Year: 2015

"One More Chunk of DOAJ"

Walt Crawford has published "One More Chunk of DOAJ" in Cites & Insights Crawford at Large.

Here's an excerpt:

Because there will be a published concise version of all this stuff—out this summer from ALA's Library Technology Reports, working title "Idealism and Opportunism: The State of Open Access Journals"—I went through 2,200-odd additional DOAJ journals with English as one of the language options (but not the first one), and was able to add 1,507 more entries to my DOAJ master spreadsheet, which now includes 6,490 journals qualifying for full analysis and 811 that don't. This essay offers some summary information on the 1,507 added journals and some overall notes on the full DOAJ set-including some new and replacement tables (there may be errors in tables 2.66 b and c and 2.67 b and c in earlier issues).

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Associate University Librarian—Scholarly Communications at University of Texas at Arlington

The University of Texas at Arlington is recruiting an Associate University Librarian—Scholarly Communications.

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

1. Participate as a senior administrator in the overall management of the library. 2. Assist in the development and implementation of a comprehensive strategic plan, in conjunction with the Dean and other leaders, and ensure that the library is meeting the vision and mission of the university. 3. Provide Libraries' staff with professional development opportunities, motivation, and leadership. 4. Develop library services to more effectively meet the present and future needs of the campus community we serve. 5. Maintains awareness about current and emerging trends in scholarly communication and cultivates and promotes new and progressive models of scholarly communication. 6. Initiates university-wide discussion on scholarly communication, collection assessment, and outreach activities and represents the Libraries in campus-wide planning for scholarly communications initiatives.

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"Adjunct No More: Promoting Scholarly Publishing as a Core Service of Academic Libraries"

Isaac Gilman has self-archived "Adjunct No More: Promoting Scholarly Publishing as a Core Service of Academic Libraries."

Here's an excerpt:

For small academic libraries, which are largely absent from ARL-dominated literature on library publishing (with some notable exceptions 14), the decision to pivot towards publishing services leads to several key questions: What skills and resources are needed in order to ensure quality and avoid Daniel Coit Gilman's disdained practice of "printing without publishing"?15) In what ways should the traditional work of the library change in order to accommodate this shift in focus? At the same time, in what ways can the work of publication be connected with traditional work and skills found within the library?

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Emerging Technologies Coordinator at Columbia University

Columbia University is recruiting an Emerging Technologies Coordinator.

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

The Emerging Technologies Coordinator plays a key role in planning and assessing information services supporting the research, teaching, and learning needs of the Columbia science and engineering community. The position provides proactive, effective technology and research support to students and faculty within the Digital Science Center (DSC) located within the Science and Engineering Library. Reporting to the Director, Science & Engineering Libraries, the Emerging Technologies Coordinator identifies, implements, and assesses technologies for the division, including those supporting data gathering and management, visualization, 3D printing, and other technologies emerging as critical to science and engineering research and teaching.

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JEP Publishes Books in Browsers V Proceedings

The Journal of Electronic Publishing has released its latest issue, which presents the Books in Browsers V proceedings. The articles are primarily in video format

Here's an excerpt from "Editor's Note [18.1]":

While there are a few changes, what remains is the mission of the conference and the consistently high quality of its programming. As Peter Brantley, the driving force behind Books in Browsers, notes, the conference intends to and does "explore how rapidly evolving open web standards can support advanced digital publishing, and in turn how the frontiers of digital publishing design, supporting highly customized authorial intentions, push on our understanding of the nature and corpus of web standards."

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Project Manager at University of Michigan

The University of Michigan is recruiting a Project Manager.

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

The University of Michigan Library is seeking a librarian to be a project manager and specialist in the area of digital preservation services. The successful candidate will work as part of a team of programmers, librarians, and other experts on a major initiative to build a new digital library system architecture. The new system will make use of recent developments in the open source community and will handle a wide array of materials: video, music, research data sets, historical records, and more. This is an opportunity to join a skilled and forward-thinking group, and to gain experience with modern technologies that support web-based research and archiving.

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Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities Grants

The NEH has released information about Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities grants.

Here's an excerpt from the announcement:

These NEH grants support national or regional (multistate) training programs for scholars and advanced graduate students to broaden and extend their knowledge of digital humanities. Through these programs, NEH seeks to increase the number of humanities scholars using digital technology in their research and to broadly disseminate knowledge about advanced technology tools and methodologies relevant to the humanities.

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Digital Asset Coordinator at San Francisco Symphony

The San Francisco Symphony is recruiting a Digital Asset Coordinator.

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

Reporting to the Archivist and working collaboratively with staff across the Symphony, the Digital Asset Coordinator will develop sustainable practices and processes to ensure the availability and integrity of digital assets that chronicle the Symphony's history, collections, programs, and operations. The successful applicant will demonstrate experience with a variety of technologies related to digital preservation and the management of digital content in multiple formats, and will keep abreast of new technical information and developments relating to the life cycle of digital objects.

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NC State Offers Graduate Certificate in Digital Humanities

NC State University is offering a Graduate Certificate in Digital Humanities.

Here's an excerpt from the announcement:

The graduate certificate in digital humanities allows degree or non-degree seeking graduate students to design a curriculum of interdisciplinary study at the forefront of digital methods in the humanities. Digital humanities (or "DH") comprises a big tent of diverse disciplinary and technical pursuits, and our certificate program is premised on curricular flexibility to allow students to pursue, with the support of certificate staff and faculty, the innovative opportunities they see for creative, critically-informed, media-inflected research and teaching pursuits in their fields, from the humanities to colleges across the university. Including digitization of cultural heritage materials, studies in media history and technologies, analysis and critique of digital culture, applied programming for analysis and visualization, project management, interface design and user experience, and/or digital pedagogies, the certificate features abundant contexts and skills-training in which to define next-generation teaching and research.

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Digital Archivist at Tufts University

Tufts University is recruiting a Digital Archivist.

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

The Digital Archivist is dedicated to the preservation and access of digital and hybrid collections held within Digital Collections and Archives at Tufts University. The Digital Archivist's primary focus will be to participate in the continued development and evolution of a digital preservation program within DCA. This work will include developing, implementing, and executing processes enabling effective acquisition, appraisal, description, preservation, access to and security of born-digital and hybrid archival collections acquired by DCA. In particular, the Digital Archivist will lead exploration, evaluation, and implementation of methods, tools, and systems related to the preservation of born-digital content including digital forensics methods, open-source digital preservation systems, and hardware used to transfer data from physical media.

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Data Curation Librarian at Louisiana State University

Louisiana State University is recruiting a Data Curation Librarian.

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

Reporting to the Director of the Institutional Repository (IR), the Data Curation Librarian is responsible for maintaining and managing LSU's IR for both research data and scholarly works. The Data Curation librarian will be responsible for setting up "virtual research environments," or the equivalent, as needed by externally funded research projects using the Islandora framework. This position will manage the Electronic Theses and Dissertations workflows and will work in collaboration with the Graduate School in these efforts. The Data Curation librarian will also provide technical assistance to all digital initiative projects using the IR software.

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"Who Should We Trust?"

Kevin Smith has published "Who Should We Trust?" in Scholarly Communications @ Duke.

Here's an excerpt:

It is not that we exactly trust commercial publishers, nor do we exactly distrust them. We may recognize that the values and goals of the commercial publishing business are different from, and even in conflict with, the best interests of scholarly authors and of scholarship itself. Perfectly nice people, working to advance their own interests as best they can, come in to conflict as the conditions for research and teaching change. And a real ambivalence is created because of how interwoven the parts of the academic enterprise are. More than just inertia is a work; important aspects of the academic enterprise remain interlocked with traditional forms of publication.

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"PeerJ—A PLOS ONE Contender in 2015?"

Phil Davis has published "PeerJ—A PLOS ONE Contender in 2015?" in The Scholarly Kitchen.

Here's an excerpt:

In my last post, I reported that PeerJ was growing, publishing more papers and attracting more authors, although it was not clear whether the company was moving toward financial stability. In a crowded market of multidisciplinary open access journals, I argued that the success (or failure) of PeerJ would be determined when it received its first Impact Factor, which will be announced in mid-June with the publication of Thomson Reuters' Journal Citation Report. The purpose of this post is to estimate PeerJ's first Impact Factor and discuss its implications.

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"Starting a Research Data Management Program Based in a University Library"

Margaret Henderson and Teresa L. Knott have self-archived "Starting a Research Data Management Program Based in a University Library."

Here's an excerpt:

As the need for research data management grows, many libraries are considering adding data services to help with the research mission of their institution. The Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) Libraries created a position and hired a director of research data management in September 2013. The position was new to the libraries and the university. With the backing of the library administration, a plan for building relationships with VCU faculty, researchers, students, service and resource providers, including grant administrators, was developed to educate and engage the community in data management plan writing and research data management training.

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Retirement Planning: "The 4 Percent Rule Is Not Safe in a Low-Yield World"

Michael S. Finke, Wade D. Pfau, and David Blanchett have self-archived "The 4 Percent Rule Is Not Safe in a Low-Yield World."

Here's an excerpt:

The safety of a 4% initial withdrawal strategy depends on asset return assumptions. Using historical averages to guide simulations for failure rates for retirees spending an inflation-adjusted 4% of retirement date assets over 30 years results in an estimated failure rate of about 6%. This modest projected failure rate rises sharply if real returns decline. As of January 2013, intermediate-term real interest rates are about 4% less than their historical average. Calibrating bond returns to the January 2013 real yields offered on 5-year TIPS, while maintaining the historical equity premium, causes the projected failure rate for retirement account withdrawals to jump to 57%. The 4% rule cannot be treated as a safe initial withdrawal rate in today's low interest rate environment. . . . The success of the 4% rule in the U.S. may be an historical anomaly, and clients may wish to consider their retirement income strategies more broadly than relying solely on systematic withdrawals from a volatile portfolio.

The widely used 4 percent rule is based on "Determining Withdrawal Rates Using Historical Data" by William P. Bengen, which was written in 1994. See his 2006 Conserving Client Portfolios During Retirement for a detailed treatment and a further refinement of the rule. Under the rule, a first-year retiree could safely withdraw $40,000 from a $1 million dollar 50/50 stock/bond portfolio.

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Web Developer at University of Texas at Arlington

The University of Texas at Arlington is recruiting a Web Developer.

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

The Web Developer position is responsible for the technical leadership, management and development of UT Arlington Libraries' websites, including online digital collections, web applications and other innovative digital initiatives.

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Data, Science and Systems Librarian at Mount Allison University

Mount Allison University is recruiting a Data, Science and Systems Librarian.

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

Science

  • Provision of subject liaison support, including in-depth research assistance, for the Sciences (Aviation, Biology, Chemistry and Biochemistry, Environmental Science, Mathematics and Computer Science, Physics and Astronomy, and Psychology). . . .

Systems

  • Overseeing the configuration, implementation, maintenance and upgrading of library systems, including the Integrated Library System, authentication and link resolving systems, discovery tools, archiving and repository systems, and other library and archival resources and databases
  • Monitoring and compiling usage data of electronic resources. . . .

Data

  • Playing a leadership role in exploring and implementing options for archiving, preservation, and access to research data
  • Serving as the primary resource person in the Libraries for use and analysis of data
  • Provision of in-depth assistance and instruction on data management and analysis
  • Acting as the Libraries' Data Liberation Initiative (DLI) / Nesstar contact
  • Working with colleagues on digitization initiatives and digital library collections

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"Ask The Chefs: What Do You Think Will Have the Biggest Impact on Scholarly Publishing In 2015?"

Ann Michael has published "Ask the Chefs: What Do You Think Will Have The Biggest Impact on Scholarly Publishing In 2015" in The Scholarly Kitchen.

Here's an excerpt:

According to the Chefs, we're looking at a year of mergers and acquisitions, the continuing growth of open access both in number of opportunities and in scale, the publication of data and objects (like multimedia, application code, etc.), and more start-ups.

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Software Developer at University of North Texas

The University of North Texas is recruiting a Software Developer .

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

Working with the Django Web framework and other open source components, you will contribute to the feature development and upkeep of the content delivery system in use for The Portal to Texas History (http://texashistory.unt.edu/) and related products. In addition, you will provide programming support for our metadata creation and editing systems. You will work collaboratively with other programmers and technologists in the UNT Libraries to address software problems and to add and customize features for our products.

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DLPA Strategic Plan 2015 through 2017

The Digital Public Library of America has released DLPA Strategic Plan 2015 through 2017.

Here's an excerpt:

We must, first and foremost, complete our hub network so that all collections and item types in America have an on-ramp to DPLA; fully build out our technology platform to ensure we have a solid foundation for many years to come and that anticipates further growth and diversification; and pursue an outreach plan that gets DPLA resources more widely into the hands of the global public, into education at all levels from kindergarten through graduate schools (with a special focus on underresourced organizations), and onto the screens of eager amateur and family historians and the developers who are creating the latest apps and websites.

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