We are delighted to announce that Lars Bjørnshauge, one of our founding Directors, has been elected to the OASPA Board. It is fitting recognition for the important work that Lars has done for the open access community, not only through the DOAJ, but through his involvement with other academic and library organisations as well.

Lars founded the DOAJ in 2003, with the support and assistance of Lund University and SPARC. 10 years later, DOAJ is still at the heart of the open access community. Lars said: “I am very happy to elected to the OASPA board. I believe this shows a good appreciation of the work that I and the DOAJ team are doing for open access publishing. I am very much looking forward to working with the OASPA group of committed open access publishers.”

Congratulations Lars!

Yesterday, at the OASPA 2013 conference in Riga, Lars presented an overview and an update of DOAJ and its progress to date. His talk also gave details on the work that DOAJ has committed to undertake for the rest of 2103.

His slides are now available on DOAJ’s slideshare account:

http://www.slideshare.net/doaj/doaj-presentation-oaspariga2013