Sam Brooks
Executive Vice President, Sales & Marketing
Email: sbrooks@ebsco.com
About Sam Brooks
Sam Brooks is the Executive Vice President of Sales & Marketing, and is in charge of all worldwide sales
and marketing efforts of EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO). He is responsible for market research and
is heavily involved in product development. Sam is one of the leading content experts in the company
and the chief architect of EBSCO’s seventeen advisory boards and numerous focus groups.
Sam has worked with institutions in every corner of the globe, having visited universities in nearly 100
countries, and worked extensively with ministries of education, ministries of science & technology, and
ministries of culture in developing nations. He has been instrumental in EBSCO’s ability to secure more
than fifty national licenses.
In addition, Sam 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 (Hungary),
KLC Journal (Kazakhstan), EBIB (Poland), Librarianship (Russia), Journal of Educational Media & Library
Sciences (Taiwan), and many others. Sam has also co-edited a 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, International Congress of Information (Cuba), LITA
Technology & Access Committee Meeting, NLA Tri-Round Table, and many others. Sam Brooks joined
EBSCO in July 1991 and is a member of the EBSCO Founder’s Club.
Articles
"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 the 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.
"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.
"Journal Access Models & Journal Comparison Services" -- white paper.
Interviews
"Interview with Sam Brooks, Senior VP to Sales and Marketing with EBSCO Publishing, About H.W.
Wilson", Charleston Advisor, July 2011
"ATG Interviews Sam Brooks, EBSCO Publishing", Against the Grain, July 2011
"An interview with Sam Brooks, Senior Vice-President of Sales and Marketing, EBSCO Publishing",
Journal of Business & Finance Librarianship, 2004
"Serial Conversations: An interview with Sam Brooks", Serials Review (an imprint of Elsevier Science),
2002