Huh?
Portfolio?
But you're no
artist, are you?
It seems a shame that only artists, photographers and website designers get to display their work as a portfolio. This page is intended to give you a flavour of some of the projects I have been involved in over the years, either as instigator, principal lead, project manager or enthusiastic contributor.
In July 2010 I officially became Editorial Director of Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Journals, a new scholarly publisher set up and owned by Qatar Foundation, with management services from Bloomsbury UK. Our online platform is QScience.com and is home to a variety of open access journals, and soon, book and repositories. We are looking at new ways of disseminating scholarly (not just STM) research including making full text XML available on Github. We also have a remit to help improve the quantity and quality of research from the region being published in all journals, and offer workshops to help less-experienced authors. We also perform pre-submission editing services for manuscripts to be submitted somewhere other than QScience.com. A unique product and service which is a reflection of the support and commitment of Qatar Foundation for this venture.
http://www.qscience.com/
Dymond Linking is the project I am most proud of. In 2000, we took the Tetrahedron suite of chemistry journals and 'activated' the chemical structures in the online text. This activation took the form of a link, which gave the user basic info on that compound and the option of finding other reactions that compound was involved in, by performing a structure or reaction search in the Beilstein CrossFire database. The user could then read the papers where the reactions were described. Effectively, rather than crosslinking scientific research based on words or citations, this crosslinked them using chemical structures. An avenue of serendipity which I think will return one day.
Inspired by arXiv.org, but before Nature Precedings, ChemWeb launched a preprint server for chemists which I helped to spec and deliver for them. It received 888 papers, but was discontinued by Elsevier. The preprints still live on ScienceDirect, but you need to be determined if you want to access them.
In 1999 we started work on a way for authors to submit manuscripts to Tetrahedron Letters online. It was so successful that we rolled it out to all of the Tetrahedron family journals and later all Elsevier journals (when it became known as Elsubmit!). Superceded by EES - Elsevier Editorial System.
In late 2006 I joined BioMed Central to extend the scope of their open access journal offerings to cover physics and, hopefully, mathematics. We had limited success in entering the areas where arXiv.org is strong, but rather more luck with chemical/bio aspects of physics. The journals we launched on PhysMath Central are now part of BioMed Central or Springer.
I spent a year working for an online music remixing site called YourSpins. The social networking aspect of community management was a valuable insight for
me into how groups self-organise on the web and was also great fun. Our online product (a Flash-based remix tool) has since been reinvented as a web app and used by the likes of Plastikman
When I was in charge of the discrete math/combinatorics portfolio at Elsevier I launched this journal, with Prof Peter Hammer, onto an unsuspecting market. Although in many
senses it is just another math journal, it's one of my babies and I like to see it doing well.
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