BioOne Appoints New Executive Director

[Todd Carpenter <todd@arl.org>]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

For more information contact:
Howard Goldstein, email hgoldstein@arl.org, phone (301) 279-5735

August 22, 2005

BioOne Appoints Susan Skomal as Executive Director

Washington, DC 

BioOne, a nonprofit online aggregator of scholarly journals in the
biosciences, has appointed Susan Skomal as Executive= Director and Chief
Operating Officer, starting in mid-October. Dr. Skomal has been a staff
member of the American Anthropological Association since 1991, most
recently, since 2000, as Director of Publications and the leader of the
Association's transition from print to electronic publishing. She earned a
Ph.D. from the University of California at Los Angeles and is a former
Adjunct Professor at the University of Maryland, University College. She
succeeds Heather Joseph, BioOne's founding President, who assumed the
position of Executive Director of SPARC (Scholarly Publishing and Academic
Resources Coalition) in July.

"We are extremely pleased to be welcoming Susan to BioOne. She brings to
our organization a high level of relevant experience and a strong
commitment to ensuring the independence and viability of nonprofit
scholarly publishing to benefit all stakeholders. We were particularly
impressed by her ideas for addressing the issues that concern our
particular publisher, library, scholar and researcher communities. Susan
has expressed a clear and compelling vision for how BioOne can continue
its successful momentum in expanding global dissemination of bioscience
research with affordable access," said Kent Holsinger, Professor,
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Connecticut,
and Chair of BioOne.

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About BioOne:  BioOne is a 501(c)(3) corporation formed in 1999 through
a collaboration of librarians, scholars, society publishers and others.

The web service (http://www.bioone.org) was launched in 2001, today
providing precise online access to peer-reviewed research in organismal
and integrative biology, including ecology and the environment, in 80
journals and one e-book from 67 independent publishers. Academic library
and other subscribers exceed 750 worldwide. In addition, free or low-cost
online access is available to researchers in less-developed countries.

Todd A. Carpenter
Director of Business Development
BioOne
21 Dupont Circle, NW
Suite 800
Washington, DC 20036
(202) 296-2296
Fax: (202) 872-0884
todd@arl.org
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