Virginia M. Barbour is a professor at Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia, and serves as the Director of the Australasian Open Access Strategy Group.
[1][2] She is best known for being one of the three founding editors of PLOS Medicine, and her various roles in championing the open access movement.
This was followed by a Doctor of Philosophy degree in molecular medicine[5] at the University of Oxford where her research investigated the control of alpha globin genes and was awarded in 1997.
[3][7] Barbour has also served as a chair of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) for two terms (2012–2015; 2015–2017).
[3][7][8][9] She serves as the director of the Australasian open access strategy group (2015–present), and works as a part-time professor between the Office of Research Ethics & Integrity and the Division of Technology, Information and Learning Services, at Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia.