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Article: Velterop departs BMC to promote OA.(Jan Velterop )(BioMed Central )(open access )(Brief Article)
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- Information World Review
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- May 7, 2005
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Byline: Mark Chillingworth.
Open Access champion Jan Velterop is leaving his role as a director and publisher at BioMed Central (BMC) to return to his roots as an independent consultant and advocate for open access publishing.
Velterop, who spent four years with BMC, told IWR that he wants greater independence because he was frustrated by the slow pace of open access (OA) adoption.
"The whole issue of open access is going too slowly, there are really only two publishers (BMC and PLoS) involved," he said. Velterop plans to target commercial and society publishers as well as funding bodies. "I think I have some good arguments for adopting open ...