The Impact of E-Legal Deposit in the Academic Sector
Meet the Project Team
Dr. Paul Gooding (Principal Investigator)
Paul is the Eastern ARC Research Fellow in Digital Humanities at the University of East Anglia. His research explores the theoretical and practical impacts of large-scale digitisation in the cultural heritage sector. He has a BA from the University of East Anglia and an MA from University College London, and completed his PhD at UCL Centre for Digital Humanities in 2014.
Prof. Melissa Terras (Co-Investigator)
Melissa is the Director of UCL Centre for Digital Humanities, and Professor of Digital Humanities in the Department of Information Studies at University College London (UCL), where she teaches digitisation of cultural heritage. Her research focuses on the use of computational techniques to enable research in the humanities that would otherwise be impossible.
Linda Berube (Senior Research Associate)
Linda is a digital programme management consultant whose career focus has been leading projects and services in the areas of information management, ebooks and web services, and the legal deposit of digital publications. After a career in the US in academic, law and public libraries, she came to the UK as a Fulbright Fellow and has since worked with the Legal Deposit Advisory Panel, as well as the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and Amnesty International.
Steering Group
We would like to thank the following individuals for supporting the project through membership of the steering group:
Illtud Daniel, National Library of Wales;
Ann Evans, Bodleian Libraries, Oxford
Ann is Head of Collections Management for the Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford, and has leadership, management and planning responsibilities for the Bodleian’s library-wide collections management functions – including Collection development, Acquisitions, Legal Deposit, E-resource licensing, Cataloguing and description, Gold Open Access, Collections Storage and Logistics, and the Bodleian’s materials budget for the licensing and acquisition of materials of use to the University’s scholarly community.
Naomi Korn, Naomi Korn Copyright Consultancy
Clive Simmonds, Cambridge University Library
Clive has been Head of Legal Deposit at Cambridge University Library since 2011.
Samantha Rayner, UCL Department of Information Studies
Sam is Director of Studies and Deputy Head of Department at the Department for Information Studies at UCL, as well as the Director of the Centre for Publishing. She teaches and writes on publishing and book related topics, such as the culture of bookselling and academic publishing. She was the Principal Investigator on the AHRC/British Library Academic Book of the Future Project (see http://academicbookfuture.org/ ).
Fredric Saunderson, National Library of Scotland
Fred is the Intellectual Property Specialist at the National Library of Scotland, where his responsibilities include copyright, data protection and records management. He is chair of the Libraries and Archives Copyright Alliance (LACA) and has an MA in Digital Asset Management from King’s College London.