Month: November 2015

Director, Digital Scholarship Commons at University of California, Santa Cruz

The University of California, Santa Cruz is recruiting a Director, Digital Scholarship Commons.

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

The Digital Scholarship Commons at McHenry Library will play a key role in fostering the advancement of technologically driven interdisciplinary scholarship and asserting the University Library's commitment to supporting new modes of digital research across the campus. The Commons will build and sustain an intellectual community around Digital Scholarship that invites all members of the campus community to feel invested in the new Digital Commons and leverages the new infrastructure and services it represents.

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Using Open Educational Resources, UGA Saves Students $2 Million

From 2013-2016, the University of Georgia estimates that it has saved students $2 million .

Here's an excerpt from the announcement:

The University of Georgia is actively engaging in the promotion and adoption of OERs by providing faculty members, especially those who teach large enrollment courses, such as those included on the University System of Georgia Top-100 Undergraduate Enrollment list, with resources and assistance to transition away from expensive textbooks to open education resources. Since the OER initiative began in 2013, OERs will have saved UGA student $2 million in textbook costs by the end of 2015-2016.

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Scholarly Communications Librarian at University of San Francisco

The University of San Francisco is recruiting a Scholarly Communications Librarian.

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

This newly created position will develop a broad range of services in support of evolving models of scholarly communication and digital scholarship, and provide advocacy for open access on campus in support of the USF Scholarship Repository. Reporting to the Digital Program Librarian, the successful candidate will join the Systems Department that is responsible for the ILS, IR, digitization and digital publishing services.

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"Criteria for Open Access and Publishing"

ScienceOpen has released an e-print of "Criteria for Open Access and Publishing" by Tom Olijhoek, Lars Bjørnshauge, and Dominic Mitchell .

Here's an excerpt:

This article gives an overview of the history and current status of the DOAJ. After a brief historical overview, DOAJ policies regarding open access, intellectual property rights and questionable publishers are explained in detail. The larger part of this article is a much requested explanation on how DOAJ uses its new set of criteria for the evaluation of open access journals and the rationale behind choosing the seven extra criteria that qualify for the DOAJ Seal. A final section is devoted to the extended possibilities that DOAJ will be offering shortly to scholars and publishers for searching the database and for uploading metadata. The result is a renewed DOAJ that offers a more robust platform, a more stable database and enhanced services to allow the upload and collection of metadata.

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Digital Projects Librarian at University of Toronto

The University of Toronto is recruiting a Digital Projects Librarian.

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

Reporting to the Information Architecture Librarian, and working with project teams composed of developers and librarians, the Digital Projects Librarian will contribute to the design, coding and maintenance of all Scholars Portal related services, with a special focus on support for our scholarly communications services, including Open Journals System and Open Monograph Press hosting services.

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Principal Software Engineer at Indiana University Bloomington

Indiana University Bloomington is recruiting a Principal Software Engineer.

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

Responsible for collaborating, leading, and ensuring the successful delivery of critical components of Enterprise Systems serving the faculty, staff, and students at all campuses of Indiana University. Many of these systems require continuous operation/high availability and 24 X 7 support.

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Office of Scholarly Communication: Scope, Organizational Placement, and Planning in Ten Research Libraries

Ithaka S+R has released Office of Scholarly Communication: Scope, Organizational Placement, and Planning in Ten Research Libraries.

Here's an excerpt:

The project was designed to gather basic information about these issues at some of the largest research-intensive university libraries. It finds categorical differences in the vision for the scholarly communications unit and its organizational placement, as well as associated differences in staffing and budget.

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Applications Programmers at University of Michigan

The University of Michigan is recruiting 2 Applications Programmers.

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

The University of Michigan Library is seeking two skilled programmers to help create and maintain large scale digital library systems. The successful candidates will work as part of a team of programmers, librarians, and designers on major initiatives including HathiTrust, and the creation of a new system architecture to serve the U-M Library and campus based on Hydra and Fedora.

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"Google Scholar as a Tool for Discovering Journal Articles in Library and Information Science"

Dirk Lewandowski has self-archived "Google Scholar as a Tool for Discovering Journal Articles in Library and Information Science."

Here's an excerpt:

We found that only some journals are completely indexed by Google Scholar, that the ratio of versions available depends on the type of publisher, and that availability varies a lot from journal to journal. Google Scholar cannot substitute for abstracting and indexing services in that it does not cover the complete literature of the field. However, it can be used in many cases to easily find available full texts of articles already found using another tool.

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Library Web Specialist at California State University, East Bay

California State University, East Bay is recruiting a Library Web Specialist.

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

The Web Specialist reports to the Web Services Librarian and consults with the Library User Experience (UX) Committee. The Web Specialist supports and assists in the creation of an attractive, seamless, and user-friendly digital branch library that makes it easy for students and faculty to discover the wide range of services and resources provided by the library both on and off campus.

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"Four PLOS Authors Receive 2016 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences"

PLOS has released "Four PLOS Authors Receive 2016 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences."

Here's an excerpt:

This year, four of the five scientists awarded a $3 million Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences chose to publish some of their work in Open Access journals over the course of their careers. In so doing, Edward S. Boyden, Karl Deisseroth, John Hardy and Svante Pääbo ensure their research is available for distribution, discovery and reuse, introducing opportunities for all scientists to build on their discoveries.

Collectively, the four PLOS authors and Breakthrough Prize winners have published 55 articles in PLOS journals: 35 articles in PLOS ONE, nine articles in PLOS Genetics, eight articles in PLOS Biology and three articles in PLOS Computational Biology. They've also rocked out to the tunes of Pharrell Williams in an Oscar-style ceremony.

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Digital Production Services Programmer at University of Florida

The University of Florida is recruiting a Digital Production Services Programmer.

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

As a member of the Software Development unit, the Digital Production Services Programmer performs duties related to the creation and support of software applications for Digital Production Services Department and develops both web and desktop software applications. This includes software to assist in internal business operations and assist patrons to make full use of library resources.

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"Considering Non-Open Access Publication Charges in the ‘Total Cost of Publication’"

Andrew Gray has published "Considering Non-Open Access Publication Charges in the 'Total Cost of Publication'" in Publications.

Here's an excerpt:

Recent research has tried to calculate the "total cost of publication" in the British academic sector, bringing together the costs of journal subscriptions, the article processing charges (APCs) paid to publish open-access content, and the indirect costs of handling open-access mandates. This study adds an estimate for the other publication charges (predominantly page and colour charges) currently paid by research institutions, a significant element which has been neglected by recent studies. When these charges are included in the calculation, the total cost to institutions as of 2013/14 is around 18.5% over and above the cost of journal subscriptions—11% from APCs, 5.5% from indirect costs, and 2% from other publication charges.

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Web Application Librarian at Catholic University of America

The Catholic University of America is recruiting a Web Application Librarian.

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

This position will report to the Head of Electronic Resources & Services, supporting the delivery and discovery of library collections by designing, developing, managing, configuring, and supporting the Libraries' websites, digital collections, discovery systems, and other digital initiatives. The individual will provide technical and operational support for web services in the CUA Libraries, as well as participate in training and support of staff and users

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"Campus Open-Access Policy Implementation Models and Implications for IR Services"

EllenFinnie Duranceau and Sue Kriegsman. have self-archived "Campus Open-Access Policy Implementation Models and Implications for IR Services."

Here's an excerpt:

Here, in attempt to build that needed roadmap, we provide a snapshot of the open-access policy implementation landscape by evaluating data from a survey of Coalition of Open Access Policy Institutions (COAPI) and characterizing each library's OA policy implementation models for its campus.

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Senior Software Engineer at University of Notre Dame

The University of Notre Dame is recruiting a Senior Software Engineer.

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

This position proactively architects reliable back end data services and infrastructure which anticipates the evolving information needs of students and faculty members. Responsibilities include the design and implementation of scalable applications and software components, engagement with library constituents in negotiating the diverse research and learning needs of the university, as well as communicate with and educate library staff, faculty and administrators regarding emerging trends in technology in order to meet goals and strategic initiatives.

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"The History and Future of Academic Library Collecting in Eleven Pictures"

David W. Lewis has self-archived "The History and Future of Academic Library Collecting in Eleven Pictures."

Here's an excerpt:

In the digital world and using the strategy I have outlined what we have is more like an open checkbook that will purchase the books an articles any library user wants. It is the difference between a public park and giving citizens free ticket s to Disney Land whenever they need recreation. Or, like the difference between a soup kitchen and food stamps.

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Digitization and Metadata Specialist at Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum

The Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum is recruiting a Digitization and Metadata Specialist.

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

The Digitization and Metadata Specialist will digitize collections and enter metadata of Collection into Country Music Foundation's digital asset management system, to include cataloging and migration of existing digitized collections.

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"Developing Best Practices in Digital Library Assessment: Year One Update"

Joyce Chapman, Jody DeRidder and Santi Thompson have published "Developing Best Practices in Digital Library Assessment: Year One Update" in D-Lib Magazine.

Here's an excerpt:

In the face of limited resources and increasing demand for online access to digital library content, we need to strategically focus our efforts and better understand users, impact, and associated costs. However, methods for assessment of digital libraries are not standardized. In an effort to address this crucial gap, the Digital Library Federation Assessment Interest Group has engaged the community over the past year in the development of best practices and guidelines. With this article, the authors provide an update on progress to date and solicit participation in an evolving effort to develop viable solutions.

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