provides comprehensive library and information services on WHO-produced recorded information in print and other media. In addition, library services give access to worldwide health, medical and development information resources to WHO headquarters, regions and country offices, ministries of health and other government offices, health workers in Member States, other UN and international agencies, and diplomatic missions. The WHO library programmes help regions and developing countries achieve self-sufficiency in providing information services to the health sector.
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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 (including the New England Collections Online program), and the New England Regional Depository. 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, Germany, Italy, Hong Kong, Hungary, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Russia, Sweden, and South Africa. Many of his publications and presentations can be found at http://www.nelinet.net/ahirshon/. Hirshon holds an M.L.S. from Indiana University, and an M.P.A. (public administration) from Wayne State University.
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Rick Luce:
Richard Luce is the Research Library (http://lib-www.lanl.gov/) Director at Los Alamos National Laboratory (http://www.lanl.gov/).  Known as both an information technology pioneer and organizational innovator, his organization was the co-recipient of the 1999 Federal Library and Information Center of the Year award from the Library of Congress (http://www.loc.gov/today/pr/2000/00-031.html, and a 1997 and 2000 Quality New Mexico "Roadrunner" recipient for organizational performance excellence. Los Alamos appointed Rick as the Project Leader of the Library Without Walls digital library program in 1994 (http://lib-www.lanl.gov/lww/welcome.html. The Library Without Walls was the first digital library program to deliver large-scale science databases via the web (1994), interactive personal alerts (1995), and content linking (1996). Rick received a 1996 Distinguished Performance Award from Los Alamos for his contributions supporting science and technology. Rick has held numerous advisory and consultative positions supporting digital library development and digital publishing, as well as being a well-known international speaker. In 1999 he co-founded the Open Archives Initiative to develop interoperable standards for author self-archiving systems. Currently, he is a Senior Advisor to the Max Planck Society, a member of the Executive Boards of the National Information Standards Organization, and the University of California's Digital Media Innovations Program. He was a founding board member of the New Mexico Library Alliance, the Alliance for Innovation in Science and Technology Information, and former chair of the New Mexico State Library Advisory Council. Prior to his appointment at Los Alamos in 1991, Rick held positions as Executive Director of the Southeast Florida Library Information Network (SEFLIN), Director of Colorado's Irving Library Network, and Assistant Director of the Boulder Public Library. He speaks extensively in the areas of Digital Libraries, Quality and Change Management, Strategic Planning and Electronic Publishing.
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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.
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Ulrich Pöschl:
Ulrich Pöschl is the Chief Executive Editor of the international scientific journal Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (ACP), President of the  Atmospheric Sciences Division of the European Geosciences Union, and Head of the Aerosol Research Group at the Institute of Hydrochemistry (R. Niessner), Technical University of Munich. He studied chemistry at the Technical University of Graz, Austria, and worked as a postdoctoral fellow and research scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Atmospheric Chemistry Laboratory, M. J. Molina) and at the Max Planck Institute of Chemistry (Atmospheric Chemistry Department, P. J. Crutzen). ACP is an open access journal with an innovative two-stage publication process involving the scientific discussion forum Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics Discussions (ACPD), which has been designed to foster scientific discussion; maximise the effectiveness and transparency of scientific quality assurance; enable rapid publication of new scientific results; and make scientific publications freely accessible. For more information see the websites www.ch.tum.de/wasser/aerosol and www.atmos-chem-phys.org. See also Ulrich's personal homepage at http://webserver.fak-cbg.tu-muenchen.de/wasser/aerosol/poeschl.htm.
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Bas Savenije:
Bas Savenije (1947) studied philosophy at Utrecht University in the Netherlands; he graduated in philosophical logic. Since then, he has held a wide range of positions at Utrecht University, among which: Director of Strategic Planning, acting Director of the University Media Institute, and Director Budgeting & Control. Since 1994 he is university librarian, managing the comprehensive library of Utrecht University. He has initiated an extensive innovation program in the library, including the development of services for academic e-publishing. As a result of this Utrecht University Library now includes the unit Igitur, Utrecht Publishing & Archiving Services. Bas has published on the management of higher education, library innovation and the innovation of scientific communication. He is President of the Dutch Association of Librarians and Information Managers. He is also chairman of the Board of SPARC Europe and member of the steering committee of SPARC US (The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition). See also: http://www.library.uu.nl/staff/savenije/.
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Carol Tenopir:
Carol Tenopir is a professor at the School of Information Sciences (http://www.sis.utk.edu/ at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville (http://www.utk.edu/). Her areas of teaching and research include: information access and retrieval, electronic publishing, the information industry, online resources, and the impact of technology on reference librarians. She is the author of five books, including, Communication Patterns of Engineers (John Wiley for IEEE Press, 2004) with Donald W. King. Dr. Tenopir has published over 200 journal articles, is a frequent speaker at professional conferences, and since 1983 has written the "Online Databases" column for Library Journal. She is the recipient of the 1993 Outstanding Information Science Teacher Award from the American Society for Information Science/Institute for Scientific Information and the 2000 ALISE Award for Teaching Excellence. She also received the 2002 American Society for Information Science & Technology, Research Award (for lifetime achievement in research).Dr. Tenopir holds a PhD degree in Library and Information Science from the University of Illinois (http://www.uiuc.edu/index.html. See also her personal homepage at http://web.utk.edu/~tenopir/.
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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/.
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Jan Velterop:
Jan Velterop is Publisher and Director of the BioMed Central Group, a group of companies within the Current Science Group.  He has a wealth of experience within the scientific journals publishing business. Throughout the '90s, he was the Managing Director of Academic Press Limited, where he was responsible for taking forward the highly successful and innovative IDEAL project which was one of the first e-journal initiatives. IDEAL was the model for ScienceDirect and subsumed in it with the acquisition of Academic Press by Elsevier. He has also held high profile positions at Macmillan Publishers where he was the Publishing Director of Nature Publishing Group and President of Nature Inc, and at the Dutch Media Group, Wegener, where he was the Managing Director of one of their newspaper titles. Following his postgraduate study in marine geology, he started his publishing career at Elsevier in Amsterdam as Acquisitions Editor responsible for a number of Books & Journals publishing programmes in various disciplines. In addition to the above, he worked as a consultant within the scientific publishing and information industries. Having worked so close to the core of science publishing, he has come to the insight that science needs maximizing the visibility and impact of the results of research and that the most effective way of achieving that is to ensure free and unimpeded access to those results. BioMed Central, where he now is the publisher, is, so far, one of the very few companies who set out to devise and prove the economic viability of an online open access publishing model without in any way compromising the quality of its publications while dramatically increasing their accessibility, visibility, and usability.
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Jens Vigen:
Jens Vigen has been a scientific information officer at CERN since 1994.  Stimulated by the strongly demanding high energy physics community, he has been deeply involved in developing electronic services at CERN, often in collaboration with commercial partners like DatastarWeb, Elsevier Science, the American Physical Society, the Institute of Physics and Springer Verlag. Before joining CERN Jens held a position at the library of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. He has a master degree in civil engineering; geodesy and photogrammetry.
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Engelbert Zass:
Engelbert Zass is head of the ETH Zuerich Chemistry Biology Pharmacy Information Center.  An organic chemist by training, he specialized in chemical information after receiving his Ph.D. in 1978, and collected more than 20 years experience in searching, operating and designing chemistry databases, as well as in support, training and education of users of chemical information. He has given numerous lectures and courses in Europe and the U.S., is author of more than 50 papers on chemical information, and served on several advisory boards (e.g., editorial board of the "Journal of Chemical Information and Computer Science" 1991-97, Advisory Board of the "Fachinformationszentrum Chemie", Berlin since 1993). Present activities include, besides his administrative duties, teaching chemical information courses at ETH Zuerich, the Universities of Zürich and Berne, and the design of multimedia teaching modules for chemical information in the framework of the large German multimedia project "Vernetztes Studium - Chemie".
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involved in shaping an e-mail and web-based scholarly information network for the German speaking community of historians. This service is now actively used by 9.000 historians coming from 48 different countries disseminating about 200 contributions per month. Before joining the Max Planck Society he has worked until 2002 in the eBusiness department of the Langenscheidt publishing group. Gerhard Beier is working as project manager for the Max Planck eDoc-Server project. With the eDoc-Server the Heinz Nixdorf Center for Information Management in the Max Planck Society (ZIM) provides the research institutes of the Max Planck Society with a platform to disseminate, store, and manage their scientific output. Moreover, eDoc serves as a tool to facilitate and promote open access to scientific information and primary sources, thus acting in the spirit of the Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities.
He moved to Shell Research in the Netherlands after completing his PhD in 1987. In 1990 he joined Elsevier Science in Amsterdam and has held various positions in publishing and marketing in the areas of chemical engineering, life sciences, physics and astronomy. Jonathan was Publishing Director for Mathematics and Computer Science before taking up a position as one of the Directors of ScienceDirect, Elsevier Science's web-based initiative for the electronic distribution of scientific information. He currently holds the position of Technology Director. Jonathan is a naturalised Dutchman and the proud father of two wonderful children.
Following a one year Royal Society fellowship spent in 1970-1971 at the Institut für Hochenergiephysik in Vienna, he remained on the staff there for the next 15 years. His research projects were mainly at CERN but also included an experiment carried out at the Serpukhov laboratory near Moscow. From 1978 onwards he was permanently based at CERN, working on several vital aspects of the UA1 experiment at the antiproton-proton collider. In 1982/1983 this resulted in the discovery of the W and Z gauge bosons, now considered to be one of the major achievements of physics in the second half of the 20th century, and for which the 1984 Nobel Prize for Physics was awarded to the leader of the project. In 1985, David took up a post in the CERN Scientific Information Service (libraries had been an active secondary interest of his throughout his research career) where he has been mainly involved with the development of CERN's worldwide high-energy physics database. He was quick to grasp the significance of the Los Alamos e-print archives and initialised the activity now known as "harvesting metadata" in 1994. He contributed substantially to the design of the Web interface to the CERN databases and, when electronic journals emerged in 1997, he implemented the idea of a link manager to access articles directly from the already-existing database records. In recent years he has been compiling a factual Web database covering particle physics and associated fields. At present he is particularly interested in linking document databases to and from other kinds of research information, and in developing the publication process to match today's technical possibilities.
As a graduated librarian he started his career in the library of the library school followed by positions as a head librarian in a general teaching hospital, psychiatric hospital and a large teaching hospital. He is very active in the world of Dutch medical libraries, participating in almost any working group or task force, i.e. continuing education, quality, Internet. In 1996, his library was the first medical library in the Netherlands to achieve accreditation by the national authorities. After being treasurer and chair of the Dutch Medical Library Group, he was asked to become general manager of the Netherlands office of EBSCO, which also serves customers in the Nordic and Benelux countries. During these years he gained a lot of experience with e-journals and databases an vistited many medical libraries through Europe. As a specialized consultant for medical libraries, Ronald focuses on the Dutch medical libraries. With his worldwide contacts he keeps in touch with developments within the world of medical libraries.
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.