Erich van Rijn

Director of Journals and Open Access

Erich van Rijn is Director of Journals and Open Access at the University of California Press. Erich's career in publishing spans 25 years, and has included roles in marketing, operations, and technology. Currently, he oversees the journals program at UC Press that includes a mix of 45 subscription and open access titles, and also has responsibility for the press's open access monograph publishing program, Luminos, which was launched in 2015. From 2014-2018 he served co-PI on a joint project with the California Digital Library to develop the open source Editoria book production platform, which continues to be developed by the Collaborative Knowledge Foundation