Together with Deanna Marcum, former SCI director Richard E. Lucier founded the Scholarly Communication Institute in 2003.

Current leadership for SCI is outlined here.

The following people made important contributions to the Scholarly Communication Institute as members of the steering committee in the period from 2003 to 2008:

Srinivas Aravamudan
Director, John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute, Duke University
President, CHCI International Advisory Board

Bernard Frischer
Director, Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities

Charles J. Henry
President, Council on Library and Information Resources

James Hilton
Vice President and Chief Information Officer, University of Virginia

Richard E. Lucier
Director, Scholarly Communication Institute

Deanna Marcum
Associate Librarian for Library Services, Library of Congress

Kelly Miller
Research Associate, Scholarly Communication Institute

Bethany Nowviskie
Director, Digital Research and Scholarship, UVa Library; Program Associate, SCI
(Nowviskie is now SCI Associate Director.)

Abby Smith
Senior Advisor, Scholarly Communication Institute
(Abby Smith is now SCI Director.)

Diane Parr Walker
Deputy University Librarian, University of Virginia Library

Steve Wheatley
Vice President, American Council of Learned Societies

Kate Wittenberg
Director, The Electronic Publishing Initiative at Columbia (EPIC) Columbia University

Karin Wittenborg
University Librarian, University of Virginia Library
Convener and Co-Principal Investigator, Scholarly Communication Institute