Speakers Biographies

Dr. Elisha Chiware is the Director of Cape Peninsula University of Technology Libraries. Elisha is also the current Secretary of IATUL (International Association of Scientific and Technological University Libraries Board, he is an active member of LIASA – Library and Information Association of South Africa, he serves on the IFLA Section on Statistics and Evaluation and is an Executive member of the Committee for Higher Education Libraries in South Africa and also serves as a Board member of SANLIC – the South African National Libraries and Information.Elisha Chiware has also worked in libraries and library schools in Namibia, Botswana and Zimbabwe. He has published over 20 articles, two books and presented several papers at international conferences. He has also worked as an information management consultant – establishing trade information centres in the East, South and Central African region. – See more at: http://sparc.arl.org/coar-sparc-conference-speaker-bios-0#sthash.UIEQAju7.dpuf

Jo McEntyre is Team Leader for Literature Services at the European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), where she is responsible for developing Europe PMC, the European database for full-text life science research articles (http://europepmc.org). Her primary focus is on the integration of the open access literature with open life sciences data, to develop new ways for researchers to access and discover useful information. This has led to interests in the areas of citation networks, text and data mining, curation, publication workflows and scientific impact systems.

As the Manager of Information and Research Services at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Ms. Hansen helped develop the foundation’s recently announced Open Access Policy. She now leads its implementation. She also manages the strategic and operational aspects of theGF Library.Serving as an informational leader in both the public and private sectors, to include Microsoft and King County Library System, Ms. Hansen has sat on several boards and was part of the adjunct faculty at Indiana University’s School of Library and Information Science. She received a B.A. in Journalism and History and a M.L.S. from Indiana University in Bloomington. She lives in Seattle with her husband and two children.

Stefanie Haustein, Post-doctoral Researcher, Canada, Research Chair on the Transformations of Scholarly Communication, Université de Montréal

Stefanie Haustein is a post-doctoral researcher in bibliometrics at the University of Montreal focusing on social media in scholarly communication and making sense of so-called “altmetrics”. Her work is supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Stefanie holds a Master’s degree in history, American linguistics and literature and information science and a PhD in information science from Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany, where she is a visiting lecturer. She has previously worked as a research analyst at Science-Metrix in Montreal, Canada and at Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany. She frequently presents at international conferences and has published in journals such as JASIST, Scientometrics, Journal of Informetrics and PLoS ONE.

William Nixon is Head of Digital Library Services at the University of Glasgow. Digital Library Services is responsible for the Library web service, desktop support, the Library Management System (Sierra) and the ongoing development of Enlighten, Glasgow’s institutional repository service. William has worked with repositories for over 10 years and presented on them at a range of international conferences. He has worked with EPrints Services to embed Altmetric data in Enlighten and led on the use of Enlighten for the University’s selection of outputs for the UK’s national Research Excellence Framework (REF2014). William is the co-chair of the Program Committee for Open Repositories 2015 and a member of the SPARC Europe board. The University of Glasgow is a member of both SPARC Europe and COAR.

Andrew Sallans leads partnerships for the Center for Open Science, a non-profit tech startup in Charlottesville, VA, USA.  This entails working with many stakeholders in the community to figure out where missions align and how we can bring mutual value through collaborations.  He previously led data management service initiatives through the libraries at the University of Virginia.

Kathleen Shearer, Executive Director, Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR)

Kathleen Shearer is the Executive Director of the Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR), an international association of repository initiatives launched in October 2009. COAR is located in Gottingen, Germany- with a membership of over 100 institutions worldwide from 36 countries in 5 continents. Its mission is to enhance the visibility and application of research outputs through a global network of open access digital repositories.Shearer has her Masters of Library and Information Studies (MLIS) and has been working in the areas of open access and research data management and digital libraries for over a decade. She is a Research Associate with the Canadian Association of Research Libraries and a consultant with Research Data Canada working on issues of policy, infrastructure and training for research data management. She is also co-chair of two international interest groups with the Research Data Alliance: Long Tail of Research Data and Libraries for Research Data. In addition, Shearer is a Partnership Consultant with the Association of Research Libraries in the United States.

Jarkko Sirén, Project Officer, European Commission

Jarkko Sirén joined the European Commission in 2009. He is Project Officer in DG Communications Networks, Content and Technology. He is currently working on e-infrastructures with a special focus on scientific data infrastructures. He has previously worked in IT project management and development in the European Commission (DG EAC) and in private sector companies. Jarkko holds a M.A. in Philosophy (1996, Helsinki University).

Nisia Trindade, Vice-President, Foundation Oswaldo Cruz