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Velterop springs surprise. Springer creates new position as Open Access advocate joins major journal publisher to help promote potential benefits of Open Choice, writes Mark Chillingworth.
Open access champion Jan Velterop is joining Springer, the world's second largest journal publisher, in a move that has surprised the Open Access (OA) community. Velterop announced in May that he was leaving scientific publisher BioMed Central to become an "independent" OA advocate.
Springer has created a new position of director of Open Access for Velterop, who will be responsible for Springer Open Choice, Springer's OA initiative. He said: "The time is right now to step up Springer Open Choice and to flesh it out as an offering."
Velterop will focus on promoting OA publishing within Springer and to authors. "Internally I will be making people realise the implications of Choice and externally promoting OA as a feasible option," he said.
The Open Access list-servs were surprised by the move, but Velterop says that being part of a major publisher will deliver more promise to the OA movement. "I did not ...
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