Vilnius Pedagogical University Library

Emilija Banionyte is a professional librarian. Since 1984 after having graduated LIS at Vilnius University she started working at Vilnius Pedagogical University Library as Head of the Acquisitions Department. Since 1987, she holds the position of Library Director. Emilija is interested in all aspects of academic library activity. She is active in professional librarianship not only in Lithuania, but also internationally: President of the Lithuanian Research Library Consortium, former President of the Lithuanian Librarians‘ Association, member of the Protection of Intellectual Property Rights Board of Lithuania, eIFL.net IP coordinator for Lithuania; member of the EBLIDA Expert Group Information Law, member of the IFLA CLM Committee. Currently – Manager of EU Structural Funds funded 3-year project „Opening research databases for Lithuania“.

 

EIFL

Simon started work as EIFL FOSS Programme Manager in July 2010. He comes to EIFL with a decade of experience in enhancing access to education through technology in the UK, working for JISC TechDis. His work to date has encompassed a wide range of themes, from the use of Free and Open Source Software to aid users’ access to computer-based information, to the development of an Open Source e-portfolio system for students with learning disabilities, and the creation of a free online self-assessment tool for accessibility in universities. He is keen to extend the work of the FOSS program to date, utilizing new and different technologies to maximize the impact of FOSS in enhancing access to knowledge.

 

Nicolaus Copernicus University Library

Bozena is the author of numerous articles on scientific information, Internet, evaluation of electronic resources, open access, e-learning and other technologies connected with librarian’s work, teaches courses on search strategies and quality of information, electronic databases, online catalogues, e-journals, open access, digital libraries and other Internet aspects – the courses are given in the framework of Postgraduate Study in Programming and Application of Computers, and of Postgraduate Study “Information Technology in Science Education” at the Institute of Physics, Nicolaus Copernicus University. Since 1998 she has been working as an Editor in Chief of Bulletin EBIB http://ebib.info/biuletyn/ - open access journal and Electronic Library service for Polish librarians http://www.ebib.info/ and since 2005 as an editor in the international E-LIS repository for librarians http://eprints.rclis.org/. She was deputy Director of Nicolaus Copernicus University Library 2002-2006 and now she is coordinator of regional project – Kujawsko-Pomorska Digital Library http://kpbc.umk.pl. She is an initiator and member of the Open Education Coalition in Poland http://koed.org.pl/.

 

Tribhuvan University Central Library, Nepal Library and Information Consortium (NeLic)

 

University of Toronto

Leslie Chan is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Social Sciences at the University of Toronto at Scarborough, where he serves as Program Supervisor for the International Development Studies Program. Leslie is the Director of Bioline International, a non-profit electronic publishing initiative that provides an open access distribution platform for over 60 scientific journals from various developing countries. Leslie’s teaching and research interests centre on the role of ICT and knowledge for development, and how Open Access enables capacity building in developing regions. Leslie is one of the original signatories of the Budapest Open Access Initiatives and an active participant of various international open access projects, the most recent of which is the Open Access Scholarly Information Sourcebook (OASIS, openoasis.org). Leslie serves on a number of boards, including the Advisory Board of the Canadian Research Knowledge Network, the eIFL.net Open Access Advisory Committee, and the Editorial Board of Open Medicine.

 

University of Malawi, Chancellor College Library

 §   Holds a Master of Arts degree in Records Management and Archives Administration from University College London

 §   Worked for the National Archives of Malawi as a Principal Archivist

 §   Joined the University of Malawi, Central Library Services  in December 2005 before moving to Chancellor College Library in July 2010

 §   Currently is a Training Librarian for the Malawi Library Association and also a member of the Malawi Library Information Consortium

 

EIFL

Iryna Kuchma is the EIFL Open Access programme manager. Her responsibilities include advocacy of open access to research results and support in developing open access policies, training and support in setting up open repositories, organizing workshops and other knowledge sharing and capacity building events. Previously Iryna Kuchma worked as an Information program manager at the International Renaissance Foundation (part of Soros Foundation network in Ukraine) and coordinated the Arts and Culture Program there. She has advocated in Ukraine for open access to research results leading to setting up institutional and subject repositories and introducing a Ukrainian law on open access to publicly funded research.

 

Iryna Kuchma is a Board member of NDLTD (Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations) and a member of DSpace Global Outreach Committee (DGOC). She chairs a Working Group “Repository and Repository Networks Support & Training” in the Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR) and in 2009-2010 she was a Steering Committee (and Task Group) member, InterAcademy Panel on International Issues (IAP) Program on Digital Knowledge Resources and Infrastructure in Developing Countries.

 

 

EIFL

Teresa Hackett is the Manager of EIFL-IP "Advocacy for Access to Knowledge: copyright and libraries", a programme of EIFL, an international not-for-profit organisation that works with libraries to enable sustainable access to high quality digital information for people in developing and transition countries. The EIFL-IP programme seeks to protect and promote the interests of EIFL libraries and their users in copyright issues at national level and in international policy fora. Teresa was the Director of the European library association (EBLIDA) from 2000-2003; before that provided technical support to the European Commission library research programme, and was part of the team to establish electronic information centres at the British Council in Germany. Teresa has a special interest in legal issues in information work, especially in the electronic environment. She is currently a member of the Copyright and Other Legal Matters Committee of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA-CLM). Teresa is a chartered librarian and in 2004 completed a post-graduate diploma in legal studies at the Dublin Institute of Technology.

 

 

Information Program, Open Society Institute

Melissa Hagemann manages the Open Access, Open Educational Resources, and Open Access to Law initiatives within the Information Program of the Open Society Institute and Soros Foundations Network. Since convening the meeting in December 2001 that led to the development of the Budapest Open Access Initiative, OSI has been active within the Open Access movement, which advocates for the free online availability of peer-reviewed literature.

 

Melissa has held several positions within OSI, including managing OSI's Regional Library Program (1995-1997) in Budapest, as well as the Science Journals Donation Program (1998-2001). She currently sits on the advisory board of the Wikimedia Foundation, which operates Wikipedia as well as other leading open content projects, and has served on the Member of Experts' Group of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation's Global Library Initiative. She was profiled as a SPARC Innovator in December 2006 for her work within the Open Access movement. Prior to joining OSI, Hagemann received an MSc from the London School of Economics and worked in the European Parliament in Brussels.

 

University of Pretoria, Department of Library Services

 

 §   Pioneered the University of Pretoria’s e-journals strategy in 1999.

 §   Started the electronic theses/dissertations repository in 2000 (http://upetd.up.ac.za) and first campaign to raise awareness for open access.

 §   2004: responsible for driving policy for mandatory submission of theses/dissertations

 §   2005: started openUP the collection of UP research/conference papers on UPSpace (our other institutional repository)

 §   2006: refocused the University’s Open Scholarship programme to include mandates, repositories and OA journals (http://www.library.up.ac.za/openup/index.htm)

 §   2009: responsible for driving policy for mandatory submission of research/conference papers

 §   2010: Received the NDLTD leadership award

 §   In between I addressed endless groups on campus, took part in numerous workshops in South Africa, Lesotho, Botswana and Ethiopia and spoke about these issues at 12 conferences

 

EIFL       

I have a library degree from Vilnius University, Lithuania. Immediately after graduation, I started working for the Open Society Fund-Lithuania (OSF), part of the Soros Foundation network, Law Program where I was in charge of creating a public law library. After that I moved to the Open Society Institute headquarters in Budapest to work as coordinator and later as manager for the Network Library Program which at that time supported library development in approximately 35 countries of Central and Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union, and Africa, spending several million USD annually. I gained deep knowledge of library infrastructure in developing countries, gained by providing advice to national Soros Foundations on national library support program strategies and funding, and through extensive travel throughout the network.  EIFL was one of the Open Society Institute-Budapest projects and when EIFL was spun off as an independent organization, I became the Managing Director of EIFL and moved to live in Rome, Italy.

 

Copperbelt University, Zambia

I have worked in University libraries at various ranks since 1973. I worked at the University of Zambia since 1973 as an Assistant Librarian. I was transferred to the then University of Zambia at Ndola Campus, in Kitwe in 1982. This institution was transformed into the Copperbelt University in 1987. I rose through the ranks to Deputy University Librarian. In 2000 I worked briefly at the University of Lesotho Library as Deputy University Librarian and later as Acting University Librarian in 2001. I was first appointed to the position of University Librarian for CBU in 2002. I have published 13 Journal articles, 18 chapters in books, and over 25 conference papers. I am currently the ZALICO Vice Chairman, and the EIFL country coordinator for Zambia. Among other responsibilities I was Chairman of the 2009-2013 Strategic Planning Committee, as well as Chairman for the Intellectual Property Committee of the Copperbelt University.

 

National University of Science and Technology (NUST), Zimbabwe

I have been in Academic Libraries for over twenty five years. I have worked in University Libraries in both Zimbabwe and South Africa- University of Zimbabwe Library, Harare, Zimbabwe. University of Cape Town Libraries, Cape Town, South Africa National University of Science and Technology, Bulawayo, Zimbabwe as University Librarian. I have a passion for my work, including being Country Coordinator for EIFL in Zimbabwe as well as for EIFL-IP. I thrive under challenging conditions!!

 

UNESCO -United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization

Daisy Ouya is a Kenyan national working an Open Access Consultant within UNESCO’s Communication and Information (CI) Sector. Her current assignment is to develop planned activities under UNESCO’s Open Access programme, which encompasses support for OA policy and capacity development, with special emphasis on Africa and the Developing World. Daisy has been active in the area of Open Access since the mid-1990s and has spoken and participated in a number of OA advocacy gatherings in Africa and abroad. Daisy holds an MS and a BSc degree in chemistry and is a certified Editor in the Life Sciences. She has about 15-years’ experience in the areas of editing and publishing scholarly scientific journals, books and other information materials, and in science communication for development.

 

Central Economics and Mathematics Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Sergey Parinov is a leading researcher of the Central Economics and Mathematics Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences. He is an expert in electronic libraries technology, particularly focused on advanced research of virtual environments. He has led the Socionet project over 10 years with a wide network of contacts in Russia. Currently, he serves on the board of euroCRIS (www.eurocris.org) with responsibility for DRIS/Best Practice Task Group.

 

 

EIFL

My library degree is from the University of Munich. I am German by birth, British by nationality, and live in Italy. I lived and worked, in several countries – Germany, UK, Luxembourg, Russia, Budapest, and have practical experience of working in public libraries, national libraries and special libraries. For a number of years I ran the British Council library network in Germany, and as part of that job I traveled to many other British Council libraries throughout the world and gave advice on the modernization of their library services. Recent experiences with library innovation include working with the Digital Libraries research programme of the European Union’s Information Society Technologies Programme, introducing new information and communication technology in the Russian State Library in Moscow, and participating in Europe-wide programmes to create the European digital library ‘Europeana’. I have had the pleasure to work with and help develop EIFL’s programmes and services from the beginning in the year 2000.

 

Oxford University Press

Wolfgang Steinmetz joined Oxford University Press Journals 2008 and is responsible for the academic Library sales. He covers Eastern Europe and as a native German also Switzerland, Austria and Germany. He is based in Bayreuth/Germany and Oxford/UK.

 

Key Perspectives Ltd;  Co-founder and Co-editor, Open Access Scholarly Information Sourcebook (OASIS);  Convenor, Enabling Open Scholarship (EOS)

Alma Swan is a consultant working in the field of scholarly communication. She is a director of Key Perspectives Ltd and holds honorary academic positions in the University of Southampton School of Electronics & Computer Science and the University of Warwick Business School. Alma is Convenor for Enabling Open Scholarship, the organisation of universities promoting the principles of open scholarship in the academic community. Her work covers market research and business modelling, project management and evaluation, research communication practices and behaviours, and the study and promotion of new forms of scholarly communication in the age of the Web. She writes and makes frequent presentations on scholarly communication issues.

Alma has BSc and PhD degrees from the University of Southampton and an MBA from Warwick Business School. She is a Member of the Society of Biology (UK) and a Chartered Biologist, is an elected member of the Governing Board of Euroscience (the European Association for the Promotion of Science & Technology) and is the editor of its online magazine, The Euroscientist.

More information (including Alma Swan’s publications, presentations, interviews, etc) is here http://www.openoasis.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=599&catid=56

 

Kaunas University of Technology

I started my professional carrier at the university library in 1998. I am Head of Information Services Department at Kaunas University of Technology. The area of my interests is all aspects of academic library activity, especially information services, subscription and access to e-resources, information literacy education. I have also been working as an associate professor at the Faculty of Social Sciences. Positions include eIFL.net OA coordinator for Lithuania, an expert and consultant of Lithuanian national repository – Lithuanian academic electronic library (eLABa). Also I am member of National Association of Distance Education, Lithuanian Educational Research Association, Lithuanian Research Library consortium. I have carried out a series of surveys, research and repository usability studies which were aimed at investigating the information needs of users, information competence education demand.

 

Academy of Science of South Africa

Susan Veldsman was appointed to the position of Director: Scholarly Publication Unit at the Academy of Sciences in South Africa, in January 2009. Early in a career she started off as an Information Librarian, at various Higher Education Libraries in South Africa where she eventually was promoted to Assistant Director: Client Services, Library Services at the University of Johannesburg. During 2002 she moved to national and international projects where she was responsible for negotiating access to commercial databases and was actively involved in promoting Open Access and setting up Institutional Repositories within transitional and developing, member countries.

 

Marjan Vernooy-Gerritsen, Programme Manager SURFshare
SURF Foundation
Marjan has a PhD in Biochemistry, she taught Science and Informatics and worked as consultant in national programmes on the implementation of IT in education. She was CIO of Cito, the Dutch national examination. At SURFfoundation she leads the SURFshare programme on the improvement of scholarly communication via the repository based knowledge infrastructure in the Netherlands. Key topics are Open Access and Enhanced Publications. An enhanced publication is a journal article coupled with research output like data sets, multimedia files, databases, virtualisations or simulations. You can see this as a first step in future scholarly communication with linked data and web 2.0 interaction. Marjan is also involved in the EU-projects PEER, OpenAIRE and eINFRANet.
Website http://www.surffoundation.nl/ , topic Scholarly Communication.

 

Fundamental Scientific Library

As a specialist in libraries & archives management with over 25 years of professional experience, I have worked in a broad variety of libraries automation environments, including local government, private sector, non-for-profit and international organizations. I have worked with EIFL since 1999. Since 2003, I have been actively involved in Open Source Systems and distance learning technologies. Since 2007, I have introduced and implemente Open Access publishing mechanism in Armenia. I am author of 2 manuals and one monograph on using the Internet, and creating digital libraries. From 2009, I have served as dean of the faculty of “Librarianship and Information Science” in the International Scientific-Educational Centre.