UBIQUITY - Key Persons
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- Product Director ( Repositories )
Aaron is responsible for the product strategy and day-to-day service of the Ubiquity Repositories product, as well as managing the Repositories team. Aaron has an extensive background in libraries, university presses, and scholarly communication. Before joining Ubiquity in 2019, Aaron led publishing teams at George Mason University, the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and the University of Michigan. Aaron is based in Chattanooga, TN, USA.
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- Member of the North America Library Advisory Board
- Scholarly Communication Librarian, University of California San Diego
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- Member of the North America Library Advisory Board
- Director of Scholarly Communications & Information Policy, New York University
With over 20 years of experience in publishing and technology, Brian leads on strategy, and oversees all other aspects of the business. An active researcher in the field of archaeology, he also has strong roots in the academic community. Previous roles included platform development at Elsevier and data publication at the British Library. A passionate advocate for Open Science and changing the culture of publishing, Brian speaks regularly at conferences and workshops on these topics. Brian is based in Thessaloniki, Greece.
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- Software Developer ( Python )
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- Editorial Account Manager
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- Software Developer ( Ruby )
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- Member of the General Advisory Board
- Professor of E - Research, University of Oxford
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- Member of the General Advisory Board
- Executive Director, Research Libraries UK
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- Member of the North America Library Advisory Board
- Science & Scholarly Communication Librarian, University of Saskatchewan
Francesco manages the technical maintenance, development and expansion of the Ubiquity IT, helping the Tech Team to shape the future of the online publishing services. He has previously hold leading engineering positions in mission-critical real-time IT services at Pole Star Space Applications, providing anti-piracy satellite ship tracking services and FIXR, the UK leading university ticketing platform, where he has shaped a large part of the services and IT systems. As a former geologist, with a background in the "hard sciences" and archaeology, Francesco has decade-long involvement in the Open Source communities. He is based in London, UK.
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- Member of the Partner Advisory Board
- Research Support Manager, London School of Economics
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- Head of Editorial Services
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- Member of the North America Library Advisory Board
- Copyright Office and Scholarly Communication Librarian, University of Victoria
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- Member of the General Advisory Board
- Open Access Programme Manager, EIFL
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- Member of the North America Library Advisory Board
- Director, Collection Development and Management, California Digital Library
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- Senior Software Developer ( Python )
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- Editorial Account Manager
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- Member of the General Advisory Board
- Cofounder, Impactstory
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- Repository Account Manager
Laura is a qualified accountant and responsible for the control, analysis and reporting of the Company's finances. Laura joined Ubiquity following 11 years at Credit Suisse, working from the front to the back of the business, most recently within the Chief Operating Officer team. Prior to that, Laura was in the audit division of Deloitte and Touche, working with clients in the media sector. Laura is based in London, UK.
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- Member of the North America Library Advisory Board
- Head of Collection Strategies, University of Rochester
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- Member of the North America Library Advisory Board
- Scholarly Communications Librarian, City University of New York
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- Member of the Partner Advisory Board
- Assistant Professor and Head, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Indore
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- Editorial Account Manager
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- Member of the Partner Advisory Board
- Director, Publishing Strategy, Virginia Tech ( Board Chair )
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- Member of the General Advisory Board
- Associate Director, OpenEdition and Coordinator, OPERAS
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- Member of the North America Library Advisory Board
- Director of Digital Services and OER, Florida Academic Library Services Cooperative
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- Software Developer ( PHP )
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- Software Developer ( PHP )
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- Member of the North America Library Advisory Board
- Head of Digital Scholarship, Boston College
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- Member of the General Advisory Board
- Executive Director, CODATA
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- Editorial Account Manager
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- Senior Editorial Account Manager
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- Product Director ( Publishing Services & Partner Presses )
Tim runs the publishing services team and is responsible for supporting Ubiquity Press and all of the presses on the Ubiquity Partner Network publish journal and book content. Having joined Ubiquity Press in Spring 2013 from BioMed Central where he was Senior Production Editor and had worked for three and a half years he sets and coordinates the editorial policy and support for journals and book projects, ensuring adherence to publishing ethics guidelines. Tim is based in London, UK.
Tom is responsible for publishing operations with a focus on production. He ensures the excellent quality of Ubiquity Press publications, as well as the efficiency of operations and high scalability of the platform. Previously he was Production Director at BioMed Central, where he worked for 12 years and was responsible for running their offshore operations. Tom is based in London, UK.
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- Member of the Partner Advisory Board
- Library Director, Stockholm University Library