Heather Joseph has spent the last 16 years in the scholarly publishing community. She began her career at the American Astronomical Society, where she was part of the creation of one of the first fully electronic journals. While at the American Society for Cell Biology, she worked to develop a system to peer review and publish multimedia content in the journal Molecular Biology of the Cell. She was pleased to have this journal earn the distinction of becoming the first journal to commit its full content to PubMed Central, and she currently serves on the National Advisory Committee for this initiative. For her work as President and Chief Operating Officer of BioOne, an innovative collaboration between publishers and the library community, Heather was awarded the 2002 ALPSP Award for Service to Not-for-Profit Publishers. She is an active participant in several professional societies, and just ended her term as the President of the Society for Scholarly Publishing. In 2005, Heather was appointed to serve as Executive Director of the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC), an organization that works to support a more open system of scholarly communication.