Data Management Librarian at University of Florida


The University of Florida’s George A. Smathers Libraries seek an innovative and collaborative candidate to apply for its Data Management Librarian position in the Academic Research Consulting and Services department (ARCS). The Data Management Librarian will provide information consultation services in a variety of modes, design and teach workshops to promote best practices in data management and related topics, perform course-integrated instruction, and is responsible for special projects as assigned, such as new service development and evaluation. The ARCS team is strategically expanding to meet campus needs, with a new emphasis on supporting artificial intelligence through deep engagement in education, research, equity, and outreach. ARCS also provides expertise in bioinformatics analysis, digital humanities, geographic and spatial analysis, informatics, rigor and reproducibility, systematic reviews, and related areas (http://arcs.uflib.ufl.edu/stories).

https://tinyurl.com/3ypd8pnj

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Open Science Services by Research Libraries: Organisational Perspectives — A LIBER and ADBU Report


Many research libraries in Europe deliver Open Science services in the field of RDM and OA. However, it is estimated that up to half of European research libraries deliver only limited services in these domains. LIBER and ADBU conducted a study to understand the organisational structures and competences needed to create, and sustain, these services.

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8060242

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Publishing Librarian I/II at Wayne State University


The Publishing Librarian works within the Discovery Services Unit under the supervision of the Assistant Dean. The Library Publishing team is focused on sustainable open publishing, with a pedagogical focus on new practitioners and a commitment to supporting our campus in its engagement with the scholarly communication ecosystem. The successful candidate will work in collaboration with scholars from a variety of backgrounds, including faculty, librarians, students, and the broader community to conceive, enact, advance, and sustain digital, open, library-centered publishing and scholarship. This position has broad latitude to collaborate with partners within and outside the university to pursue advancements in areas including but not limited to new conceptions and outputs of library publishing, publishing workflows and competencies, digital publishing platforms, publishing pedagogy, and digital humanities. . . . This position also supports Wayne State University library’s institutional repository (currently Bepress’s Digital Commons) in collaboration with the Library Publishing team, including ETD management, journal publishing, and outreach to students and faculty for projects appropriate to the IR.

https://tinyurl.com/46sbxfwe

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Requires Registration: "Clarivate Report Urges Shift from Single Metrics to Visual Research Profiles"


The report focuses on four key areas:

  • Individuals and their publications: The issue of excessive self-citation in research publications is addressed, with identification of outliers following examination of the distinctive patterns of self-citation observed among Highly Cited Researchers, while considering variations in citation rates between fields.
  • Future research trends: Research Fronts identifies current areas of research attention by analyzing frequently cited, recent papers that cluster together, providing valuable insights for research planning, resource management and policy decisions.
  • Journals and their characteristics: The profile and value of a journal in the Web of Science is more than its Journal Impact Factor. We explore how the indicator of national orientation (INO) offers new perspectives on journals, helping researchers choose the best venues for their papers.
  • Influence of international collaboration: Simple metrics mask the influence of well-cited, internationally co-authored papers, so cannot be properly used to assess them. Collaborative Citation Impact (Collab-CNCI) allows deconstruction of impact, enabling better evaluation of domestic and international activity.

https://tinyurl.com/4vetr6px

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Special Collections Digital Access Librarian at UCLA


The Special Collections Digital Access Librarian provides leadership and coordination for creating and stewarding Library Special Collections’ digital and born digital materials and supports LSC efforts to provide access to digital special collections material across platforms. In alignment with departmental priorities and needs, the Special Collections Digital Access Librarian partners with curatorial, professional, and technical staff in LSC and across the UCLA Library to champion the unique characteristics and needs of LSC’s digital collections, enhance LSC digital collections workflows and operations, and contribute to developing systems and services in support of expanding online and in-person access to digital special collections.

https://recruit.apo.ucla.edu/JPF08535

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Video: "Dryad in the Community: New Data Sharing Mandates and the Role of Academic Libraries"


In this presentation, Dryad’s Head of Community Engagement, Sarah Lippincott is joined by fellow presenters Michael Casp, Head of Production Division at J&J Editorial, Emma Molls, Director of Open Research & Publishing at University of Minnesota Libraries, and Alberto Pepe, Director of Strategy and Innovation at Wiley and Co-founder of Authorea. Sarah reviews some pertinent highlights from the Nelson memo and NIH policies, two of the major developments that will impact data sharing over the next few years. and concludes with a discussion on how libraries can help researchers move from data sharing to data publishing.

https://tinyurl.com/bdfd7axh

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Norman and Armena Powell University Librarian at University of California Los Angeles


As the chief executive officer of the UCLA library system, the UL provides strategic vision for and operational leadership of the libraries, which support UCLA’s research and instructional missions by providing access to and delivery of information resources; developing, organizing and preserving collections for optimal use; supporting the discovery of and access to remote information sources; encouraging innovation; and promoting excellence. Among the UL’s responsibilities are overseeing the appointment, promotion and advancement of approximately 122 librarians campuswide; working closely with faculty to advance teaching and learning by engaging new services to enhance the student experience and support the entire research lifecycle; leading an aggressive fundraising program, including an annual giving program and stewardship of significant collections as gifts-in-kind; and providing administrative leadership for the UCLA Library Senior Fellows Program. The UL will lead the continuing effort to build a library of the future by making knowledge accessible both in person and online, advancing digital innovations, preserving global cultural heritage as part of post-colonial collecting, establishing community partnerships that preserve Los Angeles history, and supporting open publishing and new forms of scholarly communications.

https://www.arl.org/jobs/job-listings/a0I6T00000aKGJqUAO/

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Defining Open Scholarly Infrastructure: A Review of Relevant Literature


This report outlines IOI’s initial attempt towards a framework for understanding open infrastructure for research and scholarship. For this report, we examined a body of literature that includes works across the fields of anthropology, scholarly communications, international development studies, science and technology studies, and infrastructure studies.

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7064538

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Scholarly Communications Associate at Massachusetts Institute of Technology


Responsibilities include supporting the scholarly communications librarian with the preparation, marketing, and delivery of scholarly communications education and outreach content and programming; supporting the implementation of MIT’s open access policies by searching for faculty papers, evaluating paper versions, depositing papers, and adding metadata in DSpace@MIT (the Libraries institutional repository); serving on the repository services and support team and the scholarly communications initiatives team; participating in other group processes to standardize, document, and maximize efficiencies in team workflows; and keeping up-to-date with news and trends in scholarly communications, open access, and open scholarship.

https://tinyurl.com/y34jv6mw

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Plan S: "Transformative Journals: Analysis from the 2022 Reports"


However, despite these positive developments, it is clearly disappointing that over two thirds (68%) of the journals in the TJ programme failed to meet their OA growth targets. And, as made clear last year, titles which do not meet their targets will be removed from the TJ programme. . . .Looking at the performance of individual publishers, the data shows that some 77% (1329) of titles published by Springer Nature — by far the largest publisher in the programme with some 1721 TJ titles — failed to meet their TJ targets. For Elsevier and the America Chemical Society (ACS) the figures were 63% (115 titles) and 56% (36 titles), respectively.

https://tinyurl.com/yh8rhyex

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Software Engineer II at University of Colorado Boulder


UCAR is excited to announce the job opening for a Software Engineer to deploy to the CU Boulder University Libraries as a "developer-in-residence." This position will support an existing partnership between the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) and CU Boulder libraries in the areas of data engineering, curation, and management.

https://tinyurl.com/ma3sm6ac

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"The Cloud, the Public Square, and Digital Public Archival Infrastructure"


Many governments have chosen to store their records in the cloud rather than invest in the increased digital infrastructure now required to manage them.. . . Yet, archivists and archival perspectives have not been much involved in public discussion of this change. . . . The shape of the emerging infrastructure underpinning the management of digital communication may well be the most significant lasting feature of the digital environment for societies and their archives. This article discusses why that development requires archival voices in the public square to address it.

https://doi.org/10.1007/s10502-023-09417-7

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Director of Distinctive Collections and Digital Scholarship (Hybrid) at The Claremont Colleges


The Director of Distinctive Collections and Digital Scholarship (DCDS) will bring a deep understanding of the major strategies, opportunities, challenges and trends facing academic libraries today in the areas of open publishing, data and digital scholarship, the curation of digital assets, and the enhancement of research, teaching and learning through special collections and archives. The successful candidate in this position will show an understanding of the relationship between traditional special collections and current digital initiatives taking place at The Claremont Colleges Library (TCCL), a vibrant, innovative and inclusive center for research, teaching, learning, and scholarship serving students, faculty and staff of The Claremont Colleges community.

https://tinyurl.com/yc2ycats

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"Diamonds in the Rough: Societies Shine under Pressure"


Overall, 18% of fully open journals appear to be sponsored [diamond], but their proportion and number have been decreasing. . . . Among society-run journals, sponsored titles account for more than double the market average, for non-society (commercial) journals they account for just under half. Societies’ greater proportion of sponsored titles and their not-for-profit status could therefore place them in a stronger position than their commercial competitors if we see a large scale move by funders to require publication in journals without publisher fees and — as some noises from European funders suggest — which are not for profit.

https://tinyurl.com/yc4k2j9m

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Systems Administrator at Colorado State University


Summary As part of a team of librarians and technologists, the person in this position will create, manage and support the technical infrastructure needed to create innovative systems and technology solutions to meet the operational needs and priorities of CSU Libraries. This intermediate-level systems administrator is responsible for administering servers and storage systems that support library operations including websites, integrations, the integrated library system, institutional repository, discovery systems and digital collections.

https://jobs.colostate.edu/postings/128645

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"Significant Acceleration of Humanities and Social Sciences Open Access through Taylor & Francis and Jisc Transformative Agreement"


A wealth of additional detail about open access articles supported by the Jisc agreement is presented in the report, including:

  • 432% increase in OA articles between 2020 and 2022.
  • 16.2 million article downloads, including 3.5 million in the US.
  • Articles published OA via the agreement received an average of 2.18 scholarly citations, whereas non-OA articles by researchers at the same institutions had 1.33 citations.

https://tinyurl.com/39urswyj

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Digital Collections Librarian at Savannah College of Art and Design


In this full-time role, you will collaborate with archives and special collections librarians to establish best practices, technical services staff to generate and maintain metadata, and research and instruction to align digital access with current curriculum. You will promote and support student and faculty research through advocacy, outreach, events, and coordination of thesis materials. For audiovisual and photographic archival material, you will assess for preservation issues and develop local, state, and national liaisons to further awareness of the archives and special collections, advising and assisting with requests for publication.

https://tinyurl.com/ynckdtup

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"It Takes a Researcher to Know a Researcher: Academic Librarian Perspectives Regarding Skills and Training for Research Data Support in Canada "


This study demonstrates that an in-depth qualitative portrait of data-related librarians within a national academic ecosystem provides valuable new insights regarding the perceived importance of conducting original empirical research to succeed in these roles.

https://doi.org/10.18438/eblip30297

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Librarian (Digital Preservation) at Government Publishing Office


  • Carries out assignments related to the development and preservation of GPOs digital repositories.
  • Performs work to establish and maintain GovInfo and other digital repositories as Trusted Digital Repositories.
  • Conducts research and analysis and proposes recommendations for the preservation of digital collections in GovInfo and the prioritization of requirements for digital curation of these collections.
  • Assists in the development of standard practices for the establishment of and use of digital preservation procedures for MARC, METS, MODS, PREMIS, and Dublin Core.

https://www.usajobs.gov/job/732161700

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What Direct Support Is Available for Open-Access Diamond Journals? Funding Models and Arrangements For Implementation


The author-pays model for open-access journals is increasingly criticised because of the inequalities it generates and its unsustainability due to a lack of cost control. In this context, our study examines the funding models for Diamond journals — academic journals which are published with no direct payment made by the readers (unlike the subscription model) nor by the authors (author pays model). The aim of this work is to test the feasibility, as well as the desirability of a direct or explicit funding model for Diamond journals, something which is almost non-existent at present. We have two objectives here: on one hand, to understand the current Diamond journal funding arrangements and constraints, and on the other hand to propose specific arrangements for funding Diamond journals by research funders.

https://hal.science/hal-04133000v1

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"Factors Affecting Publication Impact and Citation Trends Over Time"


Based on the results, researchers should seek out grant funding and generously incorporate literature into their co-authored publications to increase their publications’ potential for future impact. These factors may influence article quality, resulting in more citations over time. Further research is needed to better understand their influence and the influence of other factors.

https://doi.org/10.18438/eblip30206

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Digital Project Librarian at North Carolina A&T State University


The Digital Project Librarian serves as coordinator for a grant-funded project to create digital surrogates of unique and rare primary source materials. The candidate manages production workflow, trains and supervises student assistants, coordinates work with vendors, oversees digital image production and quality control, creates and reviews metadata, and coordinates work.

https://jobs.ncat.edu/postings/28550

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"The Use of Web Archives in Disinformation Research"


In recent years, journalists and other researchers have used web archives as an important resource for their study of disinformation.. . . We will show how web archives have been used to investigate changes to webpages, study archived social media including deleted content, and study known disinformation that has been archived.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.10004v1

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Information Science Specialist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory


In this exciting role, you will work with our users and scientists to build and deploy findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable (FAIR) repositories. You will help develop, document, and implement metadata standards and data dictionaries, including taxonomies and data formats. In this role, you will have the opportunity to work on some of the largest, most challenging datasets, and collaborate with computer scientists and domain scientists to build next generation data services to facilitate open science in an exascale environment.

https://tinyurl.com/3esbv58u

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Director, Unified Library Management System at California State University


The California State University, Office of the Chancellor, is seeking a Director, Unified Library Management System to be responsible for the systemwide implementation and operation of the Unified Library Management System (ULMS), which is used to manage the combined electronic and print library collections of the CSU libraries. The Director provides administrative leadership and technical direction for the ULMS and related systems, manages and directs both Chancellor’s Office and campus staff to support effective usage of such systems, and liaises with CSU library deans, faculty, staff, and vendors to ensure operational efficiencies and maximum uptime

https://tinyurl.com/4zwyzuhf

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