The University of Washington is recruiting a Linux Systems Administrator.
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This Systems Administrator position reports to the Systems Librarian, and serves as a member of the Libraries' highly collaborative system administration team. The team manages 60+ Linux servers in a high- availability environment that also includes a NetApp SAN/NAS and a number of Windows servers.
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Library Journal has released "Movers & Shakers 2016." The first group, advocates, was released yesterday and a new group will be released each day through 3/18.
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Fifteen years old and now over 750 leaders strong, Library Journal's Movers & Shakers (M&S) proudly introduces the Class of 2016-54 individuals profiled in 50 stories, who are changing the face of libraries of all types and sizes.
The University of Pennsylvania is recruiting a Scholarly Communications & Data Curation Librarian.
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As part of a collaborative team of librarians within the Digital Scholarship Department, the Scholarly Communications & Data Curation Librarian will explore new models for scholarly communication and digital publishing, participate in ongoing scholarly communication efforts, and take a leadership role in the publication, sharing, and reuse of research data across the disciplines. The incumbent will work closely with the Digital Publishing and Repository Coordinator to advocate for broad access to all scholarship created within the Penn communities and will take serve as a primary point of contact for training, education, and support for copyright and fair use questions within the library.
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UNESCO has released UNESCO/PERSIST Guidelines for the Selection of Digital Heritage for Long-Term Preservation.
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The aim of the Guidelines is to provide an overarching starting point for libraries, archives, museums and other heritage institutions when drafting their own policies on the selection of digital heritage for long-term sustainable digital preservation. Existing institutional policies may be assessed against the Guidelines and revised if required. The Guidelines address a diverse audience.
Schreiner University is recruiting a Digital Projects Librarian.
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This a 10 month, non-tenure-track position available Fall 2016. The successful candidate will assist in coordinating the design, creation, and maintenance of the collections and resources comprising the W.M. Logan Library as well managing a small Special Collections/ University Archives department.
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Thomas Margoni and Diane M. Peters have self-archived "Creative Commons Licenses: Empowering Open Access."
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Open access (OA) is a concept that in recent years has acquired popularity and widespread recognition. International statements and scholarly analysis converge on the following main characteristics of open access: free availability on the public Internet, permission for any users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, and link to the full texts of these articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, and use them for any other lawful purpose, without financial, legal, or technical barriers other than those inseparable from gaining access to the Internet itself. The only legal constraint on reproduction and distribution, and the only role for copyright in this domain, should be to give authors control over the integrity of their work and the right to be properly acknowledged and cited.
Johns Hopkins University is recruiting a Web Developer.
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As a member of the Digital Services and Systems team, the Web Developer will work closely with software developers and the user experience and service design officer to develop services that support research, teaching and clinical services at the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions (JHMI). The web developer reports to the Director of Digital Services and Systems. The web developer will primarily participate in design, execution, and maintenance of Welch Medical Library web properties.
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Angelina Kraft et al. have published "The RADAR Project-A Service for Research Data Archival and Publication" in the ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information.
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The aim of the RADAR (Research Data Repository) project is to set up and establish an infrastructure that facilitates research data management: the infrastructure will allow researchers to store, manage, annotate, cite, curate, search and find scientific data in a digital platform available at any time that can be used by multiple (specialized) disciplines. While appropriate and innovative preservation strategies and systems are in place for the big data communities (e.g., environmental sciences, space, and climate), the stewardship for many other disciplines, often called the "long tail research domains", is uncertain. Funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), the RADAR collaboration project develops a service oriented infrastructure for the preservation, publication and traceability of (independent) research data. The key aspect of RADAR is the implementation of a two-stage business model for data preservation and publication: clients may preserve research results for up to 15 years and assign well-graded access rights, or to publish data with a DOI assignment for an unlimited period of time. Potential clients include libraries, research institutions, publishers and open platforms that desire an adaptable digital infrastructure to archive and publish data according to their institutional requirements and workflows.
The University of Houston is recruiting a Application Developer 3.
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The University of Houston Libraries seeks a talented and experienced application developer to build and maintain complex internal and external-facing web applications. . . .The ideal candidate will possess a strong knowledge of object-oriented programming languages, web frameworks, and current best practices in code design and web technologies. In addition to continuous development on the Libraries' public-facing websites, projects will include: building web applications that support teaching and learning efforts; developing tools make the Libraries' collections and resources more discoverable; creating sites and applications that support internal library workflows and information sharing; and engaging with the open source community. This position reports to the Web Project Manager.
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The Conservation Center for Art & Historic Artifacts is accepting applications for its 2016 Preservation Needs Assessment Program.
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CCAHA is seeking applicants for its Preservation Needs Assessment Program. Through funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), CCAHA is able to offer a limited number of subsidized preservation needs assessments. Awarded institutions will pay a total of just $350 for services valued at over $5,000.
The University of Houston is recruiting a Web Developer 3.
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The University of Houston Libraries seeks a talented and experienced front-end web developer to create high quality, engaging user interfaces for web applications. The successful candidate will work within the Web Services department as part of a team of programmers, librarians, and designers on major initiatives that support library and campus goals around teaching, learning, and research. The ideal candidate will be skilled at combining the art of design with the art of programming and have advanced skills in web accessibility, responsive web design, and be able to masterfully translate UI/UX designs and wireframes into code.
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Laurent Romary, Mike Mertens, and Anne Baillot have self-archived "Data Fluidity in DARIAH—Pushing the Agenda Forward."
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This paper provides both an update concerning the setting up of the European DARIAH infrastructure and a series of strong action lines related to the development of a data centred strategy for the humanities in the coming years. In particular we tackle various aspect of data management: data hosting, the setting up of a DARIAH seal of approval, the establishment of a charter between cultural heritage institutions and scholars and finally a specific view on certification mechanisms for data.
Yale University is recruiting a Senior Systems Librarian.
Here's an excerpt from the ad:
Reporting to the Director of Enterprise Systems and Services in Library IT, the Senior Systems Librarian/Technical Lead oversees, monitors, and administers both the functional and technical components of library-based production services. Responsibility would extend to systems related to collections management, fulfillment, discovery and access, as well as digital repository and preservation. T
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Shahryar Sorooshian has published "Publication Phishing: A Growing Challenge for Researchers and Scientific Societies" in Current Science.
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Specifically, hijacked journals are those that scam researchers using identifiers and reputation of their original counterpart. These fraudsters present themselves as the principal journal editors by designing an on-line website for existing journals that offers print-only access, but lacks on-line or electronic access
Boston College is recruiting a Head Librarian, Digital Scholarship.
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The Head of Digital Scholarship will lead the team and colleagues across the libraries to envision, plan and deliver innovative and sustainable digital research services in concert with student, faculty, and library needs. Through exploration of new technologies, and engagement with digital scholarship and digital library practices, standards and systems, this individual will provide strong leadership, coordination, and project management for the team.
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Fred Dylla has published "Three Years after the OSTP Public Access Directive: A Progress Report" in The Scholarly Kitchen.
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So three years out from the directive, 1) public access policy is in place for 98% of the research funding from US federal agencies starting in the last year, 2) a robust article identification system is in place from Crossref that is already tracking more than 11,000 funding agencies worldwide, 3) CHORUS, a public-private partnership, is actively assisting the agencies with implementing their public access plans, 4) TDM solutions are beginning to appear, and 5) agencies, supported by various stakeholders, are making some headway on data management.
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Wayne State University is recruiting a Web Developer II.
Here's an excerpt from the ad:
- Manages Web Services and API development, especially in conjunction with the commercial library systems used by DALNET, currently Alma and Primo systems from Ex Libris
- Handles batch record loading, removal, and editing of database system records and has a working knowledge of SQL and relational database structures
- Manages middleware operations, troubleshoots complex configuration issues
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Nancy Pontika et al. have published "Developing Infrastructure to Support Closer Collaboration of Aggregators with Open Repositories" in Liber Quarterly.
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The COnnecting REpositories (CORE) project has been dealing with these challenges by aggregating and enriching content from hundreds of open access repositories, increasing the discoverability and reusability of millions of open access manuscripts. As repository managers and library directors often wish to know the details of the content harvested from their repositories and keep a certain level of control over it, CORE is now facing the challenge of how to enable content providers to manage their content in the aggregation and control the harvesting process. In order to improve the quality and transparency of the aggregation process and create a two-way collaboration between the CORE project and the content providers, we propose the CORE Dashboard.
Tufts University is recruiting a Software Engineer, Digital Library Services.
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Tufts Technology Services and the Tisch Library seek a talented software engineer to join a professionally interdisciplinary team of software engineers, archivists, and librarians in developing digital library and repository software solutions. The systems being developed enable management, preservation, and online discovery that support the research data and scholarly, scientific, and creative expression of researchers, instructors, and students throughout the University.
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Ithaka S+R has released A Day in the Life of a (Serious) Researcher: Envisioning the Future of the Research Library .
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Beyond this, the library is not even the best starting point for envisioning the library. A better starting point is to develop an understanding about the lives and information practices of the scholars and students who depend on the library in all its shapes and forms. Therefore, in this Cornell project, we looked at what academic researchers do day-to-day and how they acquire, use, and share information in the course of their daily activities. From our interpretations of these data we imagined new models.
The National Museum of Women in the Arts is recruiting a Project Digital Asset Manager.
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The Project Digital Asset Manager will work as part of the project team responsible for the implementation and use of NMWA's Digital Asset Management System (DAMS). The selected individual will assist the Library Director in creating policies and procedures, workflows, and user guides to use with the DAMS and future digitization projects. This individual will review and organize all images on the network drives, attach appropriate metadata, and begin digitizing items for public use online.
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Tony Horava has published "Making OA Monographs Happen: Library-Press Collaboration at the University of Ottawa, Canada" in Insights: The UKSG Journal.
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At the University of Ottawa, Canada, the UO Press and the UO Library have developed a strategic partnership to publish and disseminate selected new monographs as gold open access (OA). Starting in 2013, the Library agreed to fund three books at C$10,000 per book (a total of C$30,000 per year) in order to remove barriers to accessing scholarship and to align with scholarly communication goals of the University. In 2015 this agreement was renewed for another three years and the funding was increased to cover four books (a total of C$40,000 per year). Ten titles have so far been published under this model. The data reveals that there have been 12,629 downloads as well as 16,584 page views of these titles, as of September 2015. There have been over 4,700 copies (print and EPUB) sold in spite of the free availability of the PDF version.
Dartmouth College is recruiting a Dean of Libraries.
See the ad for details.
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Linda Naughton and David Kernohan have published "Making Sense of Journal Research Data Policies" in Insights: The UKSG Journal.
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This article gives an overview of the findings from the first phase of the Jisc Journal Research Data Policy Registry pilot (JRDPR), which is currently under way. . . . The project undertook an analysis of 250 journal research data policies to assess the feasibility of developing a policy registry to assist researchers and support staff to comply with research data publication requirements. The evidence shows that the current research data policy ecosystem is in critical need of standardization and harmonization if such services are to be built and implemented. To this end, the article proposes the next steps for the project with the objective of ultimately moving towards a modern research infrastructure based on machine-readable policies that support a more open scholarly communications environment.
