PressForward is brought to you by the same people behind widely-used, open academic research platforms such as Zotero and Omeka: the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at George Mason University. The initiative, initiated by Dan Cohen and Tom Scheinfeldt, and directed by Joan Fragaszy Troyano is generously funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

PressForward’s advisory board includes leading thinkers and doers in publishing and scholarly communication:

• Adam Aston, science and industry journalist and former editor at BusinessWeek and The Economist
• Kathleen Fitzpatrick, Professor of Media Studies, Pomona College; MediaCommons founder; Director of the Modern Language Association‘s Office of Scholarly Communication
• Peter Jerram, CEO, Public Library of Science (PLoS)
• Shana Kimball, Head of Publishing Services, Outreach & Strategic Development, MPublishing, University of Michigan
• David Kirsch, Associate Professor of Management and Entrepreneurship, University of Maryland‘s Robert H. Smith School of Business
• Alexis Madrigal, Senior Editor, The Atlantic; co-creator of Longshot magazine and The San Francisco Post-Chronicle; former writer at Wired.com.
  
• Steve Wheatley, Vice President, American Council of Learned Societies