About

BioOne serves more than 150 nonprofit publishers, 5,500 libraries, and millions of researchers, educators, and students around the world.

OurMission

BioOne sees sustainable scholarly publishing as an inherently collaborative enterprise connecting authors, nonprofit publishers, academic institutions, research libraries, and research funders in the common goal of maximizing access to critical research.

BioOne explores economic models and strategic partnerships that balance the needs of all stakeholders, and currently demonstrates this balance by offering financially sustainable information services in the biological sciences. BioOne supports best practices that increase operational effectiveness and technological standards that integrate its content with a global network of scholarly exchange.

We believe in a more collaborative, equitable, and sustainable scholarly ecosystem.

OurValues

Collaboration

We believe in the power of partnerships. Together with researchers, libraries, publishers, and communities, our work fosters a supportive environment that drives innovative solutions and advances scholarly communication for the benefit of all.

Equity

We are committed to ensuring access to opportunities within the scholarly publishing community. Our work supports independent and niche publishers who may not have the same resources or visibility as larger organizations, and provides affordable, high-quality resources to libraries and researchers, ensuring that knowledge remains accessible to all. As a proud participant in Research4Life, BioOne makes BioOne Complete available at no cost to more than 2,500 institutions in the developing world, extending access to critical research for students and researchers worldwide.

Sustainability

We are committed to ensuring access to opportunities within the scholarly publishing community. Our work supports independent and niche publishers who may not have the same resources or visibility as larger organizations, and provides affordable, high-quality resources to libraries and researchers, ensuring that knowledge remains accessible to all. As a proud participant in Research4Life, BioOne makes BioOne Complete available at no cost to more than 2,500 institutions in the developing world, extending access to critical research for students and researchers worldwide.

OurStory

In 1999, a group of librarians and publishers met to discuss a growing concern in the scholarly community: online publishing in the sciences was becoming dominated by commercial interests. This shift presented a challenge both for librarians and for small to midsize society publishers. Without a viable alternative librarians faced difficult decisions amid increasing costs for content, and societies who wanted to remain independent risked being excluded from online publishing.

Later that year BioOne was incorporated as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation, founded by a partnership of stakeholders and supported by members of the scholarly publishing community. Next we developed BioOne Complete, our flagship product, and its supporting business model to answer the challenges our founders had identified.

Launched in 2001, the BioOne Complete aggregation provides libraries with a cost-effective collection of curated titles and publishers with a dynamic community-based platform for distribution of their journals – benefitting researchers around the world. In addition, our novel business model reinvests precious library funds with nonprofit publishers, allowing them to remain independent.

In 2026, BioOne joined Johns Hopkins University Press as a new division, pairing our community-based model with JHUP’s institutional strength — ensuring BioOne Complete continues serving libraries, societies, and researchers for years to come.

OurTeam

Effective September 1 2026, BioOne staff operates as a discrete unit within Johns Hopkins University Press. BioOne CEO Lauren Kane will remain with BioOne through its dissolution on January 31, 2027, providing oversight of the transition and integration. Our team remains committed to serving the BioOne community and advancing sustainable scholarly publishing.

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Lauren Kane

President/CEO
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Lauren Kane has served as BioOne’s President/CEO since 2022, leading an ambitious strategic agenda centered on expanding Open Access, new partnerships, and long-term financial sustainability.

With more than two decades of experience in scholarly communications, Lauren is a frequent community speaker and advocate for nonprofit collaborations and collective impact models. She is a former President of the Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP) and current Board member for the STM Association. Lauren holds a BA from Georgetown University and an MBA from the University of New Hampshire.

In May 2026, BioOne and Johns Hopkins University Press announced their intention to merge, effective September 1, 2026. This landmark deal will unite the complementary strengths of these two nonprofits for the benefit of their individual and shared communities. Kane, who architected the merger for BioOne, will remain in place to oversee integration through January 2027.

Lauren Kane
President/CEO
BioOne Staff at Johns Hopkins University Press

Christine Orr

Director
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Christine Orr serves as the Director of BioOne, supporting organizational transformation by guiding the integration of BioOne within Hopkins Press, and advancing the mission of sustainably maximizing access to research via this merger. Joining BioOne in 2019, her portfolio encompasses responsibility for revenue targets, corporate communications, product diversification, and the advancement of open access pathways via BioOne’s Subscribe to Open pilot program.

With more than three decades of experience working across mission-driven and for-profit organizations, Christine is an active member of the professional community and a frequent speaker and industry events. She serves on the Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP) Annual Meeting Program Committee, supports early career professionals via the SSP Mentorship program, and is a member of the Subscribe to Open Community of Practice Communications Committee.

Christine holds a BA from the University of Wisconsin – Madison and an MLS from Long Island University. She has also earned an Executive Scholar Certificate in Nonprofit Management from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management.

Christine Orr
Director

Beth Hutchins

Director of Operations and Technology
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Beth joined BioOne in the summer of 2020 as the Director of Product Management, and now serves as BioOne’s Director of Operations and Technology. With more than 18 years of experience in the scholarly communications community, she has worked closely with technology platforms, global societies and the library community. Her previous positions include work with Springer as the Director of Development for the SpringerLink platform; Partner and Business Development at IOP Publishing; and Program Management at GVPi/Sage. Beth holds a Bachelors of Science degree from Texas A&M University.

Beth Hutchins​
Director of Operations and Technology

Chelsea Tharp

Associate Director of Sales
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Chelsea Tharp has represented BioOne in various marketing and sales roles since 2014 through one of BioOne’s partners. As of 2020, Chelsea has officially joined BioOne as the North American Sales Manager for our flagship product, BioOne Complete. In this role she maintains relationships with our 600+ subscribing institutions in the region and works to grow our subscriber base across the US and Canada. Chelsea earned a Bachelor of Business Administration degree from the University of Massachusetts Amherst’s Isenberg School of Management, graduating summa cum laude.
Chelsea Tharp
Associate Director of Sales

Meredith Pond

Associate Director, Publishing

Meredith joined BioOne in 2023. She brings 18 years of experience in academic publishing with a focus on society partnerships, editorial development, and open access. At BioOne, she oversees initiatives such as the Subscribe to Open pilot, Ambassador Awards program, and Publisher Advisory Group, while also contributing to strategy and services designed to support independent society publishers.

Beyond her role at BioOne, Meredith supports the scholarly publishing community through her volunteer work with the Society for Scholarly Publishing and participates in cross-industry conversations on equitable open access, society publishing, and platform futures.

She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Literature from UCSB, and lives in Southern California.

Meredith Pond
Associate Director, Publishing

Amanda Rogers

Communications and Engagement Manager
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Amanda joined BioOne in the summer of 2021 as the organization’s Marketing Communications Associate, bringing many years of experience in nonprofit marketing and visual communication. Prior to joining BioOne, Amanda was Media Associate for the environmental nonprofit, Mohonk Preserve. She also taught Communication courses at the State University of New York at New Paltz. Amanda holds a Bachelor of Science in Speech Communication, focusing in Organizational Communication from SUNY New Paltz and a Master of Arts in Communication from the University of Memphis, focusing in Rhetorical Studies.

Amanda Rogers
Communications and Engagement Manager

Maggie Grasseschi

Publishing Technology Associate

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Maggie joined BioOne in the spring of 2022, as the Publishing Technology Associate. Prior to that, she worked as a Proceedings Coordinator and then Production Coordinator for BioOne’s partner, SPIE – the international society for optics and photonics. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in English, with a focus on Creative Writing, from Western Washington University.
Maggie Grasseschi
Publishing Technology Associate​

Cheryl Greer

Library Services Associate
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Cheryl joined BioOne in summer 2022, as the Library Services Associate.  Cheryl’s past work includes roles as the former Electronic Resources Coordinator for the PALCI consortium, and more recently, Digital Communications Associate at the Center for Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh. Cheryl holds a Bachelor of Arts in Studio Art and a Master of Library Science, both from the University of Pittsburgh.  She is also an active volunteer and webmaster at the American Branch of the Richard III Society.

Cheryl Greer
Library Services Associate​

OurBoard of Directors

BioOne’s Board of Directors is comprised of librarians, university administrators, society leaders, publishing professionals, and foresighted individuals committed to improving access to scientific research. The Board of Directors supports BioOne staff’s strategic activities and monitors the direction and impact of the organization.

Alan Savitzky, Chair

Utah State University

Alan Savitzky

Alan H. Savitzky is Professor and Head of the Department of Biology at Utah State University. Prior to his current position, he served briefly as a Lecturer at Cornell University before joining the faculty of Old Dominion University, where he served for 29 years. Dr. Savitzky completed his undergraduate training at the University of Colorado and his graduate degrees at the University of Kansas, receiving a Smithsonian Predoctoral Fellowship to conduct his dissertation research at the National Museum of Natural History. Dr. Savitzky has served on several society boards, including three terms on the Board of the American Institute of Biological Sciences, and has served as President of the Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles (SSAR) and the American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists (ASIH). He is presently in his second term as Treasurer of the World Congress of Herpetology. Dr. Savitzky also served as a rotating program director in the Division of Biological Infrastructure at the National Science Foundation. Dr. Savitzky’s research concerns the integrative biology of amphibians and reptiles, especially snakes. His specific interests include the evolutionary morphology of feeding and defensive structures, evolutionary development of sensory organs and glands, and most recently the evolution of chemical defenses in snakes. Dr. Savitzky’s recent work has been focused on Asian snakes that sequester toxins from toads consumed as prey and later deploy those toxins for their own defense. That work has involved extensive collaborations with biologists and chemists in the U.S. and Japan. Dr. Savitzky also has been involved in various conservation issues and directed a 19-year ecological study of a state-endangered rattlesnake in Virginia before moving to Utah in 2011. Dr. Savitzky has advised 18 graduate students and three postdoctoral researchers, and he has taught courses in comparative vertebrate anatomy, herpetology, and conservation biology. He is a co-author, with five colleagues, of the textbook Herpetology.

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Catherine Murray-Rust, Vice Chair & Treasurer

Georgia Tech (retired)

Catherine Murray-Rust, Treasurer

Catherine Murray-Rust became Vice Provost for Learning Excellence at Georgia Tech in January 2012. She also serves as Dean of Libraries, a post she has held since August 2008. In addition to her administrative responsibility for several academic programs, 160 faculty and staff, almost 500 square feet of central campus space, and a library budget of about 14 million, she is teaching again this term in the Honors College and serving as the faculty advisor to the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society’s Team in Training. She is looking forward to getting to know students better as a group leader in the Oxford Study Abroad program in 2012. She previously served as the Dean of Libraries at Colorado State University, and Associate University Librarian at Oregon State University. She worked at Cornell University Libraries for more than 20 years in a variety of positions, including reference librarian, training and implementation librarian in the Systems Office, and Associate University Librarian. Her final position at Cornell was Director of Campus Delivery for the university’s project to reengineer business systems and install new software. From 1973 to 1977, she worked for Reuters News Agency and Oxfam/VOCAD in London. Murray-Rust’s educational background includes a charter in Librarianship from the Library Association of Great Britain (1976), a graduate degree in Library and Information Studies from the University of London (1974) and a bachelor’s degree in political science and history from Mount Holyoke College. She also completed graduate studies in international nutrition at Cornell University (1979), graduate coursework and independent study in African politics and international relations at the University of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania (1971-72) and participated in an internship with the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (1969). She currently serves as Georgia Tech’s representative to the Association of Research Libraries, is a board member of the Association of Southeastern Research Libraries and Georgia’s Galileo and RACL executive committees. She is treasurer of BioOne, a non-profit publishing initiative based in Washington DC. She has been a mentor both in the Library Administration and Management Association’s (LAMA) leadership initiative and the Association of Research Libraries diversity program. She was recently appointed to ARL’s Diversity and Leadership Development Committee.

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Joni Blake, Secretary

Greater Western Libraries Alliance (GWLA)

Joni Blake, Secretary

Joni Blake currently serves as the Executive Director of the Greater Western Library Alliance. The Alliance is a prominent partner and dynamic leader in the national and international scholarly arenas of learning and research. Blake received her MA in Library and Information Science from the University of Missouri-Columbia and her PhD Educational Leadership and Higher Education Administration at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. In 2007, Blake joined BioOne’s Board of Directors. She has served on BioOne’s Audit Committee since 2008 and the Effectiveness Committee since 2011. Prior to her time at BioOne, Blake served as Director of Library and Information Services, Director of Institutional Research, and as the Interim Director of Information Technology at Stephens College. In 2004, Blake accepted a position as Stephens College’s Associate Vice President of Academic Affairs before moving to GWLA in 2007. As Executive Director of GWLA, Blake is responsible for leading a consortium of 32 research libraries located across 16 Midwestern and Western states. This consortium is dedicated to scholarly communication, interlibrary loan services, shared electronic resources, cooperative collection development, digital libraries, staff development, and continuing education. Blake has presented papers at the International Coalition of Library Consortia and at the Center for Research Libraries. She has also been active in the organization of successful conferences and workshops related to grants from IMLS, WESTPAS, LYRASIS, and WEST.

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Xochitl Clare

University of Washington

Xochitl Clare

Xochitl Clare is an Afro-Latina American with Central American and Caribbean heritage. With over seven years of experience in climate biology and ocean conservation, her work spans coastal ecosystems on the West Coast (California and Washington) and Central America (Belize). She draws on her background as a performing artist and environmental filmmaker to weave her expertise in eco-physiology and science communication in engaging community stakeholders in climate solutions development. Her inclusive science and storytelling work honors cultural perspectives on environmental challenges while engaging stakeholders in scientific discovery. Growing up with limited access to the sea inspires her to ensure persons worldwide understand how we can protect our blue backyards.

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Raym Crow

SPARC

Raym Crow

Chain Bridge Group Managing Partner Raym Crow has over 25 years’ experience in academic publishing and library information services, specializing in strategic business planning, information service development, and market management. Crow has help publishers – large and small, nonprofit and commercial – plan and implement digital information services, extend the reach and revenue potential of existing products, and open new markets. His educational background includes a B.A. from Whittier College and an M.A. and a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania.

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Taran Grant

University of São Paulo

Taran Grant

Taran Grant is Full Professor at the University of São Paulo (USP) in the Departament of Zoology of the Institute of Biosciences and Associate Curator of Amphibians in the Museum of Zoology. He is Canadian but has lived abroad since 1994 when he moved to Colombia to pursue his undergraduate degree at the Universidad del Valle, in Cali. In 1998, he was awarded a joint fellowship from the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) and Center for Environmental Research and Conservation to pursue graduate studies in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Columbia University. He completed his PhD in 2005 and received a post-doctoral fellowship in computational biology at AMNH. In 2007, he joined the faculty of the Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul in Porto Alegre, Brazil and then moved to USP is 2011. In collaboration with students and colleagues, he studies the evolution of amphibian diversity from a variety of perspectives, from the theory and practice of phylogenetic inference to toad migration, the invasion biology of the American bullfrog in Brazil, and the evolution of chemical defense. Since 2013, he has been Senior Editor/Editor-in-Chief of the South American Journal of Herpetology, published by the Brazilian Society of Herpetology.

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Robbie Hart

Missouri Botanical Garden

Robbie Hart

Robbie Hart is a scientist at the Missouri Botanical Garden, where he directs the William L. Brown Center (WLBC), a team of researchers dedicated to the study of useful plants, understanding the relationships between humans, plants, and their environment, the conservation of plant species, and the preservation of traditional knowledge for the benefit of future generations. His own research is on high-elevation plant ecology, climate change, and ethnobotany. Hart received his undergraduate degree from Swarthmore College, where he was part of the Swarthmore Libraries Internship funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. After earning his BA in linguistics in 2004, he worked in academic and public libraries before beginning graduate studies in biology at University of Missouri in 2008. His Ph.D. was awarded in 2015, and he has worked at the Missouri Botanical Garden as Research Specialist, Assistant Curator, and (since 2020) as William L. Brown Curator of Economic Botany and Director of the WLBC. Hart was among the first group of BioOne Ambassador Award winners in 2018.

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Chris Makowski

Coastal Education and Research Foundation (CERF)

Chris Makowski

Dr. Christopher Makowski is the Senior Vice President and Assistant Director of the Coastal Education and Research Foundation (CERF), the official publisher of the international Journal of Coastal Research (JCR). He also currently serves as President and Senior Advisor to the International Coastal Symposium (ICS), a biennial international conference that has previously been held in Iceland, Portugal, South Africa, Australia, Brazil, South Korea, Poland, Spain, Florida (USA), and the United Kingdom.

Dr. Makowski received B.Sc. (Marine Biology), M.Sc. (Marine Ecosystem Diversity), and Ph.D. (Coastal Geoscience and Remote Sensing of Biogeomorphological Resources) degrees from Florida Atlantic University of Boca Raton, Florida, USA, and has worked for over 25 years in the coastal research community, holding titles of Assistant Director (Coastal Planning & Engineering’s Marine Science and Biological Research Department), Principal Marine Scientist (Collier County, Florida, USA), and Senior Editor (Springer’s Coastal Research Library [CRL] Series and Encyclopedia of Earth Sciences Series [EESS]). Dr. Makowski has also published numerous peer reviewed papers, authored multiple book chapters, and co-edited various encyclopedia volumes.

In addition to these accomplishments, he is professionally recognized by the American Academy of Underwater Sciences (AAUS) and is certified as a Master Scuba Diver Trainer (MSDT) through the Professional Association of Diving Instructors (PADI), having logged over 2,000 underwater dives on six different continents. Other professional registrations, certifications, and accreditations include: Coastal Education and Research Foundation (CERF) Board of Directors (Trustees), BioOne Board of Directors, International Society for Reef Studies (ISRS) Member, Florida Association of Environmental Professionals (FAEP) Chapter Member, American Academy of Underwater Sciences (AAUS) Registered Diving Safety Officer, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Member, National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) Certified Marine Mammal and Protected Species Observer, Professional Association of Diving Instructors (PADI) Open Water Scuba Diver Instructor, PADI Enriched Air Nitrox Specialty Instructor, PADI Emergency First Responder (CPR/FirstAid/AED) Instructor, PADI Specialty Underwater Photographer Instructor, and Divers Alert Network (DAN) Sustaining Member.

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Kathryn McCarthy

CEO Ten12 Consulting, LLC

Kathryn McCarthy

Kathryn (Katy) McCarthy is a results-oriented executive with extensive financial, audit, mergers and acquisitions, operations and board experience. Katy is currently the CEO of Ten12 Consulting, LLC where she collaborates with companies, boards, funds and advisors to strengthen operations, drive growth and increase customer satisfaction. She was previously the Senior Vice President of Corporate Development and Investor Relations as well as the CFO at Optoro, a software company focused on retail returns optimization. She was also the CFO of Reify Health, a software company focused on the clinical trials ecosystem. She was the Chairman and CEO and the CFO of Geeknet, Inc., a publicly traded eCommerce company that was acquired by GameStop. She spent 18 years at GE, where her roles included the Executive Vice President and CFO of GE Healthcare and the VP of the Corporate Audit Staff.

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Eric Nagy

University of Virginia (retired)

Eric Nagy

Eric S. Nagy is on the faculty in the Department of Biology at the University of Virginia, and is Associate Director of Mountain Lake Biological Station (MLBS). He has been at the University of Virginia since 1996. He received his Ph.D. in Population Biology from the University of California, Davis in 1995, and his B.A from Oberlin College in 1985. In addition to the administrative duties of directing a large residential biological field station, Dr. Nagy runs the 25-year-old NSF-funded Research Experiences for Undergraduates Site program, curates museum collections and databases, and directs an artist-in-residence program at MLBS. Dr. Nagy currently serves on the Board of Directors of two other professional societies – the American Institute of Biological Sciences (since 2006), and the Organization of Biological Field Stations (OBFS, since 2000). He was President of OBFS 2004-2006. Dr. Nagy was an active planner of the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) at regional and national levels and has participated in numerous local and national review and advisory boards. Dr. Nagy has been PI of an NSF REU-Sites program at Mountain Lake Biological Station since 1998. Nagy’s research focuses on the ecological, reproductive, and selective dynamics driving the evolution of natural plant hybrid populations.

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Kamran Naim

CERN

Kamran Naim

Dr. Kamran Naim is the Head of Open Science at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), where he leads a diverse portfolio of activities that aim to shape the future of global open science practice. This includes organizational policy development (facilitating the development of CERN’s Open Data and Open Science Policies); chairing the CERN Open Science Forum; and managing the operations of the Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics, SCOAP3 (the world’s disciplinary largest open initiative). Prior to his time at CERN, Kamran worked in academic publishing as well as with international organizations including USAID, the US National Academies, and the World Bank to address issues of global inequity, particularly relating to scientific information. Kamran holds a B.A. from The University of Bristol, M.A. from George Washington University and Ph.D. from Stanford University.

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Mira Waller

University of Virginia Library

Mira Waller

Mira Waller is the Associate University Librarian (AUL) for Research and Learning Services at the University of Virginia Library. Waller serves on the Library’s Senior Leadership Team, providing leadership for the subject liaison program, the teaching and learning program, faculty programs, and specialized user services. She guides the Library’s information services, including reference, reserves and circulation. Waller also oversees the development of services and programming for new and evolving teaching and research tools and methods, including those for digital scholarship, multimedia production and use, and data management and analysis.

Previously, Waller was the Department Head of Research Engagement in the North Carolina State University Libraries. She has been an active participant in the movement to re-envision the role of the subject liaison, both at NC State and nationally, contributing to the development of tools and training to enhance support for research. Before joining the NCSU Libraries, Waller was Director of Publishing Services for Project Euclid, an online community and platform for mathematics and statistics scholarship, managed jointly by Cornell University Library and Duke University Press. In a previous life she was also an archivist and worked in collection management.

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Ans ter Woerds

SURF

Ans ter Woerds

After a studies in library management, Ans started her working career in 1981 at the library of Nyenrode Business University, the oldest private business university in The Netherlands. There she started as information specialist, was involved in international networks of business schools, worked for three months at different Canadian university libraries, did a part-time master studies in social cultural sciences at the Free University in Amsterdam, and became manager of the library of Nyenrode for the last six years. In 1999 she became manager of the Knowledge and Information Centre of Rabobank, the largest co-operative bank in the Netherlands for six years.

In the meantime, while working full time, she spends lots of private time with professional activities: was board member of the Dutch Library Association for many years and an active member of the EBSLG the European Business School Librarians’ Group, was and is member of different committees and organizations in the professional area, has set up educational modules in library management, has organized over 20 international study tours for scientific librarians and is still organizing these, has set up the INLN International Numismatic Libraries’ Network while working as librarian at the Money Museum, was editor of the Dutch professional journal IP Information Professional for over 15 years and is now editor of De Beeldenaar, a Dutch numismatic journal, and was and is involved in different international organizations and is still expanding her international professional network.

The past six years Ans is senior contract manager content at SURF, the collaborative organization for IT in Dutch education and research, and negotiates transformative agreements with international publishers for the Dutch higher education institutions and writes the consortium agreements. SURF is an active member of ICOLC the International Coalition of Library Consortia and we are sharing a lot of information and knowledge in our professional area, especially with all the developments in open access, open science, digital education, etc. As a member of the Knowledge Exchange network, she also participates at present in the Task & Finish Group Small Publishers and the Transition to Open Access.

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