Michael Jensen

Michael Jensen has been at the interface between digital technologies and scholarly/academic publishing since the late 1980s. He was recently appointed Director of Strategic Web Communications for the National Academies. From 1998 to 2007, he was Director of Publishing Technologies at the National Academies Press, which makes more than 3700 books (more than 650,000 pages) from the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, the Institute of Medicine, and the National Research Council fully browsable and searchable online for free. The site receives more than 1.5 million visitors per month, and boasts some of the most advanced search and discovery tools available on any book publisher's site, many of which were initially developed by Mr. Jensen. His most recent essay, _The New Metrics of Scholarly Authority_, appeared in the Chronicle of Higher Education in June.

Peter B. Kaufman

Peter B. Kaufman is president and executive producer of Intelligent Television in New York. Intelligent Television’s moving-image productions and research projects focus on making educational and cultural material more widely accessible worldwide. With the support of the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, Intelligent Television is launching an educational video studio intended to produce high-quality video resources systematically for education.

Mr. Kaufman also serves as an expert advisor on access issues to the Library of Congress’s Division of Motion Pictures, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound and served as a member of the American Council of Learned Societies Commission on Cyber infrastructure for the Humanities and Social Sciences. He is the author of “Marketing Culture in the Digital Age: A Report on New Business Collaborations between Libraries, Museums, Archives, and Commercial Companies” for Ithaka and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (available here); “Video, Education, and Open Content: Toward a New Research and Action Agenda”; and, with Jeff Ubois, “Good Terms: Toward Improving the Equity of Commercial-Noncommercial Partnerships in the Digitization of Cultural Heritage Materials,” forthcoming in D-Lib. In 2007 he completed a one-year appointment as associate director of Center for New Media Teaching and Learning at Columbia University, where he studied how to render university video assets more openly available. He has served as a Senior Fellow of the World Policy Institute, a foreign policy research institute in New York, since 1990.

Educated at Cornell and Columbia Universities, Mr. Kaufman has written about culture and history for First Monday, Information Outlook, the London Times Literary Supplement, The Nation, the New York Times, Publishers Weekly, Russian History, Scholarly Publishing, and Slavic Review.

Alexander Scheeline

Alexander Scheeline is Professor of Chemistry at UIUC, with affiliate status in the Department of Mechanical Sciences and Engineering, and is Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Chemistry. He received his undergraduate training at Michigan State University and Ph.D. at the University of Wisconsin - Madison. After a post-doctoral appointment at the National Institute for Standards and Technology, he was briefly a faculty member at the University of Iowa before moving to Illinois. He has served as a program officer at the National Science Foundation. His research is in analytical chemistry and instrumentation applied to problems in the immune system and to the mechanisms of noise-induced hearing loss. He became interested in issues of scholarly publishing while serving on several committees advising the Faculty/Student Senate, the Provost, and the University Librarian on policy concerning the University Library. He is Online Articles editor for the Analytical Sciences Digital Library.