Electronic Resources and Electronic Publishing 2004 : Lecturers' biographies

Lecturers' biographies

The following lecturers contributed:

Jonathan Clark:

Jonathan Clark studied Chemical Engineering at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne in the U.K. He moved to Shell Research in the Netherlands after completing his PhD in 1987. In 1990 he joined Elsevier in Amsterdam and has held various positions in publishing and marketing in the areas of chemical engineering, life sciences, physics and astronomy. Until May 2000 Jonathan was Publishing Director for the Mathematics and Computer Science portfolio of journals. Since then he has taken up a position as one of the Directors of ScienceDirect, Elsevier's web-based initiative for the electronic distribution of scientific information. Following the acquisition of Harcourt Inc., Jonathan became Technology Director for the Science & Technology Division of Elsevier. He is currently Executive Vice President Technology for the Health Science Division and based in Philidelphia. Jonathan is a naturalised Dutchman and the proud father of two wonderful children.

Hans Geleijnse:

Hans Geleijnse is CIO, Director of IT Services and University Librarian at Tilburg University, the Netherlands. He is responsible for strategic policy development and coordination in the field of the university's information and computerization policy. Before June 2003, Hans was Director of Information Service and Systems at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy, for three years and before that, university librarian at Tilburg University for 11 years. In Italy, Hans was engaged in the development of national initiatives by the various existing library consortia. In Tilburg, he was involved in the development and implementation of the Tilburg Digital Library Concept and in various local, national, and international initiatives in the field of electronic publishing, including the first electronic site license agreement (between Tilburg University and Elsevier Science in 1994), the development of the Dutch/German licensing principles, consortia negotiations with publishers, and university initiatives on self-publishing. Hans is Vice-President of LIBER, the league of research libraries in Europe. He is also a member of the board of Ticer. He was involved in various European digital library projects (Telephassa, Elise I, Elise II, Decomate I, Decomate II, T-ECUP). He is an invited speaker at international conferences on the development of the digital library, strategic planning, change management, and electronic publishing. Hans Geleijnse developed the course programme together with Hans Roes and will chair the course.

Emanuella Giavarra:

Emanuella Giavarra studied Dutch law at the Erasmus University in Rotterdam and English law at the University of Cambridge. She is a specialist in EC and copyright lawyer. From December 1990, she has dedicated herself to the protection of the copyright interests of the library world at the European institutions. From June 1992 until January 1996, she was appointed Director of the European Bureau of Library, Information and Documentation Associations (EBLIDA). From January 1996 until January 1999, she was Project Director of the European Copyright User Platform (ECUP+ Concerted Action). At present, she is a partner in the law firm Chambers of Mark Watson-Gandy in Amsterdam and London and a member of the Legal Advisory Board of the European Commission (DG-XIII). On 14 July 2000, Emanuella won the very prestigious European Woman of Achievement award. The award is in recognition of her licensing efforts on behalf of the European library community.

Arnold Hirshon:

Arnold Hirshon is the Executive Director of NELINET, Inc. (http://www.nelinet.net/), a library consortium that promotes library technology development and resource sharing among 700 academic, public, and corporate libraries throughout New England. As Executive Director, Hirshon launched a number of new programs and services, including the NELINET Consulting Solutions, Digitization Services, and the New England Regional Depository, and he expanded services for electronic resource licensing and educational services. He also serves as a consultant to eIFL, a multicountry library consortium for developing countries. Prior to coming to NELINET, Hirshon served as Vice Provost for Information Resources (Chief Information Officer) at Lehigh University, where he was responsible for the University libraries, computing, telecommunications, and media services. Hirshon was also University Librarian at Wright State University, and served in other library administrative posts at Virginia Commonwealth University, Duke University, and Wayne State University. Professionally, Hirshon served as President of the Association for Library Collections & Technical Services (ALCTS). His substantial publication record includes monographs, book chapters and articles, including recent articles about library consortia, management, and technology. Hirshon is a frequent lecturer nationally and internationally, including presentations in Australia, Canada, China, Denmark, Germany, Italy, Hong Kong, Hungary, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Russia, Sweden, Taiwan, Turkey, and South Africa. Many of his publications and presentations can be found at www.nelinet.net/ahirshon/ . Hirshon holds an M.L.S. from Indiana University, and an M.P.A. (public administration) from Wayne State University.

Donald W. King:

Professor King, a statistician, is affiliated with the University of Pittsburgh, School of Information Sciences, Donald King and Sara Fine Institute for Interpersonal Behavior and Technology. Up until the mid-1990s, he was president of King Research, Inc. and earlier two other research firms. While with these firms, he performed studies to describe and evaluate information services and products and began studies dealing with the potential of electronic publishing in the late 1960s under National Science Foundation funding. Since the 1970s, he and his colleagues have performed 42 readership surveys and economic cost analyses of publishing, libraries, consortia and other intermediaries. He retired in the mid-1990s to spend full time on writing and to continue research on scholarly journal systems. Since that time, he has collaborated with Carol Tenopir (University of Tennessee) and Peter Boyce (also "retired") on a series of readership surveys to determine the use, usefulness and value of print and electronic journals and with Carol Hansen Montgomery (Drexel University) and Robert Schonfeld and other JSTOR staff to examine the comparative costs of print and electronic journal collections in 11 university libraries. In addition to two recent books co-authored with Carol Tenopir ("Towards Electronic Journals: Realities for Scientists, Libraries and Publishers" and "Communication Patterns of Engineers"), he has co-authored 15 other books and hundreds of other formal publications. In 2001, he followed his wife, José-Marie Griffiths, to the University of Pittsburgh where they are also collaborating on studies of the value of public libraries and outcomes of Internet use. In recognition of his research efforts, he was honored as Pioneer in Science Information by the Chemical Heritage Foundation; Research Award and Award of Merit by the American Society for Information Sciences & Technology; and Fellow, American Statistical Association; among other formal awards and honors. See also his personal homepage at http://www2.sis.pitt.edu/~dwking/.

Teun Nijssen:

Teun Nijssen (1952) holds a degree in Informatics from the Institute for Higher Professional Education, Eindhoven, the Netherlands. He has been employed at the Tilburg University Computer Centre since 1978, first as a (Systems) Programmer and a Pioneer Datacommunications, and later, for ten years, as Head of the Configurations Management Department. Since 1992 he has been working as a Senior Project Manager at the Tilburg University Computer Centre. Recent project experiences include the EC Project Elise (1993-1995); EC Project Decomate (1995-1997); Prototype Electronic Helpdesk Tilburg University (1995-1996); the computer and network facilities of the city library of Maastricht. Also, he participates in several network and library projects in Africa and South America. He is a kernel member of SURFnet CERT-NL and participates in several SURFnet projects on encryption, chipcards and electronic trust. In 2002 Teun Nijssen became Managing Director of Ticer.

Thomas Place:
I graduated in Psychology (specialisation research methodology) from the University of Amsterdam in 1974. After a one-year assistantship at the Department of Psychology of the University of Amsterdam, I became a lecturer for Methodology and Philosophy of Science in the Department of Psychology at Tilburg University. From 1988 until 1993, I was librarian of the Social Sciences Library at Tilburg University. In 1993 I became Deputy Librarian of Tilburg University Library. Since 1989, I was involved in many local, national and international library automation projects. I was the project manager of the European project Decomate II. After the project was finished successfully in 2000, I coordinated the further development of the Decomate software that is now marketed by OCLC|Pica under the name of iPort.

Hans Roes:

After studying monetary economics at Tilburg University, Hans Roes worked as a teacher and student counsellor at Tilburg University. In 1990 he moved to the university library, first as librarian for economics and computer science, from 1993 as deputy librarian responsible for collection development and information services. Since January 2003, he advises the Board of Tilburg University in matters relating to student IT facilities. Hans Roes was involved in projects concerning the innovation of library services, electronic publishing and e-learning, and has published and lectured extensively on these subjects . He also works as a senior consultant for Ticer, advising academic and special libraries on strategic and organisational matters. More information can be found at: http://www.hroes.de/. Hans Roes is not a speaker at this course, but he developed the course programme together with Hans Geleijnse.

Hans Roosendaal:

Hans E. Roosendaal is professor of Scientific Information at the University of Twente in the Netherlands. Educated as a physicist he joined 1974 the University of Bielefeld (Germany) as faculty staff. Between 1983 and 1998 he served Elsevier Science in various management positions as a publisher and in corporate strategy and acquisitions. He joined the University of Twente in 1998 to found the DINKEL Institute and as its first director. He also served as member of the Executive Board of the University of Twente. Hans Roosendaal was closely involved in the founding of the Dutch Digital University. He is chairman of a steering group involving the Dutch university libraries, the ICT Platform of the Foundation SURF and the two major Dutch publishers, Elsevier Science and Kluwer Academic and co-ordinating research on the digitalisation of scientific Information. He has authored journal articles both on surface physics and on scientific information and has co-authored a book on surface physics. The articles on scientific information are in particular focused on strategic aspects of the transformation from a paper to a digital environment. Hans Roosendaal is also chairman of the Foundation www.natuurkunde.nl, a foundation supported by the entire Dutch physics community with the aim to make physics more attractive to young people. To this end the Foundation operates a website.

Sylvia Van Peteghem:
Sylvia has worked at the Ghent University Library since 1983 in a number of different functions. She started in the ephemera-collection of the Special Collections Department and got fascinated with the 19th Century collection of the library. Later on she became Head of the Cataloguing and Acquisition Department of the Central Library and in October 2000, she became Chief Librarian. The role of the central library within the university of Ghent (26.000 students) is fourfold: it is the centre of the library network and its reorganisation, trying to get the current number (300 +) of libraries down. It is the digital library in all its aspects, it is the repository library for cultural heritage and "passive" collections and it offers a working place in its wonderful booktower of Henry van de Velde. Thanks to the (past) presence for many years of Herbert Van de Sompel and his team, Ghent took an early start in digital libraries, SFX was born in the tower and the library became, due to a recent reorganisation, part of the research department of the university.

Herbert Van de Sompel:

Herbert Van de Sompel graduated in mathematics and computer science at Ghent University, and in 2000, obtained a Ph.D. from Ghent University for his research on dynamic and context-sensitive reference linking, now commonly known as the OpenURL framework (now being standardised by NISO). From 1982 to 1998 he worked as Head of Library Automation at Ghent University. In 1998, Herbert received a grant from the Belgian Science Foundation that enabled him to fully concentrate on digital library research for a year. During that year, Herbert spent six months at the Research Library of the Los Alamos National Laboratory working on reference linking problems and preprint related matters. While at Los Alamos, Herbert started the Open Archives Initiative with Paul Ginsparg and Rick Luce. With Carl Lagoze, Herbert published the Santa Fe Convention for the Open Archives Initiative (2000) and the Open Archives Metadata Harvesting Protocol (2001). After a short period as first Director of e-Strategy and Programmes at The British Library, Herbert has been working as Digital Library Researcher at the Los Alamos National Laboratory Research Library since Spring 2002. See also his personal homepage at http://lib-www.lanl.gov/~herbertv/.

Leo Waaijers:

Leo Waaijers (1938) studied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics in Leiden. In 1964 an almost lifelong career followed at TU Delft where he started as a scientist, including a Ph.D. in mathematics in 1968. In 1977 he switched to management, at first as the personal manager of his department, to become member of the University Executive Board from 1983 to 1988. Following discontinuation of this position he was appointed University Librarian. In this function he realized a.o. the new library building, the merger with the university press and the transfer to the new library system Aleph. In October 2001 he accepted a corresponding post at Wageningen University & Research Centre. From 1 January 2004, he is manager of the SURF Platform ICT and Research. SURF is the Dutch higher education and research partnership organization for network services and information and communications technology (ICT). It has organ-ized its activities in three platforms, ICT & Research, ICT & Education, ICT & Organization. The first Platform comprises the DARE Programme and the themes e-science and copyrights. The three SURF platforms combine efforts when it comes to authentication, standardization, rights and internationalization.

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	Lecturers' biographies

	The following lecturers contributed:

	Jonathan Clark: Jonathan Clark studied Chemical Engineering at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne in the U.K. He moved to Shell Research in the Netherlands after completing his PhD in 1987. In 1990 he joined Elsevier in Amsterdam and has held various positions in publishing and marketing in the areas of chemical engineering, life sciences, physics and astronomy. Until May 2000 Jonathan was Publishing Director for the Mathematics and Computer Science portfolio of journals. Since then he has taken up a position as one of the Directors of ScienceDirect, Elsevier's web-based initiative for the electronic distribution of scientific information. Following the acquisition of Harcourt Inc., Jonathan became Technology Director for the Science & Technology Division of Elsevier. He is currently Executive Vice President Technology for the Health Science Division and based in Philidelphia. Jonathan is a naturalised Dutchman and the proud father of two wonderful children.
	Hans Geleijnse: Hans Geleijnse is CIO, Director of IT Services and University Librarian at Tilburg University, the Netherlands. He is responsible for strategic policy development and coordination in the field of the university's information and computerization policy. Before June 2003, Hans was Director of Information Service and Systems at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy, for three years and before that, university librarian at Tilburg University for 11 years. In Italy, Hans was engaged in the development of national initiatives by the various existing library consortia. In Tilburg, he was involved in the development and implementation of the Tilburg Digital Library Concept and in various local, national, and international initiatives in the field of electronic publishing, including the first electronic site license agreement (between Tilburg University and Elsevier Science in 1994), the development of the Dutch/German licensing principles, consortia negotiations with publishers, and university initiatives on self-publishing. Hans is Vice-President of LIBER, the league of research libraries in Europe. He is also a member of the board of Ticer. He was involved in various European digital library projects (Telephassa, Elise I, Elise II, Decomate I, Decomate II, T-ECUP). He is an invited speaker at international conferences on the development of the digital library, strategic planning, change management, and electronic publishing. Hans Geleijnse developed the course programme together with Hans Roes and will chair the course.
	Emanuella Giavarra: Emanuella Giavarra studied Dutch law at the Erasmus University in Rotterdam and English law at the University of Cambridge. She is a specialist in EC and copyright lawyer. From December 1990, she has dedicated herself to the protection of the copyright interests of the library world at the European institutions. From June 1992 until January 1996, she was appointed Director of the European Bureau of Library, Information and Documentation Associations (EBLIDA). From January 1996 until January 1999, she was Project Director of the European Copyright User Platform (ECUP+ Concerted Action). At present, she is a partner in the law firm Chambers of Mark Watson-Gandy in Amsterdam and London and a member of the Legal Advisory Board of the European Commission (DG-XIII). On 14 July 2000, Emanuella won the very prestigious European Woman of Achievement award. The award is in recognition of her licensing efforts on behalf of the European library community.
	Arnold Hirshon: Arnold Hirshon is the Executive Director of NELINET, Inc. (http://www.nelinet.net/), a library consortium that promotes library technology development and resource sharing among 700 academic, public, and corporate libraries throughout New England. As Executive Director, Hirshon launched a number of new programs and services, including the NELINET Consulting Solutions, Digitization Services, and the New England Regional Depository, and he expanded services for electronic resource licensing and educational services. He also serves as a consultant to eIFL, a multicountry library consortium for developing countries. Prior to coming to NELINET, Hirshon served as Vice Provost for Information Resources (Chief Information Officer) at Lehigh University, where he was responsible for the University libraries, computing, telecommunications, and media services. Hirshon was also University Librarian at Wright State University, and served in other library administrative posts at Virginia Commonwealth University, Duke University, and Wayne State University. Professionally, Hirshon served as President of the Association for Library Collections & Technical Services (ALCTS). His substantial publication record includes monographs, book chapters and articles, including recent articles about library consortia, management, and technology. Hirshon is a frequent lecturer nationally and internationally, including presentations in Australia, Canada, China, Denmark, Germany, Italy, Hong Kong, Hungary, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Russia, Sweden, Taiwan, Turkey, and South Africa. Many of his publications and presentations can be found at www.nelinet.net/ahirshon/ . Hirshon holds an M.L.S. from Indiana University, and an M.P.A. (public administration) from Wayne State University.
	Donald W. King: Professor King, a statistician, is affiliated with the University of Pittsburgh, School of Information Sciences, and Sara Fine Institute for Interpersonal Behavior and Technology. Up until the mid-1990s, he was president of King Research, Inc. and earlier two other research firms. While with these firms, he performed studies to describe and evaluate information services and products and began studies dealing with the potential of electronic publishing in the late 1960s under National Science Foundation funding. Since the 1970s, he and his colleagues have performed 42 readership surveys and economic cost analyses of publishing, libraries, consortia and other intermediaries. He retired in the mid-1990s to spend full time on writing and to continue research on scholarly journal systems. Since that time, he has collaborated with Carol Tenopir (University of Tennessee) and Peter Boyce (also "retired") on a series of readership surveys to determine the use, usefulness and value of print and electronic journals and with Carol Hansen Montgomery (Drexel University) and Robert Schonfeld and other JSTOR staff to examine the comparative costs of print and electronic journal collections in 11 university libraries. In addition to two recent books co-authored with Carol Tenopir ("Towards Electronic Journals: Realities for Scientists, Libraries and Publishers" and "Communication Patterns of Engineers"), he has co-authored 15 other books and hundreds of other formal publications. In 2001, he followed his wife, José-Marie Griffiths, to the University of Pittsburgh where they are also collaborating on studies of the value of public libraries and outcomes of Internet use. In recognition of his research efforts, he was honored as Pioneer in Science Information by the Chemical Heritage Foundation; Research Award and Award of Merit by the American Society for Information Sciences & Technology; and Fellow, American Statistical Association; among other formal awards and honors. See also his personal homepage at http://www2.sis.pitt.edu/~dwking/.
	Teun Nijssen: Teun Nijssen (1952) holds a degree in Informatics from the Institute for Higher Professional Education, Eindhoven, the Netherlands. He has been employed at the Tilburg University Computer Centre since 1978, first as a (Systems) Programmer and a Pioneer Datacommunications, and later, for ten years, as Head of the Configurations Management Department. Since 1992 he has been working as a Senior Project Manager at the Tilburg University Computer Centre. Recent project experiences include the EC Project Elise (1993-1995); EC Project Decomate (1995-1997); Prototype Electronic Helpdesk Tilburg University (1995-1996); the computer and network facilities of the city library of Maastricht. Also, he participates in several network and library projects in Africa and South America. He is a kernel member of SURFnet CERT-NL and participates in several SURFnet projects on encryption, chipcards and electronic trust. In 2002 Teun Nijssen became Managing Director of Ticer.
	Thomas Place: I graduated in Psychology (specialisation research methodology) from the University of Amsterdam in 1974. After a one-year assistantship at the Department of Psychology of the University of Amsterdam, I became a lecturer for Methodology and Philosophy of Science in the Department of Psychology at Tilburg University. From 1988 until 1993, I was librarian of the Social Sciences Library at Tilburg University. In 1993 I became Deputy Librarian of Tilburg University Library. Since 1989, I was involved in many local, national and international library automation projects. I was the project manager of the European project Decomate II. After the project was finished successfully in 2000, I coordinated the further development of the Decomate software that is now marketed by OCLC\|Pica under the name of iPort.
	Hans Roes: After studying monetary economics at Tilburg University, Hans Roes worked as a teacher and student counsellor at Tilburg University. In 1990 he moved to the university library, first as librarian for economics and computer science, from 1993 as deputy librarian responsible for collection development and information services. Since January 2003, he advises the Board of Tilburg University in matters relating to student IT facilities. Hans Roes was involved in projects concerning the innovation of library services, electronic publishing and e-learning, and has published and lectured extensively on these subjects . He also works as a senior consultant for Ticer, advising academic and special libraries on strategic and organisational matters. More information can be found at: http://www.hroes.de/. Hans Roes is not a speaker at this course, but he developed the course programme together with Hans Geleijnse.
	Hans Roosendaal: Hans E. Roosendaal is professor of Scientific Information at the University of Twente in the Netherlands. Educated as a physicist he joined 1974 the University of Bielefeld (Germany) as faculty staff. Between 1983 and 1998 he served Elsevier Science in various management positions as a publisher and in corporate strategy and acquisitions. He joined the University of Twente in 1998 to found the DINKEL Institute and as its first director. He also served as member of the Executive Board of the University of Twente. Hans Roosendaal was closely involved in the founding of the Dutch Digital University. He is chairman of a steering group involving the Dutch university libraries, the ICT Platform of the Foundation SURF and the two major Dutch publishers, Elsevier Science and Kluwer Academic and co-ordinating research on the digitalisation of scientific Information. He has authored journal articles both on surface physics and on scientific information and has co-authored a book on surface physics. The articles on scientific information are in particular focused on strategic aspects of the transformation from a paper to a digital environment. Hans Roosendaal is also chairman of the Foundation www.natuurkunde.nl, a foundation supported by the entire Dutch physics community with the aim to make physics more attractive to young people. To this end the Foundation operates a website.
	Sylvia Van Peteghem: Sylvia has worked at the Ghent University Library since 1983 in a number of different functions. She started in the ephemera-collection of the Special Collections Department and got fascinated with the 19th Century collection of the library. Later on she became Head of the Cataloguing and Acquisition Department of the Central Library and in October 2000, she became Chief Librarian. The role of the central library within the university of Ghent (26.000 students) is fourfold: it is the centre of the library network and its reorganisation, trying to get the current number (300 +) of libraries down. It is the digital library in all its aspects, it is the repository library for cultural heritage and "passive" collections and it offers a working place in its wonderful booktower of Henry van de Velde. Thanks to the (past) presence for many years of Herbert Van de Sompel and his team, Ghent took an early start in digital libraries, SFX was born in the tower and the library became, due to a recent reorganisation, part of the research department of the university.
	Herbert Van de Sompel: Herbert Van de Sompel graduated in mathematics and computer science at Ghent University, and in 2000, obtained a Ph.D. from Ghent University for his research on dynamic and context-sensitive reference linking, now commonly known as the OpenURL framework (now being standardised by NISO). From 1982 to 1998 he worked as Head of Library Automation at Ghent University. In 1998, Herbert received a grant from the Belgian Science Foundation that enabled him to fully concentrate on digital library research for a year. During that year, Herbert spent six months at the Research Library of the Los Alamos National Laboratory working on reference linking problems and preprint related matters. While at Los Alamos, Herbert started the Open Archives Initiative with Paul Ginsparg and Rick Luce. With Carl Lagoze, Herbert published the Santa Fe Convention for the Open Archives Initiative (2000) and the Open Archives Metadata Harvesting Protocol (2001). After a short period as first Director of e-Strategy and Programmes at The British Library, Herbert has been working as Digital Library Researcher at the Los Alamos National Laboratory Research Library since Spring 2002. See also his personal homepage at http://lib-www.lanl.gov/~herbertv/.
	Leo Waaijers: Leo Waaijers (1938) studied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics in Leiden. In 1964 an almost lifelong career followed at TU Delft where he started as a scientist, including a Ph.D. in mathematics in 1968. In 1977 he switched to management, at first as the personal manager of his department, to become member of the University Executive Board from 1983 to 1988. Following discontinuation of this position he was appointed University Librarian. In this function he realized a.o. the new library building, the merger with the university press and the transfer to the new library system Aleph. In October 2001 he accepted a corresponding post at Wageningen University & Research Centre. From 1 January 2004, he is manager of the SURF Platform ICT and Research. SURF is the Dutch higher education and research partnership organization for network services and information and communications technology (ICT). It has organ-ized its activities in three platforms, ICT & Research, ICT & Education, ICT & Organization. The first Platform comprises the DARE Programme and the themes e-science and copyrights. The three SURF platforms combine efforts when it comes to authentication, standardization, rights and internationalization.