About the Presenters

David Solomon, PhD is a Professor of Medicine with a joint appointment in the Office of Medical Education Research and Development at Michigan State University. Trained as an educational psychologist he has over 20 years of experience in curriculum development, instructional design and evaluation in medical education. Dr. Solomon is the founding editor of Medical Education Online, an OA journal that has been in operation since April 1996. He has published widely on
various topics in open access publishing and authored "Developing Open Access Journals: A practical guide", published by Chandos Publishing (Oxford) Limited that covers much of the material that will be contained in the workshop. He is one of the founders of the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association, OASPA, and a Board Member of the same.

Caroline Sutton, PhD is one of the founding partners of Co-Action Publishing, an open access publishing house and an initiator behind OpenAccessSolutions.com, a portal of services for small publishing operations. Dr. Sutton worked for several years for a major international publishing house managing approximately 30 journals in the HSS and STM areas before forming Co-Action Publishing with her partners. Dr. Sutton is currently working on a project funded by the Swedish
Royal Library to develop a best practices guide to open access journal publishing. She is a member of the Lund University Library Board and a member of the Advisory Board for Linköping University Press, Sweden; in addition to being one of the founders of the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association, OASPA and a Board Member of the same.