[BOAI] The OA Interviews: ScienceOpen's Alexander Grossmann

[Richard Poynder]

In his time, the founder and president of ScienceOpen, Alexander Grossmann,
has sat on both sides of the scholarly publishing table. He started out as a
researcher and lecturer, working variously at the Jülich Research Centre,
the Max Planck Institute in Munich and the University of Tübingen.

 

Then in 2001 he reinvented himself as a publisher, working first at
Wiley-Blackwell, and subsequently as managing director at Springer-Verlag
GmbH in Vienna, and a vice president at De Gruyter.

 

An important moment for Grossmann came in 2008, when Springer acquired the
open-access publisher BioMed Central from serial entrepreneur Vitek Tracz.
Listening to a presentation on the purchase given at a management meeting by
the company’s CEO Derk Haank, Grossmann immediately saw the logic of the
move, and the imperatives of open access.

 

In 2013, therefore, Grossmann partnered with Boston-based entrepreneur and
software developer Tibor Tscheke to found a for-profit OA venture called
ScienceOpen. At the same time, he took a post as professor of publishing
management at the Leipzig University of Applied Sciences. 

 

A Q&A with Grossmann can be accessed here:
http://poynder.blogspot.de/2015/11/the-oa-interviews-scienceopens.html

 

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