Digital Accessioning Archivist at Yale University

Yale University is recruiting a Digital Accessioning Archivist.

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The Yale University Library (YUL) is seeking a Digital Accessioning Archivist for Yale Special Collections to fill a two-year position.. . .

This position will contribute to the development of best practices and workflows for accessioning born-digital material, undertake the hands-on work of disk imaging, train and supervise the work of student assistants and other staff, and make recommendations related to post-term digital accessioning sustainability. In addition to helping YUL achieve its goal of eliminating current backlogs of digital media in units across Yale's special collections community, this position will play an integral role in developing and implementing scalable workflows for incoming acquisitions of born-digital material.

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"’Predatory’ Open Access: A Longitudinal Study of Article Volumes and Market Characteristics"

Cenyu Shen and Bo-Christer Björk have published "'Predatory' Open Access: A Longitudinal Study of Article Volumes and Market Characteristics" in BMC Medicine.

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Despite a total number of journals and publishing volumes comparable to respectable (indexed by the Directory of Open Access Journals) open access journals, the problem of predatory open access seems highly contained to just a few countries, where the academic evaluation practices strongly favor international publication, but without further quality checks.

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Digital Media Service Manager, Libraries at Indiana University

Indiana University is recruiting a Digital Media Service Manager, Libraries.

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Manages Avalon Media System support and deployment at IU, including the Media Collections Online (MCO) service (http://media.dlib.indiana.edu/) and custom branded Avalon instances for other units and clients at IU.

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Digital Assets Coordinator at Hagley Museum and Library

Hagley Museum and Library is recruiting a Digital Assets Coordinator.

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The successful candidate will work in the Library's Audiovisual Collections and Digital Initiatives Department to assist us in our mission to produce, preserve, and provide access to digital records for current and future generations of researchers. Hagley has a significant collection of digital surrogates that are available at digital.hagley.org and a growing collection of born­digital records offline. The Digital Assets Coordinator will work with the Curator of Audiovisual and Digital Collections to ensure long­term access and preservation of Hagley's digital records collections.

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Digital Initiatives Librarian & Instructor at Otterbein University

Otterbein University is recruiting a Digital Initiatives Librarian & Instructor.

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This librarian will provide leadership, management and policy and planning activities for the campus-wide digitization projects and digital initiatives, such as the Digital Commons@Otterbein (http://digitalcommons.otterbein.edu/)as well as;

  • working collaboratively to plan and implement best practices for the collection development of scholarly works and for their preservation, accessibility, usability and usage analysis within the determined system architecture
  • partnering in campus-wide efforts related to data management,

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Research Library Issues, no. 287

ARL has released Research Library Issues, no. 287.

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ARL has published Research Library Issues (RLI) no. 287, an issue in which Rikk Mulligan offers an overview of the history of scholarly communication from its beginnings in the 17th century to recent innovations in digital and hybrid publishing.

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Scholarly Communication Librarian at Oregon State University

Oregon State University is recruiting a Scholarly Communication Librarian.

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The successful candidate will implement services and instruction in support of the broadest possible dissemination, impact, and use of scholarly and intellectual output. The librarian will join an agile and innovative department and library that is responsible for the development of the ScholarsArchive@OSU institutional repository (the 36th ranked institutional repository in the world) and internationally recognized digital collections.

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"An Interview with Peter Suber on Open Access"

Cheryl LaGuardia has published "An Interview with Peter Suber on Open Access" in Library Journal.

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Because hybrid is no-risk, it has spread like wildfire. I used to think that was good, since at least it gave publishers first-hand experience with the economics of fee-based OA journals. But I changed my mind about that years ago

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