Sam Brooks

Sam Brooks is Executive Vice President of the Research Content business unit of EBSCO Information Services, where he oversees EBSCOhost, Research Databases, EBSCO eBooks, Flipster, Historical Digital Archives, NoveList, and EBSCOlearning. He holds responsibility for the P&L, strategy, content development, user experience, and commercial activities, including library services, publisher services, and LLM partnerships.

Mr. Brooks has visited universities in more than 90 countries and has worked extensively with ministries of education, science and technology, and culture in developing nations to expand access to knowledge.

Sam is a member of the Board of Directors of the Open Library Foundation. The Open Library Foundation assists and facilitates educational organizations, foundations, partnerships and commercial entities in collaborating to foster, develop and sustain open technologies and innovation to support libraries, learning, research and teaching.

Mr. Brooks has authored papers in major international library science journals, e.g., Serials Review (Elsevier Science), The Library Quarterly (University of Chicago Press), portal: Libraries and the Academy (Johns Hopkins University Press), Information Technology & Libraries (LITA), Journal of Academic Librarianship (Elsevier Science), etc. He has also been published in the library publications of more than a dozen countries, including Hungarian Journal of Library & Information Science, KLC Journal (Kazakhstan), EBIB (Poland), Librarianship (Russia), Journal of Educational Media & Library Sciences (Taiwan), etc. Mr. Brooks co-edited the book "Library/Vendor Relationships" (Taylor & Francis), published simultaneously as an issue of the Journal of Library Administration.

Sam has participated in panel discussions or appeared as the keynote speaker at many library conferences, including ACRL Chapter Meetings, IFLA, The Charleston Conference, ALCTS Networked Resources & Metadata Committee Meeting, Computers in Libraries, International Congress of Information (Cuba), LITA Technology & Access Committee Meeting, NLA Tri-Round Table, and many others.

Mr. Brooks joined EBSCO in July 1991 and is a member of the EBSCO Founder's Club.

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