Toby Green

Toby Green is a scholarly publisher who has worked with Academic Press, Applied Science Publishers, Pergamon Press, Elsevier Science, and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). He attended the University of Warwick in Coventry, receiving a BSc in Microbiology and Virology in 1980. Since 1982,

Green joined OECD Publishing in France in 1998 and Head of Publishing. As of January 2001, Green launched SourceOECD, the first digital initiative to distribute books, journals and statistical databases through a commonly searchable subscription service that grouped publications into thematic clusters. In 2004, Green premiered OECD's StatLink service, connecting text publications and underlying data. In 2007, OECD made all of its books free to read in a basic form under a freemium business model, with additional premium services and print copies available for a fee. In 2010, Green launched the OECD iLibrary, a redesign of SourceOECD. In 2011, Green introduced the OECD Better Life Index, which received an Award for Innovation in Publishing from the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP). As of 2018 Green served on the publishing board of the Royal Society of Chemistry. He serves on the board of Annual Reviews.

As of 2020, Green was the Managing Director of Coherent Digital, which he co-founded in 2019 with Stephen Rhind-Tutt. In June 2022, Content Digital reached an agreement with the Center for Research Libraries (CRL) under which many CRL affiliated institutions became founding institutional members of Policy Commons and received discounts or complimentary access In June 2023, Coherent Digital acquired Accessible Archives Inc., adding its digital collections in American social, economic, and political history to its History Commons. In 2023 Coherent Digital was named one of Outsell’s ‘Top 50 Emerging Companies’ in 2023.

Green has been a speaker at the Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP), Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP), Open Access Scholarly Publishing Association {OASPA), Fiesole Collection Development Retreat, Frankfurt Book Fair, London Book Fair, and the Researcher to Reader (R2R) conference. He discusses topics such as open source, grey literature and the impact of digitization on research and publishing. He helped to develop the guidelines for the production of scientific and technical reports of the Grey Literature International Steering Committee.

Awards and honors 2005, StatLink was "Highly Commended" for Innovation in Publishing by the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP). 2011, OECD Better Life Index received an Award for Innovation in Publishing from the ALPSP. 2021, Coherent Digital's Mindscape Commons, a collection of Virtual Reality (VR) videos for use in mental health education, was a co-recipient of the Award for Innovation in Publishing from ALPSP. 2023, Coherent Digital was named one of Outsell’s ‘Top 50 Emerging Companies’.

Selected publications