Gareth Bish Email & Phone Number

Thatcham, Gb

United Kingdom

Building relationships with librarians and faculty in the UK & Ireland to support quickly evolving research and learning needs with respect to grey literature and primary source provision, as well as digital repatriation and resource discoverability.

United Kingdom

Specialist faculty and library engagement for Wiley Digital Archives, offering unique primary sources from prestigious scholarly societies spanning 1200-2010 combined with game-changing technologies to drive new research and enrich teaching in humanities, social science, and the sciences. Assisted in the creation of narrative pieces for the portfolio around 'hidden voices', as well as information pieces to support a national Jisc initiative.

United Kingdom

Managed digital collections sales for UKI regions for Alexander Street and ProQuest catalogues, including prestigious collections such as Early Modern Books, Visual History Archive, Historical Newspapers, British Periodicals, Parliamentary Papers, Anthropology Resource Library, Global Issues Library, as well as software solutions for text data mining, such as TDM Studio. Worked in a matrix structure with wonderful team, account, marketing, editorial, and senior management colleagues.

United Kingdom

Managed the UK and Ireland for Alexander Street, a ProQuest Company, the premier supplier of streamed video and audio for libraries globally, and publisher of innovative primary research collections in the humanities and social sciences. Passionate about the value and transforming role of academic video for teaching and learning enabling new insights and supporting different learning needs.

United Kingdom

Offering coaching and development services in academic publishing and skills training sectors for individual and team performance, change management, and leadership.

Responsible for commercial development of online publishing services and solutions: Semantico Information Publishing Platform (SIPP); Semantico Access Management System (SAMS). Key publisher clients: CABI, CUP, Dawson Books, Hodder Education, Koninklijke Brill, MLA, OUP, Palgrave Macmillan, Random House, Taylor & Francis Informa, Wiley-Blackwell.

London, United Kingdom

Business development of primary source digital research collections for the higher education sector. Team management of leading business education website - www.bized.co.uk; development of innovative business studies HE textbook collection, Biz/ed premier, as well as collaborative partnership with HarperCollins, Biz/ed Share.

Managed remote sales team selling multimedia academic research collections (ECCO, Times Digital Archive 1785-1985) and aggregated journals databases to higher education and public sector customers in North UK, Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland and EIRE.

Managed print reference business for major reference publishing imprints: Gale, K.G.Saur Verlag, Graham and Whiteside.

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Intellectual History, Master Of Arts - Ma, Social And Political Thought, Ba Hons (First Class), Ma (Distinction)

Activities and Societies: Co-organiser of international conference, Directions of Contemporary Capitalism, University of Sussex, 1996 –.

Social And Political Thought

Ernst Bloch and the Dialectic of Enlightenment. Doctoral research project, University of Sussex and University of Tuebingen respectively.

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Business Administration And Psychology

Activities and Societies: Arts Editor, Birmingham Sun (university newspaper)