Jan Peterson

Jan Peterson is an industry veteran with over 20 years in STM publishing and content development.  She is the Head of Publisher Relations at Research Solutions, Inc. and Reprints Desk, Inc.  Most recently Jan was VP for Content Development at Los Angeles-based Infotrieve where she established document delivery as a legitimate revenue stream for publishers and coined the term “Article Economy”.  Prior to joining Infotrieve, Jan was VP for Publisher Relations and Content Development at Faxon/Dawson, and then with RoweCom when they acquired the subscription agency.   Jan spent 14 years at Academic Press (now Elsevier), where her last position was Fulfillment Director.  She was part of the exciting early days of IDEAL, STM’s first online journal program while at Academic Press.  Her first information industry job was writing abstracts for Sociological Abstracts (now part of Cambridge Scientific Abstracts). Jan is very involved in the standards community, currently serving as Immediate Past Chair on the Board of Directors for the National Information Standards Organization (NISO), and she is the past chair of the International Committee for EDI in Serials (ICEDIS). She is also a frequent speaker at library and publishing meetings.