Current Directors

Lars Bjørnshauge

Lars was Director of Libraries at Lund University from 2001 to 2011 and founded the DOAJ in 2003. He was Managing Editor of DOAJ from January 2013 until December 2021. He has vast experience in change management; the re-engineering of academic libraries; the development of information services for research & higher education. He has been a strong advocate of open access and for providing services to the open access movement (open access to research publications). He is co-founder of OpenDOAR, the Directory of Open Access Books and Think. Check. Submit. He was Director of SPARC Europe from 2011 to 2017 and was on the OASPA Board from 2011 to 2019. He now works as an Advisor to DOAJ.

Caroline Sutton

Caroline Sutton is CEO of the STM Publishers Association. Before that she was Director of Open Research at Taylor & Francis Group. Prior to that, she was Publisher and Co-Founder of Co-Action Publishing, an open access publisher, where she was heavily involved with business development, marketing and promotion activities.  She is a recognized advocate and expert on Open Access publishing, has acted as Rapporteur for the European Commission, took part in the Budapest Open Access Initiative talks in 2012, and regularly speaks and holds workshops on Open Access publishing.

Caroline holds a PhD in Sociology from Uppsala University, Sweden, an MA from the University of Stockholm, and a BA degree from the University of California Santa Barbara.

Dominic Mitchell

Dominic became director of IS4OA in July 2020. He is the Operations Manager for DOAJ and is a member of the OASPA Board of Directors since 2019. He has worked extensively with the publisher and librarian communities both as a publisher, with the BMJ Publishing Group (UK), and as a senior account and project manager at HighWire Press, then of Stanford University (USA). He represents DOAJ on the Committee for Think. Check. Submit. He is from the United Kingdom but resides in Stockholm, Sweden.

Previous Directors

Alma Swan

Alma Swan is a founder of IS4OA and was a Director until December 2018. [Full biography]