Maurits van de Graaf
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Maurits van der Graaf started Pleiade Management and Consultancy in 2000, focusing on archives, libraries and publishers. Its activities include market research and evaluation, and strategic studies. Recent assignments include a study on the usage of E-books, a study on the quality of research data and an action programme on research data for the 4 countries participating Knowledge Exchange (see http://www.pleiade.nl). Before Pleiade he held various jobs at publishers and libraries, including Product Manager Excerpta Medica database (Elsevier), Director of the Dutch Current Research Agency (NBOI) and Deputy-Director of the Netherlands Institute for Scientific Information Services (NIWI). He studied Biology at the University of Utrecht.