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Business Information
Topic Committee

Committee Description

The NISO Business Information Committee was formed in early 2007 in response to a strategic restructuring. As part of NISO's organizational structure, topic committees that bring together leaders in specific subjects have been created to provide direction to the organization for standards development in those umbrella topic areas. The Business Information Topic Committee focuses on issues regarding the management structure surrounding the acquisition, licensing, purchasing, and analysis of information. Specific areas include: license expression, online usage data, access management, performance measures and other statistics, etc.

The topic committee is charged with the following tasks:

  • Track standards development within NISO and in other standards organizations related to the topic.
  • Identify where new standards may provide solutions in their specific area.
  • Convene Thought Leader meetings to incubate new standards activities.
  • Create and provide guidance and oversight to standards working groups under their purview.
  • Manage the five-year reaffirmation process for approved standards.

The work of this group is complemented by NISO's Content & Collection Management Topic Committee, Discovery to Delivery Topic Committee, and Architecture Committee.

Committee Roster

Committee Co-chairs

  • Kathleen Folger
    Senior Associate Librarian
    University of Michigan Library
    kfolger@umich.edu
    Term: 6/30/09-6/30/12
    (Joined the topic committee in 2007; chair term extended)

Committee Members

Ivy Anderson
Director of Collections
California Digital Library
Ivy.Anderson@ucop.edu
Term: 6/30/07-6/30/10; extended to 6/30/13

Linda Beebe
Senior Director, PsycINFO
American Psychological Association
lbeebe@apa.org
Term: 6/30/10-6/20/12

Niels Dam, PhD
Regional Sales Director
Elsevier Inc.
n.dam@elsevier.com
Term: 10/1/11-10/1/14

Denise M. Davis
Deputy Director
Sacramento Public Library
ddavis@saclibrary.org
Term: 6/30/07-6/30/10; extended to 6/30/13

Herbert Gruttemeier
External Relations
INIST Institut de l'Information Scientifique et Technique
Herbert.gruttemeier@inist.fr
Term: 6/30/07-6/30/10; extended to 6/30/11

Carol Richman
Director of Licensing
SAGE Publications
Carol.Richman@sagepub.com
Term: 10/1/11-10/1/14

Christine M. Stamison
Senior Customer Relations Manager
Swets
cstamison@us.swets.com
Term: 10/1/11-10/1/14

Karla Strieb
Associate Director
Ohio State University Libraries
strieb.2@osu.edu
Term: 6/30/07-6/30/10; extended to 6/30/12

Gary Van Overborg
Founder and CEO
Scholarly iQ, LLC
gary.vanoverborg@scholarlyiq.com
Term: 10/1/11-10/1/14

Ex Officio Members