Visiting Professor
2016 conference: Recent developments in Copyright Law and what they mean for you
Charles Oppenheim is a semi-retired consultant and was until 2009 Professor of Information Science and Head of the Department of Information Science at Loughborough University. He is currently a Visiting Professor at the University of Northampton. Previously he held posts in other academic institutions, and for twelve years worked in the electronic publishing industry.
Charles is an Honorary Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals.
He has been involved in, given talks on, and published on the library and information professions, Intellectual Property Rights and other legal issues relevant to the professions, text and data mining, bibliometrics, evaluation of research quality, and on scholarly publishing trends, including Open Access. He has published well over 500 journal articles, conference papers, reports and books in library and information subjects. He has received both the Jason Farradane Award for services to the information profession, and the Aslib award for lifetime achievement to library and information science.
For fun he plays chess and messes around with philately, and is also involved in developing Green Party policy on Intellectual Property Rights.
He can be followed on Twitter: @CharlesOppenh