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About the speakers

Below you will find short introductions to the speakers, who shared their experiences and know-how during the workshop on 23 and 24 April 2007 in Elsinore, Denmark.

Marianne Alenius

Anders Kristian Rasch

Marianne Alenius, Ph.D., is Managing Director and Editor-in-Chief of Museum Tusculanum Press, University of Copenhagen. Since 2001 she has been Project Manager of a multi media programme at MTP for international e-sales and e-production. Since 2000 she has participated actively in the European and Scandinavian debate of OAI and e-publishing. In 2000 she became a member of the executive board of the Danish Publishers Association and since 2006 of COPY-DAN Tekst & Node.

In 2000-2003 Marianne Alenius was President of the Danish Association of University Presses. 1989-1996 she was Library Consultant at the Royal Library in Copenhagen in questions of future strategy and fundraising.

Marianne Alenius is active as scholar. She holds a M.A. in Classical Philology and a Ph.D. in Scandinavian Studies. From 1978 to 1989 she was research scholar in Classical and Neo-Latin research projects at Copenhagen University.

Ulla Carlsson, Dr, Professor, is Director of Nordicom (Nordic Information Centre for Media and Communication Research) at Göteborg University. Starting from academic research, Nordicom collects and adapts knowledge, mediating it to various user groups in the Nordic region, Europe and elsewhere in the world. Nordicom's activities are based on broad and extensive network of contacts and collaboration with members of the research community, media companies, politicians, regulators, teachers, librarians, and so forth, around the world.

Ulla Carlsson is a founding and continuing editor of the refereed journal Nordicom Review and she has edited several Nordicom publications on media development, media concentration, media statistics, media history, popular culture, media theory, children and media, media governance, etc. She is also Director of the International Clearinghouse on Children, Youth and Media.

Mikael K. Elbaek is one of the driving forces behind the development of digital library services at Copenhagen Business School. He is coordinating and maintaining the Institutional Repository OpenArchive@cbs and the e-publishing service Ejournals@cbs. He is also the project manager of the implementation of PURE (CRIS – current research information system) at CBS.

Ejournals@cbs is intended to help small journals with limited commercial value to get their back-issues online and eventually to publish online. Journals affiliated to Ejournals@cbs are given the needed supervision and guidance from the start, but the goal for every journal is to make them self-sufficient regarding all non-technical aspects of the journal management. However CBS Library will maintain the back-end in regards to back-up and updates.

Mikael K. Elbæk holds a Masters Degree in Library and Information Science from The Royal School of Library and Information Science and has been working at Copenhagen Business School Library since 2003.

Elisabet Engdahl is professor of Swedish at Göteborg University. She is a member of the Scientific Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences at the Swedish Research Council and is currently chair of the Nordic Board for Periodicals in the Humanities and the Social Sciences (NOP-HS).

Nils Gottfries is professor of economics and chair of the quality commission at the social faculty, Uppsala University. His research concerns macroeconomics and labour economics and he is editor of the Scandinavian Journal of Economics. Together with Leif Eriksson he has surveyed publications from the social science faculty 2001-2003. This survey used Uppsala University publication database, now called OPUS. The survey is available in Kvalitetsrapport 2005.

Turid Hedlund. Assistant professor, Ph.D. at the Swedish School of Economics and B.A. in Helsinki. She has participated in research projects on open access and scientific communication and published on the subject. Member of the FinnOA working group and leader of the project DHanken an open access institutional archive for the Swedish School of Economics and B.A.

Arne Jakobsson has since 1 May 1999 been the Library Director for the University of Oslo Library, Library of Medicine and Health Sciences. He is project leader for DUO – the institutional repository at the University of Oslo and for NORA – Norwegian Open Research Archives. He is Past-President of EAHIL (European Association for Health Information and Libraries).

Sari Lehtinen is working as a coordinator of publishing services in the IT Department and in the Exchange Centre for Scientific Literature of the Federation of the Finnish Learned Societies. She has been working from April 2006 with a pilot project providing an OAI-PMH compatible publishing system (Open Journal Systems) for open access journals of the scientific societies in Finland. The pilot project is a part of the OA-JES Project in Finland.

David Prosser was appointed the first director of SPARC Europe (an alliance of 110 research-led university libraries from 14 European countries) in October 2002. Previously, he spent ten years in science, technical, and medical journal publishing for both Oxford University Press and Elsevier Science. During this time he was involved in all aspects of publishing from production through to editorial and financial management of journals. Before becoming a publisher he received a PhD and BSc in Physics from Leeds University, UK.

Ingegerd Rabow, MA, Ph.D h.c. at Lund University. She has been working with projects both in scientific communication and in bibliometrics for many years and has published several articles, reports, and book chapters on these subjects. When the Head Office of Lund University Libraries was established in 2001 she was appointed Director of E-resources. Her engagement in providing better access to scientific publications contributed to the creation in 2003 of a Swedish resource centre for scientific communication called ScieCom, for which she was the project manager until 2006 when the project period ended. She is also publisher/editor of the newsletter ScieCom info.

She is currently involved in other projects, e.g. as project manager of Intellectual Property Rights and New Publishing Models and is also working as a consultant on Open Access for the Swedish Research Council.

Anders Kristian Rasch is Head of Development at COPY-DAN Writing and is in charge of digital licensing issues. He joined COPY-DAN Writing in September 2003. He is the holder of a Master's degree in Law from the University of Copenhagen and also possesses a Diploma in leadership. Anders Kristian Rasch was Legal Advisory Officer with the Danish National Library Authority before joining COPY-DAN Writing and has therefore had considerable experience of negotiating and drawing up contracts with international vendors in connection with licensing copyright protected material. He began his career as a legal adviser with TV 2 Denmark, after which he became Head of Section at the Danish Ministry of Research.

Erik Sandewall is professor of computer science at Linköping University, Sweden, since 1975. His research activities are in two areas: first, artificial intelligence methods for cognitive robotics and their use in systems for human-computer and human-robot interaction and, secondly, new methods for communication of scientific results, including electronic publication.
Erik Sandewall is Co-Editor-in-Chief (together with Ray Perrault) of the Artificial Intelligence Journal, General Editor of the Electronic Transactions on Artificial Intelligence, and Director of Linkööping University Electronic Press.

Jens Thorhauge is Executive Director of the Danish Library Agency, the Danish government's advisory body in library matters, responsible for the administration of the Danish library acts. Administrating the project Denmark's Electronic Research Library. The Danish Library Agency (Biblioteksstyrelsen) is the Danish government’s central administrative and advisory body to the public libraries and the research libraries and is an independent agency under the Ministry of Culture. His milestones are the establishment of Denmark's Electronic Research Library and an amendment of the Danish library act entailing a match with the digitized world.

Jens Thorhauge has furthermore been a key person in negotiating the contract for the Nordbib programme. This was signed February 2006 by Nordforsk on behalf of the Nordic Council of Ministers. The Danish Library Agency then got the responsibility of executing the programme. Jens Thorhauge is member of the Nordbib Board.

His background:
- 1995 Executive Director of The Danish Library Association. Responsible for professional activities of the association including its publishing house and two journals.
- 1989 Head of Department of Consultancy and Continuing Professional Education at The Royal School of Librarianship, Copenhagen. Responsible for a yearly programme with 200 training and continuing education courses and a consultancy service.
- 1975-89 Associate Professor in history of literature at The Royal School of Librarianship, Aalborg Branch, for two periods elected head of branch.
- 1971-77 Assistant Professor at Aarhus University, Institute of Comparative Literature.
- Author and co-author of several books and articles on literary and library subjects. In English: New Trends in Scandinavian Public Libraries (1987) and Public Libraries and the Information Society 1997 (EU report). Broad experience of international co-operation.

Christian Tønsberg heads the Central IT subdepartment at the Technical Knowledge Center of Denmark (DTV) located at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) and acts as Technical Project Coordinator, responsible for the well being (development, configuration and maintenance) of the strategic digital library IT platform on DTV. In addition to that, he participates in the DTV standardisation and cooperation efforts with respect to software and data through various national and international fora.

Christian has been involved in establishing MetaJournal, an e-publishing platform for small scientific journals and he has developed the platform for the DTU Online Technical Museum Portal, two among many DTV based solutions and repositories relying on the highly flexible and versatile input management application, for which he has been acting project manager and co-developer since 2005. Before joining DTV in 2004, Christian worked 6 years in the Telecommunication and Internet business. He holds a M.Sc. in Computer Science from The
University of Copenhagen.

Drs. Astrid Wissenburg is Director of Communications and Information at the Economic and Social Research Council. Her responsibilities include strategic leadership on knowledge transfer, internal and external communications, science and society, research evaluation and e-business. Current corporate projects include the development of an internal communications and knowledge management strategy, and of an organisation-wide knowledge transfer and impact strategy (inclusing ESRC Society Today). Astrid is also leading on behalf of Research Councils UK on open access issues.

Astrid has had a varied academic career in London, Glasgow and her home country of the Netherlands. Astrid was from 1999-2003 assistant-director of Information Services and Systems at King's College London. Her role involved the provision of information resources and delivery systems to support both teaching and research. Previous posts at King's have included the management of a national R&D project on electronic libraries and the co-ordination of user services for the Arts and Humanities Data Service.

Astrid has experience of computer-based learning and IT in the humanities, gained at Leiden and Glasgow universities, and holds a degree in Comtemporary History from the University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands. In her spare time, Astrid is still enjoying student life and is close to completing her Master of Public Administration at Warwick Business School.

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