Jensen Lecture 1/31
January 4th, 2008
Michael Jensen, director of web communications for the National Academies and director of publishing technologies at the National Academies Press, is the next speaker in the “2020 Vision: The Future of Scholarship and Publishing,” series. Jensen will make his presentation on Thursday, January 31, at 3:30 p.m. at the Faculty Club, 181 S. Oval Dr. Refreshments begin at 3:15 p.m.
Michael Jensen has been at the interface between digital technologies and scholarly/academic publishing since the late 1980s. In 2002 Jensen was appointed Director of Web Communications for the National Academies. He remains Director of Publishing Technologies at the National Academies Press, which makes more than 3,600 books (more than 600,000 pages) from the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, the Institute of Medicine, and the National Research Council fully browsable and searchable online for free. This site receives more than 1.5 million visitors per month, and boasts of some of the most advanced search and discovery tools available on any publisher’s site, most of which were initially developed by Mr. Jensen. In 2001, Jensen received the National Academies’ “President’s Award,” its highest staff honor. Jensen, with the Academies, is also currently technical partner of the History Cooperative, which makes the works of the most prestigious journals in History available online to subscribing institutions. He is also the inventor of WordXS puzzles, and editor of the Sustainable Personal Agriculture and Energy collection.
The “2020 Vision” series explores issues of scholarship and publishing in the digital age with national leaders in digital scholarship. “2020 Vision” is sponsored by The Ohio State University Libraries and Technology Enhanced Learning and Research (TELR), and supported by the Friends of the Libraries.
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