Year: 2015

Scholarly Communications Librarian at Florida Gulf Coast University

Florida Gulf Coast University is recruiting a Scholarly Communications Librarian.

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Initial duties include promoting the University's institutional repository; planning, implementing, and assessing FGCU's scholarly communications program; partnering with FGCU faculty and staff to collect, describe, and make accessible the university's intellectual assets; providing outreach and consultations on depositing content, publishing options, author rights, copyright, and Open Access; developing tools, guides, web resources, and services; creating metadata for institutional repository and digital collections; engaging in service and scholarship; participating in assessment and continuous improvement of operations and services; and helping to shape department policy, goals, and procedures.

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Linux Systems Administrator at University of Illinois at Chicago

The University of Illinois at Chicago is recruiting a Linux Systems Administrator.

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As the Library's senior systems administrator, the Linux Systems Administrator contributes to the overall development of the Library's Web and digital library infrastructure and will help plan, select, and implement technologies to support the Library's goal of anytime anywhere access to UIC's scholarly information. This person will lead the unit in providing excellent customer service to UIC and University Library colleagues.

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Bibliometric Study on Dutch Open Access

The Government of the Netherlands has released Bibliometric Study on Dutch Open Access.

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In this text we will primarily focus on the way Open Access (OA from now on) publications are represented in the Web of Science database. We have collected data for this analysis in two different ways, which leads to different perspectives on OA publishing in the Netherlands. We focus on the output of three smaller scientific nations in Europe, next to the Netherlands we focus on Denmark and Switzerland, as these countries do contest the scientific runner up positions globally after the USA, and are more or less of comparable volume in economic terms.

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Programmer at University of Michigan

The University of Michigan is recruiting a Programmer.

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The University of Michigan Library is seeking an electronic publishing programmer to design, build, and maintain web sites, systems, services, and applications in support of new models in academic publishing. The ideal candidate will possess a strong knowledge of and demonstrate experience with object-oriented programming languages, web frameworks, and current best practices in code design and web technologies.

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SciELO: 15 Years of Open Access

SciELO has released SciELO: 15 Years of Open Access.

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The creation of SciELO 15 years ago and its further development were driven by two innovative and pioneering approaches: first, the indexing of national quality journals to complement international indexes and the publication of the full texts with free access on the Web in the modality known today as the "Golden Road", which took place about four years before the launch of the Budapest Declaration that is internationally agreed to as the beginning of the Open Access movement; and, second, the cooperative convergence of independent publishers, editors and national research agencies around a common objective to increase the visibility and quality of journals (Packer 1998; Meneghini, 2003; Packer 2009). During this development, SciELO became a standard of quality for the journals it indexes. As of June 2013, the SciELO network covers 15 Ibero-American countries plus South Africa, with each country publishing a national collection of journals in the network. There are also two multinational thematic collections in the network. Together these countries index about one thousand journal titles that publish more than 40 thousand articles per year. To date, the network has published a total of more than 400 thousand open access articles that receive a daily average of over 1.5 million article downloads, 65% as PDF files and 35% as HTML files.

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Digital Repository Analyst at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is recruiting a Digital Repository Analyst.

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As part of a team of developers, the Digital Repository Analyst develops tools supporting ingest, management, preservation, and delivery of digital content. Working collaboratively with library staff and campus partners, the Digital Repository Analyst participates in the full life cycle of application development, from design through implementation, support, and maintenance. The Analyst evaluates new technologies and techniques for use in the CDR. This position plans, implements, and tests software upgrades and enhancements, working with systems administrators and other stakeholders as necessary. The Digital Repository Analyst coordinates and assists with user acceptance testing. From time to time the Analyst might also work on projects not directly related to the repository.

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"Let’s Make It Easier to Expand the Public Domain"

John Bergmayer has published "Let's Make It Easier to Expand the Public Domain" in Copyright Reform.

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The fact that a license is "perpetual" doesn't require the copyright holder to keep offering the license; it just means the license, once granted, can't be revoked.

Except it can be. Copyright termination means that any license, including a perpetual public license, can be revoked. This means, for example, that contributors to projects like Wikipedia (where an original contributor continues to own the copyright to her work, but licenses that copyright under a liberal license) can revoke that license. It also means that people who transfer actual ownership of their copyrights to stewards like the Free Software Foundation can claw back that ownership.

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Digital Project Librarian at University of Iowa

The University of Iowa is recruiting a Digital Project Librarian.

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Reporting to the Head, Special Collections, the Digital Project Librarian manages and performs digitization and processing activities related to the Hevelin Fanzine Digitization project.

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"Analyzing Data Citation Practices According to the Data Citation Index"

Nicolas Robinson-Garcia et al. have self-archived "Analyzing Data Citation Practices According to the Data Citation Index."

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The findings of this study show that data citation practices are far from common in most research fields. Some differences have been reported on the way researchers cite data: while in the areas of Science and Engineering and Technology data sets were the most cited, in Social Sciences and Arts and Humanities data studies play a greater role. 88.1 percent of the records have received no citations, but some repositories show very low uncitedness rates. While data citation practices are rare in most fields, they have expanded in disciplines such as Crystallography or Genomics. We conclude by emphasizing the role that the DCI could play in encouraging the consistent, standardized citation of research data—a role that would enhance its value as a means of following the research process from data collection to publication.

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Head, Digital Library Services at Oklahoma State University

Oklahoma State University is recruiting a Head, Digital Library Services.

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The OSU Library seeks a highly motivated professional to lead Digital Library Services. The Department facilitates access to electronic information, print materials, and library services to ensure that the information needs of OSU students, faculty, and staff are met, regardless location.

The department supports web-based scholarly publishing initiatives. This position provides guidance and leadership in the continuing development and promotion of SHAREOK.org, the collaborative repository project with the University of Oklahoma Libraries.

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"The Open Access Citation Advantage"

SPARC Europe has released "The Open Access Citation Advantage."

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The OpCit project has for many years kept up to date a list of studies on whether or not there is a citation advantage for Open Access articles. That project has now completed and the list is no longer being managed. SPARC Europe is pleased to maintain the list henceforth and has brought it up to date.

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Digitization Services Manager at New York Public Library

The New York Public Library is recruiting a Digitization Services Manager.

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The Digital Imaging Unit of NYPL Labs is seeking a visionary, inventive manager to help The New York Public Library to share its vast collections with the world through digitization. The Manager will oversee the preservation-grade photography and reformatting of The New York Public Library's rare and unique holdings (including illuminated manuscripts, prints, rare books, literary and historical archives, historical maps, one of the world's largest photography collections, Broadway set and costume designs, and diverse documents charting the changing landscape of New York City). The Digitization Services Manager will also serve as a primary architect of a range of new digitization streams with the goal of dramatically increasing the volume, speed, and range of NYPL's imaging activities (e.g. rapid book scanning, high-speed microfilm digitization, and experiments with new approaches).

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"A Review of Theory and Practice in Scientometrics"

John Mingers and Loet Leydesdorff have self-archived "A Review of Theory and Practice in Scientometrics."

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Scientometrics is the study of the quantitative aspects of the process of science as a communication system. It is centrally, but not only, concerned with the analysis of citations in the academic literature. In recent years it has come to play a major role in the measurement and evaluation of research performance. In this review we consider: the historical development of scientometrics, sources of citation data, citation metrics and the "laws" of scientometrics, normalisation, journal impact factors and other journal metrics, visualising and mapping science, evaluation and policy, and future developments.

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Folklife Specialist (Digital Assets Management) at Library of Congress

The Library of Congress is recruiting a Folklife Specialist (Digital Assets Management).

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The position serves as the Folklife Specialist (Digital Assets Management) and is located in the American Folklife Center (AFC) within Library Services and reports directly to the Head, Archive of Folk Culture. The purpose of this position is to oversee the administration of American Folklife Center's digital asset management program, including developing and managing born-digital and reformatted collection processing workflows.

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"Why Principal Investigators Funded by the U.S. National Institutes of Health Publish in the Public Library of Science Journals"

Nancy Pontika has published "Why Principal Investigators Funded by the U.S. National Institutes of Health Publish in the Public Library of Science Journals" in Information Research.

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The Institutes-funded investigators submitted to the Public Library of Science journals because they favour the high impact factor, fast publication speed, fair peer-review system and the articles/ immediate open access availability.

Conclusions. The requirements of the National Institutes' public access policy do not influence the investigators' decision to submit to one of the Public Library of Science journals and do not increase their familiarity with open access publishing options.

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Digital Initiatives Librarian at Binghamton University

Binghamton University is recruiting a Digital Initiatives Librarian .

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As a member of the Library Technology department, reporting to the Director of Library Technology, the Digital Initiatives Librarian provides quality service and support to library faculty, staff and patrons.

They collaborate in the planning, implementation, and monitoring of digital projects to enhance user experience and improve workflows within the library. This includes digital initiatives such as digital curation and preservation, digital exhibits, the Libraries' website, and search and discovery of library resources. Digital curation and preservation tasks include digital forensics, applying metadata schema for access and preservation, and investigating and developing submission workflows for digital content. They assist in training and supervising student assistants and serve as a project manager for processing materials for digital collections; working closely with metadata/cataloging, Special Collections and University Archives, and others to deploy and configure systems to fully leverage the potential of metadata and digital objects derived from disparate sources.

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Monographs and Open Access: A Report to HEFCE

The HEFCE has released Monographs and Open Access: A Report to HEFCE.

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  • Monographs are a vitally important and distinctive vehicle for research communication, and must be sustained in any moves to open access. The availability of printed books alongside the open-access versions will be essential.
  • Contrary to many perceptions, it would not be appropriate to talk of a crisis of the monograph; this does not mean that monographs are not facing challenges, but the arguments for open access would appear to be for broader and more positive reasons than solving some supposed crisis.
  • Open access offers both short- and long-term advantages for monograph publication and use; many of these are bound up with a transition to digital publishing that has not been at the same speed as that for journals.
  • There is no single dominant emerging business model for supporting open-access publishing of monographs; a range of approaches will coexist for some time and it is unlikely that any single model will emerge as dominant. Policies will therefore need to be flexible.

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Digital Library Programmer at UCLA

UCLA is recruiting a Digital Library Programmer.

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Reporting to the Digital Library Team Leader & System Architect the Digital Library Programmer (DLP) develops applications and services using the components of the Islandora application stack, a collection of open source software components. Incumbent defines and configures complex digital objects, comprised of data streams (e.g., image, sound, and video) and associated descriptive and technical metadata, for retention in the Fedora Commons repository; develops or modify existing object ingest procedures through the Islandora modules of the Drupal content management system; writes scripts to invoke micro services to transform objects and create derivative objects; develops procedures to create SOLR indexes that support faceted and geospatial searching; and assists Drupal content managers to publish collections.

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Associate Dean for Technology and Digital Strategies at Penn State

Penn State is recruiting an Associate Dean for Technology and Digital Strategies.

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The Associate Dean for Technology and Digital Strategies will provide leadership and advocacy for information technology, digital initiatives, repository services and resource discovery and access services. The position will serve as administrator for the Libraries' Department for Information Technologies, Publishing and Curation Services, and Media Technology and Support Services as well as for cross-organizational teams such as the Digital Preservation Strategies Team, ScholarSphere (institutional repository) Service Team, and Hydra Strategy Team.

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