Richard Akerman is a Technology Architect at NRC CISTI, the National Research Council Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information, Canada's National Science Library and Publisher. Mr. Akerman joined CISTI in 2002. Previously he worked at AMIRIX Systems, where he was a Senior Software Designer. His areas of interest include the application of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) to academic library and publishing workflows, and e-Science. He often writes in his blog,
Science Library Pad, and elsewhere about the impact of new technologies on scholarly communication. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Physics with a minor in Computer Science from Mount Allison University.
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