User:Jan Velterop

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Velterop Johannes (Jan) Josephus Marinus Velterop (born March 18, 1949) is a science publisher. Born in The Hague, Netherlands, he was originally a marine geologist and became a science publisher in the mid-1970s. He started his publishing career at Elsevier in Amsterdam. After a few years out of the scientific field as the director of the Dutch regional newspaper De Twentsche Courant, he returned to international science publishing at Academic Press in London. After Academic Press, he joined Nature as director for a short while, but moved quickly on to help get BioMed Central, the first commercial open access science publisher, off the ground. Velterop was one of the small group of people who first defined 'open access' in 2001 in Budapest, a meeting resulting in the Budapest Open Access Initiative. In 2005 he joined Springer Science+Business Media in the UK as Director of Open Access. Springer is the first mainstream STM (Science, Technology, Medicine) publisher to offer open access as an option for virtually all its scientific and scholarly journals. At the end of March, 2008, he left Springer [1] to join Knewco, a company that uses semantic technology to accelerate scientific discovery. Since January 2009 he is involved in the Concept Web Alliance as one of the initiators. He is currently CEO of the recent start-up Academic Concept Knowledge Limited (AQnowledge), residing in Guildford, UK. As such he is a partner in the Innovative Medicines Initiative project known as OpenPHACTS. He is an active advocate of the use of microattribution (the hallmark of so-called 'nanopublications').