Eelco Ferwerda is director of the OAPEN Foundation. Before that he managed OAPEN as EU-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. 

OAPEN provides a platform for Open Access book publishing and builds a collection of Open Access books through the OAPEN Library. OAPEN is also co-founder of the Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB), a discovery service launched earlier this year.