive, Early European Books and the Entertainment Industry Magazine Archive and, prior to that, oversaw the relaunch of Literature Online (LION).
Stuart Cantrill, Chief Editor, Nature Chemistry
After working on Nature Nanotechnology from January 2006, first as an associate and then senior editor, Stuart made the switch to become Chief Editor of Nature Chemistry in early 2008. Before joining Nature Publishing Group, he was a lecturer and research associate in the department of chemistry and biochemistry at UCLA, where he also ran an editorial office of Organic Letters and occasionally helped out with the California NanoSystems Institute (organizing conferences, editing reports, and other fun stuff). He is fascinated by scholarly communication—particularly in chemistry—and how it might be changing in the not-too-distant future. He occasionally blogs at http://stuartcantrill.com/.
Richard Gedye, Director of Publishing Outreach Programmes, STM
Richard Gedye has worked in academic journals publishing since 1986, firstly at Macmillan. In 1991 he joined Oxford University Press where he held a number of positions, including director of sales, marketing, and research. In 2002 he helped found COUNTER, an international organisation which has established a code of practice for vendor-based online usage statistics, and which he chaired for eight years. Since January 2011, Richard has been managing STM’s Outreach programmes, including Research4Life and patientINFORM. Research4Life is the collective name for four programmes in which more than 150 publishers provide access to researchers, academics, students, doctors, agriculturalists, economists and other professionals in the developing world. Patient INFORM is a free online service that provides patients and their carers with access to some of the most up-to-date, reliable, and important research available about the diagnosis and treatment of specific diseases. In patientINFORM, consumers have the ability to not only read the latest research, but also to find help interpreting that information and accessing additional materials.
Peter Harrison, Vice President Health and Medical Sciences Journals, Elsevier
Peter joined Elsevier in 1995 and has subsequently held a number of publishing/editorial roles within the company. He is currently responsible for a group of just under 200 medical journals and manages staff across multiple locations in the UK, Netherlands and US. During his career Peter has been involved with numerous journal launches and relaunches, society publishing partnerships, and editorial strategy and development.