New manager to lead our open access strategy

The Royal Society of Chemistry is pleased to welcome scientific information and publishing industry specialist Jan Kuras to its publishing team to lead and implement the organisation’s open access strategy.
 
Jan joins the team today as Open Access Development Manager and brings over 20 years’ experience in scientific information and publishing to this new role, including in product development, strategy and business planning.
 
Jan was previously Publisher within the Springer Chemistry group, where he led their open access publishing strategy for chemistry to establish the open access publishing platform Chemistry Central as a highly successful operation – including the launch of the open access journals Journal of Cheminformatics and Heritage Science, which have quickly become among the leaders in their fields. He also brings valuable experience from roles at Elsevier and Thomson Science.

Welcoming Jan’s appointment, the Royal Society of Chemistry’s Executive Director of Publishing, Stephen Hawthorne, said: “I’m delighted to welcome Jan to our team. As the world’s leading chemistry community and a not-for-profit organisation our mission is to serve the best interests of chemistry and society, which includes bringing more of the world-leading research we publish to a wider audience than ever before. We fully support sustainable open access publishing – with his extensive industry knowledge and experience, we’re all very much looking forward to working with Jan to position the Royal Society of Chemistry as the leading chemistry publisher in sharing chemical science research worldwide.”

Jan said: "It's a great pleasure to join the Royal Society of Chemistry in this new role. The organisation holds a unique position in the global chemistry community and can really lead the way in continuing to establish sustainable open access publishing of high-quality research – and I very much look forward to contributing to these initiatives."