Jan Velterop
{{Short description|Dutch publisher}}
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- Elsevier
- Academic Press
- BioMed Central
- Nature Publishing Group
- Springer Science+Business Media
- De Twentsche Courant Tubantia
- Knewco Inc.
- AQnowledge}}
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- Budapest Open Access Initiative
- Nanopublication{{Cite journal|doi=10.3233/ISU-2010-0613 |title=The anatomy of a nanopublication |journal=Information Services & Use |volume=30 |issue=1–2 |pages=51–56 |year=2010 |last1=Groth |first1=Paul |last2=Gibson |first2=Andrew |last3=Velterop |first3=Jan |doi-access=free }}}}
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Johannes (Jan) Josephus Marinus Velterop (born 18 March 1949) is a science publisher.{{Scopus|id=55761646700}}[http://poynder.blogspot.co.uk/2012/02/open-access-interviews-jan-velterop.html The Open Access Interviews: Jan Velterop by Richard Poynder 2012-02-02]
Education
Born in The Hague, Netherlands, he was originally a marine geophysicist and became a science publisher in the mid-1970s.
Career
Velterop 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. He next 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{{cite web
|url=http://www.budapestopenaccessinitiative.org/read |title=The Budapest Open Access Initiative |accessdate=2015-11-20}}
In 2005 he joined Springer Science+Business Media in the United Kingdom as Director of Open Access.
At the end of March 2008 he left Springer {{cite web
|url=https://www.springer.com/about+springer/media/pressreleases?SGWID=1-11002-2-804731-0
|title=Jan Velterop to leave Springer
|accessdate=2011-05-03
}} to help further develop semantic approaches to accelerate scientific discovery. Since January 2009 he is involved in the Concept Web Alliance{{Cite web|url=http://www.nbic.nl/about-nbic/affiliated-organizations/cwa/|title = Nbic: Cwa}} 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").{{Cite book | doi = 10.1629/9552448_0_3.12.1| chapter = Open access and publishing| title = The E-Resources Management Handbook| pages = 117–121| year = 2006| last1 = Velterop | first1 = J. | isbn = 978-0-9552448-0-3| doi-access = free}}
Velterop also serves on the Advisory Boards of several initiatives and companies, such as Knowledge Unlatched and ScienceOpen.
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