The Staff
The Office of Digital Scholarly Publishing is led by two Co-Director:
Mike Furlough also serves as the Assistant Dean for Scholarly Communications in the Penn State University Libraries since September 2006. He has extensive experience in consulting with scholars on the application of a wide range of technologies to their teaching and research. Furlough is the former director of Digital Research and Instructional Services at the University of Virginia Library, where he helped to develop a program of support for digital scholarship that included oversight of the Electronic Text Center, Geospatial and Statistical Data Center, Rare Materials Digital Services, and the Scholars' Lab. He has been professionally active in both the American Library Association and the Digital Library Federation. Furlough holds an MA in English and American Literature from the University of Virginia and a BA from the University of South Carolina.
Patrick Alexander is Director of the Penn State Press. Previously Alexander served as the Press's associate director and editor-in-chief, and as vice president and publishing director for the North American operation of De Gruyter-Mouton-K.G. in 1986 as associate editor with Hendrickson Publishers Inc. of Peabody, Mass., an academic/trade house specializing in religious studies. He became academic editor there in 1990 and senior academic editor in 1992, before accepting the position of editorial director in 1995. He joined Brill Academic Publishers Inc. and Brill USA Inc., located in Boston, as vice president and publishing director in 2000 before moving to De Gruyter in 2005.
The Office of Digital Scholarly Publishing depends heavily on the talents of others within both the Libraries' and the Press. Key staff important the success of the ODSP are drawn from the Libraries' departments of Digitalization and Preservation, Scholarly Communications Services, Information Technology (I-Tech) and Digital Library Technologies; from the Penn State Press, the staff of the departments of Acquisitions, Production and Marketing also participate heavily in the work of ODSP.
