We are seeking a Systems Librarian GS-1410-09/11 to join our dynamic team at the United States Naval Academy’s Nimitz Library located in Annapolis, MD. This job is predominantly onsite with limited telework opportunities. Must be able to report as needed on weekends and after hours.
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The presented study offers a systematic overview of the potential application of large language models (LLMs) and generative artificial intelligence tools, notably the GPT model and the ChatGPT interface, within the realm of library and information science (LIS). The paper supplements and extends the outcomes of a comprehensive information survey on the subject matter with the author’s own experiences and examples showcasing possible applications, demonstrated through illustrative instances. This study does not involve testing available LLMs or selecting the most suitable tool; instead, it targets information professionals, specialists, librarians, and scientists, aiming to inspire them in various ways.
https://doi.org/10.1177/09610006241241066
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As part of a collaborative, dynamic, and diverse team, the Digital Stewardship Librarian coordinates the planning and implementation of digital preservation strategies, digital records management, and research data support for the library and the college. Works with colleagues in IT and the library to develop and implement policies, procedures, and workflows for data management and preservation that are consistent with best practices in the profession. Works with colleagues in Archives & Special Collections and across the college to facilitate digital records transfer to the Archives. Consults with departments and faculty on best practices for managing research data.
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The new strategic directions acknowledge this by prioritizing work in the following ways:
- Enabling broader, more expansive access to the collection, including lawful access to copyrighted materials.
- Expanding and diversifying the subject matter and sources of the collection, while reaffirming our focus on books and serial content.
- Taking an ambitious, proactive approach to the stewardship of metadata and content, with investments in existing and emerging technologies to enrich the metadata, content, and user experience.
- Adopting a renewed focus on the development of flexible and resilient technical and organizational infrastructure.
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In this position, you will work with staff on selection and coordination of materials for digitization, ensuring that all digitized information, including corresponding metadata, is processed according to the digitization master plan, is of appropriate quality, and is consistent with prescribed standards.
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The large majority of current and recent doctoral students and supervisors indicated there was no mandatory open access training at their institutions. More than half of respondents thought they had good or excellent understanding of open access, with those who had completed training more likely to highly rate their understanding. Only 27% of respondents felt the level of training offered was sufficient.
https://doi.org/10.47989/ir291679
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[T]o support the MIT community by providing GIS and statistical software services, instruction, and consultation as part of the GIS and statistical software services team. Responsibilities will include coordinating instructional programs, maintaining GIS and statistical software tools, assisting with data selection and procurement, and fostering inclusive practices in geospatial and statistical instruction.
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With the announcement of several new diamond open access (OA) related initiatives, such as the Action Plan for Diamond Open Access, the DIAMAS and CRAFT-OA projects, and the recent creation of the Global Summit on Diamond Open Access, it is clear that diamond OA is now at the forefront of the OA movement. Diamond OA is a publishing model that is free for both authors and readers, with the publishing costs generally assumed by grants, governments, subsidies, or a community. However, while working on our recent Quantitative Science Studies publication and dataset, we noticed that temporarily waiving APCs was a commonly used strategy by the Big 5 for-profit publishers for some of their journals. This letter discusses the need for more cautiousness when doing research about diamond OA and APCs, as well as the need for more transparency in the costs for publishing.
https://doi.org/10.1590/SciELOPreprints.8272
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The research informatics specialist is a member of the Digital Scholarship and Data Services department which resides within the Digital Strategies and Innovation division. Reporting to the Director of Digital Scholarship and Data Services, this role performs information engineering in the form of automation, storage, and retrieval of information through the use and development of cyberinfrastructure.
The primary support focus for this role is research endeavors spanning STEM, Social Science, and Digital Humanities, and may be included in grants as a project resource.
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[This report] examines research data management and sharing practices at six research-intensive academic institutions: Cornell University, Duke University, University of Michigan, University of Minnesota, Virginia Tech, and Washington University in St. Louis. Sponsored by the US National Science Foundation (grant #2135874) and part of ARL’s Realities of Academic Data Sharing (RADS) Initiative, this report highlights where service gaps may exist between researchers’ needs and the services and support provided by institutions.
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Reporting to the Assistant Director of Public Services, the successful candidate for this full-time position (37.5 hours/week) will develop and launch a data literacy program to provide consultative and instructional library services that advance students’ ability to discover, analyze, visualize, and use data effectively. The position will support student needs for finding, managing, interpreting and incorporating data into their research. Services will include data discovery, curation (publication, visualization, storage, etc.), and data management (citation management, ethical use, digital accessibility, etc.) to assist student research, scholarship, and data literacy.
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This study aims to update on the status of RDMS service offerings, staffing and funding, and presents them according to the number of years a library has offered the service. This work also investigates RDMS service fulfillment, accountability in providing support, and planning strategies within the same institution sample. Updating the RDMS status, broadening the facets addressed, and presenting the data by cohort provides detail into how services have been maintained or developed so that institutions at a similar stage can make clearer decisions about how to keep RDMS sustainable.
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The Library Web Developer is solely responsible for the development, design and collaborative integration of The Claremont Colleges Library website with related systems/platforms to maintain and elevate the Library’s online presence as both a point of service and communications platform. This requires design and customization of the user interface of library-specific Software-as-Service digital asset management platforms, web-based information management systems, and discovery tools; and the integration of web applications such as the reservation system, digital signage software, social media and more.
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Multiple studies across a variety of scientific disciplines have shown that the number of times that a paper is shared on Twitter (now called X) is correlated with the number of citations that paper receives. However, these studies were not designed to answer whether tweeting about scientific papers causes an increase in citations, or whether they were simply highlighting that some papers have higher relevance, importance or quality and are therefore both tweeted about more and cited more. The authors of this study are leading science communicators on Twitter from several life science disciplines, with substantially higher follower counts than the average scientist, making us uniquely placed to address this question. We conducted a three-year-long controlled experiment, randomly selecting five articles published in the same month and journal, and randomly tweeting one while retaining the others as controls. This process was repeated for 10 articles from each of 11 journals, recording Altmetric scores, number of tweets, and citation counts before and after tweeting. Randomization tests revealed that tweeted articles were downloaded 2.6–3.9 times more often than controls immediately after tweeting, and retained significantly higher Altmetric scores (+81%) and number of tweets (+105%) three years after tweeting. However, while some tweeted papers were cited more than their respective control papers published in the same journal and month, the overall increase in citation counts after three years (+7% for Web of Science and +12% for Google Scholar) was not statistically significant (p > 0.15). Therefore while discussing science on social media has many professional and societal benefits (and has been a lot of fun), increasing the citation rate of a scientist’s papers is likely not among them.
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0292201
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To advance the Center’s mission to provide access to digital scholarship expertise and resources across all Notre Dame disciplines and audiences, the Data Services Librarian is responsible for coordinating and managing high-quality data literacy support and research data services throughout the research lifecycle. As part of a highly collaborative team in the Navari Family Center for Digital Scholarship, the Data Services Librarian provides instruction and outreach related to finding, accessing, creating, manipulating, managing, and visualizing quantitative/qualitative data to meet the diverse needs of the Notre Dame community.
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The introduction of the text and data mining (TDM) exception in 2014 led to researchers asking for support from staff within Library Services at the University of Birmingham. An initial involvement with a funded corpus linguistics project fostered an effective partnership between the Copyright and Licensing Team and the University’s Research Infrastructure Team. This case study traces the TDM journey that Library Services has subsequently undertaken. The article will look at how staff in Copyright and Licensing and the Research Skills Team identified the original service gap. It will also look at issues impacting on supporting TDM and the results of a TDM survey that was sent to researchers. It concludes with a reflection on how the service might evolve in the future — from the creation and availability of TDM datasets, to the skills development of both librarians and the university communities they support, and the impact artificial intelligence (AI) developments might have on TDM practices.
https://doi.org/10.1629/uksg.646
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This is a unique opportunity for a highly motivated and experienced individual to join us in our brand-new role of Library Systems and Metadata Manager, working in a fully digital environment and developing our innovative systems infrastructure.
You will be at the forefront of optimising the Library systems which make up the Arden University Library Service IT infrastructure ensuring our students have an intuitive system that’s easy to navigate.
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Research by PLOS and Research Consulting has found there is a growing need for Open Science Indicators (Open Science monitoring solutions) among some funders and institutions but implementation of monitoring solutions may be limited unless Open Science practices are a strategic priority for organisations. Research data sharing, and code and software sharing, are among the most important Open Science practices to monitor but organisations need information that is compatible with their own structure and nomenclature to be usable, which is not available currently. In the future Open Science Indicators need to monitor not just prevalence but also the effects or qualities of Open Science practices.
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The primary responsibility of this full-time position is to improve and sustain a variety of library systems to ensure reliable and efficient access to the library’s collections and resources. This librarian is responsible for ensuring optimal and accurate discovery and access to library resources. This position requires advanced competence with integrated library systems (currently Ex Libris’ Alma Primo VE). Provides ongoing technical support for a variety of library systems and applications, including the proxy server, link resolver, open URL, off-campus authentication, interlibrary loan management system, and other web-based applications including Springshare.
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The objective of EQSIP for Diamond Open Access is to set a common quality standard for IPs that publish scholarly journals, based on the seven core components of scholarly publishing outlined in the Action Plan for Diamond Open Access[3] (Ancion et al. 2022, 4), which were subsequently revised and modified by the DIAMAS project team. These are:
- Funding
- Legal ownership, mission and governance
- Open Science
- Editorial management, editorial quality and research integrity
- Technical service efficiency
- Visibility, communication, marketing, and impact
- Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging (EDIB), multilingualism and gender equity
EQSIP for Diamond Open Access applies to scholarly journals. EQSIP’s underlying goal is to set a common quality standard for publishing as a public good, i.e. defined and controlled by the public through expert communities, thus guaranteeing that academic contributions in scholarly journals are also a public good.
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10726732
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Reporting to the Director of Services, the LSS Manager manages OCLS’s LSS team (3-4 direct reports) and collaborates with staff across the organization and within the Ontario college library system. The LSS Manager is accountable for operational planning and management, customer relations, and the development and delivery of LSS services in line with OCLS strategy.
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Elsevier has been under the spotlight this month for publishing a paper that contains a clearly ChatGPT-written portion of its introduction. The first sentence of the paper’s Introduction reads, "Certainly, here is a possible introduction for your topic:. . . ." To date, the article remains unchanged, and unretracted. A second paper, containing the phrase "I’m very sorry, but I don’t have access to real-time information or patient-specific data, as I am an AI language model" was subsequently found, and similarly remains unchanged. This has led to a spate of amateur bibliometricians scanning the literature for similar common AI-generated phrases, with some alarming results.
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As the Web Development Librarian, you will provide leadership, management, and coordination to the University of Oregon Libraries’ digital and web presence in support of Libraries and UO strategic objectives including implementation, integration, evaluation, and improvement of user interface customizations, with a focus on enhancing information and knowledge discovery, access, and use.
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Numerous Ivy Plus Libraries Confederation (IPLC) partner institutions* will provide three years of financial support for the Center for Open Science’s OSF Preprints, an open source platform and infrastructure that enables the facilitation and discovery of scholarship. COS notes that submission and consumption of preprints continues to grow with "~150,000 preprints hosted across all of the current and prior preprint communities, and 1.7 million views on preprint pages since September 2023."
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As a Library Professional 1 you will digitize different types of materials from the NSRC’s physical collections with a focus on supporting audio-visual digitization in cooperation with the A/V Lead. You will also help to construct metadata/indexing information that will be used to develop a robust catalog and conduct quality control of digitized materials and their metadata. You will occasionally assist librarians to upload digitized materials into the Online Vault or other access repositories, assist archivists to improve organization and tracking of archived materials and provide information to fulfill customer research requests.
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