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Colin Steele

Colin Steele is Emeritus Fellow of the Australian National University. Previously, he was Director of Scholarly Information Strategies (2002-2003); University Librarian ANU (1980-2002); Deputy Librarian ANU (1976-1980); and Assistant Librarian at the Bodleian Library, Oxford (1967-1976).

He is the Convenor of the National Scholarly Communications Forum and in September 2009 was the Convenor of the National Academies Forum on Excellence in Research Evaluation, Impacts on Scholarship, Research Funding and Publications. He is the author/editor of 7 books, as well as over three hundred articles and reviews. He is a regular reviewer for several journals as well as the Canberra Times. He is on the board of several international journals, including The Journal of Librarianship and Information Science. He has been an invited keynote speaker in 7 countries, most recently in South Africa in June 2009.

In 1984 he was awarded the Knight Cross of Queen Isabella La Catolica of Spain for services to Hispanic culture. In 1998 he was awarded a Fellowship by both the British and Australian Library Associations, only the sixth double Fellowship in history. In 2001 he was elected an Honorary Fellow of the Australian Academy of Humanities and in 2002 received the Australian Centenary Medal for Scholarly Communication services.

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Heather Joseph

Heather Joseph serves as the Executive Director of the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC), a library-based organization that support open access to the results of scholarly and scientific research through enabling open access publishing and archiving channels, programs, and advocacy for local, national and international open access policies.

Ms. Joseph is also the convener of the Alliance for Taxpayer Access, a coalition of libraries, universities, patients advocacy groups, consumer groups, and student organizations who work to ensure that results of publicly funded research are openly accessible to the public. The group has been a leading voice on U.S. public access legislation, including landmark policy issued by the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

Ms. Joseph spent 15 years as a scientific journal publisher. While at the American Society for Cell Biology, she managed Molecular Biology of the Cell (MBC) the first journal to commit its full content to the NIH’s openly accessible PubMed Central repository, and was pleased to be appointed to serve on the National Advisory Committee for this initiative.

Ms. Joseph is a frequent speaker on scholarly communications issues, and serves on the Board of Directors of numerous not-for-profit organizations. She recently completely a term as the elected President of the Society for Scholarly Publishing.

Watch a video of Heather’s presentation at the event ➤

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