Senior Digital Archivist at National Archives of Ireland


  • Supporting the senior team in positioning the National Archives as a leader in digital archiving and delivery to safeguard, and ensure continued access to national collections in digital form;
  • Contribute to the development and implementation of a new Digital Strategy for the National Archives in a changing information management landscape;
  • Leading a digital team on the management of digital archives (digitised and born digital) using appropriate systems/software; advising on formats, methods of transfer, metadata standards;
  • Contribute to the development of policies and procedures to build the capacity of the National Archives in the management and development of born digital and digitised collections;

https://bit.ly/41sqDAu

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"Open Access at a Crossroads: Library Publishing and Bibliodiversity"


The open access movement has gained momentum since the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI) first launched twenty years ago. Notably, there has been a drastic increase in the number of open access articles. Concerns have been raised about equality and diversity issues, however, for researchers without an affiliation (e.g. independent, unemployed and retired researchers) and researchers on the "scientific periphery" who are excluded from the gold open access model. This article argues that the gold open access model is destructive to the knowledge production ecosystem by addressing the importance of bibliodiversity and the ways in which library publishing can contribute to sustainable and equitable knowledge production.

https://doi.org/10.1629/uksg.613

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Digital Collections Coordinator at UC Santa Barbara


Staff across several departments within the library contribute toward building and providing responsible stewardship for unique, distinctive, and special collections, including digital and born-digital materials. Collection development and management, metadata creation and management, digitization, grant management, communication, and technical infrastructure activities supporting library collections are performed by staff in various departments. This position will provide important cross-departmental and cross-functional high-level support and coordination for all these activities across the library. Reporting to the Associate University Librarian for Research Resources and Scholarly Communication, the incumbent coordinates digital collections-related initiatives in the Division of Research Resources and Scholarly Communication (DRRSC), facilitates the implementation of digital collection-related workflows and processes across departments and leads cross-functional working groups.

https://bit.ly/41tqz3n

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"Open Access to Books — the Perspective of a Non-profit Infrastructure Provider"


This article describes the open access (OA) book platforms OAPEN Library and Directory of Open AccessBooks (DOAB), based on 1.the development and activities of OAPEN in the first ten years; 2. the underlying technical approach behind the platforms; 3. the current role of OAPEN and DOAB and future outlook.

OAPEN started out as a project funded by the European Commission, and become a legal non-profit Dutch entity in 2011. It hosts, disseminates and preserves open access books. OA book publishing has been explored in several pilot projects. Its current collection contains over 24,000 documents. DOAB launched in 2012, inspired and supported by DOAJ. It became a legal non-profit Dutch entity in 2019, owned by the OAPEN Foundationand OpenEdition. It’s current collection contains close to 60,000 titles.

The data model of both platforms is optimised for a multilingual collection and supports funding information. Ingesting books has been optimised to support a wide array of publishers and the dissemination of books takes into account search engines; libraries and aggregators and other organisations. The usage has grown in the last years, to 1 million downloads per month.

The future developments entail increased support of research funders with the establishment of a FunderForum and multi-year research into policy development. DOAB will invest more in bibliodiversity, by adding more emphasis on African and Asian countries. Also,DOAB will roll out its Peer Review Information Service for Monographs (PRISM).

OAPEN and DOAB will continue to work on developing reliable infrastructures, policy development and quality assurance around open access books.

https://doi.org/10.3998/jep.3303

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Change Manager at Harvard University [Digital Repository Service]


The Library Technology Services (LTS) team at Harvard University is seeking an experienced and motivated Change Manager to support the implementation of the next-generation Digital Repository Service (DRS) and its integration in the current software ecosystem.

https://bit.ly/3BbUPoU

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Textbook Affordability Librarian at University of Northern Colorado Libraries


The University of Northern Colorado Libraries seeks a collaborative and engaged librarian to further develop, lead, and support efforts around UNC’s Affordable and Open Education Resources (AOER) initiatives. This is a faculty contract renewable position that reports to the Head of Scholarly Communication. As a member of the Scholarly Communication Department, the Textbook Affordability Librarian works closely with their department, within the Libraries, and the campus to create and expand partnerships to promote open, free to students, and affordable course content throughout the University of Northern Colorado.

https://careers.unco.edu/postings/6244

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"Is There a Case for Accepting Machine Translated Scholarly Content in Repositories?"


Multilingualism is a critical characteristic of a healthy, inclusive, and diverse research communications landscape. However, multilingualism presents a particular challenge for the discovery of research outputs. Although researchers and other information seekers may only be able to read in one or two languages, they may want to know about all the relevant research in their area, regardless of the language in which it is published. Conversely, information seekers may want to discover research outputs in their own language(s) more easily. To facilitate this, COAR Task Force on Supporting Multilingualism and non-English Content in Repositories has been developing and promoting good practices for repositories in managing multilingual and non-English content. In the course of our work, the topic of machine translation (MT) has sparked a heated discussion within the Task Group and we would like to share with you the nature of this discussion.

https://bit.ly/42D1nbF

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Digital Library Front End Developer & User Experience Designer at University of California, Santa Barbara


Under the direction of the Director for Digital Library Development, and operating in a large, complex, and heterogeneous computing environment, serves as the front-end developer and user experience designer for a collaborative, cross-functional Agile development team.

https://bit.ly/3poHgjb

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"Quick Poll Results: ARL Member Representatives on Generative AI in Libraries"


We conducted a quick poll of Association of Research Libraries (ARL) member representatives in April 2023 to gather insights into their current perspectives on generative AI adoption, its potential implications, and the role of libraries in AI-driven environments. In this blog post, we summarize, synthesize, and provide recommendations based on the survey responses, aiming to offer valuable insights for senior library directors navigating the AI landscape.

https://bit.ly/3M9yVc2

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Senior Product Manager at Preservica


Our mission at Preservica is to protect the worlds digital memory, and our award-winning software is used by leading businesses, archives, libraries, museums and government organizations across the globe. . ..This is a very autonomous role, allowing you to shape and build products to meet your customers’ needs. . . . Working as part of the Product Management team, you will report to the Chief Product Officer and will have frequent and significant exposure to the most senior leadership in the organization. You’ll have the scope to push the boundaries, to test, develop and implement disruptive new ideas and opportunities and be well rewarded and recognized for doing so.

https://bit.ly/3VGIbYk

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"The MIT Press Receives $10 Million Endowment Gift for Open Access to Knowledge"


The new fund will support the MIT Press’s ground-breaking efforts to publish open access books and journals in fields ranging from science and technology to the social sciences, arts, and humanities. It will also help the MIT Press continue to develop tools, models, and resources that make scholarship more accessible to researchers and other readers around the world. . . .

Arcadia is providing an outright endowment gift of $5 million, as well as a $5 million “challenge” gift to incentivize other funders by matching their support of MIT’s open publishing activities.

https://bit.ly/3B5SWKb

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Digital Initiatives and Reference Librarian at Washington and Lee University


Working under the supervision of the Deputy Director of the Law Library, the Digital Initiatives & Reference Librarian is responsible for managing and developing our Law Library’s online presence including the website, social media, electronic institutional repository, and the annual journal ranking project. In addition, this librarian is part of the reference team providing high-quality reference, research, instructional, and outreach services.

https://bit.ly/3parfx1

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2023 EDUCAUSE Horizon Report: Teaching and Learning Edition


This report profiles key trends and emerging technologies and practices shaping the future of teaching and learning, and envisions a number of scenarios and implications for that future. . . .

Artificial intelligence (AI) has taken the world by storm, with new AI-powered tools such as ChatGPT opening up new opportunities in higher education for content creation, communication, and learning, while also raising new concerns about the misuses and overreach of technology. Our shared humanity has also become a key focal point within higher education, as faculty and leaders continue to wrestle with understanding and meeting the diverse needs of students and to find ways of cultivating institutional communities that support student well-being and belonging.

https://bit.ly/3panaJd

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Digital Publishing Specialist at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign


Reporting to the Head of Scholarly Communication and Publishing, the Digital Publishing Specialist will manage editorial and production workflows including those related to publication metadata, digital archiving, and document transformation. The incumbent will act as part of the Library’s effort to offer high quality, open access publishing services to the Urbana-Champaign campus and beyond through the Illinois Open Publishing Network (https://iopn.library.illinois.edu/) and related scholarly communication efforts.

https://jobs.illinois.edu/

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Digital Scholarship Has Released Digital Curation Certificate and Master’s Degree Programs

Digital Scholarship has released Digital Curation Certificate and Master’s Degree Programs. This document describes digital curation certificate and master’s degree programs in North America, identifying those that are online. It does not cover individualized certificate programs, such as those at Indiana University Bloomington or the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Nor does it cover digital curation specializations within MLS and other master’s degree programs in iSchools. It is available as a website and a website PDF with live links.

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Digital Curation Librarian at Qatar National Library


  • Develop, document, operate, and maintain relevant digital workflow (or part thereof), including preparation of Submission Information Package (SIP), monitoring and reporting on ingest status, and troubleshoot ingest issues in the QNL Digital Preservation System and the Institutional Repository.
  • Prepare and maintain metadata requirements and crosswalks, facilitate cooperation with other relevant QNL departments, when necessary, to ensure metadata interoperability across library services, including digital content platforms. . . .
  • Prepare and maintain metadata requirements and crosswalks, facilitate cooperation with other relevant QNL departments, when necessary, to ensure metadata interoperability across library services, including digital content platforms.

https://bit.ly/3LHWTJV

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"Harnessing the Power of LLMs in Practice: A Survey on ChatGPT and Beyond"


This paper presents a comprehensive and practical guide for practitioners and end-users working with Large Language Models (LLMs) in their downstream natural language processing (NLP) tasks.. . . Firstly, we offer an introduction and brief summary of current GPT- and BERT-style LLMs. Then, we discuss the influence of pre-training data, training data, and test data. Most importantly, we provide a detailed discussion about the use and non-use cases of large language models for various natural language processing tasks, such as knowledge-intensive tasks, traditional natural language understanding tasks, natural language generation tasks, emergent abilities, and considerations for specific tasks.We present various use cases and non-use cases to illustrate the practical applications and limitations of LLMs in real-world scenarios. . . . Furthermore, we explore the impact of spurious biases on LLMs and delve into other essential considerations, such as efficiency, cost, and latency, to ensure a comprehensive understanding of deploying LLMs in practice.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.13712

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Digital Collections Manager at New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Archive


The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Archive is seeking a full-time on-site Digital Collections Manager (DCM) to lead the continued implementation, maintenance and expansion of the Archive’s digital preservation and access program which was started in 2019. The DCM is responsible for the acquisition, description, storage, preservation, and access of all digital materials in accordance with the established policies and procedures of the archive and the archival profession.

https://bit.ly/44H8nGq

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"AI Is Tearing Wikipedia Apart"


The current draft policy notes that anyone unfamiliar with the risks of large language models should avoid using them to create Wikipedia content. . . . The community is also divided on whether large language models should be allowed to train on Wikipedia content. While open access is a cornerstone of Wikipedia’s design principles, some worry the unrestricted scraping of internet data allows AI companies like OpenAI to exploit the open web to create closed commercial datasets for their models. This is especially a problem if the Wikipedia content itself is AI-generated, creating a feedback loop of potentially biased information, if left unchecked.

https://bit.ly/3NLrc50

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Senior Manager, Digital Humanities Outreach at ITHAKA


As Senior Manager for Digital Humanities Resources Outreach you will be the internal and external subject matter expert responsible for achieving participation goals,helping to drive adoption and usage for new programs and services in the Digital Humanities, focusing on text and data analytics education and support. You will collaborate internally with colleagues to contribute to the ongoing development for the products and services you support as well as provide training and knowledge sharing for those products across the ITHAKA Outreach team.

https://cutt.ly/j6yTzlj

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"EU Ready to Back Immediate Open Access without Author Fees"


The EU is ready to agree that immediate open access to papers reporting publicly funded research should become the norm, without authors having to pay fees, and that the bloc should support non-profit scholarly publishing models.

In a move that could send shockwaves through commercial scholarly publishing, the positions are due to be adopted by the Council of the EU member state governments later this month.

https://cutt.ly/x6yTrFW

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Electronic Resources Librarian at University of Lynchburg


Knight-Capron Library at the University of Lynchburg seeks an experienced and motivated Electronic Resources Librarian to manage electronic resources throughout their life cycle, manage and maintain discovery services and ERM systems, provide oversight and daily operation of the institutional repository, participate in liaison duties, and provide user-centered service to a diverse academic community.

https://bit.ly/3NJ757Q

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"Springer Nature Doublespeak"


Let’s take a close look at what SN says in its advice on this matter to authors:

"Springer Nature only ever assesses manuscripts on their editorial merit. If primary research manuscripts contain Rights Retention Strategy (RRS) language, they will not be rejected on the grounds of its inclusion, and we will not remove that text before publication if it is included in a section that is a normal part of the published primary research article."

The information gets off to a good start. Assessing manuscripts on editorial merit alone is something any author would want to be reassured about. Equally, authors will be pleased to learn that, even if they include rights retention language, SN will not amend the author’s text by removing the RR statement that the author included in the text they created and provided at no charge to SN for publication. So far, so good. The information continues:

"Authors should note, however, that manuscripts containing statements about open licensing of accepted manuscripts (AMs) can only be published via the immediate gold open access (OA) route, to ensure that authors are not making conflicting licensing commitments, and can comply with any funder or institutional requirements for immediate OA."

This is where things start to get tricksy. Translation &mdash: if the author assigns a prior licence to their AAM and submits the manuscript to a SN subscription journal that also offers an Open Access (OA) option (sometimes known as a hybrid journal), then the publisher will only accept it if the author pays for OA publication (sometimes known as ‘gold’ OA). Mind you, SN is not rejecting the manuscript outright; it’s just that they will ONLY accept it if the author pays. So by extension, if they don’t pay, SN won’t publish the paper, which amounts to a rejection. However hard I try, I can’t seem to tally "only be published via the immediate gold open access (OA) route" with "only accepting manuscripts on their editorial merit." The wording is slippery here. Like those politicians, SN doesn’t ACTUALLY state that if you don’t, won’t or can’t pay, they will reject your paper. But in practice, that is exactly what they imply. This is pure smoke and mirrors.

https://bit.ly/44rWrbr

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Program Manager – HCAC Digital Humanities at Florida A&M University


Survey collections and select artifacts, images, and or documents to be used in the HCAC digitization project; Participates in George Mason University’s Roy Rosenzweig Center for Humanities and New Media Digital Humanities HCAC workshops; Uses existing finding aids, indices, transcripts, and databases to add records to the HCAC digitization project; Participates in the testing of the HCAC digitization model; Works in Omeka S and CSV data entry files with pilot data representing MEBA’s collections; Categorizes and describes relevant information regarding artifacts, images, and documents identified for use;. . . Creates authority records and ingest data in Omeka S for names and places related to selected archival collections;

https://bit.ly/3pfAkVt

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"Supporting Diamond Open Access Journals. Interest and Feasibility of Direct Funding Mechanisms"


More and more academics and governements consider that the open access model based on Article Processing Charges (APC) is problematic, not only due to the inequalities it generates and reinforces, but also because it has become unsustainable and even opposed to open access values. They consider that scientific publishing based on a model where both authors and readers do not pay, the so-called Diamond, or non-APC model, should be developed and supported. However, beyond the display of such a support on an international scale, the landscape of Diamond journals is rather in the form of loosely connected archipelagos, and not systematically funded. This article explores the practical conditions to implement a direct funding mechanism to such journals, that is reccurent money provided by a funder to support the publication process. Following several recommendations from institutional actors in the open access world, we consider the hypothesis that such a funding would be fostered by research funding organizations (RFOs), which have been essential to the expansion of the APC model, and now show interest in supporting other models. Based on a questionnaire survey sent to more than 1000 Diamond Open Access journals, this article analyzes their financial needs, as well as their capacity to interact with funders. It is structured around four issues regarding the implementation of a direct funding model: do Diamond journals really make use of money, and to what end? Do they need additional money? Are they able to engage monetary transactions? Are they able to meet RFOs visibility requirements? We show that a majority of OA Diamond journals could make use of a direct funding mechanism with certain adjustments. We conclude on the challenges that such a financial stream would spur.

https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.05.03.539231

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