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Front-End Architect and Accessibility Specialist at University of Michigan

The University of Michigan is recruiting a Front-End Architect and Accessibility Specialist.

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

The specialist position is twofold. As Front-End Architect, this position provides leadership for creating and maintaining high-quality, efficient user interfaces and setting front-end development standards across the Library's websites, as well as for developing tools and workflows to maintain those standards. The Front-End Architect sets the direction for front-end development and coordinates related projects and initiatives, including the day-to-day work of other interface developers.

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"Open Access and the Graduate Author: A Dissertation Anxiety Manual"

Jill Cirasella and Polly Thistlethwaite have self-archived "Open Access and the Graduate Author: A Dissertation Anxiety Manual."

Here's an excerpt:

Now that dissertations are deposited and distributed electronically, students must perform yet another anxiety-inducing task: deciding whether they want to make their dissertations immediately open access (OA) or, at universities that require OA, coming to terms with openness. For some students, mostly in the humanities and some of the social sciences, who hope to transform their dissertations into books, OA has become a bogeyman, a supposed saboteur of book contracts and destroyer of careers.

This chapter examines the various access-related anxieties that plague graduate students. It is a kind of diagnostic and statistical manual of dissertation anxieties—a "Dissertation Anxiety Manual," if you will—describing anxieties surrounding book contracts, book sales, plagiarism, juvenilia, the ambiguity of the term online, and changes in scholarly research and production.

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Web Services Librarian at Rutgers University

Rutgers University is recruiting a Web Services Librarian.

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

This is a new position within the recently formed Shared User Services (SUS) unit, a dynamic and innovative team of library faculty and staff responsible for coordinating shared user services including the Libraries website, discovery infrastructure, online reference and shared instruction activities, and digital projects. This position will be responsible for coordinating the planning, design, maintenance, and evaluation of the Libraries web presence in order to improve the user experience, particularly for using the Libraries resources and services

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"Updating the Agenda for Academic Libraries and Scholarly Communications"

Clifford Lynch has published "Updating the Agenda for Academic Libraries and Scholarly Communications" in College & Research Libraries.

Here's an excerpt:

This issue of C&RL is focused on scholarly communication, and it seems appropriate, in this invited guest editorial, to step back and examine the broader agenda that academic and research libraries need to consider today in engaging with scholarly communications as a way of framing the issue. My view is that this agenda is ripe for re-thinking. The overall environment has changed significantly in the last few years, underscoring the growing irrelevance of some long-held ideas, and at the same time, clearly identifying new and urgent priorities. What I hope to do here is to summarize very succinctly my thoughts on the most pressing issues and the areas most needing reconsideration. Articles in this issue touch upon aspects of many of these topics; I hope that future authors may also find topical inspirations here.

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Associate University Librarian for Digital Technologies at Brown University

Brown University is recruiting an Associate University Librarian for Digital Technologies.

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

Contributing to the University's iconoclastic and entrepreneurial environment, the AUL provides strong leadership and strategic direction in the development, delivery, and integration of both traditional and innovative digital services, systems, and initiatives across the libraries. S/he supervises department heads for the following groups: Integrated Technology Services, Repository Services, Web Services, Digital Preservation, and works closely with the Library’s Center for Digital Scholarship.

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"An Empirical Study of Law Journal Copyright Practices"

Brian L. Frye, Christopher J. Ryan, Jr., and Franklin L. Runge have published "An Empirical Study of Law Journal Copyright Practices" in the Review of Intellectual Property Law.

Here's an excerpt:

This article presents an empirical study of the copyright practices of American law journals in relation to copyright ownership and fair use, based on a 24-question survey. It concludes that many American law journals have adopted copyright policies that are inconsistent with the expectations of legal scholars and the scope of copyright protection. Specifically, many law journals have adopted copyright policies that effectively preclude open-access publishing, and unnecessarily limit the fair use of copyrighted works. In addition, it appears that some law journals may not understand their own copyright policies. This article proposes the creation of a Code of Copyright Best Practices for Law Journals in order to encourage both open-access publishing and fair use.

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"Archiving Software Surrogates on the Web for Future Reference"

Helge Holzmann, Wolfram Sperber, Mila Runnwerth have self-archived "Archiving Software Surrogates on the Web for Future Reference."

Here's an excerpt:

Software has long been established as an essential aspect of the scientific process in mathematics and other disciplines. However, reliably referencing software in scientific publications is still challenging for various reasons. A crucial factor is that software dynamics with temporal versions or states are difficult to capture over time. We propose to archive and reference surrogates instead, which can be found on the Web and reflect the actual software to a remarkable extent. Our study shows that about a half of the webpages of software are already archived with almost all of them including some kind of documentation.

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Programmer I at Kansas State University

Kansas State University is recruiting a Programmer I.

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

Kansas State University Libraries invite applications and nominations for the position of Programmer. We are seeking an individual with a background in web application development using client side technologies, demonstrated proficiency in user interface design, and who has a demonstrated ability to learn and adopt new and relevant technologies.

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Creative Commons Releases CC Search Beta

The Creative Commons has released CC Search Beta.

Here's an excerpt from the announcement:

Our goal is to cover the whole commons, but we wanted to develop something people could test and react to that would be useful at launch. To build our beta, we settled on a goal to represent one percent of the known Commons, or about 10 million works, and we chose a vertical slice of images only, to fully explore a purpose-built interface that represented one type but many providers. . . .

After a detailed review of potential sources, the available APIs, and the quality of their datasets, we selected the Rijksmuseum, Flickr, 500px, the New York Public Library as our initial sources. Later, after discussions with the Metropolitan Museum of Art regarding their collection of public domain works, which were released under CC0 on February 7, 2017, we incorporated their 200,000 CC0 images as well. . . .

The prototype of this tool focuses on photos as its first media and uses open APIs in order to index the available works. The search filters allow users to search by license type, title, creator, tags, collection, and type of institution.

CC Search Beta also provides social features, allowing users to create and share lists as well as add tags and favorites to the objects in the commons, and save their searches. Finally, it incorporates one-click attribution, giving users pre-formatted copy for easy attribution.

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Software Engineer at Johns Hopkins University

Johns Hopkins University is recruiting a Software Engineer.

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

This position will be responsible for the development and support of repository infrastructure to provide services to Welch Medical Library and Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. The repository infrastructure will support important initiatives for Johns Hopkins University, including research integrity, research reproducibility, scholarly output services and precision medicine.

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Metropolitan Museum of Art Puts Images of Public Domain Artworks under Creative Commons Zero (CC0) License

The Metropolitan Museum of Art has put images of public domain artworks under the Creative Commons Zero (CC0) License.

Here's an excerpt from the announcement:

This morning, we announced a major update to the Museum's policy governing the use and reuse of images in our collection: all images of public-domain artworks in the Museum's collection are now available for free and unrestricted use under Creative Commons Zero (CC0). This updated policy, known as Open Access, enables everyone to utilize more than 375,000 images of public-domain artworks in The Met's collection in any media without permission or fee.

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Digital Services Section Manager at North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources

The North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources is recruiting a Digital Services Section Manager.

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

The Division of Archives and Records is seeking a manager of the Digital Services Section. The position manages, directs and oversees the resources, operations, personnel, programs and activities of the section in their key areas of responsibility, including developing standards and best practices for the preservation of and access to permanent electronic records and the division's digital assets.

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"E-Data Quality: How Publishers and Libraries are Working Together to Improve Data Quality"

Carlen Ruschoff et al. have published "Data Quality: How Publishers and Libraries are Working Together to Improve Data Quality " in Collaborative librarianship.

Here's an excerpt:

High quality data is essential for discovery and access of e-resources, but in many cases low quality, inaccurate information leads to low usage and a poor return on library investment dollars. In this article, publishers, aggregators, librarians, and knowledge base providers talk about how they are working together to improve access to e-resources.

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Research Data Manager at Springer Nature

Springer Nature is recruiting a Research Data Manager.

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

The successful candidate will work on research data publishing activities across Springer Nature. They will shape, manage and deliver open data projects and services at Springer Nature, which are intended to help researchers and editors publish more transparent and reproducible research.

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"ArchiveSpark: Efficient Web Archive Access, Extraction and Derivation"

Helge Holzmann, Vinay Goel, and Avishek Anand have self-archived "ArchiveSpark: Efficient Web Archive Access, Extraction and Derivation."

Here's an excerpt:

Web archives are a valuable resource for researchers of various disciplines. However, to use them as a scholarly source, researchers require a tool that provides efficient access to Web archive data for extraction and derivation of smaller datasets. Besides efficient access we identify five other objectives based on practical researcher needs such as ease of use, extensibility and reusability.

Towards these objectives we propose ArchiveSpark, a framework for efficient, distributed Web archive processing that builds a research corpus by working on existing and standardized data formats commonly held by Web archiving institutions. Performance optimizations in ArchiveSpark, facilitated by the use of a widely available metadata index, result in significant speed-ups of data processing. Our benchmarks show that ArchiveSpark is faster than alternative approaches without depending on any additional data stores while improving usability by seamlessly integrating queries and derivations with external tools.

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Web Developer at Center for Research Libraries

Center for Research Libraries is recruiting a Web Developer.

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

Under the direction of the Director of Information Systems, the candidate selected will work both independently, and in collaboration with other department staff, to design, develop, implement and maintain Web projects.

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"Pay What You Want as a Pricing Model for Open Access Publishing?"

Lucas Stich. Martin Spann. and Klaus M. Schmidt have self-archived "Pay What You Want as a Pricing Model for Open Access Publishing?"

Here's an excerpt:

We analyze "Pay What You Want" as a business model for Open Access publishing by discussing motives leading authors to make voluntary contributions, potential benefits for publishers and present results from a field experiment at one publisher. Data from the field experiment indicate authors’ willingness to voluntarily contribute.

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Open Publishing/Collections Librarian at Syracuse University

Syracuse University is recruiting a Open Publishing/Collections Librarian.

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

This position leads the Libraries' open publishing services for the University community. The position develops, champions, and assesses business models for open publishing, broad technical requirements, partnerships, strategy, and necessary policies and procedures. The position helps the Libraries serve the University not only as its principal buyer and lessor of scholarship, but by increasingly enhancing its global reputation by distributing its scholarship openly.

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"Librarians’ Perspectives on the Factors Influencing Research Data Management Programs"

College & Research Libraries has released an e-print of "Librarians' Perspectives on the Factors Influencing Research Data Management Programs."

Here's an excerpt:

This qualitative research study examines librarians' research data management (RDM) experiences, specifically the factors that influence their ability to support researchers' needs. Findings from interviews with 36 academic library professionals in the United States identify 5 factors of influence: 1) technical resources, 2) human resources, 3) researchers' perceptions about the library, 4) leadership support, and 5) communication, coordination, and collaboration. Findings show different aspects of these factors facilitate or constrain RDM activity. The implications of these factors on librarians' continued work in RDM are considered.

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Digital Scholarship Librarian at University of Delaware

The University of Delaware is recruiting a Digital Scholarship Librarian.

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

Reporting to the Associate University Librarian for Information Technology and Digital Initiatives, this position will collaborate with and support faculty, students, and staff involved in digital scholarship. Responsibilities include consulting on initial project development and recommending tools and methods that help best achieve the desired research and teaching goals. The Digital Scholarship Librarian will participate in the development of digital projects, develop and conduct individual training and group instruction, and conduct workshops on digital scholarship research methods, tools, platforms, and best practices. . . . This position will be responsible for coordinating library activities in support of the life cycle of digital projects and will serves as a key resource person in the Library on trends in digital scholarship, as the library develops a Digital Scholarship Center.

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Moving Open Access Implementation Forward: A Handbook for Open Access Good Practice Based on Experiences of UK Higher Education Institutions

Jisc has released Moving Open Access Implementation Forward: A Handbook for Open Access Good Practice Based on Experiences of UK Higher Education Institutions .

Here's an excerpt from the announcement:

Following the completion of the Open Access Good Practice (OAGP) initiative, we have produced a new handbook based on the experiences of the nine pathfinder projects. It is aimed at staff involved in supporting open access implementation at institutions in the UK.OAGP Handbook Cover

The handbook summarises the lessons learned by the projects and points towards key tools and resources.

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Research Data Archivist at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is recruiting a Research Data Archivist.

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

The primary purpose of this position is to (1) provide management for the Odum Institute social science data archive to include archive materials, systems and staff; (2) provide ongoing data management and archive support for researchers in the social and behavioral sciences at UNC-Chapel Hill and to external users; (3) interface with data producers and institutional partners to promote ongoing collection development; (4) support grant activities related to the archive functions of the Institute; and (5) contribute to the profession through conference participation and research publication.

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"ArchiveWeb: Collaboratively Extending and Exploring Web Archive Collections"

Zeon Trevor Fernando et al. have self-archived "ArchiveWeb: Collaboratively Extending and Exploring Web Archive Collections."

Here's an excerpt:

Curated web archive collections contain focused digital contents which are collected by archiving organizations to provide a representative sample covering specific topics and events to preserve them for future exploration and analysis. In this paper, we discuss how to best support collaborative construction and exploration of these collections through the ArchiveWeb system. . . . This paper describes the functionalities of our current prototype for searching, constructing, exploring and discussing web archive collections, as well as feedback on this prototype from seven archiving organizations, and our plans for improving the next release of the system.

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Senior UNIX System Administrator at California Digital Library

The California Digital Library is recruiting a Senior UNIX System Administrator.

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

Among other tasks, the senior UNIX system administrator applies advanced systems infrastructure concepts and organizational objectives to resolve highly complex issues where analysis of situations or data requires an in-depth evaluation of variable factors. This person selects methods, techniques and evaluation criteria to obtain results, gives presentations to associated team and other technical units and evaluates new technologies including performing moderate to complex cost/benefit analyses.

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Omeka Classic 2.5 Released

The Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at George Mason University has released Omeka Classic 2.5.

Here's an excerpt from the announcement:

The final day of January 2017 brings with it the release of the long awaited version 2.5 of Omeka Classic. While the release includes a long list of minor changes and bug fixes (see the release notes), there are a number of key improvements that were requested by the user community:

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