Comings and Goings at Elsevier Psychology

Lynne Cooper

Dan MorganI am both happy and sad to report that Dan Morgan, who served as our primary point person at Elsevier for the past 8 years, is moving on to a new position in the organization. Formerly Executive Publisher of Psychology and Cognitive Science at Elsevier, Dan has been promoted to Senior Manager of Universal Access where he will be responsible for developing policies and initiatives aimed at expanding open access. While we congratulate Dan on this well-deserved promotion and understand that it represents a tremendous opportunity for him, we are sorry to see him go.

Dan has been extremely supportive of JRP during his tenure as Executive Publisher, overseeing a substantial increase in resources devoted to the journal including a doubling of the editorial board from three Associate Editors under my watch as Editor-in-Chief to the current six under Rich’s editorship!  He has encouraged and supported innovations at the journal, like the recent re-structuring of the editorial team and adoption of the streamlined review policy in 2004. Always maintaining the highest level of professionalism, Dan has nevertheless become a personal friend to many of us. He will be missed.

Dr. Irene Kanter-Schlifke has been appointed to take over Dan’s responsibilities as Executive Publisher, effective March 1, 2013. Irene is currently working as a Publisher for Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences in the Life Sciences department at Elsevier. She holds degrees in biology and neurology from the University of Vienna and Lund University Hospital. According to Dan, she is very interested in psychology and cognitive science and is a delightful person. We look forward to meeting and working with her.