Michael Jensen
Michael Jon Jensen has been at the interface between digital technologies and scholarly/academic publishing since the late 1980s
In 2007 Michael Jensen was appointed Director of Strategic Web Communications for the Office of Communications of the National Academies and National Academies Press. Prior to this appointment, he served as Director of Web Communications for the National Academies (2002-2007), and Director of Publishing Technologies (1998-2007) at the National Academies Press. This pioneering website makes more than 3700 books (more than 650,000 pages) from the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, the Institute of Medicine, and the National Research Council fully browsable and searchable online for free (www.nap.edu). The site receives more than 1.5 million visitors per month, and boasts of some of the most advanced search and discovery tools available on any publisher’s site, most of which were initially developed by Mr. Jensen. In 2001, Michael Jensen received the National Academies’ “President’s Award,” its highest staff honor.
Previously, Michael Jensen was Electronic Publisher at the Johns Hopkins University Press, and Electronic Media Manager at the University of Nebraska Press. He was been involved in publishing on the Internet long before the Web, is a frequent speaker and consultant on electronic publishing issues. He has directed or guided such projects as the first searchable online publisher’s catalog (via telnet, pre-gopher), a dozen major CD-ROM products, the Gallery of the Open Frontier, the online publication of several large reference works for Johns Hopkins University Press, The Johns Hopkins Online Guide to Literary Theory & Criticism (winner of the Association of American Publisher’s 1997 “Best Electronic Product – Internet – Social Sciences/Humanities” award), and Walker’s Mammals of the World Online, as well as the pioneering online journals project of the Johns Hopkins University Press, Project Muse, which in 1997 made more than 5,000 articles from 42 journals available for institutional online subscription in HTML format.
Michael is also emeritus partner of the History Cooperative, which makes the works of the most prestigious journals in History available online to subscribing institutions. He teaches courses for the Master’s in Publishing program at George Washington University, and internationally, with the World Bank.
For more information, visit his website at http://www.nap.edu/staff/mjensen/.
