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Subbiah
Arunachalam
M.S.Swaminathan Research Foundation Taramani Institutional Area
Taramani Third Cross Street
Chennai - 600 113 India
arun@mssrf.res.in
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Subbiah Arunachalam is
an information scientist and scientometricist. Before joining the
M S Swaminathan Research Foundation as a volunteer in April 1996,
he was with the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research for
about three decades, first as a laboratory scientist and then as an
editor of scientific journals and teacher of information science.
In between, he did research at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore,
served as editor of journals and the secretary of the Indian Academy
of Sciences and was a visiting professor at the Indian Institute of
Technology, Madras. His research interests include science on the
periphery, improving access to information, mapping scientific research,
and science communication. He has delivered more than twenty-five
invited talks at international conferences in North America and Europe.
He is on the editorial boards of half a dozen international journals
including Scientometrics and Journal
of Information Science, and an advisor to the 'Information
in practice' section of BMJ. He is a member of both the Indian and
the International Science Writers Associations. He has published over
40 research papers and more than a hundred popular science articles.
His work has been quoted well both in scholarly journals and in the
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Miriam
Balaban
President IFSE
International Federation of Science Editors
Abruzzo Science Park
Via Antica Arischia, 1
L' Aquila 67100 Italy
miriam.balaban@aquila.infn.it
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Miriam Balaban was born
in Philadelphia, and is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania
(Chemistry 1949) followed by a research position at Temple University.
In 1951 she became editor of the Israel journals of science which
she helped found at the Research Council of Israel. In 1958 she established
the Program for Scientific Translation under contract with the US
National Science Foundation and founded a science press for publishing
and production of scientific books and journals.
From 1975 to date she has been a research associate at the Center
for Philosophy and History of Science at Boston University for her
work on the foundations of science communication. She is president
of the International Federation of Science Editors which is devoted
to global communication and has held ten conferences to date in different
parts of the world. She has served as consultant in Africa on scientific
publications and established the School for Scientific Communication,
of which she is Dean, at the Mario Negri Biomedical Institute in Italy.
She has been dedicated to the ethical and technical aspects of science
communication.
Since 1966 she has been editor of the journal Desalination (over 50,000
pages) and publisher-editor of the Desalination Directory in print
and on-line. She is Secretary of the European Desalination Society
and has served on the Board of the International Desalination Association.
She has served on scientific program committees and organized conferences
in desalination. She has edited over 40 conference proceedings in
the field. Since 1998 she has been head of Science Communications
at the Science Park of Abruzzo where she continues her activities
in desalination and communications.
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Nancy
K. Bayers
Institute for Scientific Information
ISI Contract Research
3501 Market Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104 USA
nancy.bayers@isinet.com
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Nancy K. Bayers is an
information scientist and bibliometric analyst with ISI, a database
publishing company, providing the global research community with the
most comprehensive, multidisciplinary bibliographic database in the
world. From this database, Contract Research supplies diverse clients
worldwide with critical data and sophisticated tools for monitoring
and assessing scientific activity. Ms. Bayers frequently consults
with clients on the use of bibliometrics in research evaluation and
addresses government agencies, associations and research institutes
on the use of publication and citation data in research assessment.
Prior to joining ISI in 1994, Ms. Bayers was an information scientist
at Drexel University and The Catholic University of America. She is
a graduate of Michigan State University with a degree in history and
political science, and earned her Masters Degree in Information Science
from Drexel University, where she was inducted into the Phi Beta Mu
Honor Society. |
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Linda
Beebe
Senior Director, PsycINFO
American Psychological Association
750 First Street, NE
Washington, DC 20002-4242 USA
lbeebe@apa.org
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The former president
of Parachute Publishing Services, she has worked for and consulted
with professional and trade associations, consumer groups, colleges
and universities, and others to develop and deliver communications
in print and electronic media. Previously, she was the Associate Executive
Director for the National Association of Social Workers where she
directed the scholarly press, public information, general interest
publications, and marketing. She has produced journals, books, databases,
newsletters, reference works, and other publications in a career than
spans more than 30 years. The editor of Professional
Writing for the Human Services, Ms. Beebe has written a
number of articles and chapters on scholarly publishing. |
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Luis
Benítez-Bribiesta
Editor-in-chief Archives of Medical Research, and Editor Gaceta
Médica de México
Coordinación de Investigacion Médica, CMN-SXXI, Av.
Cuauhtemoc 330, 4°, Bloque B, Mexico, DF
luisbenbri@mexis.com
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Obtained his M.D. degree
in the Military Medical School of Mexico. Residency in Pathology at
the Mallory Institute of Pathology, Boston, Mass. USA. Postgraduate
in Experimental Pathology at the Pathology Institute, University of
Bonn, Germany. Chief of several departments of pathology in Mexican
hospitals. Founder and Head of the Research Division of Oncology in
the Oncological Hospital Mexico. Professor of Pathology in the National
Autonomous University of Mexico. Published 110 scientific articles
in peer-reviewed journals, 85 review articles and essays and 9 books
on different medical subjects. His editorial experience includes:
Founder and Chief editor of the Mexican Journal of Pathology; Patología.
Presently, he is editor of Gaceta Médica de México,
the oldest medical journal in Latin America, and editor-in-chief of
Archives of Medical Research, a full English biomedical journal in
collaboration with Elsevier Science, New York. |
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Peter B. Boyce
P. Boyce Associates
33 York St.
Nantucket, MA 02554 USA
pboyce@aas.org
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Dr. Boyce has worked
as an astronomer, a staff member in the U.S. Congress, a Program Director
for the U.S. National Science Foundation, and for sixteen years as
the CEO of the American Astronomical Society. Over the last 35 years,
he has pioneered the use of computers and the Internet as tools for
science, scoring a number of firsts. He was among the first to: -
integrate a computer with a telescope (1970); - to include email addresses
in a membership directory (1989); - to publish a well-linked scholarly
electronic journal (1995). He has a BA from Harvard and a Masters
and PhD from the University of Michigan in astronomy. Dr. Boyce is
now a Senior Consultant for the American Astronomical Society and
consults and lectures internationally on electronic information. Most
recently he spent six months as Professor Associé, CDS, Université
Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, France. |
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Regina C. Figueiredo
Castro
Information Sources Development Coordinator, Latin American and
Caribbean Center on Health Sciences Information BIREME/PAHO/WHO
Rua Botucatu, 862
04023-901 São Paulo SP Brazil
regina@bireme.br
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Librarian of the Pan
American Health Organization working for BIREME since 1980. She worked
several years as Coordinator of the Brazilian Network of Health Libraries.
Her current work regarding the Virtual Health Library includes among
others: the development of methodologies for bibliographic databases;
the production of bibliographic databases such as LILACS - Latin American
and Caribbean Health Sciences Literature (this database indexes more
than 600 health science journals from the region, books, thesis, papers
and nonconventional literature since 1982), and other specialized
databases in LILACS format; the production of directory databases;
the development of the controlled vocabulary DeCS - Health Sciences
Descriptors. She also coordinates the Selection Committee for LILACS
database and the definition of LILACS selection criteria. Master degree
in Information Science from the Instituto Brasileiro de Informação
em Ciência e Tecnologia/Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
(IBICT/UFRJ), postgraduate degree on Health Education from the Universidade
Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP/EPM), doctorate in progress in
the field of Public Health. She participates in educational activities
and workshops of the Associação Brasileira de Editores
Científicos (ABEC). She has published papers on library networking,
journal selection criteria and analysis of health scientific journals. |
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Leslie Chan
Bioline International
Centre for Instructional Technology Development
University of Toronto at Scarborough Canada
chan@scar.utoronto.ca
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Leslie is publishing
and educational consultant for the Centre for Instructional Technology
Development and an adjunct faculty member in the Department of Anthropology
at the University of Toronto at Scarborough. He is a Trustee for the
Electronic Publishing Trust for Development, and serves as the Associate
Director of Bioline International. His research interests include
knowledge management systems, the effects of information technology
on teaching and learning, cross-cultural communication, and implications
of new forms of scholarly interactive publishing. He has worked on
a variety of community linkage and educational projects that are local
and international in scope. With a group of distributed authors, he
is now preparing a Manual on Electronic Publishing for Developing
Countries. |
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Steve Fuller is perhaps
best known for the research programme of social epistemology, which
is the name of an interdisciplinary quarterly journal he has published
with Taylor & Francis since 1987. He is the author of several
books, including Social Epistemology
(1988), Philosophy of Science and Its Discontents
(2nd edn., 1993), Philosophy, Rhetoric and
the End of Knowledge (1993), Science
(1997), The Governance of Science
(2000), and Thomas Kuhn: A Philosophical
History for Our Times (2000). He has also been active in
debating the prospects of electronic scholarship, most notably in
the pages of The Times Higher Education Supplement with Stevan Harnad
(12 May 1995) and subsequently in the Fall 1995 issue of The Information
Society. He has also organized two global cyberconferences for the
UK's Economic and Social Research Council: one on public understanding
of science (1998) and the other on peer review in the social sciences
(1999). He has given over 300 talks throughout the world, and his
work has been translated into nine languages. He is currently writing
a book on Knowledge Management Foundations for Butterworth-Heinemann. |
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Frank Gannon is the Executive
Director of EMBO, and also Senior Editor of EMBO Reports, Associate
Editor of the EMBO Journal and a member of the Governing Body of E-Biosci.
He serves on a number of scientific advisory boards at institutes
throughout Europe. Prior to his appointment to EMBO in 1994, he had
obtained a B.Sc in the National University of Ireland, Galway in 1970,
a PhD from the University of Leicester, England in 1973, was a post-doctoral
fellow at the University of Madison Wisconsin from 1973 to 1975 and
Chargé de Recherche in the University of Strasbourg from 1975
to 1981. From 1981 to 1994, he was Professor of Microbiology, Director
of the Biotechnology Programme and Director of the National Diagnostics
Centre at the National University of Ireland, Galway. He maintains
an active laboratory that carries out research on the Estrogen Receptor
Gene and is increasingly involved in the overall topic of electronic
publication in the Life Sciences. |
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W. Wayt Gibbs
Senior Writer
Scientific American
225 Bush St., Suite 1453
San Francisco, CA 94104 USA
wgibbs@sciam-sf.com
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Trained in physics and
English at Cornell University, his first journalism job was in London,
where he covered science and technology during a brief stint at The
Economist. Since 1992, he has served on the editorial board of Scientific
American, where he covers the products and process of science, as
well as the interplay among science, business, and society. Mr. Gibbs
has won awards for his articles, including one for his 1995 feature
entitled Lost science in the Third World.
Recently he completed a Knight Science Journalism Fellowship at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. |
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Fiona Godlee
Editorial Director for Medicine
BioMed Central
34-42 Cleveland Street
London WC1 UK
fiona@biomedcentral.com
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Fiona Godlee is editorial
director for medicine at BioMed Central, a new internet publishing
house that provides open access to peer reviewed primary biomedical
research. She trained in general medicine and was for 10 years a medical
editor on the British Medical Journal.
While there, she founded Clinical Evidence, a compendium of the best
available evidence on the effects of clinical interventions. She is
president of the World Association of Medical Editors (wamme.org),
which aims to provide support and education for medical editors around
the world, in order to raise the ethical and scientific quality of
medical information. She has been involved in several randomised trials
of different editorial interventions, and is co-editor of Peer
Review in Health Sciences published by the BMJ. |
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Lewis Joel Greene
Professor at Medicine School of the University of São Paulo
Editor, Brazilian Journal of Medical and Biological Research
Av. Bandeirantes, 3900
14049-900 Ribeirão Preto SP Brazil
ljgreene@fmrp.usp.br
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He was born in New York,
received a Bachelor of Arts, with honors from Amherst College with
majors in Chemistry and English and a PhD in Biochemistry and Cell
Biology from Rockefeller University. He was a Biochemist with tenure
at Brookhaven National Laboratory from 1962 to1975 and Fulbright Visiting
Professor at the Faculty of Medicine of Ribeirão Preto, University
of São Paulo (FMRP-USP) in 1968. He spent a sabbatical leave
at the FMRP-USP during 1974-1975.
He has been Professor at FMRP-USP from 1975 to the present date. His
major university activity is directing Masters and Doctoral students
in research in structural protein biochemistry in the Protein Chemistry
Center of FMRP-USP. He has been a consultant to governmental agencies
including FAPESP, CNPq, FINEP, and CAPES and the Ministry of Health.
In 1980 Eduardo Moacyr Krieger, Sergio Henrique Ferreira and Greene
became the Editors of Revista Brasileira
de Pesquisas Médicas and transformed it into the
Brazilian Journal of Medical and Biological
Research - the first Brazilian journal to be published
entirely in English. The Brazilian Journal now publishes about 210
papers per year and appears monthly. He is one of the founders of
the Brazilian Association of Scientific Editors (Treasurer: 1987-1991,
Vice President: 1991 -1995, President: 1995-l999). He has been consultant
to the FINEP/CNPq Program for Scientific Journals 1987 to the present
date and member of the FINEP/CNPq Editorial Committee 1995-1999.
He belongs to the following professional societies: Brazilian Society
for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, American Chemical Society,
American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Association
of Biomolecular Resource Facilities and the Protein Society and has
been elected to the following honorary societies: Phi Beta Kappa (Amherst
College) and Brazilian Academy of Science. |
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Stevan Harnad
Intelligence/Agents/
Multimedia Group
Department of Electronics and Computer Science
University of Southampton
Highfield, Southampton
SO17 1BJ UK
harnad@cogsci.soton.ac.uk
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He was born in Hungary,
did his undergraduate work at McGill University and his doctorate
at Princeton University. His research is on categorisation, communication
and cognition. Founder and Editor of Behavioral and Brain Sciences
(a paper journal published by Cambridge University Press), Psycoloquy
(an electronic journal sponsored by the American Psychological Association)
and the CogPrints Electronic Preprint Archive in the Cognitive Sciences
(modeled in the Los Alamos Physics Eprint Archive and supported by
JISC/eLib), he is Past President of the Society for Philosophy and
Psychology, Comité Scientifique UPR 9012, Marseille 95-99,
and author and contributor to over 100 publications, including Origins
and Evolution of Language and Speech (NY Acad Sci 1976),
Lateralization in the Nervous System
(Acad Pr 1977), Peer Commentary on Peer Review:
A Case Study in Scientific Quality Control (CUP 1982),
Categorical Perception: The Groundwork of
Cognition (CUP 1987), The Selection
of Behavior: The Operant Behaviorism of BF Skinner: Comments and Consequences
(CUP 1988), and Icon, Category, Symbol: Essays
on the Foundations and Fringes of Cognition (in prep). |
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Lynette Hunter
Operations Manager
Sociological Abstracts/CSA
PO Box 22206
San Diego, CA 92192 USA
lhunter@mail.socabs.com
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Operations Manager for
the Western Regional Office of Cambridge Scientific Abstracts, she
is responsible for the development and production of the Sociological
Abstracts, Social Services Abstracts, and Linguistics and Language
Behavior Abstracts databases. During the course of an 18-year career
in the scholarly publishing industry she has obtained experience in
both academic journal and book publishing and has held positions in
multiple areas of abstracting/indexing database production and thesauri
development. She received a Bachelor of Arts in Linguistics from the
University of California at Berkeley. |
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Michael A. Keller
Director of Academic Information Resources, and Publisher of HighWire
Press
Green Library
Stanford University, CA 94305-6004 USA
Michael.Keller@Stanford.edu
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He was educated at Hamilton
College (B.A. Biology, Music 1967), SUNY Buffalo (M.A., Musicology,
1970), SUNY Geneseo (M.L.S., 1971), and SUNY Buffalo (a.b.d. Ph.D.,
Musicology). From 1973 to 1981, he served as Music Librarian and Sr.
Lecturer in Musicology at Cornell University and then in a similar
capacity at UC Berkeley. At Stanford, Keller is the Ida M. Green University
Librarian, Director of Academic Information Resources, Publisher of
HighWire Press, and Publisher of the Stanford University Press. |
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Barbara Kirsop
Secretary EPT, Director Bioline Publications
Electronic Publishing Trust for Development EPT
Stainfield House
Stainfield Bourne
Lincs PE10 ORS UK
ept@biostrat.demon.co.uk
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She has spent most of
her career working as a yeast taxonomist and as the curator of the
UK National Collection of Yeast Cultures. She served as the President
of ICSU's World Federation for Culture Collections from 1984-1992.
She subsequently became the Executive Director of the Microbial Stain
Data Network and, in 1993, the Executive Director of Bioline Publications.
Barbara Kirsop is the current secretary of the Electronic Publishing
Trust for Development. She has served on the editorial boards of a
number of microbiology journals and on the committees of several professional
organisations associated with culture collections. She has also organised
and participated in many workshops around the world, concerned with
the transfer of knowledge and technology in e-publishing and culture
collections' activities. |
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Miguel
Laufer
Editor, INTERCIENCIA
Revista de Ciencia y Tecnología de América
Journal of Science and Technology of the Americas
Apartado Postal 51842, Caracas 1050-A
Venezuela
Tel: 58+2+9917525
Tel/Fax: 58+2+9923224
interciencia@ivic.ve
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Nacido en Caracas, Venezuela
Médico Cirujano y Doctor en Ciencias Médicas, Universidad
Central de Venezuela
Ph.D. in Physiology, University of California at Los Angeles
Especialidad: Neurobiología / Fisiología, Morfología
y Farmacología de la retina y vías visuales.
Cerca de 150 publicaciones.
Cargo actual: - Investigador Titular Emérito, Instituto Venezolano
de Investigaciones Científicas (IVIC)
-Director, Centro Latinoamericano de Biología (IVIC/UNESCO)
- Director, Revista Interciencia
Otros cargos: Ex-Director del IVIC
Ex-Miembro del Directorio y del Consejo Superior, Conicit-Venezuela
Ex-Director de Ciencia y Tecnología, OEA
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Hooman Momen
Deputy Head of Dept of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Oswaldo
Cruz Institute - Fiocruz
Editor, Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz
Av. Brasil, 4365
21045-900
Rio de Janeiro RJ Brazil
hmomen@gene.dbbm.fiocruz.br
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He did his undergraduate
work at University of London and at Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine,
and obtained his PhD at University of Liverpool. His reasearch in
on biochemistry and parasitology. His experience includes positions
such as adviser to the World Health Organization and to the Panamerican
Health Organization, member of the editorial boards of several journals,
and member of national and international scientific societies. Currently
he serves as senior research scientist at Oswaldo Cruz Institute. |
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Abel L. Packer
Director, Latin American and Caribbean Center on Health Sciences
Information
BIREME/PAHO/WHO
Rua Botucatu, 862
04023-901 São Paulo SP Brazil
abel@bireme.br
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Since March 1999, Abel
Packer is the Director of BIREME, where he has been in charge of the
information systems development for more than 13 years. He has actively
participated in the design, development and operation of major BIREME
projects, such as the Latin American and Caribbean System on Health
Sciences Information (a cooperative network of more than 900 information
centres), the LILACS database (referencing the Health Sciences Literature
from LA&C), the LILACS/CD-ROM (launched in 1987 it permitted the
wide dissemination of the scientific literature in the region for
the first time), the SciELO project - Scientific Electronic Library
Online (launched in 1997), and the Virtual Health Library (the current
LA&C framework for the technical cooperation in health-related
scientific and technical information led by BIREME). Abel Packer holds
a Bachelor of Sciences and a Master degree in Library Science. |
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Neil Pakenham-Walsh
Programme Manager, INASP-Health
International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications
27 Park End Street
Oxford OX1 1HU UK
INASP_Health@compuserve.com
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He has a background in
medicine and medical publishing, including work with the World Health
Organization, the journal Medicine Digest, and the CD-ROM series Topics
in International Health (Tropical Medicine Resource, Wellcome Trust).
He has worked as a medical officer in rural Ecuador and Peru. He has
been working for INASP since 1996, as Programme Manager of INASP-Health,
which aims to support cooperation, analysis, and advocacy among those
working to improve access to reliable information for healthcare workers
in developing and transitional countries. |
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José
Fernando Perez
Scientific Director of the State of São Paulo Research Fundation
(fapesp) since december 1993
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Professional background
Electrical Engineer - University of São Paulo (1967).
BSC (1967) and MSC (1969) in physics - University of São
Paulo.
Phd in Physic - Polytechnic Institute (Eth) Zurich, Switzerland
(1973)
Scientific activities:
68 scientific papers in the areas of statistical physics, mathematical
physics published in international refereed journals;
35 reviews published in the "mathematical reviews";
22 thesis advised
Visiting professor for 12 years during the winter quarters at
the Department of Mathematics of the University of California,
Irvine
Visiting professor at departments of mathematics of the University
of Rome and of the Bedford College of London
Awards:
National Order of the Scientific Merit (1996)
Grã-cruz National Order of the Scientifc Merit (2000)
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Charles Pessanha
Editor-in-Chef of
Dados: Revista de Ciências Sociais, and Professor of Political
Science at Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro UFRJ
R. Matriz, 82, 222.260.100
Rio de Janeiro RJ Brazil
cpessanha@iuperj.br
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He did his undergraduate
studies at Universidade Federal Fluminense in Niterói, and
obtained his M. A. in Political Science at Instituto Universitário
de Pesquisas do Rio de Janeiro (Iuperj), and his PH.D. in Political
Science at Universidade de São Paulo (USP). His latest research
includes relations between the executive and legislative powers, external
control and accountability in contemporary Brazilian political institutions.
He is a member of many national and international scientific societies,
such as the International Political Science Association (IPSA), Associação
Brasileira de Ciência Política (ABCP), and Associação
Nacional de Pós-Graduação e Pesquisa em Ciências
Sociais (Anpocs). Presently he is Professor in the Department of Political
Science at Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, and Scientific
Editor of Dados at Iuperj, and
of Revista Brasileira de Informação
Bibliográfica at Anpocs. Founder, President (1993-1995)
and currently member of the Scientific Board of Associação
Brasileira de Editores Científicos (ABEC), has served on the
editorial boards of several journals in Social Sciences, as well as
of CNPq (1993-1996) and of Fundação Oswaldo Cruz Press
(FIOCRUZ). He is also consultant for Fapesp, Finep and Faperj. |
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Anna María Prat
Directora Depto. de Información
CONICYT
Canada 308, Providencia
Casilla 297-V
Santiago Chile
amprat@conicyt.cl
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Studied Librarianship
at the University of Chile. Post Graduate studies at the University
of California, Los Angeles. During ten years, Director of the Physics
Library at the University of Chile and later, Director of the Coordinating
Office of the Library System of the same University. As head of the
information Department of CONICYT, during the last 20 years, she has
been in charge of the promotion of the National Scientific and Technological
Information System and an information system on science in Chile for
policy makers. This includes databases on research in progress, scientific
personnel, scientific activities and science indicators. A national
program for the promotion of science journals was initiated in the
early 90s and an electronic publishing program has followed. Has worked
as a consultant for the Organization of American States, UNESCO and
IDRC of Canada, among others, on training of information professionals
in the Latin American region, creation of regional specialized information
systems and the evaluation of regional information networks. Professor
at the School of Library Science of the University of Chile in Santiago
from 1960 to 1976, and the Library School at the same University in
Valparaíso from 1970 to 1974. Has been Professor of librarianship
and information sciences in Bolivia, Peru and other Latin American
countries. She is Member of the Council of the International Federation
of Information and Documentation, FID, since 1990 and president of
its Latin American Commission. |
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Ellis Rubinstein
Editor, Science
1200 New York Ave.
NW, Washington, DC 20005 USA
erubinst@aaas.org
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In just over two decades,
Ellis Rubinstein has been a reporter, writer, and editor for Science,
Newsweek, Science 86, The Scientist, IEEE Spectrum, and Natural History
magazines. At Science, the world's largest circulation general science
magazine, Rubinstein's oversees the weekly news coverage, coordinates
the magazine's international expansion, and develops path-breaking
World Wide Web activities. Prior to coming to Science, Rubinstein
was Editor of The Scientist, which he redesigned, and Senior Editor
at Newsweek, where he edited cover stories far beyond science and
technology. Examples included cover stories on the Iran-Contra affair,
the Gary Hart debacle, and the coming of the Pope to America. He also
conceived and edited one of Newsweek's best selling cover stories:
the first account to a mass audience of the mitochondrial "search"
for the precursors of all humans. At Spectrum Rubinstein won a National
Magazine Award for his definitive journalistic account of the nuclear
accident at Three Mile Island, combined with a series of supporting
articles he edited. He has also won two National Magazine Awards for
special issues exploring how science and technology contribute to
war and peace. And his unique investigative report, written for Science,
on the true origin of the cell line in which the first U.S.-isolated
AIDS virus was grown was cited in a Federal probe. Rubinstein received
the BA in English literature at the University of California at Berkeley,
where he also did graduate work in the Ph.D. program. He is a Fellow
of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and a member
of the Board of Directors of the American Society of Magazine Editors.
He is also a member the National Association of Science Writers and
the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. |
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Carol
Tenopir
Professor
The School of Information Sciences
109 Temple Court
The University of Tennessee
Knoxville, TN 37996 USA
tenopir@utkux.utk.edu
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Her recently published
book Towards Electronic Journals: Realities
for Scientists, Librarians, and Publishers (with co-author
Donald W. King) examines data on the use, value, costs, and pricing
of scholarly journals. She is the author of over 200 articles, books,
and book chapters on topics relating to online databases and electronic
publishing and, since 1983 has written the "Online Databases"
column for Library Journal. She
was awarded the American Society for Information Science's Outstanding
Information Science Teacher Award in 1993. She holds a PhD from the
University of Illinois. |
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James Testa
Director
Editorial Development
Institute for Scientific Information
3501 Market Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104 USA
james.testa@isinet.com
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James Testa directs a
staff of 20 editorial specialists and is responsible for maintaining
the journal selection process at ISI. His group of subject specialists
oversee the multidisciplinary collection of over 8,400 journal titles
covered in the various ISI databases (see: www.isinet.com/isi/hot/essays/199701).
His group also developed the criteria for the selection of scholarly
websites which are now featured in the Current Contents Connect database
and is charged with building and maintaining the integrity of this
collection (see: www.isinet.com/isi/hot/essays/23). |
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Gary VandenBos
Executive Director
Office of Publications and Communications
American Psychological Association
750 First Street, NE
Washington, DC 20002-4242 USA
gary@apa.org
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Gary R. VandenBos received
his PhD in clinical psychology from the University of Detroit. He
served as research coordinator for the Michigan State University Psychotherapy
Research Project with Schizophrenics; as Director of the Howell-Area
Community Health Center in Howell, Michigan; and as APA staff liaison
to the President's Commission on Mental Health during the Carter Administration.
He was the first director of the American Psychological Association's
Office of National Policy Studies. He has been a visiting professor
of psychology at the University of Bergen, Norway. He has co-authored
and edited numerous publications, including Psychology
and National Health Insurance: A Sourcebook (with Charles
Kiesler and Nicolas Cummings), Psychotherapy
of Schizophrenia: The Treatment of Choice (with Bertram
Karon), and Psychology and Public Policy:
Balancing Public Service and Professional Need (with Raymond
P. Lorion, Ira Iscoe, and Patrick H. DeLeon). He is a Diplomate of
the American Board of Forensic Psychology and a practicing clinical
psychologist. |
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Zhiying
Qi
Professor and Director
Information Center of the Institute of Photographic Chemistry
No. 3 Datun Road, Beijing 100101 Chinese Academy of Sciences China
zhiyingqi@hotmail.com
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She graduated from the
Shanghai University of Foreign Languages in 1976, starting to work
in the same year in the Division of Documentation and Information
at the Institute of Photographic Chemistry. She engaged in science
editing when the scientific journal Photographic
Science and Photochemistry was first published in 1983.
She spent a year in the Technical Editing and Writing Group of the
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, UC Berkeley, USA in 1984; promoted as
Chief of the Editorial Office and Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Photographic
Science and Photochemistry in 1987. She has published articles
on the theory and practice of science editing, and translated dozens
of articles, books and dictionaries in science. She is council member
of the Board of the China Editological Society of Scientific Periodicals
and Deputy Editor-in-Chief of its journal Acta
Editologica; and also council member of the Board of the
Editological Society of Scientific Periodicals of the Chinese Academy
of Sciences; invited as Professor of the Department of Science Information,
University of Science and Technology of China, and member of the IFSE
Executive Board. |
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