Academic publisher Emerald Group has appointed Dr Phill Jones, formerly Director of Publishing Innovation at Digital Science, to its Board as Chief Technology Officer (CTO).
Phill will take a strategic lead on Emerald's delivery of digital solutions to better serve its communities, including the enhancement of the EmeraldInsight.com research platform and creating scalable solutions across the Group - made up of Emerald Publishing, GoodPractice and Towards Maturity - that are end-to-end and market-driven.
He will help ensure that the platform stands out from competitor solutions by making its users' lives easier, delivering an outstanding user experience, and helping increase the impact of research by making it even more discoverable, accessible and easily sharable both to academic audiences and beyond.
A former physicist turned publishing technology professional with research, editorial, product and executive management experience at Digital Science, JoVE, and Harvard Medical School, Phill is also a Scholarly Kitchen 'Chef' (a regular contributor to the highly influential scholarly communications blog), a member of the editorial board of Learned Publishing, and serves on a number of industry committees for both the STM association and Society for Scholarly Publishing.
Emerald was recently named ProQuest IPG 2018 Academic & Professional Publisher of the Year Award, saw its book The Century of Science win a PROSE Award in the United States, and has been shortlisted in The Bookseller's British Book Awards for The Academic, Educational and Professional Publisher of the Year.
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