Michael J. Jensen

Michael J. Jensen has been at the interface between digital technologies and academic publishing since the late 1980s. In 2007 he was appointed director of strategic web communications for the Office of Communications of the National Academies Press, where he had previously served for eight years in leadership roles in publishing  technologies.

The pioneering NAP website (www.nap.edu) makes more than 4,000 books (more than 750,000 pages) from the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, the Institute of Medicine, and the National Research Council available for free in fully browsable and searchable form. The site receives more than 1.5 million visitors per month, and boasts of some of the most advanced search and discovery tools available on any publisher's site, most of which were initially developed by Jensen.