Collaborative, industry-wide initiatives. More specifically: the OA Switchboard.

Yvonne Campfens has over 25 years in publishing and related service sectors, with a Masters in applied econometrics from University of Amsterdam (1993). Early in her career she held a publishing position at Elsevier Science and thereafter various positions at Swets Subscription Service, including in publisher relations and as business partner to ALPSP in managing the ALJC (ALPSP Learned Journals Collection). From 2007 – 2012 she led the on-boarding of learned society publishing partners at Springer Nature, and was a co-founder of the TRANSFER Code of Practice. After running the Dutch language educational/professional business at Springer Media for three years as Managing Director, she returned to the international research group of the newly merged company (Springer Nature) in 2015, where she worked across all Springer Nature Research divisions.

In 2018 she started her own consultancy business and in 2020 she was project manager for the OA Switchboard, an initiative overseen by Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA). As of 2021, the OA Switchboard moves to the operational stage and will be run from the newly founded Stichting OA Switchboard, for which Yvonne serves as Executive Director.