Publisher Team
Tom Mosterd
Head of Publisher Relations
Growing the number of OA titles from publisher partners worldwide
Tom Mosterd has over five years of experience in scholarly publishing, and particularly around Open Access publishing solutions for monographs and journals. Tom's track record includes a variety of work roles dealing with publisher partnerships, business development, community management and sales across both library and other stakeholders. Initially Tom joined Knowledge Unlatched in 2017. After stints at the Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) and OAPEN, and other project involvements, he rejoined the team in 2024.
1) Describe your job in three words. Dynamic, bridge-builder, listener.
2) What’s the most interesting thing you’re working on right now? Figuring out innovative approaches to sustainably finance Open Access for books, journals, videos, blogs, platforms and pretty much everything else in between.
3) Best thing about being part of the KU team? Working for a great mission, with a relatively small team and opening up more scholarly research each year, in perpetuity.
4) Worst thing about being being part of the KU team? I like to work in a dynamic environment and preferably on various projects/challenges at the same time. The worst part with the KU team is that there are a lot of great ideas, from the team, partners, things that come up on the go, and I can't work on all of them.
5) Who would you most like to swap places with for the day? A world-class musician/artist/actor - many people for a day : ), such as Andrea Bocelli.
6) What did you want to grow up to be when you were a kid? Something that couldn't be captured within one sentence. : )
7) Last book you read? Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead.
8) What’s the website you visit the most? Twitter.
9) What’s in your coffee? 60% of the time Black coffee, 20% cappucino, 20% flat white.
10) Tell us something we don’t know? For years, when asked what my goals in life are, the only answer that would come up each time, and has stuck, was to have a dog by my 30th. One year left.