In a Career Divided Between Lecturing and Publishing, Eve Gray Has Had More Than Twenty-Five

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SUMMARY

In a career divided between lecturing and publishing, Eve Gray has had more than twenty-five years’ experience in the publishing industry in South Africa and Europe. In South Africa, she was Director of the Witwatersrand University Press, Academic Publishing Director at Juta Publishers and Director of the University of Cape Town Press.

Eve Gray has been a publishing strategy consultant for the last six years, based in South Africa and working principally in the academic publishing sector, with a particular interest in the potential of electronic media to open up the potential for African scholarly publishing.

In 2006, she is a recipient of an International Policy Fellowship from the Open Society Initiative, Budapest, with a research project entitled: Sustainability Models for Open Access Research Publication in Africa: Policy and Practice.

PERSONAL DETAILS

Dorothy Evelyn Horwitz Gray

Born in Grahamstown , South Africa

Nationality: Dual South African / British

Languages spoken: English, French & Afrikaans

ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS

1962 : RHODES UNIVERSITY

Bachelor of Arts with Distinction in English & French

Royal Society of St George Prize for English

French Embassy Prize for French

University Honours Scholarship

Member of the Student’s Representative Council 1961 and 1962

1964 : RHODES UNIVERSITY

BA Honours, with First Class Honours in English

Rhodes University Research Scholarship

Prize winner in the Sunday Times Shakespeare Competition

1987 : UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND

Master of Arts, with Distinction, in the Department of English

Dissertation topic: Speech and Silence – Feminine Discourse in Shakespearean Drama and the Renaissance Debate Concerning the Nature of Women

PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS

1990 : BOOK HOUSE TRAINING CENTRE (JHB)

Publishing Management

1992 : UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND,
GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS Essentials of Managerial Finance

1996 : BOOK HOUSE TRAINING CENTRE (JHB)

Senior Publishing Management

2000 : UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND,

GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS

Strategic Skills Development

EMPLOYMENT RECORD

2006- 2007
2006
2000- / International Policy Fellow, Open Society Institute, Budapest

Research topic: Sustainability Models for Open Access Social Science Research Publication in Africa: Policy and Practice

Honorary Research Associate, Centre for Educational Technology, University of Cape Town
Publishing strategy consultant, Eve Gray & Associates, Cape Town
Eve Gray & Associates provides strategic consultancy across the publishing value chain, with a special interest in scholarly dissemination and academic textbook publishing. We are experts in using digital media and new copyright models to bring African voices into the global dialogue and we help build new business models to make the marginal viable. We provide knowledge resources and training for the development and expansion of the publishing sector and advise on copyright and contract and rights management for publishers and authors.

Relevant projects include:

·  The development of a new publishing strategy for the Human Sciences Research Council and advice on the establishment of a publishing infrastructure. The publishing strategy was based on Open Access availability of full-text online, with high quality parallel print on demand products at subsidised prices, managed by a small but professional publishing team. An important underpinning of the project was an integrated marketing strategy for the HSRC, so that the publishing programme supported the institutional aims of the HSRC. The new programme has had a beneficial effect in strengthening the impact of HSRC research on national policy decisions and in supporting the organisation’s drive to attract funding support. Interestingly, the availability of full text online has not only made the HSRC the first port of call for policy-makers, researchers and journalists, but has also resulted in a three-fold increase in the sale of printed products.
·  An intervention for the development of a publishing programme at Umalusi, the quality assurer for the General and Further Education bands of the South African National Qualifications Framework. This included developing a publications strategy, reviewing the website presence of Umalusi and recommending staffing structures and outsourced services for the in-house management of the new publishing programme.
·  A review of the information dissemination and publication programme of the African Gender Institute at the University of Cape Town. A pioneer in the delivery of free and open knowledge resources in an Africa-wide gender studies network, the AGI needed to update its strategy and review its operations. The consultancy made recommendations for more effective information management, the leverage of its existing operations to increase its impact and reputation and the upgrading and redesign of its websites. In particular, the consultancy advised on strategies for the effective consolidation and then growth of the AGIs activities within the serious constraints of its staff capacity.
·  The preparation of a report on Intellectual Property Rights in the Print Industry Sector in South Africa, commissioned by the Print Industry Cluster Council and funded by the Department of Arts and Culture. The report was commissioned in support of DAC’s policy planning and forms part of DAC’s development of a National Book Policy.
·  Participation in 2003-4 in a consortium for the development of digital and print training materials for the implementation of the new educational policy in the college sector in South Africa. This intervention was delivered for the South African Qualifications Authority,managed by the Ministry of training, Colleges and Universities of the Government of Ontario, and funded by CIDA.
·  A strategic planning intervention for INASP to develop strategies for the growth of the University of Addis Ababa Press. The strategic planning workshop was also attended by staff from the University of Nairobi Press.
·  Participation in a Bellagio Group workshop in Abuja for the expansion of Nigerian university presses.
·  Eve Gray has been a speaker at a number of conferences relating to Open Access and copyright in scholarly publishing, including the CODESRIA conference on Electronic Publishing and Dissemination in 2004; the Creative Commons South Africa conference in 2005; the CODATA/Natoinal Research Foundation conference on Strategies for Permanent Access to Scientific Information in Southern Africa; the Access to Learning Materials in South Africa conference; and the FLOSS/ Free Knowledge Communities conference, all in 2005.
Major clients include:
·  The Human Sciences Research Council, for a new publishing strategy and the creation of a new Publishing Department;
·  The Human Sciences Research Council, for a consultancy on Psychometric and Assessment Test publishing and distribution;
·  INASP, for a strategic planning intervention for the Addis Ababa University Press.
·  The African Gender Institute at the University of Cape Town, for a review of its publications activities and recommendations for consolidation and forward development of its information networks.
·  Umalusi, the South Afirican educational quality assurance body, for a publications strategy.
·  The University of the Western Cape, Division for Lifelong Learning, researching potential university-private sector partnerships for training delivery;
·  The South African Qualifications Authority (SAQA), for a digital information communications strategy;
·  The Aids Communication Team (a Department of Health initiative) for a print media plan as part of a major AIDS media campaign;
·  Various publishing houses - strategic planning and training with particular reference to the use of digital media;
·  The South African Qualifications Authority and the CIDA, through the Ontario Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities, Canada, for the development of print and digital multimedia training programmes for college governance and leadership;
·  The Print Industries Cluster Council, for a Situation Analysis of Copyright in the Print Media Sector in South Africa.
·  The Media, Advertising, Printing, Packaging and Publishing Sector Education Training Authority, for a quantitative and qualitative survey of the publishing, print media, printing and packaging sectors in South Africa, to inform the development of a Sector Skills Plan in line with national policy objectives.
·  Wesgro, the Western Cape Economic Development body, for a survey of the book publishing and magazine industries in the Western Cape from an industry development perspective.
1999 – 2000
1994- 1999 / Business and Skills Development Specialist, Juta Education Publishers
Responsible for professional staff development and training, and succession planning for the Education Publishing Division (a portfolio position)
Publishing Director Adult and Higher Education Publishing, Juta Education Publishing, Cape Town
Juta is the oldest publishing house in South Africa, publishing in print and electronically law and professional publicaitons, and academic, adult education and school textbooks. It has the largest tertiary education list in South Africa. I was responsible for the overall management of the academic and Adult Education lists and for the development of strategies for the transformation of Juta’s university publishing to meet the needs of a newly democratic South Africa.
Publishing Director of University of Cape Town Press (a subsidiary of Juta & Co)
Direction of a scholarly publishing programme and strategic development of a scholarly list for UCT Press
1988 – 1994 / Director, Witwatersrand University Press, Johannesburg
At the outset of my employment at Wits University Press, the longest-established university press in the country, it was in a state of decline, publishing very little. I was responsible for rebuilding the publishing list of WUP to make it an internationally recognised university publisher, putting in place a professional publishing structure and establishing an international network for co-publications. WUP succeeded in attracting many of the major authors in the humanities and social sciences and co-published with a number of leading African studies publishers internationally.
1985-1988 / Junior Lecturer, Department of English, University of the Witwatersrand
Lecturing in English literature at undergraduate and honours level and lecturing in English Methodology in the Faculty of Education.
1982-1984 / Part-time tutor and lecturer in the Department of English, University of the Witwatersrand (while studying for a Masters Degree)
1971-1981 /

Freelance translator (from French to English) and Editor, Brussels

In 1972 and 1973, I undertook the translation of short films and documentaries for the Belgium company, Soprofilm.
Over a ten-year period, I translated a number of high quality illustrated monographs on art and architectural history from French into English, for Editions Marc Vokaer
I also undertook the translation from French into English of tourism brochures and guides for the Brussels Tourism Department.
1969-1973 / Lecturer, Cours Universitaires, Grand Duchy of Luxembourg (a university institute, run by the Luxembourg Ministry of Education)
Charge de Cours (part-time), responsible for creating, teaching and examining a bridging course on Chaucer and Middle English for students who were proceeding to British universities to take degrees in English Literature.
1970-1971 /

Teacher, Persionnat Ste-Sophie, Luxembourg City

Teaching English language and literature (part-time) to final-year baccalaureat students.

Teacher, Ecole d’Administration et de Commerce, Luxembourg

Teaching courses in business and commercial English (part-time).
1967-1969 / Freelance editorial and production assistant, Stillit Books, London (publisher of second-language teaching materials)
This was an interesting venture – a very early invention of interactive electronic training materials, based on an electric circuit board.
1965 / Industrial Market Research Assistant, PA Management Consultants, London
1963 /

Book Production Assistant, Gothic Printing Company, Cape Town

Work included the production control, editing and proofreading of historical reprints and facsimiles and other non-fiction and academic titles for such publishers such as Oxford University Press, Balkema and Struik. (The company offered an editorial service to its publisher clients.)

PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES AND DIRECTORSHIPS

1987-1988 / Executive Committee of the Academic Staff Association at the University of the Witwatersrand.
1988 / Member of the National Executive Council of the Association of University English Teachers of South Africa.
1989-1991 / Executive Committee of the Administrative and Library Staff Association at the University of the Witwatersrand.
1989-1992 / Founding member and member of the Executive Committee of the Independent Publishers’ Association of South Africa.
1993-1994 / Member of the National Executive of the Publishers’ Association of South Africa. Chair of the Independent Interest Group Committee, member of the Academic Interest Group Committee and a member of the Copyright Committee.
1993-1995 / Member of the Board of Directors, Dictionary of South African English, Rhodes University, Grahamstown (Government nominee)
1994-1996 / Chair of the Copyright Committee, Publishers’ Association of South Africa and a member of the Academic Interest Group and the General Interest Group Committee.
1994-1995 / Member of the Board of Directors, The Little Library (a reading development NGO)
1995 - 2002 / Member of the Board of Directors, University of Cape Town Press
1997 - / Member of the International Advisory Board, Logos (a leading International Publishing Journal)
1999 – 2001
and 2003
1999-2000 / Chairperson of the Copyright Committee, Publishers’ Association of South Africa
Chairperson of the Training and Development Interest Group of the Publishers’ Association of South Africa.
Member of the National Executive of the Publishers’ Association of South Africa
2000 / Representative of the Publishing Industry on the Media, Advertising, Printing, Packaging and Publishing Sector Education and Training Authority (MAPPP SETA)
2006 / Board Member, the African Digital Commons

PUBLICATIONS

PROFESSIONAL ARTICLES AND PAPERS

Journal Articles

1996 / “The sad ironies of South African publishing today.” Logos, Volume 7 Issue 4, London
1997 / “Current Publishing Trends in South Africa”
In The Love of Books. Bibliophilia Africana VII. South African Library General Series
1999 / Copyright: Taking the debate into distance education: a publisher’s perspective. Meta-info Bulletin, Volume 9, number 1, Pretoria, Department of Arts, Culture, Science and Technology
1999 / “Dateline Cape Town”
Logos, Volume 10, Issue 2, London

Conference Papers and Workshops

1997 / “Strategies for survival as an African Academic Publisher”
Nordic Seminar on Book Production and Distribution in Africa, Bergen, Norway
(Published in the conference papers, by the Christian Michelsen Institute, and in the newsletter of the International Association of Scholarly Publishers.)
1997 / African Publishing Seminars: The Library Market – Africa. “The devil and the deep blue sea: local and international perspectives on the African library market” SABDET, London International Book Fair
1999 / “Copyright: Taking the debate into distance education – a publisher’s perspective” Conference of the National Association of Distance Education of South Africa (NADEOSA), Pretoria
1999 / “Copyright: A Publisher’s Perspective” Gaelic Copyright Workshop, Johannesburg (Gauteng Tertiary Consortium)
2000 / “Caxton or the Ethernet: Academic Publishing in an African Context”
LIASA Acquisition Librarian’s Conference
Published in the Cape Librarian, March/April 2001, pp. 10-14.
2000 / “A Brave New World: The Internet, Copyright And Information That Wants To Be Free”
Buys Inc Seminar on Electronic Copyright
2001 / “A New Dance? – Changing relationships in the e-Environment”
LIASA Conference
2001 / “Preparing for e-Publishing: Strategies for a New Terrain”
Rapid Media Seminar
2004 / “Digital Publishing and Open Access for Social Science Research Dissemination: a case study”. CODESRIA conference on Electronic Publishing and Dissemination, Dakar
2005 / “Making a Difference: Open Access publishing and effective African research dissemination.” Strategies for Permanent Access to Scientific Information in Southern Africa, CODATA/NRF Conference, Pretoria
2005 / “Open Access – a way of growing local content?”
Access to Learning Materials in South Africa Conference, Johannesburg.
2005 / “Emerging from the Twilight Zone: Open Content and African research dissemination.” Commons Sense: Creative Commons South Africa Conference, Johannesburg.
2005 / Open Access and African Research Dissemination
FLOSS/ Free Knowledge Communities Workshop
2005 / “Free and Fair or Dodgy but Democratic?” Pragmatic approaches to balancing copyright
Dramatic and Literary Rights Organisation (DALRO)Annual Workshop
2005 / 'A terminal case – perished, not perishing: the malaise in humanities publishing in South Africa'
Faculty of Humanities Workshop, University of Cape Town

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