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MLA Distance Education

Scholarly Publishing and Open Access: Straight Talk

MLA's Educational Webcast
Held Tuesday, November 20, 2007

Presenters

Heather Joseph

Executive Director, Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC), Washington DC

Heather Joseph joined SPARC as director in July 2005 and is responsible for SPARC's overall program development. She determines and implements SPARC goals, leads SPARC's advocacy efforts to support widespread adoption of open access to scholarly research, identifies and negotiates partnerships with scholarly publishers, builds coalitions of support, and generally represents the interests and values of SPARC to the stakeholders in scholarly communication.

Before coming to SPARC, the culmination of Joseph's career in scholarly publishing was serving as president and chief operating officer for BioOne, a SPARC publisher partner. Under her leadership, BioOne focused on helping small scholarly societies in the biological sciences remain independent and competitive in the electronic arena, while maintaining academy friendly access policies. For her work in successfully launching and establishing BioOne, Joseph was awarded the 2002 Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers' Award for Services to Not-for-Profit Publishing. She also served as elected president of the Society for Scholarly Publishing for the 2004-2005 term.

Patricia Thibodeau, AHIP, FMLA

Associate Dean, Library Services and Archives, and Director, Medical Center Library, Duke University, Durham, NC, and Chair, Medical Library Association, Scholarly Publishing Task Force

Patricia Thibodeau is associate dean for library services and archives and director of the Duke University Medical Center Library. For the past three years, Thibodeau has served as chair of MLA's Scholarly Publishing Task Force. She is also a member of the National Health Institute's Public Access Working Group and serves on the Association of Academic Health Sciences Libraries (AAHSL)/MLA Joint Legislative Task Force. Thibodeau has extensive experience in health sciences libraries. She entered the field in 1977 when she became director of the Health Sciences Information Center and Research Administration at Women & Infants Hospital of Rhode Island, which is a teaching and research facility. In 1983, she became director of information and media services at the Mountain Area Health Education Center in Asheville, NC, serving health professionals and facilities in a sixteen-county region. Since coming to Duke in 1993, she has been involved in curricular revisions, the implementation of new technologies in the medical center as well as the library, and the development of archival and digital services. As MLA past president and a member of the MLA Board, she has been involved in setting priorities and establishing action plans for many MLA initiatives.
Karen Albert, AHIP

Karen Albert, AHIP

Director, Library Services, Talbot Research Library, Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, PA

Karen M. Albert, AHIP, has been director of library services at the Talbot Research Library, Fox Chase Cancer Center, in Philadelphia for the past twenty years. She has a biology degree from Tufts University, a master’s degree in library science from Drexel University, and is currently pursuing a graduate certificate in biomedical informatics at the Oregon Health & Science University. In 2003, she was invited to attend the NLM Woods Hole Fellowship program in medical informatics. Her article on open access was published in the July 2006 issue of the Journal of the Medical Library Association, and she was a speaker at MLA’s 2007 Symposium, "Scholarly Publishing Issues: The Challenges and Opportunities Facing Libraries in an Open Access Environment.”

Carol Jenkins, AHIP, FMLA

Video-taped Presenters

Carol Jenkins, AHIP, FMLA

Director, Health Sciences Library, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill

Carol Jenkins is the director of the Health Sciences Library at University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill. She has been an active member of MLA for over thirty-five years, and she served as MLA's president in 2002. She is both a Distinguished Member of the Academy of Health Information Professionals and an MLA Fellow. She has earned a reputation at her institution and beyond for making the library an essential partner to the success of the academic health center. Her support for open access is part of that vision.

Mary L. Ryan, AHIP, FMLA

Director, Medical Science Library, University of Arkansas-Little Rock, and president-elect, MLA

Mary L. Ryan, AHIP, FMLA, has served as the director of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Library since 1997. Her previous positions include serials librarian at the Tulane University Health Sciences Library, assistant director for technical services at the UAMS Library, chief of technical services at the Food and Drug Administration Library, and executive director of the National Network of Libraries of Medicine/South Central Region. Ryan currently is president-elect of MLA. She has served as chair of the Association of Academic Health Sciences Libraries (AAHSL) Scholarly Communications Committee and a member of the MLA Scholarly Publishing Task Force and is currently a member of the National Institutes of Health PubMed Central National Advisory Committee. She has also made numerous presentations on scholarly communications issues at meetings of librarians, health professionals, and publishers.

Paul Schoening

Associate Dean, Academic Information Management, and Director, Bernard Becker Medical Library, Washington University Medical School, St. Louis, MO

Paul Schoening is the associate dean for academic information management and director of the Bernard Becker Medical Library at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, MO. He has been with Washington University since 1991, when he started as a research associate in medical informatics working on structured electronic document formats for publishing genetic information. The premise of this research was that all future journal articles would be available on the Internet and that they should contain the raw data (sequence data, in our case) described in their text and tables.

In 1993, he joined the medical library to establish an information technology division with the mission to provide commodity information technology services to students, staff and faculty of the medical school. Over the next six years, this division grew from 3 to 37 staff members and provided email, Web development, and data communication services to more than 5,000 clients.

In 1999, Schoening was appointed to his current position as associate dean and director of the Becker Medical Library. Among other things, he has established an institutional repository, created a new position dedicated to scholarly communication issues, launched an authors' rights campaign, and given several presentations on scholarly communication issues to faculty groups.

Prior to joining Washington University, Schoening worked for McDonnell Douglas (now Boeing), doing research in applying methods of artificial intelligence to aircraft systems and manufacturing processes.

Schoening holds master's degrees in mathematics from University of Minnesota and business administration from Washington University and earned his undergraduate degrees in biology and mathematics from St. Olaf College.

Linda Watson, AHIP, FMLA

Director, Health Sciences Libraries, University of Minnesota-Minneapolis

Linda Watson has been director of the Health Sciences Libraries of the University of Minnesota since August 2005. From 1990-2005, she directed the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library at the University of Virginia. Her previous library positions include five years at the Houston Academy of Medicine-Texas Medical Center Library from 1985-1990 and ten years at the National Library of Medicine from 1976-1985.

Watson has been active in MLA for many years and is an MLA Fellow and a Distinguished Member of the Academy of Health Information Professionals. She was MLA president from 2002-2003. She has also been active in the Association of Academic Health Sciences Libraries (AAHSL) on the Scholarly Communications Committee and is currently the AAHSL president-elect. She has participated in a number of planning and advisory committees at the National Library of Medicine, including the PubMed Central National Advisory Committee, and in 2004 served as a member of the Institute of Medicine's Committee on the Future of Rural Health Care.

Watson has a master's in library science from Simmons College in Boston, and her bachelor's in French from the University of Connecticut.