As a member of the Association of Subscription Agents & Intermediaries (ASA), EBSCO has announced the appointment of Nawin Gupta as Secretary General of the ASA, effective immediately. Gupta will succeed Sarah Durrant, who recently became CEO of the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers. He will be based in Chicago.
Gupta brings a wealth of knowledge and experience in scholarly and trade publishing, having advanced publishing programmes of large professional societies (American Medical Association and American Bar Association), major academic presses (University of Chicago Press and University of Iowa Press) and commercial publishers (Reed Elsevier).
Well-known in the industry, Gupta is passionate about the role scholarly publishers, subscription agents, intermediaries and libraries play in disseminating scholarship and promoting scholarly discourse, and is deeply aware of the challenges facing them. He has served in many volunteer positions in the publishing industry, including executive boards of the Professional and Scholarly Publishing division of the Association of American Publishers, the International Association of Scientific, Technical & Medical Publishers, the Association of Medical Publishers and CrossRef.
In addition to working with the ASA, Gupta will continue as Principal at Informed Publishing Solutions Inc., a publishing consulting practice based in Chicago.
The ASA is the international trade association serving subscriptions agents, sales agents, and other intermediaries providing products and services within the professional and scholarly information supply chain. The ASA exists to provide information to its members from all areas of the information industry, to create a forum for exchange amongst these groups, and to represent members' common interests to publishers, customers, representative, and governmental organisations and associations.
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