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Bristol, England, United Kingdom

Digital services supporting open research, especially in UK HEIs.

Bristol, United Kingdom

Managing initiatives to address the scholarly communications needs of UK universities, including positive engagement with publishers to support them.

Bristol, United Kingdom

Worked with the University’s researchers across the entire academic spectrum to create compelling impact case studies for submission to the Research Excellence Framework. These demonstrated the benefits of the research in the real world beyond academia and improved the University's score in the REF. Provided advice to the University on open access policy.

• Overall responsibility for the publishing programme of the Society for Endocrinology and its subsidiary, BioScientifica, publishing primary research journals, a books programme and a portfolio of additional.
• Conceived, proposed and championed idea of a new open access (OA) journal, convincing collaborating organizations to support it. Launched (in June 2012) as Endocrine Connections.
• Managed strategic review of SfE’s three… Show more Overall responsibility for the publishing programme of the Society for Endocrinology and its subsidiary, BioScientifica, publishing primary research journals, a books.
• Managed strategic review of SfE’s three self-owned journals, resulting in a planned relaunch to ensure complementary development priorities and improved efficiency in commissioning content.
• Engaged with major open access stakeholders on funding for OA publishing. Resulted in active membership of UUK/RIN Working Group. It recommended that funders clarify how they would support the payment of gold OA fees.