Alice Meadows has published "Flipping, not Flopping: Converting Subscription Journals to Open Access" in The Scholarly Kitchen .
Here's an excerpt:
The question of whether—and, if so, when and how—to 'flip' a traditional, subscription-based journal to open access (OA) is one that comes up time and again in meetings with our society partners. It's also something that funders sometimes like to suggest as a quick route to a more open world—"Why not just convert all your journals to OA?" they ask.
The University of California, Santa Barbara is recruiting an ILS Developer/Analyst.
Here's an excerpt from the ad:
Under the direction of the Software Development Manager, and following established library policies and practices, is responsible for maintaining an integrated library system (ILS), including investigating, evaluating, and implementing technology improvements. Develops and maintains data exchange interfaces between the ILS and other systems. Creates new applications and adapts existing applications and systems to meet the Library's evolving needs.
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The NEH Division of Preservation and Access has released guidelines for its latest Research and Development Grants program.
Here's an excerpt:
The Research and Development program is now offering grants of up to $75,000 for planning and basic research (Tier I). The grants support planning and preliminary work for large-scale research and development projects, and stand-alone basic research projects (such as case studies, experiments, and the development of iterative tools).
The program (formerly known as Preservation and Access Research and Development) continues as well to offer grants of up to $350,000 for advanced implementation (Tier II): the development of standards, practices, methodologies, or workflows for preserving and creating access to humanities collections; and applied research addressing preservation and access issues concerning humanities collections. Applicants for Tier II grants will need to provide a separate one- to two-page detailed plan for dissemination of project results.
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California State Polytechnic University, Pomona is recruiting a Special Collections and Digital Curation Librarian.
Here's an excerpt from the ad:
The Special Collections and Digital Curation Librarian will be responsible for expanding, preserving, and disseminating collections from the Cal Poly Pomona Special Collections and University Archives, including collections such as the Cal Poly Rose Float Collection, the Virginia Hamilton Adair Collection, the Robert Lawrence Balzer Collection, and the Wine and Wine Industry Collection, among others. The ideal candidate will have a passion for preserving items of historic value to the University and a balanced view of managing physical and digital collections.
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The Data Citation Synthesis Working Group has released the "Joint Declaration of Data Citation Principles."
Here's an excerpt:
The Data Citation Principles cover purpose, function and attributes of citations. These principles recognize the dual necessity of creating citation practices that are both human understandable and machine-actionable.
See also "An Introduction to the Joint Principles for Data Citation."
The California Digital Library is recruiting a Digitization & Services Coordinator.
Here's an excerpt from the ad:
Reporting to the Mass Digitization Project Manager, the Digitization & Services Coordinator will provide planning, coordination, analysis and communications support for UC systemwide digitization projects, including projects in partnership with Google, the Internet Archive, and other digitization agents. In addition, this position will support the UC Library Reprints Service, and may provide support to other projects for the Collection Development and Management Program as needed
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Benedikt Fecher et al. have self-archived "A Reputation Economy: Results from an Empirical Survey on Academic Data Sharing."
Here's an excerpt:
We surveyed 2661 individual academic researchers across all disciplines on their dealings with data, their publication practices, and motives for sharing or withholding research data. The results for 1564 valid responses show that researchers across disciplines recognise the benefit of secondary research data for their own work and for scientific progress as a whole-still they only practice it in moderation. An explanation for this evidence could be an academic system that is not driven by monetary incentives, nor the desire for scientific progress, but by individual reputation-expressed in (high ranked journal) publications. We label this system a Reputation Economy. This special economy explains our findings that show that researchers have a nuanced idea how to provide adequate formal recognition for making data available to others-namely data citations. We conclude that data sharing will only be widely adopted among research professionals if sharing pays in form of reputation. Thus, policy measures that intend to foster research collaboration need to understand academia as a reputation economy. Successful measures must value intermediate products, such as research data, more highly than it is the case now.
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Brown University is recruiting an Information Designer.
Here's an excerpt from the ad:
The Information Designer provides design expertise to support the development of media and data-driven digital scholarship. As a member of the Library's Center for Digital Scholarship (CDS), the Information Designer works with scholars and technical staff from the conception of digital products through to their publication. The incumbent identifies and implements approaches to visual expression that offer clear, persuasive, and thematically-coherent experiences for an academic audience. S/he works to conceive, prototype, test, and complete designs for digital publications that pay particular attention to data representation, user experience, and the dialectical or exploratory goals of the scholarship. The Information Designer maintains current awareness of all relevant UI and UX technologies, and applies that knowledge as part of development teams working on a variety of digital scholarship projects in the humanities. This is a grant-supported position with funding until the end of 2019.
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The Canadian Institutes of Health Research, the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada have adopted a harmonized open access policy.
Here's an excerpt from the FAQ:
The Tri-Agency Open Access Policy on Publications requires that peer-reviewed journal publications resulting from Tri-Agency (NSERC, SSHRC or CIHR) grants be freely accessible online within 12 months of publication.
Grant recipients may comply with the policy through one of the following routes:
- Grant recipients archive the final peer-reviewed full-text manuscript in an online repository where it will be freely accessible within 12 months (e.g., institutional repository or discipline-based repository). It is the responsibility of the grant recipient to determine which publishers allow authors to retain copyright and/or allow authors to archive journal publications in accordance with funding agency policies.
- Grant recipients can publish in a journal that offers open access or that offers open access on its website within 12 months.
Syracuse University is recruiting a Dean of Libraries and University Librarian.
Here's an excerpt from the ad:
The Dean has primary responsibility for overall leadership of the Libraries including faculty and student services, research, scholarship, and creation of new knowledge that arises from the Libraries' assets. Operationally, the Dean is responsible for strategic planning, budgeting and financial management, human resources, and information technology, and development of collections, services, and programs.
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Walt Crawford as published "The Economics of Open Access" in Cites & Insights: Crawford at Large.
Here's an excerpt:
This essay is primarily about open access, but strays into journal publishing in general. As usual, it's a combination of resources (cites) and commentary (insights), divided into ten overlapping segments. I believe the mèlange will be informative and useful, although I'm certain it won't provide pat answers to most questions, because such answers don't exist.
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The University of Pennsylvania is recruiting a Application Developer Senior.
Here's an excerpt from the ad:
Reporting to the Director for Digital Library Development & Systems, the Senior Developer creates software for multiple complex digital library projects. Project work supports a wide range of computing services which enhance and facilitate teaching, learning and research efforts of the University. Digital library development comprises a full technology stack, including coding, technical architectures, application specifications, database design, & workflow analysis. In addition the Senior Developer is responsible, along with other programmers, for testing, quality assurance and the life cycle management of library applications. The Senior Developer is a participant in and at times leads project teams to implement IT services, technical solutions and designs.
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Digital Science has released Altmetric Mentions and the Communication of Medical Research.
Here's an excerpt:
Social and mainstream media mentions of research publications appear much more rapidly than conventional academic citations and are generated by a wider range of users. They therefore offer the potential for early and complementary indicators of research impact. Such indicators could also identify new kinds of economic and social impact.
In this report we explore the relevance of such new indicators to research in medical and health sciences.
Brown University is recruiting a Digital Scholarship Editor.
Here's an excerpt from the ad:
The Digital Scholarship Editor is a grant-funded position in the Brown University Library designed to extend Brown's capabilities as a central force in advancing new forms and methods of scholarly communication. The Digital Scholarship Editor will play an important role in an effort to bring together key technological, organization, and academic policy strategies across the campus that will generate a broader, more effective structure within the University to support the creation, cultivation, evaluation, dissemination and preservation of new forms of scholarship. In addition, the Digital Scholarship Editor will pursue publishing opportunities for the digital projects under development and will promote digital publications to both traditional and nontraditional audiences. The position is funded until the end of 2019.
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Michael J. Ackerman has published "The Educational Value of Truly Interactive Science Publishing" in The Journal of Electronic Publishing.
Here's an excerpt:
Interactive Scientific Publishing (ISP) has been developed by the Optical Society of America with support from the National Library of Medicine at NIH. It allows authors to electronically publish papers which are linked to the referenced 2D and 3D original image datasets. These image datasets can then be viewed and analyzed interactively by the reader. ISP provides the software for authors to assemble and link their source data to their publication. But more important is that it provides readers with image viewing and analysis tools. The goal of ISP is to improve learning and understanding of the presented information. This paper describes ISP and its effect on learning and understanding. ISP was shown to have enough educational value that readers were willing to invest in the required set-up and learning phases. The social aspects of data sharing and the enlarged review process may be the hardest obstacles to overcome.
