Springer Nature, a global research, educational and professional publisher, has announced the appointment of Rachel Burley to the role of Publishing Director, BioMed Central and SpringerOpen, effective February 1, 2016. Her responsibilities will include all of BioMed Central and SpringerOpen's editorial and commercial activity.
Burley was previously with John Wiley & Sons, where she was Vice President and Director of Open Access and Business Development. There, she led the strategic planning and development of Wiley's open access initiatives and was instrumental in identifying and implementing strategic partnerships. Prior to that, Burley was Vice President and Publisher of Life Sciences at Wiley, and spent seven years at Nature Publishing Group.
Springer Nature is a pioneer in the field of open research, publishing 553 fully open access journals (and 56,000 articles from those journals) in 2015. BioMed Central claims to be the first commercial open access publisher, and has been making scientific research freely accessible and discoverable through partnerships, innovation and collaboration with the scientific community for 15 years now.
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