Johannes (Jan) Josephus Marinus Velterop (born 18 March 1949) is a science publisher.
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Education
Born in The Hague
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, he was originally a marine geophysicist and became a science publisher in the mid-1970s.
Career
Velterop started his publishing career at Elsevier
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in Amsterdam
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. 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
Academic Press (AP) is an academic book publisher founded in 1941. It was acquired by Harcourt, Brace & World in 1969. Reed Elsevier bought Harcourt in 2000, and Academic Press is now an imprint of Elsevier.
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in London
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. He next joined Nature
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as director for a short while, but moved quickly on to help get BioMed Central
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, 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
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, a meeting resulting in the Budapest Open Access Initiative
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In 2005 he joined Springer Science+Business Media
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in the United Kingdom
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as Director of Open Access.
At the end of March 2008 he left Springer to help further develop semantic approaches to accelerate scientific discovery. Since January 2009 he is involved in the Concept Web Alliance as one of the initiators. He lives in Guildford, UK. He is an active advocate of open access and of the use of microattribution (the hallmark of so-called "nanopublications").Knowledge Unlatched
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and ScienceOpen
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.
References
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1949 births
Living people
Dutch publishers (people)
Businesspeople from The Hague