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Wei Shen has a degree in computer science from Technical University Darmstadt and works since 2003 as a researcher at GESIS-IZ Social Science Information Centre in Bonn. She was involved in several projects funded by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) to enhance the technical infrastructure for scholarly publishing. In one of these projects she developed a module for in-context discussion in electronic publications. Her research interests include human-computer interaction information systems. Email: wei.shen@gesis.org

Gretta E. Siegel has worked as a librarian since 1984 at universities, research institutes, and with state and federal agencies and Indian tribes. Her interests center on issues concerning access to information in the sciences and include topics such as the economics of scholarly communication, access to grey literature, subject mapping, and information literacy for graduate students.  She has also made several trips to Cuba to observe and participate in their informaticization efforts. The author currently works at Portland State University in Portland, Oregon as their Science Librarian, Coordinator of Graduate Student Services, and Coordinator of Scholarly Communication Outreach and Initiatives. The author holds degrees in chemistry, biochemistry and biophysics, and information science. Email: siegelg@pdx.edu

Padam Simkhada (B. Ed., M.Sc., PhD) is working as an International Research Fellow in the Department of Public Health at the University of Aberdeen UK. Padam graduated from Tribhuvan University, Nepal. He completed a M.Sc. in Health Promotion from Brunel University, London in 1999 and PhD from Southampton University UK in 2002. Padam worked for Ministry of Health in Nepal and Save the Children (UK) for several years. He has long experience in reproductive and sexual health issues, particularly in the areas of HIV/AIDS. Simkhada’s main research interest is in international health, working on migration, sex trafficking and sexual health.  He has great interest in the use of grey literature to inform evidence-based decision-making in the field of emergency nutrition. He is convener of International Health Interest Group in Aberdeen. Email: p.p.simkhada@abdn.ac.uk

Maximilian Stempfhuber holds a degree in information science and business computing (M. A.) from the University of Regensburg and a PhD in computer science from the University of Koblenz-Landau. He works at GESIS-IZ Social Science Information Centre in Bonn since 1995, first as a researcher in the project ELVIRA, funded by the German Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology (BMWi) where he developed an integrated information system for market research. Since 2000 he is Head of Research and Development and since 2004 Deputy Directors of GESIS-IZ. Sine 2002 he is lecturing in human-computer interaction and computational visualistics at the University of Koblenz-Landau. He is board member of several national and international organizations aiming at improving the exchange of research information, supporting scholarly publishing and promoting Open Access. His research interests are in human-computer interaction, computational visualistics, information retrieval, and digital libraries. Email: max.stempfhuber@gesis.org

Christiane Stock is the Head of the Monographs and Grey Literature service at INIST, in charge of the repositories LARA (reports), mémSIC (master’s theses in information sciences) and OpenSIGLE. Member of the Technical Committee for the SIGLE database from 1993 to 2005, she also set up the national agency for ISRN (International Standard Report Number). She is member of the AFNOR expert group who prepared the recommended metadata scheme for French electronic theses (TEF). Email: christiane.stock@inist.fr

Patricia T. Sulouff is Head Librarian at the Physics, Optics, and Astronomy Library at the University of Rochester, since 1993. She holds a B.S. from Penn State and an M.L.S. from Syracuse University. Email: sulouff@pas.rochester.edu