Sam Brooks
Executive Vice President – Marketing, Sales, Publisher Relations & Strategic Partnerships
Sam Brooks is Executive Vice President in charge of all worldwide marketing, market research, sales, publisher relations and strategic partnerships at EBSCO Information Services. He is heavily involved in product development and is one of the leading content experts in the company. Sam is a member of the steering committees for all major content and technology initiatives for the company, and is also the chief architect of EBSCO’s twenty-one advisory boards and numerous focus groups.
Mr. Brooks has visited universities in more than 90 countries and has worked extensively with ministries of education, science and technology, and culture in developing nations to expand access to information.
Sam is a member of the Board of Directors of the Open Library Foundation. The Open Library Foundation assists and facilitates educational organizations, foundations, partnerships and commercial entities in collaborating to foster, develop and sustain open technologies and innovation to support libraries, learning, research and teaching.
Mr. Brooks has authored papers in major international library science journals, e.g., Serials Review (Elsevier Science), The Library Quarterly (University of Chicago Press), portal: Libraries and the Academy (Johns Hopkins University Press), Information Technology & Libraries (LITA), Journal of Academic Librarianship (Elsevier Science), etc. He has also been published in the library publications of more than a dozen countries, including Hungarian Journal of Library & Information Science, KLC Journal (Kazakhstan), EBIB (Poland), Librarianship (Russia), Journal of Educational Media & Library Sciences (Taiwan), etc. Mr. Brooks co-edited the book “Library/Vendor Relationships” (Taylor & Francis), published simultaneously as an issue of the Journal of Library Administration.
Sam has participated in panel discussions or appeared as the keynote speaker at many library conferences, including ACRL Chapter Meetings, IFLA, The Charleston Conference, ALCTS Networked Resources & Metadata Committee Meeting, Computers in Libraries, International Congress of Information (Cuba), LITA Technology & Access Committee Meeting, NLA Tri-Round Table, and many others.
Mr. Brooks joined EBSCO in July 1991 and is a member of the EBSCO Founder’s Club.
Orcid ID: orcid.org/0000-0001-9540-0426
Video Discussions Featuring Sam Brooks
Interviews with Sam Brooks
Research & Innovation Interview with Sam Brooks, Computers in Libraries Speaker Spotlight, March 2016
An Interview with Sam Brooks, Executive Vice President, EBSCO Information Services, The Charleston Advisor, Volume 17, Issue 2 October 2015 pages 54-57
A Discussion on Discovery with Marshall Breeding and Sam Brooks, Independent Library Technology Video, January 2015
Interview with Sam Brooks, Senior VP to Sales and Marketing with EBSCO, About H.W. Wilson, Charleston Advisor, July 2011
ATG Interviews Sam Brooks, EBSCO, Against the Grain, July 2011
Interview with Sam Brooks, Senior VP for Sales and Marketing, EBSCO Publishing, about NetLibrary, Charleston Advisor, April 2011
An Interview with Sam Brooks and Michael Gorrell on the EBSCOhost Integrated Search and EBSCO Discovery Service, Charleston Advisor, January 2010
An interview with Sam Brooks, Senior Vice-President of Sales and Marketing, EBSCO, Journal of Business & Finance Librarianship, 2004
Serial Conversations: An interview with Sam Brooks, Serials Review (an imprint of Elsevier Science), 2002
Articles Authored By Sam Brooks
Increasing Value and Usage of Information Resources Through Discovery, Panlibus, issue 26 Winter 2012 page 18
Journal Access Models & Journal Comparison Services, white paper, June 2010
Index Blending: Enabling the Development of Definitive, Discipline-Specific Resources, Information Technology & Libraries, volume 26, issue 2 June 2007 pages 27-34
Evaluating Evaluations, netconnect (Supplement to Library Journal), Winter 2006 page 28
Developing Nations, the Digital Divide and Research Databases, Serials Review, volume 31, issue 4 2005 pages 270-278. Copyright 2005 Elsevier Inc.
Academic Journal Embargoes and Full Text Databases, The Library Quarterly (published by The University of Chicago Press), volume 73, number 3 July 2003 pages 243-260
Academic Journals and Full Text Databases, Hungarian Journal of Library and Information Science, volume 49 September 2002 pages 364-67
Issues Facing Academic Library Consortia and Perceptions of Members of the Illinois Digital Academic Library, Johns Hopkins University Press, Volume 2, Number 1, January 2002
Integration of Information Resources and Collection Development Strategy, Reprinted from The Journal of Academic Librarianship (published by Pergamon Press, an imprint of Elsevier Science), volume 27, number 4 July 2001 pages 316-319