Eelco Ferwerda is director of the recently established OAPEN Foundation, which is dedicated to Open Access books in Humanities and Social Sciences. Before that he managed OAPEN (Open Access Publishing in European Networks) as EU co-funded project at Amsterdam University Press. He joined Amsterdam University Press in 2002 as Publisher of Digital Products. Before joining AUP, he worked in various new media subsidiaries at the former Dutch newspaper publisher PCM, lastly as Manager Business Development for PCM Interactive Media.