Mike Rossner is a United States-based advocate for

academic journal publishing reform Academic journal publishing reform is the advocacy for changes in the way academic journals are created and distributed in the age of the Internet and the advent of electronic publishing. Since the rise of the Internet, people have organized campa ...

and

open access Open access (OA) is a set of principles and a range of practices through which nominally copyrightable publications are delivered to readers free of access charges or other barriers. With open access strictly defined (according to the 2001 de ...

. He was the director of the

Rockefeller University Press The Rockefeller University Press (RUP) is a department of Rockefeller University. Journals Rockefeller University Press publishes three scientific journals: '' Journal of Experimental Medicine'', founded in 1896, '' Journal of General Physiology ...

from December 2006 to May 2013.

Background

In 1997, Rossner became editor of the ''

Journal of Cell Biology The ''Journal of Cell Biology'' is a peer-reviewed scientific journal published by Rockefeller University Press. History In the early 1950s, a small group of biologists began to explore intracellular anatomy using the emerging technology of e ...

''. On 1 December 2006, he became director of The Rockefeller University Press and became interim editor of the ''Journal of Cell Biology'' until his replacement was hired. In July 2009, Rossner was awarded as a SPARC Innovator by the

Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition The scholarly method or scholarship is the body of principles and practices used by scholars and academics to make their claims about their subjects of expertise as valid and trustworthy as possible, and to make them known to the scholarly pu ...

Projects

Rossner is one of the organizers of

Access2Research Access2Research is a campaign in the United States for academic journal publishing reform led by open access advocates Michael W. Carroll, Heather Joseph, Mike Rossner, and John Wilbanks. On May 20, 2012, it launched a petition to the Whit ...

. He is a supporter of

open-access mandate An open-access mandate is a policy adopted by a research institution, research funder, or government which requires or recommends researchers—usually university faculty or research staff and/or research grant recipients—to make their publishe ...

References

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