Biography of Pippa Smart Profile Pippa Smart is a research communication and publishing consultant, working for her own company, PSP Consulting. She has worked in academic and research publishing for over 25 years and has a wealth of knowledge about the industry. Pippa graduated from Oxford Brookes University with a degree in publishing and then worked for several UK academic and research publishers including Cambridge University Press, Blackwell Science and CABI. She held a variety of roles within these companies including production, technical development, editorial and strategic management. Latterly she held the position of Head of Publishing with a development agency (INASP), working with developing world journal publishers (particularly Africa and SE Asia) to manage publishing programmes and help them move to online publication. She has extensive experience of the industry, and currently uses this to advise publishers in development of their publishing programmes (including the Food and Agriculture Agency of the UN in Italy, and the Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Journals publishing company). She runs a series of training programmes independently and jointly with other organisations (such as the European Association of Science Editors, EASE, and the Association of Learned, Professional and Society Publishers, ALPSP) on topics such as editorial skills, journal business development and copyright. She has developed training and policy documents for a variety of organisations (e.g. on rights management for the World Intellectual Property Organization, and on e-book publishing for Higher Education Press in China). She also works closely with the Association of Learned, Professional and Society Publishers (ALPSP), developing training courses for their members and writing their monthly newsletter on the publishing industry, which is read by over 2000 publishers around the world. Employment Details February 2007 – Research Communication and Publishing Consultant Trading as PSP consulting. Provide services for publishers, editors, research and publishing associations, development agencies and editorial groups in the UK and around the world. My work consists of providing advice, support, business development and producing and developing training for publishing and editing staff. Knowledge E JLT | P.O. Box 488239, Dubai, UAE | Tel. +971 4 4227043 | [email protected] | www.knowledgee.com https://twitter.com/KnowledgeEJLT http://www.facebook.com/Knowledgeejlt linkedin.com/company/knowledge-E Recent relevant projects include: • Writing the monthly ALPSP Alert newsletter for the Association of Learned, Professional and Society Publishers (ALPSP); • Developing a Manual for Editors of Health Science Journals for the World Health Organization (WHO), Egypt; • Developing several distance learning courses: on author agreements and rights management for the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO); on journal publishing, marketing, production, citation analysis and copyright for ALPSP; converting the MSc certificate in Journal Publishing for Oxford Brookes University; editorial strategies for BioMed Central • Providing training workshops in editing, journal development, copyright, publishing strategies, etc. Recently she has run courses for the Korean Council of Science Editors (Korea), Thai Publishers Association (Thailand), WHO (Iran and Egypt), Chinese Academy of Sciences (China), ALPSP (UK), Saudi Medical Journal (Saudi Arabia), Eurosurveillance (Sweden), National Institutes of Health Research (UK); • Personally running an annual short course for Medical Journal Editors, held in oxford each year (now in its 16th year); • Providing on-going advice and publishing services to the newly-launched Hamdan Medical Journal, Dubai; • Assisting the launch of the Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Journals as interim Editorial Director; and • Evaluating and updating the rights management systems within the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). 2002 to 2007 Head, Publishing Initiatives with the International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications (INASP). She was responsible for the development and implementation of the publishing support programme that provided consultancy services to publishers in developing countries. She created training programmes for editors and publishers and assisted the partnering of organisations and individuals to help build skills and capacity. She was instrumental in obtaining 5-year grant funding of c.£500k pa for the AuthorAid project by creating and presenting the proposal. She also developed and implemented an online journal publishing methodology to help groups of journals to publish online in a cost-effective and highly-visible manner. (This methodology has since been run out in over 6 regions/countries.) 2001 to 2002 Journal Publishing Manager with Blackwell Publishing, Oxford. 2000 to 2001 Business Development Manager with Cambridge University Press. 1989 to 2000 Production Manager for CAB International, Wallingford, Oxfordshire. 1986-1989 Subeditor and then Production Controller with Blackwell Scientific Publications. Education 1986: 2:1BSc (Hons), in Publishing and Anthropology from Oxford Brookes University Knowledge E JLT | P.O. Box 488239, Dubai, UAE | Tel. +971 4 4227043 | [email protected] | www.knowledgee.com https://twitter.com/KnowledgeEJLT http://www.facebook.com/Knowledgeejlt linkedin.com/company/knowledge-E Other Positions • Non-Executive Director for Practical Action Publishing • Editor of the Science Editor Handbook • Reviews Editor for the journal Learned Publishing • Council member of the European Association of Science Editors (EASE) • Editorial board member of several journals Selected Recent Publications • Smart, P. 2012. Is anyone stealing your articles? Exploding copyright myths. Medical Writing 21, 294-297, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1179/2047480612Z.00000000070 • Smart, P. 2012. Publishing an article in an online journal. In Scientific Writing for Agricultural Research Scientists (a training reference manual), Ed. A Youdeowei. Netherlands, CTA • Smart P., Maisonneuve H. and Polderman A. (eds) 2013 Science Editors' Handbook. European Association of Science Editors, UK. • Smart, P. 2014 (in press). The status and future of the African journal. In: The Future of the Academic Journal, 2nd Edn. Eds B. Cope and A. Phillips. UK, Woodhead Publishing Recent Conference Presentations • International cooperation and networks for developing copyright capacity (presented at the WIPO Inter-Regional Workshop for Local Experts on Capacity Building in Copyright, Korea 2013) • Why editors should care about their websites (presented at the EASE/ISMTE conference, Belgium, 2013) • Does copyright matter (presented at the ALPSP Conference, UK, 2012) • The world of journals (presentation to Journal of Zhejiang University, Hanzhou, China, 2012) • A publishing revolution fuelled by technology (presentation during the European Scientific Conference on Applied Infectious Disease Epidemiology (ESCAIDE), Stockholm, Sweden, 2011) Knowledge E JLT | P.O. 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