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Key topics: Peer review, publishing ethics, editorial standards and practices, copyright, intellectual property, industry initiatives

Mayur Amin, Director of Research & Academic Relations

Areas of Expertise: Impact factors; the role of published papers in the research assessment exercise; journal pricing 

Mayur has conducted many studies on the scientific publishing system, and on evidence-based techniques for measuring both its impact and understanding the role of publishing on research and teaching. His work also seeks to understand how scientific publishing can better meet the differing expectations of researchers, authors and academics  - issues on which he has published articles in specialist journals and delivered conference presentations. Full Profile

Nick Fowler, Director of Strategy

Areas of Expertise: Electronic pricing, ‘Open Access’, e-Health strategies, search, Internet-based business models

Nick is responsible for strategy, market and competitor analysis, and strategic projects, e.g. so-called open access models. He assembles and leads teams working on key issues facing both the company and the industry as a whole. These include e-pricing, ‘open access’ and alternative scientific publishing models, e-Health information delivery strategies, search, and the development of internet-based business.  He has acted as a spokesperson for Elsevier on these issues. Full Profile

Lynne Herndon, President and Chief Executive Officer, Cell Press

Areas of Expertise: Publishing innovation and user-based business models

As President and CEO of Cell Press, Lynne has successfully grown the reputation and size of the division through bold editorial and commercial strategies, as well as organic product development. Under Lynne’s guidance,   Cell Press has demonstrated creativity and leadership on different approaches to publishing and product innovation—providing far-reaching impact within Elsevier and the publishing community. Full Profile

Jim Krosschell, Director of Society Publishing, Science and Technology

Area of Expertise: Society Publishing Relations

Jim joined Elsevier in 2006 to form a society publishing team for Elsevier’s Science & Technology division, and to collaborate closely with its 47 journal publishers and their portfolios. With nearly 30 years’ experience in medical and science publishing, Jim has worked with hundreds of societies and has developed a considerable knowledge of journals, books, electronic media, and certification issues. As a board member of the Society for Scholarly Publishing from 2001 to 2004, Jim’s remit was to advance scholarly publishing and the professional development of society members... Full Profile

Emilie Marcus, Executive Editor, Cell Press

Area of Expertise: Publishing in the Life Sciences

Emilie has been a major contributor to debates on issues facing scientific publishing. She has served as a panellist on open debates about alternative publishing models at Harvard and Brandeis Universities and on the publishing ethics panel at the 2006 Annual Meeting of the   Council of Science Editors. She also is frequently asked to give talks at universities on the editorial process. She championed a new policy, launched in 2005, to make all content in the   Cell Press journals– back to 1995– freely available online 12 months after publication. Full Profile

Daviess Menefee, Global Director for Institutional Relations

Areas of Expertise: Partnering with libraries, information philanthropy and pricing

With more than 25 years in the information industry, including credentials as an academic librarian, Daviess’ breadth of experience spans libraries and networks through to publishing. He is actively engaged in dialogues with librarians on the changes occurring within the information industry. Daviess is also one of the company’s key drivers of the HINARI and AGORA programs which strive to provide free or low cost information resources to the developing world. Full Profile

Adrian Mulligan, Associate Director Research & Academic Relations

Areas of Expertise: peer review, market research in scholarly publishing

Adrian has a range of experience having worked in publishing for 10 years. During the last 6 years his position in research has given him an unique opportunity to study the scholarly community. He has conducted research into author motivations and behaviour, peer review and most recently completed a study examining the core trends in scholarly publishing. He has presented on these topics at various conferences including the 2006 STM conferences held in Budapest and Frankfurt, the ICSTI Public Conference, Nancy France 2007. Full Profile

Andrew Plume, Associate Director – Scientometrics & Market Analysis

Areas of Expertise: Impact Factors and scientometrics; the role of the journal in scholarly communication; accessibility of literature.

Dr Andrew Plume is Associate Director – Scientometrics & Market Analysis in Research & Academic Relations at Elsevier, specializing in scientometrics (the scientific qualification and analysis of science). Through accumulating a broad spectrum of data that ranges from specific primary sources such as authors and single articles to the broadest data resources generated from countries and entire subject domains, Andrew studies information flows in the scholarly literature by analyzing patterns of publications and citations. His particular interest lies in the use (and abuse) of the Impact Factor and the emergence of alternative metrics for journal evaluation. Andrew frequently presents these topics, among others, to journal editors, learned and scholarly societies, and the publishing community. Full Profile

Mark Seeley, Senior Vice President/General Counsel

Areas of expertise: Publishing ethics, copyright, intellectual property, access and distribution licensing  

A frequent speaker on copyright and public policy issues at publishing and scientific conferences, Mark heads up Elsevier‘s global legal department of lawyers which addresses corporate organization and compliance, mergers, acquisitions, and copyright policy and enforcement. Mark is the chair of the Copyright Committee of the International Association of Scientific, Technical & Medical Publishers (  STM) and a member of the   Copyright Committee of the Association of American Publishers. Full Profile

Martin Tanke, Managing Director S&T Journal Publishing

Areas of Expertise: Trends, future and value of STM journal publishing, the role of peer review, Elsevier’s EES system and the development of electronic databases

With 25 years at Elsevier, Martin Tanke has experienced the full cycle of STM publishing from scientist to publisher and senior manager. He has witnessed first hand the industry’s migration from print to electronic and from a reader’s to a creator’s market where the exchange of information now occurs well in advance of final publication.  Full Profile

David Tempest, Deputy Director of Universal Sustainable Research Access

Areas of Expertise: Peer review, impact factors, usage, and knowledge management

David Tempest has worked in several different positions for Elsevier including Journals Editorial and Marketing, but has spent the majority of his career specialising in Scientometrics - (the study of science, economics and bibliometrics) and knowledge management. This has given him a unique opportunity to study the scholarly community and to work on the strategy of journals in many different fields. Full Profile

Philippe Terheggen, Senior Vice-President Physical Sciences

Areas of Expertise: Processes of publishing; EES, working with editors, authors and reviewers to add value to the peer review process

Phillipe has served in each of Elsevier’s three divisions worldwide, in a variety of publishing, marketing, operations and product innovation roles. As a former scientist, he has an in-depth knowledge of the academic world and actively seeks to build relationships with Elsevier’s external editors, authors and reviewers. Full Profile