HighWire Press, a not-for-profit division of Stanford University libraries, has announced that its Founding Director, John Sack, has been awarded the 2011 CSE Award for Meritorious Achievement from the Council of Science Editors at their annual meeting in Baltimore. The award for Meritorious Achievement is the highest honour that the CSE bestows, highlighting the contributions and efforts of an individual towards improving scientific communication.
John Sack came to Stanford as a graduate student in English but quickly became involved in information technology. In 1994, while working for Stanford's then provost, Condoleezza Rice, he was recruited by Keller to work on a project to develop an electronic journal service to help scholarly publishers move their information online - a project that evolved into HighWire Press. As one of HighWire's founders, John is focused on market assessment, client relations, technology innovation, and the kind of thought leadership and industry-forward thinking that has successfully defined HighWire's mission since 1995.
John Sack serves on the International Advisory Board for COUNTER, and the STM Library Relations Committee. He has been a board member of the North American Chapter of ALPSP (Association of Learned and Professional Scholarly Publishers), the Stanford Federal Credit Union and the User Alliance for Open Systems, as well as a member of the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI), EDUCOM, CAUSE, Internet Society, ACM, Uniforum, Computer-Human Interface (CHI), AMA, and SIM.
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