[Oa-italia] Fwd: ricerca di personale per un progetto sull'Open Access al CERN di Ginevra

Susanna Mornati mornati a cilea.it
Gio 11 Dic 2008 15:20:09 CET


scadenza per le domande: 12 gennaio 2009
saluti, susanna mornati


>SOAP Fellowship [http://library.cern.ch/soap-fellow.html]
>
>CERN, the world leading Particle Physics laboratory has its
>headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, and is starting the LHC, the
>largest scientific instrument ever designed. With 2500 staff and 10000
>scientific visitors the laboratory is home to a vibrant international
>scientific community.
>
>CERN has recently taken a leading role in the Open Access movement. It
>manages an institutional and subject repository of 1-million records
>digital library including scientific manuscripts, an archive of CERN
>documents, educational multimedia content and much more. Beyond green
>Open Access, CERN is promoting the SCOAP3 project, an Open Access
>Publishing initiative. SCOAP3 aims to convert to Open Access the
>entire literature in Particle Physics in partnership with funding
>agencies, libraries, and publishers worldwide. CERN interest in Open
>Access business models now include a new project called SOAP.
>
>SOAP (Study of Open Access Publishing) is a project being negotiated
>for financing by the European Commission under the Seventh Framework
>Program. Partners of the SOAP consortium are CERN, the coordinator,
>the Max Plank Society, the UK Science and Technology Facilities
>Council and the publishing companies BioMed Central, Sage, and
>Springer. The project is expected to have a duration of two years,
>starting in March 2009. Its objective is the study of Open Access
>business models and a comprehensive survey of the attitudes towards
>Open Access of researchers across all disciplines. SOAP will deliver
>evidence on the potential of sustainable forms of Open Access
>Publishing.
>
>Conditional to the final availability of funding, CERN is looking for
>a dynamic, enthusiastic and motivated person to play a leading role in
>the SOAP project, in collaboration with all other partners. The person
>will be based in Open Access section of the CERN Library, in Geneva,
>collaborating with 4 other colleagues involved in the SOAP project.
>
>The successful candidate will take responsibility for:
>         • The management of the SOAP project
>         • The analysis of a large-scale survey 
> of the attitudes towards Open
>Access publishing of researchers in a wide spectrum of disciplines
>         • The study of the potential of different business models for Open
>Access publishing in the light of the needs and expectations of
>research communities
>
>Your profile:
>         • You have a sound understanding of the mechanisms and economics of
>scientific publishing
>         • You are familiar with Open Access in general and business models
>for Open Access Publishing in particular
>         • Experience in the management of small projects and/or being
>conversant with the administration of FP7 projects is an advantage
>         • Experience with the analysis of large data samples collected by
>user surveys is an asset
>         • You hold a MSc or higher diploma and you have less than 10 years
>professional experience after the MSc.
>         • You are a citizen of one of the CERN Member states (Austria,
>Belgium, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France,
>Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Poland,
>Portugal, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom).
>
>What we offer:
>         • Contract duration: One year with a possibility of extension for a
>second year. The start date is fixed to March 1st, 2009, subject to
>the successful conclusion of the negotiations with the European
>Commission
>         • Financial conditions: You will be 
> employed as a CERN Fellow with a
>stipend calculated individually, depending on qualification and
>experience. CERN stipends are very competitive and tax-free and for
>this post could range between 75'000 and 90'000 Swiss Francs per
>annum. Fellows may be entitled to an additional installation grant,
>family allowance and child allowance. We also offer help with finding
>suitable accommodation.
>         • Leave: Fellows are entitled to 2.5 
> days paid leave per month, plus
>two weeks at Christmas and a few other local holidays.
>         • Insurance: Fellows have access to CERN's comprehensive health
>insurance scheme for themselves and their dependents.
>         • Travel expenses: Fellows are entitled to travel expenses for
>themselves and their family upon joining and leaving CERN.
>
>Apply online at http://tinyurl.com/SOAP-CERN by providing your
>Curriculum Vitae, scan of the last (highest) qualification, a
>motivation letter, and three letters of recommendation to give as
>broad as possible overview of your academic and/or professional
>achievements.
>
>The application and ALL supporting documents should reach us before
>Monday January 12th, 2009. We aim to select the successful candidate
>in January 2009. The projected starting date of the contract, subject
>to the successful conclusion of the negotiations with the European
>Commission, is March 1st, 2009.
>
>Queries on this post can be addressed to Jens Vigen - CERN Head
>Librarian - Jens.Vigen a cern.ch
>
>
>

Susanna Mornati, CILEA
Project Leader AEPIC, www.aepic.it
+39 02 2699 5322, +39 348 7090 226,
mailto:mornati a cilea.it, skype: susanna.mornati

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