Markus Putnings

• Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg

After completing his apprenticeship as a bookseller, Markus Putnings studied business informatics and worked in the e-books department in the “New Media” editorial department of a book publishing house. He later completed a library traineeship and has since worked at the university library of Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) as head of the Open Access department and the Open Access publisher FAU University Press. He is active in various committees and associations, including the Knowledge Exchange Task & Finish Group “Small Publishers”, the AG Universitätsverlage and AEUP. Together with his FAU colleagues, he is responsible for the requirements analysis of publishers in the OA-APS project.