Month: February 2016

Digital Archivist at UT Southwestern Medical Center

The UT Southwestern Medical Center is recruiting a Digital Archivist.

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

This person will work in the Digital Collections Unit of the Library. They will primarily be responsible for digitizing the physical paper archives of the university. They will also work with the department of Marketing and Communications to do the same for them.

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Linux\LAMP Support Specialist at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee is recruiting a Linux\LAMP Support Specialist.

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

Activities include providing direct support for and assistance with Linux/LAMP applications, digital publishing tools and platforms, and Linux workstations and servers.

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Senior Library Applications Developer at Brown University

Brown University is recruiting a Senior Library Applications Developer.

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

Brown University Library seeks a Senior Library Applications Developer to provide leadership and innovative software development services to meet the teaching, learning, and research needs of the Brown Community. Integrated Technology Services (ITS) within the Digital Technologies department is responsible for supporting the library's discovery and delivery services, course management tools, internal workflows as well as campus projects such as VIVO and ORCID.

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Applications Analyst at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is recruiting an Applications Analyst.

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

The primary purpose of this position is to analyze, design, implement, test, and actively maintain websites for the Health Sciences Library using a combination of a content management system (WordPress CMS, Drupal), third-party tools, and custom development. Websites include the primary Health Sciences Library website (http://hsl.lib.unc.edu), NC Health Info (http://www.nchealthinfo.org), and AHEC Digital Library (http://library.ncahec.net).

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Research Data Storage Architect at New York University

New York University is recruiting a Research Data Storage Architect.

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

Reporting to the Director of Research Technology Services in NYU IT, the Research Data Storage Architect will be responsible for coordinating the building and management of the storage infrastructure environment for services in support of the research data lifecycle.

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Information Technology Librarian at DePaul University

DePaul University is recruiting an Information Technology Librarian.

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

Reporting to the Associate University Librarian for Information Technology & Discovery Services, the Information Technology Librarian works collaboratively across the Library and the University to implement, maintain, support, and enhance a wide range of technologies and systems providing innovative library services to the DePaul community and to ensure enduring access to the library's extensive range of online information resources and digital collections.

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Damon Jaggars Now Vice Provost and Director of Ohio State University Libraries

Damon Jaggars became the Vice Provost and Director of Ohio State University Libraries on 2/1/2016.

Here's an excerpt from the announcement:

Jaggars was interim vice provost and university librarian at Columbia and has significant, successful leadership experience supporting the evolving academic enterprise in the libraries both at Columbia and another top-tier research-intensive university, the University of Texas (UT) at Austin. His administrative work has included service planning, collection development and management, facilities planning and design, budgetary management and human resources.

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Digital Humanities Librarian at San Diego State University

San Diego State University is recruiting a Digital Humanities Librarian.

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

This is an exciting opportunity for a forward-thinking individual to collaborate with SDSU's Digital Humanities Initiative to envision and develop digital scholarship services at SDSU. This position will help build on one of SDSU's Areas of Excellence, "Digital Humanities and Global Diversity," which generates humanistic critical research with a specific focus on diversity.

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"Coupling Pre-Prints and Post-Publication Peer Review for Fast, Cheap, Fair, and Effective Science Publishing"

Michael Eisen and Leslie B. Vosshall have self-archived "Coupling Pre-Prints and Post-Publication Peer Review for Fast, Cheap, Fair, and Effective Science Publishing."

Here's an excerpt:

Pre-prints will be not be embraced by biomedical scientists until we stop treating them as "pre" anything, which suggests that a better "real" version is yet to come. Instead, pre-prints need to be accepted as formally published works. This can only happen if we first create and embrace systems to evaluate the quality and impact of, and appropriate audience for, these already published works.

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Digital Curation News (2/11/2016) #digitalcuration #digitalpreservation #datamanagement #researchdata #rdm

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"OA in the Library Collection: The Challenges of Identifying and Maintaining Open Access Resources"

Nathan Hosburgh and Chris Bulock have self-archived "OA in the Library Collection: The Challenges of Identifying and Maintaining Open Access Resources."

Here's an excerpt:

At this session, they [the authors] shared survey results, reflected on OA workflows at their own libraries, and updated audience members on relevant standards and initiatives. Survey respondents reported challenges related to hybrid OA, inaccurate metadata, and inconsistent communication along the serials supply chain. Recommended solutions included the creation of consistent, centralized article-level metadata and the development of OA collection development principles for libraries.

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Digital Initiatives Librarian at University of Toronto

The University of Toronto is recruiting a Digital Initiatives Librarian.

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

Reporting to the Director, ITS, the Digital Initiatives librarian is responsible for the support and continued development of innovative local digital scholarly projects and collections that support the teaching and research mission of the university, working collaboratively with a wide range of university faculty and researchers, librarians and technical staff.

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Filling the Digital Preservation Gap: A Jisc Research Data Spring Project Phase Two Report—February 2016

Jenny Mitcham et al. have released Filling the Digital Preservation Gap: A Jisc Research Data Spring Project Phase Two Report—February 2016.

Here's an excerpt:

Phase 1 of the project investigated the need for digital preservation as part of a wider infrastructure for research data management and looked specifically at how the open source digital preservation system Archivematica could fulfil this function. . . .

Work in phase 2 had the following aims:

  • Work with Artefactual Systems to develop Archivematica in a number of areas (highlighted in our phase 1 report) in order to make the system more suitable for fitting into our infrastructures for research data management
  • Develop our own detailed implementation plans for Hull and York to establish how Archivematica will be incorporated into our local infrastructures for research data
  • Consider how Archivematica could work as an above campus installation
  • Consider how digital preservation is addressed by the projects in phase 2 of Research Data Spring

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Digital Resource Archivist and Curator at Ohio State University

Ohio State University is recruiting a Digital Resource Archivist.

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

The Digital Resource Archivist and Curator, within Knowlton School of Architecture (KSA), leads ongoing development and implementation of policies and procedures that facilitate the acquisition, transfer, preservation, arrangement, description and access to digital materials, including video and analog materials converted to digital. . .; responsible for maintaining the school's Digital Library website.

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The Costs of Publishing Monographs: Toward a Transparent Methodology

Ithaka S+R has released The Costs of Publishing Monographs: Toward a Transparent Methodology .

Here's an excerpt:

While there have been numerous efforts to understand the costs of publishing a scholarly monograph, this study is unique in that we worked with an advisory group of university press publishers to identify all of the cost components in scholarly monographic publishing and to work with a wide variety of university presses to calculate their costs of each of those components in a bottom-up fashion.

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Digital Asset Librarian at Philadelphia Museum of Art

The Philadelphia Museum of Art is recruiting a Digital Asset Librarian.

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

Working under the general direction of the Arcadia Director of the Library and Archives, the Digital Asset Librarian will develop, implement, and sustain an institution-wide digital asset management system (DAMS), in close collaboration with the Information and Interpretive Technology (IIT) department.

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Digital Archivist at University of California, San Diego

The University of California, San Diego is recruiting a Digital Archivist.

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

The Digital Archivist is a new position shared between Special Collections & Archives (SC&A) and the Digital Library Development Program (DLDP). Reporting to the directors of both programs ( 60% in SC&A; 40% in DLDP), the Digital Archivist will provide leadership to ensure the long term preservation, organization, and discovery of all born-digital materials collected and retained by the UC San Diego Library. Given the number of such resources that are growing in Special Collections & Archives, the position will initially primarily report in that program.

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Digital Scholarship Librarian at University of Minnesota

The University of Minnesota is recruiting a Digital Scholarship Librarian.

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

The Digital Scholarship Librarian (DSL) provides strategic direction for the University of Minnesota Libraries in developing and sustaining new models of support for digital scholarship, primarily through coordination of the Digital Arts Sciences & Humanities (DASH) initiative. The DSL guides campus scholars on the integration of digital technologies and methodologies in research and teaching, including developing workshops and other events and overseeing development and execution of specific digital scholarship projects.

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"Evaluating an Open Access Publishing Fund at a Comprehensive University"

Sarah Beaubien, Julie Garrison, and Doug Way have published "Evaluating an Open Access Publishing Fund at a Comprehensive University" in the Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication.

Here's an excerpt:

Wanting to learn how faculty have benefitted from an open access publishing fund, Grand Valley State University Libraries surveyed recipients of the fund. The survey asked authors why they chose an open access publishing option and whether the fund influenced this decision. Authors were also asked whether they perceived that selecting an open access option broadened exposure to their work and about their likelihood of choosing open access in the future.

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"An Interview with Jeffrey Beall"

Joseph Esposito has published "An Interview with Jeffrey Beall" in The Scholarly Kitchen.

Here's an excerpt:

[Beall] In the scholarly open access segment of the scholarly publishing industry, we are seeing that the most prosperous publishers are the larger ones, those able to offshore their production work. Hindawi (in Egypt) and MDPI (with most of its work done in China) are two examples. I think the industry will continue to select for publishers like these, meaning many production-related jobs in North America and Europe will move to South Asia and East Asia.

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Director Library Repository Services and Technologies at Arizona State University

Arizona State University is recruiting a Director Library Repository Services and Technologies.

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

Under the direction of the Associate University Librarian & Chief Technology Officer, responsible for the design, development, and management of library repository services and technologies. Oversees the implementation of platforms, processes, services, and systems for scholarly, research, archival, and other related repository functions

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Association of Universities in the Netherlands and John Wiley Announce Open Access Agreement

The Association of Universities in the Netherlands and John Wiley and Sons, Inc. have announced an open access agreement.

Here's an excerpt from the announcement:

The negotiations between VSNU and Wiley resulted in an unprecedented agreement covering 2016 – 2019. It provides students and researchers at Dutch universities affiliated to the VSNU with access to all Wiley subscription journal content and enables authors at Dutch universities affiliated to the VSNU to enjoy unlimited open access publication in Wiley's hybrid journals (c.1400), with no publishing charge levied at the article level.

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