[Tom Grady]

New Vacancy at COPIM! Scholarly Publishing Outreach Officer working with me on the Opening the Future revenue model. Deadline 8th Oct so get applying quick!

COPIM is reshaping how knowledge dissemination is funded and accessed. Do you want to be part one of the most ambitious and impactful projects working in open access scholarly publishing today? Your role will encompass three main areas:

• engagement and outreach;
• revenue model analysis and implementation;
• creating an OA books information hub.

 

You will take a leading role in library and publisher engagement for the Opening the Future (OtF) revenue model, a key part of COPIM’s ‘Open Book Futures’ project. A primary responsibility is building relationships with library supporters, partner publishers, and team colleagues. You will contribute to the success of the model by participating in marketing and outreach activities, including working with social media, writing press releases, conference proposals and reports, and organising events to bring stakeholders together. You will work with publishers to analyse their financial models and monograph backlists, writing persuasive business cases based on your analysis. In tandem with the OtF lead you will execute the implementation of the revenue model at three newly-joining presses. You’ll also liaise with the two original OtF presses to ensure their continued successful participation. Working closely with project colleagues and partners Jisc and LYRASIS you will co-create an OA books information hub: collating and presenting resources, advice, and pathways to OA implementation for publishers. To be successful in this role you will have:

• An excellent understanding of open-access publishing and pertinent developments in the monograph and policy space.
• Strong interpersonal, professional communications skills and the ability to build and maintain partner relationships.
• Experience of writing well and to deadline for different audiences and different media/social media/channels.
• The ability to keep track of a range of ongoing tasks and schedules.

 

In return the role offers you:

• Opportunity to work remotely
• Be part of a knowledgeable, committed, experienced and fun project team
• Enjoy an international and diverse work atmosphere
• Be part of an ambitious project bringing about real change in OA book publishing.

 

This opportunity would build on experience as: scholarly communications librarian, marketing officer, publishing assistant.

Contract This role is offered on a fixed-term basis until 30 April 2026.

Salary and Benefits Grade 7 of the College’s London Pay Scale which is £42,365 rising to £48,424 per annum.  Birkbeck offers a competitive salary and pension scheme, 31 days paid leave, flexible working arrangements and some of the most generous benefits in the HE sector, all while being located right in the heart of Central London. The salary quoted is on the College’s London Pay Scale which includes a consolidated Weighting/Allowance which applies only to staff whose normal contractual place of work is in the London area.

Enquiries If you would like to know more about the role, please click on apply below or contact Tom Grady, COPIM Open Book Futures Work Package Co-Lead (t.grady@bbk.ac.uk)  or Joe Deville (joe@openbookcollective.org). If you have technical issues or difficulties using the recruitment portal, please contact jobs@bbk.ac.uk providing your name and the job reference number of the position. While we are happy to respond to all informal enquiries, only formal applications through the online system will be considered.

We welcome applicants from all sections of the community. The College is committed to improving the gender and cultural diversity of its workforce, holding an Athena SWAN award and operating Disability Confident & Mindful Employer schemes.

For more information, including how to apply: https://cis7.bbk.ac.uk/vacancy/scholarly-publishing-outreach-officer-538236.html

• This reply was modified 2 years, 3 months ago by Tom Grady.
• This reply was modified 2 years, 3 months ago by Tom Grady.

[Tom Grady]

Hi folks, we just published our (quite large!) report on revenue funding models for OA monographs. So, as promised, you can read and download it for free from here:

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4011836

If anyone has questions arising from this report then please do get in touch on here – happy to discuss and keep the conversation going.

 

[Tom Grady]

@COPIM project (Work Package 3) is just putting the finishing touches to a report containing a comprehensive review of extant OA monograph revenue models – think there are about 17 or 18 models we’ve identified. (Some more practical than others, and I think all of them used in some kind of combination). We will hopefully publish the report next week so I’ll add a link to that to this thread if that would be useful?

[Tom Grady]

Thanks for this really interesting reply Markus – my apologies for only just seeing it and responding now. I have somehow switched off my notifications so only just remembered to login and check!

[Tom Grady]

Hi Markus,

Sounds like you’re going to be working on some really interesting stuff here. Good luck! In what way do you see this as producing something different to existing tools that already seem to do a lot of these things (I’m thinking, platforms like Coko and Editoria)? A diverse choice of open source tools is useful but sometimes I’m a bit confused as to the differences between them all 🙂

 

[Tom Grady]

Hi Sebastian, thanks for this feedback. Hmm I’ll have a chat with my fellow authors and see if we can incorporate what you’ve told us here. Looks like we may have misinterpreted something along the way. This is very useful feedback and a great example of how this network works!

Best wishes,

Tom

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