Digital Science appoints Daniel Hook as new Managing Director - June 9, 2015
Global technology company Digital Science has announced the appointment of Daniel Hook, currently Director of Research Metrics at Digital Science, as its new Managing Director. Hook assumes this role from Timo Hannay, who has served as MD since the company's inception in 2009. After five years… Read More
ACRL appoints Wendi Arant Kaspar as College & Research Libraries editor - June 5, 2015
The Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) has announced the appointment of Wendi Arant Kaspar to the post of editor for College & Research Libraries (C&RL). Kaspar will serve a three-year term beginning July 1, 2016. Kaspar will serve as editor designate from July… Read More
TechTarget appoints veteran Wall Street data scientist Chuck Alvarez as Chief Data Officer - June 4, 2015
Technology media company TechTarget, Inc. has hired Chuck Alvarez as Chief Data Officer. In his new role, Alvarez will focus on TechTarget's Big Data strategy and new initiatives that will leverage TechTarget's Deal Data to deliver rich demand-side research, analytics and insight to enterprise Information Technology… Read More
Susan King joins Rockefeller University Press as Executive Director - June 3, 2015
The Rockefeller University Press (RUP) has announced that Susan King has joined the Press as Executive Director. King will oversee the editorial and business operations for RUP, which publishes three biomedical journals: The Journal of Experimental Medicine, founded in 1896; The Journal of General Physiology, founded… Read More
British Library Chief Executive Roly Keating elected President of CENL - June 1, 2015
British Library Chief Executive, Roly Keating, has been elected President of the Conference of European National Libraries (CENL) at their recent meeting in Switzerland for a period of three years. Founded in 1987, CENL aims to develop and support the role of national libraries in… Read More
Sabia Morrison joins ALPSP Events and Membership team - May 29, 2015
The Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP) has announced that Sabia Morrison has joined the ALPSP team as Events and Membership Administrator. Sabia joins ALPSP from the Audit Bureau of Circulations (ABC) where she was Communications Executive for Events and Sponsorship. She has… Read More
BISG names Mark Kuyper as new executive director - May 28, 2015
The Book Industry Study Group (BISG) announced that Mark Kuyper, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association (ECPA), has been hired as the organization's new executive director. Kuyper will join the organisation June 15. Kuyper has spent nearly thirty years working… Read More
McGraw-Hill Education names Sally Shankland as President of its Higher Education group - May 27, 2015
Learning science company McGraw-Hill Education has appointed Sally Shankland as president of its Higher Education group. Shankland most recently served as chief executive officer of UBM Americas, a division of UBM plc, where she led the company's transition from print-based publishing to a digital marketing services… Read More
AIP names applied physicist Robert G.W. Brown as CEO - May 26, 2015
The American Institute of Physics (AIP) has selected applied physicist Robert G.W. Brown as its new Chief Executive Officer. Selected by an AIP Executive Search Committee and unanimously approved by AIP's Board of Directors, Brown previously served as the chief sensor scientist at the Advanced Technology… Read More
Choice names Cynthia Crooker science and technology editor - May 22, 2015
Cynthia Crooker has been named science and technology editor for Choice, effective immediately. The premier source of reviews of academic books and digital resources of interest to scholars and students in higher education, Choice is a publishing unit of the Association of College and Research Libraries… Read More
