Over a 20-year career, Peter Shepherd has gained experience in all aspects of STM publishing, initially with Elsevier and most recently with Harcourt. During that time he has launched a wide range of new products, and has been actively involved in the development of online publishing models. Dr Shepherd is now Project Director for COUNTER, a new, multi-agency initiative to develop an international code of practice for the measurement of usage of online information resources.
Peter Shepherd received a PhD in chemistry in 1978 from St
Andrews University in Scotland and joined the publishing industry
in 1980, following a post-doctoral research fellowship at the
University of California, Santa Barbara.
pt_shepherd @ hotmail. com