Month: April 2016

"Small Scholar-Led Scholarly Journals: Can They Survive and Thrive in an Open Access Future?"

Heather Morrison has published "Small Scholar-Led Scholarly Journals: Can They Survive and Thrive in an Open Access Future?" in Learned Publishing (open access article).

Here's an excerpt:

This article presents early results of a research project designed to further our understanding of how to ensure that small scholar-led journals can survive and thrive in a global open access knowledge commons. This phase of the research focuses on generation of ideas through interviews and focus groups with 15 participants involved in producing small scholar-led journals that either are or would like to become open access. Although a couple of journals reported that they could survive in an open access future based on existing resources, most were concerned about survival and none expressed confidence that they could thrive in an open-access future.

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Assistant Director for Library Technologies and Metadata at Davidson College

Davidson College is recruiting an Assistant Director for Library Technologies and Metadata.

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

Serves as a member of the library's leadership team and manages and directly supervises librarians and staff performing the systems, cataloging, and metadata functions. Leads the development, implementation, and assessment of policies, procedures, and programs in these areas. Acts as the library's primary contact with ITS. Participates in the creation of, planning for, and implementation of strategic library initiatives including direct participation in creating and managing technical solutions.

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Cambridge Press v. Georgia State University: "Here We Go Again: Latest GSU Ruling an Odd Victory for Libraries"

Kevin Smith has published "Here We Go Again: Latest GSU Ruling an Odd Victory for Libraries" in Scholarly Communications @ Duke.

Here's an excerpt:

So this ruling, like each ruling in the case, is clearly a disaster for the plaintiff publishers. Once again it establishes that there is significant space for fair use in higher education, even when that use is not transformative. Nevertheless, it is a difficult victory for libraries, in the sense that the analysis it uses is not one we can replicate; we simply do not have access to the extensive data about revenue, of which Judge Evans makes such complex use.

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University of Arizona Faculty Senate Passes Open Access Policy

The University of Arizona Faculty Senate has passed an open access policy.

Here's an excerpt from the announcement:

On April 4, 2016, the University of Arizona Faculty Senate passed an open access policy that calls on the faculty and university to distribute faculty-authored scholarly articles to the widest possible audience through the UA Campus Repository. The new policy was drafted by a faculty task force charged to "review how we as a faculty might act in order to expand access to our scholarly and research outputs."

The task force put forward a framework largely on open access policies previously passed by faculty bodies at universities including Harvard, MIT, Duke, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Penn State, Oregon State University, and the University of California system.

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JAVA Application Developer at Library of Congress

The Library of Congress is recruiting a JAVA Application Developer.

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

The Information Technology Specialist (JAVA Application Developer) serves as a technical expert in JAVA programming language and in the design, development, testing, implementation and support of software solutions for the Library, the Congress and other legislative agencies. The work of this position involves systems analysis, design, programming, testing, implementation and support of web-based applications supporting a wide range of business areas, including but not limited to: acquisition, bibliography access, collection services, copyright, finance, human resources, law, legislative research, partnerships & outreach, information technology and preservation.

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Coursera and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Launch MOOC-Based Master’s Degree in Data Science

Coursera and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have launched a MOOC-based Master's Degree in Data Science.

Here's an excerpt from the announcement:

Coursera, a leading online education company known for massive open online courses (MOOCs), today announced a professional data science master's degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Home to one of the top five computer science graduate programs in the United States, the University of Illinois will open access to its world-class data science curriculum at a fraction of the cost of a traditional on-campus or online master's degree through the Master of Computer Science in Data Science (MCS-DS) degree on Coursera.

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Manager of Library Applications at Johns Hopkins University

The Johns Hopkins University is recruiting a Manager of Library Applications.

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

Within a collaborative and service-oriented environment, the Manager of Library Applications manages the Library Directors Council Shared Services group and other application developers.

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Ithaka S+R US Faculty Survey 2015

Ithaka S+R has released the Ithaka S+R US Faculty Survey 2015 .

Here's an excerpt:

Ithaka S+R's survey of US faculty members has been fielded regularly since 2000. This project provides a periodic snapshot of practices and perceptions related to scholarly communications and information usage. The scholar-centric nature of the questionnaire ensures that potential changes in research and teaching inform our thinking, not only about academic libraries and scholarly publishing, but about changes in the educational enterprise more broadly.

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Software Developer at University of California, Santa Barbara

The University of California, Santa Barbara is recruiting a Software Developer.

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

Responsible for all aspects of design, programming, testing, deployment, operation, debugging, evaluation, and support for complex Library web applications. Works with the repository team, led by the director of repository development and operations, to enhance and support the Alexandria Digital Research Library (ADRL) and its cornerstone digital repository software system.

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"Fulfill Your Digital Preservation Goals with a Budget Studio"

Yongli Zhou has published "Fulfill Your Digital Preservation Goals with a Budget Studio" in Information Technology and Libraries.

Here's an excerpt:

In order to fulfill digital preservation goals, many institutions use high-end scanners for in-house scanning of historical print and oversize materials. However, high-end scanners' prices do not fit in many small institutions' budget. As digital single-lens reflex (DSLR) camera technologies advance and camera prices drop quickly, a budget photography studio can help to achieve institutions' preservation goals. This paper compares images delivered by a high-end overhead scanner and a consumer level DSLR camera, discusses pros and cons of using each method, demonstrates how to set up a cost efficient shooting studio, and presents a budget estimate for a studio.

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Programmer/Analyst at Indiana University

Indiana University is recruiting a Programmer/Analyst.

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

Provides leadership in the development, testing, maintenance, and support of high-performance, interactive web-based applications to promote the Libraries' strategic initiatives, with an emphasis on the Drupal-based IU Libraries web site and other Drupal-based sites, including Open Folklore.

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Trevor A. Dawes Named May Morris Librarian and Vice Provost for Libraries and Museums at the University of Delaware

Trevor A. Dawes, Associate University Librarian at Washington University, has been named as the May Morris Librarian and Vice Provost for Libraries snd Museums at the University of Delaware.

Here's an excerpt from the announcement:

At Washington University, Dawes has provided leadership, direction and guidance for scholarly services, diversity and outreach, scholarly communication, and collections and acquisitions.

Prior to joining the staff at Washington University, Dawes served as circulation services director of the Princeton University Library from 2004-13 and as head of the circulation and support services department of the Columbia University Libraries from 1999-2004.

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Digital Curation News (4/1/2016) #digitalcuration #digitalpreservation #datamanagement #researchdata #rdm

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Digital Archivist at Western Governors University

Western Governors University is recruiting a Digital Archivist.

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

The WGU Digital Archivist is responsible for collecting, organizing, cataloging and maintaining the university's important documents and records. The primary accountabilities of this position will be establishing a digital storage and retrieval system, working with all WGU departments to collect and preserve key documentation and records, and ensuring that the archives and updated, maintained, and accessible to university faculty and staff.

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"Transparency: The Emerging Third Dimension of Open Science and Open Data"

Liz Lyon has published "Transparency: The Emerging Third Dimension of Open Science and Open Data" in LIBER Quarterly.

Here's an excerpt:

This paper presents an exploration of the concept of research transparency. The policy context is described and situated within the broader arena of open science. This is followed by commentary on transparency within the research process, which includes a brief overview of the related concept of reproducibility and the associated elements of research integrity, fraud and retractions. A two-dimensional model or continuum of open science is considered and the paper builds on this foundation by presenting a three-dimensional model, which includes the additional axis of 'transparency'. The concept is further unpacked and preliminary definitions of key terms are introduced: transparency, transparency action, transparency agent and transparency tool.

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Chair, Libraries Information Technology at University of Florida

The University of Florida is recruiting a Chair, Libraries Information Technology.

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

The Chair of the Libraries Information Technology (IT Chair) department is a tenure track library faculty position responsible for leading a service oriented department of approximately 20 staff members that research, develop, optimize and support advanced information systems and technology for the Smathers Libraries. The IT Chair leads the Libraries' internal IT department, a service hub providing an array of services and support, including technical expertise for evaluating external service providers, application development, project management, risk management, and administration supporting collaborative and collegial ways of working across the Libraries to optimally deliver on program and project needs with minimal overhead.

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"Back to the Past: On the Shoulders of an Academic Search Engine Giant"

Alberto Martin-Martin et al. have self-archived "Back to the Past: On the Shoulders of an Academic Search Engine Giant."

Here's an excerpt:

A study released by the Google Scholar team found an apparently increasing fraction of citations to old articles from studies published in the last 24 years (1990-2013). To demonstrate this finding we conducted a complementary study using a different data source (Journal Citation Reports), metric (aggregate cited half-life), time spam (2003-2013), and set of categories (53 Social Science subject categories and 167 Science subject categories). Although the results obtained confirm and reinforce the previous findings, the possible causes of this phenomenon keep unclear. We finally hypothesize that first page results syndrome in conjunction with the fact that Google Scholar favours the most cited documents are suggesting the growing trend of citing old documents is partly caused by Google Scholar.

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