John Carey, AHIP, is Head Librarian and Assistant Professor at the Hunter Health Professions Library, Hunter College, City University of New York. He has also worked in the library of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. Before pursuing librarianship he worked extensively in scientific and academic publishing and currently serves as copyeditor of the Urban Library Journal. His research interests include open access, open science, and scholarly communication in developing and transition countries. His work has appeared in Collection Management, Information and Culture, Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship, LIBER Quarterly, and Slavic and East European Information Resources.