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<font size=3>[Forwarding from the Open Access Scholarly Publishers
Association (OASPA). --Peter Suber.]<br><br>
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On behalf of OASPA I would like to share the announcement below:<br><br>
PRESS RELEASE<br>
OASPA ANNOUNCES NEW BOARD<br><br>
18 September 2009, The Hague: The Open Access Scholarly Publishers
Association (OASPA) announced the results of its first election at the
1st Conference on Open Access Scholarly Publishing last week. <br><br>
Board members and officers include: Caroline Sutton, Co-Action Publishing
(President); Saskia Franken, Utrecht University Library/Igitur
(Secretary); David Prosser, SPARC Europe (Treasurer), Bo-Christer Bjork,
Electronic Journal of Information Technology in Construction; Matt
Cockerill, BioMed=A0 Central; Gunther Eysenbach, Journal of Medical
Internet Research (JMIR); Mark Patterson, PLoS; Paul Peters, Hindawi
Publishing Corporation; David Solomon, Medical Education Online (MEO).
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Over the coming months OASPA will be establishing sub-groups to address
the situation of different publisher groups and regions, as well as
sub-committees to move forward on specific issues together with the
broader scholarly communications community.<br><br>
Caroline Sutton, PhD<br>
Publisher<br>
Co-Action Publishing<br><br>
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