The University of North Texas is recruiting a Scholarly Communication Librarian.
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Reporting to and working in close collaboration with the Assistant Dean for Scholarly Communication, the Scholarly Communication Librarian will contribute to the Libraries' efforts to educate users about the transformation of scholarly communication and foster a more sustainable publishing ecosystem.
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The New Media Consortium and EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative have released NMC Horizon Report > 2016 Higher Education Edition.
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The report identifies six key trends, six significant challenges, and six important developments in educational technology across three adoption horizons spanning over the next one to five years, giving campus leaders, educational technologists, and faculty a valuable guide for strategic technology planning. The report provides higher education leaders with in-depth insight into how trends and challenges are accelerating and impeding the adoption of educational technology, along with their implications for policy, leadership, and practice.
The Library of Congress is recruiting a Information Technology Specialist (SYSANALYSIS).
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The Library of Congress seeks a web application developer to support the curation of our digital collections. . . .
The ideal candidate has experience developing in a modern programming language (such as Java or Python), interest in using and contributing to open source tools, experience developing applications using contemporary web frameworks (such as Spring or Django), enjoys collaborating with other developers and users, and experience using version control (such as Git) and ticket tracking tools (such as Trac, Github, JIRA).
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Jan Velterop has published "Are 'Predatory' Journals Completely Negative, or Also a Sign of Something Positive?" in SciELO in Perspective.
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Yet, even with the drawback of being polluted by predatory journals, a functioning market is preferable to a quasi-market, completely dominated by monopolies or monopoly-like players. A system of subscriptions, in which the party who pays—the institutional library—has practically no meaningful choice of what to buy, differs from one of article processing charges (APCs, which make open access possible), in that the party who pays—the author—is the party who does have a meaningful choice of where to submit and publish. So 'flipping' the system from subscriptions to APCs does deliver something much more akin to a functioning market, and 'caveat emptor', 'buyer beware', applies to all markets.
Northeastern University is recruiting a Digital Scholarship Programmer/Analyst.
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The Programmer/Analyst designs applications that interact with core components of the Library's digital repository service (Hydra) and programs in such languages as Ruby, PHP, CSS, and JavaScript. Reporting to the Director of the Digital Scholarship Group, the Programmer/Analyst works collaboratively with colleagues in the Library and across campus, and participates in an ongoing evaluation of emerging academic and library technologies.
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CHORUS has released "CHORUS Signs Agreement with US Department of Defense to Advance Public Access to Research."
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DTIC will employ CHORUS' services to build on open standards, distributed networks and established infrastructure to advance access to scholarly articles reporting on DoD-funded research, as well as enable agency indexing and long-term preservation of those articles. The DoD system will dovetail with the interoperable CHORUS framework, along with Crossref's Open Funder Registry, to provide an article submission workflow for DoD-funded researchers and facilitate public access to all articles that report on DoD-funded research. The agreement enables readers searching DTIC's Public Access Search to follow links that point to publicly available articles/accepted manuscripts in context of the journal where they were published.
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The University of Maryland, College Park is recruiting a Senior Software Developer.
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The Senior Software Developer provides broad programming support and leadership to the University of Maryland Libraries across a wide range of services, including web site delivery, content management, digital collections, digital preservation, enterprise infrastructure, and research software.
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Springer Nature has named Rachel Burley as Publishing Director, BioMed Central and SpringerOpen.
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Burley was previously with John Wiley & Sons, where she was Vice President and Director of Open Access and Business Development. There, she led the strategic planning and development of Wiley's open access initiatives and was instrumental in identifying and implementing strategic partnerships. Prior to that, Burley was Vice President and Publisher of Life Sciences at Wiley, and spent seven years at Nature Publishing Group.
The University of North Dakota is recruiting a Head, Library Digital Initiatives, Systems, and Services.
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- Provide leadership in major digital initiatives that facilitate the development of digital resources and services (such as an Institutional Repository; systems to facilitate Research Data Management, systems to facilitate creation, management, accessibility, and preservation of digital collections; systems to facilitate work with Digital Humanities, etc.) . . . .
- Provides support to library staff to facilitate effective use of library information systems and computing resources, and advises library units and department heads to accomplish library goals and objectives
- Provide leadership and direction in planning, coordinating, Implementing, evaluating, maintaining, and managing of electronic databases, computer resources, and information systems
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Charlotte Roh has published "Library Publishing and Diversity Values: Changing Scholarly Publishing through Policy and Scholarly Communication Education" in College & Research Libraries News.
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What are the consequences of this lack of diversity in publishing, librarianship, and faculty? We know already that privilege can bias access to material, which is part of why the open access movement exists, to alleviate the barriers that cost can create for researchers. However, one possible consequence is a feedback loop in scholarship that privileges and publishes the majority voice, which is often white and male.
Stanford University is recruiting a Sound Archives Librarian.
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The sound archives librarian is responsible for the arrangement and description of archival collections of sound recordings and related materials in the Archive of Recorded Sound to allow efficient discovery of the items and collections, assuring the discoverability of published sound recordings, providing public service and reference to ARS patrons, collaborating with the Media Preservation Lab to digitize recordings for patrons on demand in fulfillment of their research requests and on digital preservation projects, creating and maintaining content for the Archive's website, supervising the ARS operations manager and student staff, and assisting in the assessment of gift collections as necessary.
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Hilda Bastian has published "Open Access 2015: A Year Access Negotiators Edged Closer to the Brink " in Absolutely Maybe.
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It's the year many negotiators got seriously tough on double dipping—charging for both the ability to read (via subscriptions) and for publishing (author processing charges, or APCs).
Last year it was France getting tough on the toughest negotiator: Elsevier. This year, the Netherlands took it right to the brink of cutting Elsevier loose. It was summed up by a January headline: "Dutch universities dig in for long fight over open access".
Concordia College is recruiting a Systems and Web Services Librarian.
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Concordia College is seeking a collaborative, innovative, and service-oriented Systems and Web Services Librarian who will have primary responsibility for the library's technology infrastructure (library management system, digital collections, discovery solutions, and related tools) and integration with campus systems (Moodle, campus content management system, financial and student systems).
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Günter Waibel has been named the Associate Vice Provost and Executive Director of the California Digital Library.
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In his current position as the Director of the Digitization Program Office at the Smithsonian Institution, Waibel oversees the strategic plan for creating a digital Smithsonian out of the institution's 19 museums and 9 research centers. . . . Prior to coming to the Smithsonian, Waibel promoted network-based solutions on behalf of an international collaborative of 140 research libraries as Program Officer for the Research Libraries Group and the OCLC Research Library Partnership. Waibel has an MA in English Literature from Georgetown University and taught in the digital library certificate program for Syracuse University’s iSchool from 2003 to 2008.
The University of California Curation Center is recruiting a Senior Developer / DevOps Administrator.
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The Senior Software Developer / DevOps Administrator will be involved in application-level development, maintenance, and enhancement, as well as the architectural design, operational support, and system-level administration of this infrastructure.
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The Department Of Commerce Internet Policy Task Force has released White Paper on Remixes, First Sale, and Statutory Damages.
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The U.S. Department of Commerce has played a key role in addressing Internet policy-related issues since it launched the Internet Policy Task Force in April 2010. Two years ago, the Task Force published a Green Paper on Copyright Policy, Creativity and Innovation in the Digital Economy—the most comprehensive assessment of digital copyright policy issued by any Administration since 1995. The review process that culminated in this White Paper serves as a testament to the importance the Administration has placed on the development of updated and balanced copyright law in the digital environment.
Read more about it at "The Commerce Department Has Good Recommendations for Fixing Copyright Law —But More Is Needed."
The University of California Curation Center is recruiting a Senior Software Developer.
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Senior Software Developer will build and support the growing suite of digital curation and preservation services offered by the University of California Curation Center (UC3, http://www.cdlib.org/uc3) at the California Digital Library (CDL), an administrative unit of the University of California Office of the President (UCOP).
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OAPEN-UK has released OAPEN-UK Final Report: A Five-Year Study into Open Access Monograph Publishing in the Humanities and Social Sciences .
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Examining the attitudes and perceptions of funders, researchers, publishers, learned societies, universities and libraries, our study reiterated the deep strength of feeling and connectedness that each group has with the monograph, especially in terms of identity and reputation. It also found that while many think open access is a good idea in principle, there is uncertainty about how easy it would be to implement the necessary policies and systems to support OA monographs.
