The OASPA board will be officially elected and constituted in Prague next week in conjunction with the Conference on Open Access Scholarly Publishing and the OASPA General Meeting.
In conjunction with the new board term one of the key founders of OASPA will be stepping down from the board – David Solomon, Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Medical Education Online (MEO). After having self-published MEO since the mid 1990s, David and his team decided last year to turn publication of the journal over to a publishing house. As he will no longer be acting in a publisher role, David has chosen to step down from the board and to contribute to the organization as an Associate Member.
David plans to continue working actively with open access publishing, particularly through the international workshops he holds on creating, launching and managing Open Access journals (information available here: www.openaccesspublishing.org).
David has been a driving force within OASPA. He was heavily involved in drafting the OASPA by-laws, developing our website and updating its content, and in automating many of our administrative tasks. Even this blog is the result of his work. In addition to his active contributions to general board work, he worked on the organizing committee for the 2009 COASP and spoke at the same.
I personally, and on behalf of the OASPA board, thank David for his tremendous contributions to helping establish the organization.
David, you will be missed!
On behalf of the OASPA board,
Caroline Sutton
President, OASPA