. FRANCES PINTER CV

Select Article Eastern Adventure Foundations in Europe Global Civil Society

2024 to date Director of Academic Relations, CENTRAL EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY PRESS and AMSTERDAM UNIVERSITY PRESS

2022 to date Visiting Senior Fellow, LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS

2019 to date Senior Research Fellow, SCHOOL OF ADVANCED STUDY, University of London

2020-2024 Executive Chair, CENTRAL EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY PRESS

2018-2019 Research Associate, LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS

2016-2020 Founder and Director, KU RESEARCH (now COARD)

2013-2016 CEO, MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY PRESS

2012-2016 Founder and Director, KNOWLEDGE UNLATCHED

2011-2012 Publisher, CHURCHILL ARCHIVE ONLINE

2008-2011 Founding Publisher, BLOOMSBURY ACADEMIC

2006-2012  LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS – Visiting Fellow, Centre for Global Governance

2002-2006 INTERNATIONAL HOUSE TRUST – Chief Executive Officer                         
A world leader in language education.

2002-2002 EIFL.net (Electronic Information for Libraries) – Interim CEO
World’s largest library consortium dedicated to the delivery of e-content to 50 countries.

2000-2001 LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS – Visiting Fellow, Centre for Civil Society

1994-2000 SOROS FOUNDATION Open Society Institute (now Open Society Foundations) – Director, International Publishing
Facilitated the development of the independent publishing sector in 30 post-communist countries. Conceived, initiated and project managed dozens of programmes including numerous e-publishing and consortium building projects. Founded the CEU Press and Centre for Publishing Development       

1973-1994 PINTER PUBLISHERS – Founder and Managing Director
Established Pinter Publishers Ltd. at the age of 23. Became a leading mid-sized Social Science publishing house including imprints Belhaven Press and Leicester University Press.

1976-1979 OXFORD UNIVERSITY, Centre for Criminological Research – Research Officer

University College London PhD in International Relations

London School of Economics Junior Year Abroad, General Course Student

New York University BA with Honours in Political Science
           
Also numerous short courses (at MBA level) in management, finance and accounting

UK and US Citizen – Languages: German, Hungarian, Intermediate French

Selected Achievements

2010 - present: For over ten years I’ve been considered to be a global thought leader in generating new ideas and business models for open access and books. This involves advocacy work around the world. I also act as an advisor to a number of small university presses.

2020: Edited and promoted the very unusual Holocaust memoir of Agi Jambor Escaping Extermination: Hungarian Prodigy to American Musician, Feminist, and Activist published by Purdue University Press.

2012-2016: Established Knowledge Unlatched CIC promoting sustainable Open Access for scholarly publications knowledgeunlatched.org.

2008-2011: Established Bloomsbury Academic, and promoted new business models for the digital era.

International House Trust (2002-2006) Put into place a new management structure and worked with the trustees to re-organise the governance structure. Merged four trusts into one. Purchased a new building for the London School and secured an £18 million loan.

EIFL [Electronic Information for Libraries] (2002) Conceived a new business model while at OSI whereby transition and developing countries purchased access to e-journals through consortia on a country-wide site license basis at substantially reduced prices.  Launched EIFL in 1999 as an Open Society Institute project that initially brought access to 3500 e-journals (now over 30,000) in over 2000 libraries in 40 countries. The US Library Journal called it ‘one of the most exciting initiatives in the library world’. In 2002, as acting CEO transformed EIFL into an independent foundation registered in the Netherlands with headquarters in Rome. (see eifl.net)

London School of Economics (2000-2001) Contributor and Editorial Board member of Global Civil Society: A Yearbook published by OUP. Wrote and published peer-reviewed aticles in this field.

Soros Foundation/Open Society Institute (1994-2000) Became a major force in facilitating the development of the new independent publishing sectors in 30 post communist countries. As a member of the Soros senior management team represented the organisation at ministerial levels and at meetings with international organisations.  Areas of activity included:

• Set up the Centre for Publishing Development in Budapest serving the post-communist region where activities included establishing trade bodies, providing advisors on publishing legislation & copyright, establishing new publishing and bookselling training centres – creating loan programmes for publishers and trained participating banks. Enabled new ISBN agencies to be created in the new CIS countries and promoted the establishment of Books in Print facilities in numerous countries.
• Founded the Translation Project, which through competitive tendering created partnerships with hundreds of publishers producing thousands of titles.
  
• Established an Electronic Publishing Development Programme in 1996 that worked closely with the European Commission and ultimately unlocked over $100 million to the benefit of joint East-West projects.
• Founded Krugesvet.ru, the leading online encyclopaedia in the Russian language.
• Set up a new library supply company selling to 5500 libraries across Russia and the CIS.
• Established an online database with comprehensive comparative information on publishing laws from 30 transition countries.
• Organised a multi-donor project for the reprinting of three million textbooks for schools just after the war in Kosovo.

Pinter Publishers (1973-1994) Founded academic publishing company at the age of 23 with only £1000 of capital. Subsequently developed the company to become an acknowledged leader in the social sciences, taking risks with new ideas and new approaches in a number of disciplines. By the early eighties established a list in the area of the social and economic impact of new technology.

In 1986 launched Belhaven Press – an imprint devoted entirely to environmental studies, and in 1987 bought Leicester University Press.

Served on numerous book trade bodies, including as Council member of the Publishers Association, Chair of the IPG, and has written and presented extensively on Open Access issues.

Selected Awards

Honorary Doctorate, Curtin University, Perth, Australia, 2015 – for contribution to opening up access to knowledge.

University Press Redux Award, 2018 – for contributions to the academic publishing industry.

IFLA, 2014 award for Knowledge Unlatched, a new initiative to open up access to knowledge.

Selected Publications

Wise, A. and Pinter, F., 2020. Will the coronavirus slow open access–and is the answer different for books and journals? Insights, 33(1). pp.28.

Pinter, F (ed) 2020, Escaping Extermination: Hungarian Prodigy to American Musician, Feminist, and Activist by Agi Jambor, Purdue University Press

Neylon, C., Montgomery, L., Ozaygen, A., Saunders, N. and Pinter, F., 2018. The visibility of Open Access monographs in a European context: Full Report, Curtin University of Technology, Humanities Research and Graduate Studies.

Pinter, F., 2018. Why Book Processing Charges (BPCs) Vary So Much. Journal of Electronic Publishing, 21(1).

Montgomery, L., Ozaygen, A., Pinter, F. and Saunders, N., 2017. Exploring the Uses of Open Access Books via the JSTOR Platform. Curtin University of Technology, Humanities Research and Graduate Studies.

Ferwerda, E., Pinter, F. and Stern, N., 2017. A landscape study on open access and monographs: Policies, funding and publishing in eight European countries. In Septentrio Conference Series (No. 1).

Pinter, F., 2016. The academic ‘book’of the future and its function. In The Academic Book of the Future (pp. 39-45). Palgrave Macmillan, London.

Pinter, F. and Magoulias, M., 2015. The small academic press in the land of giants. Insights, 28(3). pp.56-61.

Pinter, F., 2015. Eastern adventure. In The Cottage by the Highway and Other Essays on Publishing: 25 Years of Logos (pp. 100-110). Brill.

Pinter, F. and Montgomery, L., 2013. Knowledge Unlatched: Toward an open and networked future for academic publishing. Proceedings of the Charleston Library Conference.

Pinter, F. and Bown, N., 2012. Knowledge Unlatched: an argument for academic scholarship in law to be open and how it might be achieved. Legal Information Management, 12, pp.185-189.

Pinter, F., 2012. Open access for scholarly books? Publishing research quarterly, 28(3), pp.183-191.

Pinter, F., Thatcher, S.G. and Kubilius, R.K., 2012. Efficient and Effective Funding of Open Access' Books'. Proceedings of the Charleston Library Conference.

Pinter, F., 2012. Development of book business models and publishing finances. In Academic and Professional Publishing (pp.171-195). Chandos Publishers.

Look, H. and Pinter, F., 2010. Open access and humanities and social science monograph publishing. New Review of Academic Librarianship, 16(S1), pp.90-97.

Pinter, F., 2010. Library Coalitions and Ice Cream: Which Way for Monographs? Logos, 21(3-4), pp.185-189.

Pinter, F., 2008. A radically new model for scholarly communications. Logos, 19(4), pp.203-206.

Pinter, F., 2007. Publishing entrepreneurs: The passionate pursuit of academic publishing. Logos, 18(3), pp.138-142.

Pinter, F., 2001. The role of foundations in the transformation process in Central and Eastern Europe. Foundations in Europe: Society, Management and Law. London: Directory of Social Change. Bertelsmann

Pinter, F., 2001. Chapter 8 Funding global civil society organisations. In Global Civil Society, 2001 (pp.205). Oxford University Press.

Pinter, F., 1990. The independent publisher. Logos, 1(2), pp.34-37.

Maguire, M., Pinter, F. and Collis, C., 1984. Dangerousness and the tariff: The decision-making process in release from life sentences. The British Journal of Criminology, 24(3), pp.250-268.