Acquisitions Editor / Open Access Outreach
ScienceOpen is a new platform for scientific communication. From informal networks to open access publishing, it offers a full spectrum of options to effectively share research results. An innovative start-up company located in Berlin and Boston, ScienceOpen strives to develop new solutions for scholarly publishing.
For our Berlin team we are currently seeking a full-time
Acquisitions Editor / Open Access Outreach.
As the publishing landscape begins to change towards Open Access, space has opened up for new experiments in scholarly communication, but has also generated uncertainty among researchers. The position of Acquisitions Editor will focus on reaching out to individual researchers, students, scholarly societies, research collectives, institutes and universities to promote Open Access and build up a network of contacts with the goal of recruiting new authors to publish with ScienceOpen. The ideal candidate is outgoing, persuasive and knowledgeable with strong networking skills. The aim of this position is to market our open access publishing concept and professional publishing services to researchers from a broad range of academic fields with a main focus on Germany and Europe.
Responsibilities include the following:
- - Present ScienceOpen concept to individual researchers, scientific societies and institutions
- - Develop a network of contacts involved in Open Access to make ScienceOpen a major player
- - Represent ScienceOpen at conferences and events
- - Develop creative ideas for presenting the ScienceOpen concept
- - Negotiate fees and conditions