2016 – Page 3 – DigitalKoans

"Scholarly Management Publication and Open Access Funding Mandates: A Review of Publisher Policies"

Jessica Lange has published "Scholarly Management Publication and Open Access Funding Mandates: A Review of Publisher Policies" in Ticker: The Academic Business Librarianship Review.

Here's an excerpt:

This article will compare publishing policies from top management journals to funding agencies' open access requirements in order to determine which journals meet these conditions. . . . Results show that 80% of journals in the sample set are compatible with open access funding mandates. Of the journals which are compatible, 48% require an APC and 52% permit self-archiving in an acceptable time-frame.

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Scholarly Communication Project Coordinator at UCLA

UCLA is recruiting a Scholarly Communication Project Coordinator.

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

Reporting to the Head of Scholarly Communication and Licensing the Scholarly Communication Project Coordinator (SCPC) coordinates and provides paraprofessional support for all scholarly communication activities assumed by the Scholarly Communications and Licensing department. The SCPC serves as a "first responder" to questions from faculty, students, researchers, and librarians and library staff related to copyright, fair use, open access, open educational resources, and other scholarly-communication-related queries.

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"Elsevier Implements Data Citation Standards to Encourage and Reward Authors for Sharing Research Data"

Elsevier has released "Elsevier Implements Data Citation Standards to Encourage and Reward Authors for Sharing Research Data."

Here's an excerpt from the announcement:

Elsevier, a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, today announced that it has implemented the FORCE11 Joint Declaration of Data Citation Principles for over 1800 journals. This means that authors publishing with Elsevier are now able to cite the research data underlying their article, contributing to attribution and encouraging research data sharing with research articles.

The FORCE11 data citation principles were launched in 2014 with the aim to make research data an integral part of the scholarly record.

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Head, Learning Spaces & Services at North Carolina State University

North Carolina State University is recruiting a Head, Learning Spaces & Services.

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

The Learning Spaces & Services department, part of the Libraries' newly formed Student Success division, provides dynamic services, spaces, and technologies to enable all forms of learning, discovery, and research. Through its workshops, programs, and activities, students and faculty in all disciplines can explore and apply tools and systems for data visualization, 3D modeling, virtual environments, and digital media creation in their research and study. The department has overall responsibility for learning spaces including Learning Commons, Makerspaces, Digital Media Studios, and the Creativity Studio, as well as several teaching labs.

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"Evaluating the Consortia Purchase: Journal Usage in a Multi-Institution Setting"

Elsa K. Anderson, Stephen Maher, and Bill Maltarich have published "Evaluating the Consortia Purchase: Journal Usage in a Multi-Institution Setting" in Collaborative Librarianship.

Here's an excerpt:

When two or more institutions share a license, how do they measure use and value? For over a decade, the Levy Library at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, the Sid and Ruth Lapidus Library at the New York University School of Medicine, and New York University Libraries at New York University have shared several publisher packages and journal title subscriptions. In this paper, we present our analysis of usage data to assess the value of some of these consortial arrangements in their totality and to each library. Based on this analysis, we were able to adjust how each institution contributes to consortial arrangements. The paper will discuss challenges in analyzing consortial arrangements based on usage data and offer suggestions for how consortia-based acquisitions can be an effective allocation of library funds and strengthen support for the library in its institution.

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Director of the Center for Digital Scholarship at Brown University

Brown University is recruiting a Director of the Center for Digital Scholarship.

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

The Brown University Library is delighted to announce a new position: the Director of its Center for Digital Scholarship (CDS). CDS is a locus for digital activities at Brown, providing expertise and training in text analysis, text encoding, data management, geospatial analysis and data, digital publishing and scholarly project management. Members of CDS partner with faculty and students on developing and sustaining digital projects.

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"DPLA and Library of Congress Announce New Collaboration"

The Digital Public Library of America has released "DPLA and Library of Congress Announce New Collaboration."

Here's an excerpt:

The Library of Congress today signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the Digital Public Library of America to become a Content Hub and will ultimately share a significant portion of its rich digital resources with DPLA's database of digital content records.

The first batch of records will include 5,000 items from three major Library of Congress map collections—the Revolutionary War, Civil War, and panoramic maps.

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Digital Art: October’s Oil Paintings, Oil Stick Paintings, and Watercolor Paintings

In October, I continued to transform public domain photos into oil paintings, oil stick paintings, and watercolor paintings using a variety of Photoshop plug-ins and Topaz Impression. Full-size images (8×10" or 8×12") and descriptions of the processing steps involved are available on Flickr.

Digital Oil Painting of Ca' Vendramin Calergi

Digital Oil Painting of an Italian Villa's Kitchen

Digital Watercolor Painting of the Lachine Rapids

Digital Watercolor Painting of the Arno River Near the Ponte Santa Trinita

Digital Oil Stick Painting of the French Market in New Orleans

Digital Oil Stick Painting of a Pushcart Vendor

| Charles W. Bailey, Jr., Digital Artist |

Librarian—Systems at Long Beach Community College

Long Beach Community College is recruiting a Librarian—Systems.

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

The primary assignment involves the development, management, maintenance and continuously updating the Library's Website and incorporating instructional technologies consistent with online access to library resources and services across all electronic devices for students on campus as well as distance learners;

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"Does Online Access Promote Research in Developing Countries? Empirical Evidence from Article-Level Data"

Frank Mueller-Langer et al. have self-archived "Does Online Access Promote Research in Developing Countries? Empirical Evidence from Article-Level Data."

Here's an excerpt:

Universities in developing countries have rarely been able to subscribe to academic journals in the past. The "Online Access to Research in the Environment" initiative (OARE) provides institutions in developing countries with free online access to more than 5,700 environmental science journals. Here we analyze the effect of OARE registration on scientific output by research institutions in five developing countries. We apply a difference-in-difference estimation method using panel data for 18,955 journal articles from 798 research institutions. We find that online access via OARE increases publication output by at least 43% while lower-ranked institutions located in remote areas benefit less.

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Applications Programmer at University of Michigan

The University of Michigan is recruiting an Applications Programmer.

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

The University of Michigan Library is seeking a skilled programmer to help create and maintain large scale digital library systems. The successful candidate will work as part of a team of programmers, librarians, and designers on major initiatives including development of a system architecture to serve the U-M Library and campus based on Hydra and Fedora.

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"The Digitized Archival Document Trustworthiness Scale"

Devan Ray Donaldson has published "The Digitized Archival Document Trustworthiness Scale" in the International Journal of Digital Curation.

Here's an excerpt:

Designated communities are central to validation of preservation. If a designated community is able to understand and use information found within a digital repository, the assumption is that the information has been properly preserved. As judging the trustworthiness of information requires at least some level of understanding of that information, this paper presents results of a study aimed at developing a tool for measuring designated community members' perceptions of trustworthiness for preserved information found within a digital repository. The study focuses on genealogists at the Washington State Digital Archives who routinely interact with digitized genealogical records, including digitized marriage, death, and birth records. Results of the study include construction of an original Digitized Archival Document Trustworthiness Scale (DADTS). DADTS is a ready-made tool for digital curators to use to measure the trustworthiness perceptions of their designated community members. Implications of this study include the feasibility of engaging members of a designated community in the construction of a scale for measuring trustworthiness perception, thereby providing deeper insight into the understandability and usability of preserved information by that designated community.

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