Interviews for this article have been adapted from recent PhaidraCon roundtable events and from upcoming 2023 editions of EpistemiCast
Interviews
International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) deputy general secretary Stuart Hamilton will be speaking at this year's CILIP Conference. Here he talks about how information will shape global development goals and how information professionals the world over can shape their communities
Kari Paulson, vice president for market development, ebooks, at ProQuest, and Heather Sherman, head of library programme management at Dawson Books, tell Tim Gillett about the latest purchasing trends
David Weinberger is senior researcher at Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet & Society, and has been instrumental in the development of ideas about the impact of the web. Shortly before his recent keynote presentation at OCLC's EMEA Regional Council Meeting in Florence, he spoke with Sarah Bartlett
Sue Corbett is executive director of INASP, an international development charity that supports developing world researchers through information access and availability, training in research writing; support of indigenous publishing activities and training policy makers in the use of research in policy
After a career at Oxford University Press, Mandy Hill has "switched sides", and is now managing director for academic publishing at Cambridge University Press. We caught up with her at Frankfurt Book Fair
Howard Ratner is executive director of CHOR Inc, the organisation behind the new CHORUS service in the USA. We ask him what CHORUS is about, what plans he has and his thoughts on open access in general
In September Louis Culot became chief executive officer of BioData, a Digital Science company. We ask him about convergence between experimental processes and research information
Kurt Sanford is CEO of ProQuest. We ask him about e-book business models and discoverability
Ed Pentz has been executive director of CrossRef since it began in 2000. We ask him about what the organisation has done so far and its future plans
Matthew Cockerill co-founded BioMed Central and was its managing director until the end of 2013. He is currently working on an unannounced internet startup
We ask Ann Chapman, co-founder of Minesoft, about patent information and 10 years of the PatBase patent database
Bob Campbell is soon to retire from his role of senior publisher at Wiley after nearly half a century in the publishing industry. He shares some of his thoughts
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