The CLOCKSS Archive has announced the appointment of Randy S. Kiefer as the new Executive Director.
Kiefer is the Principal Consultant in the Kiefer Strategy Group, LLC, which handles business development efforts for publishers like INFORMS, the American Accounting Association, the Military Operations Research Society, and others. From 1999 to May of 2010, Randy served in various roles at INFORMS. For his last three years, he was the Director of Subscription, Membership, and Technical Services at INFORMS, and his primary activity was developing the global library market for INFORMS' twelve journals.
Kiefer is a board member of COIN-OR, an organisation dedicated to open-source software for the operations research community. He has been active in software development since 1985.
CLOCKSS is a global nonprofit, community-governed archive that preserves digital scholarly materials for the very long term through a geo-physical and geo-political distributed network of archive nodes.
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