Month: June 2018

User Experience/Web Design Librarian at University of San Francisco

The University of San Francisco is recruiting a User Experience/Web Design Librarian.

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

The User Experience / Web Design Librarian will have primary responsibility for the assessment, integration, and usability of the library’s web interfaces for resource discovery, including, but not limited to, the integrated library system (III/WebPac/Encore), discovery service (EBSCO/EDS), resource guides and room booking services (Springshare), digital and special collections systems, and library web sites.

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"Social Media Metrics for New Research Evaluation"

Paul Wouters et al. have self-archived "Social Media Metrics for New Research Evaluation."

Here's an excerpt:

This chapter approaches, both from a theoretical and practical perspective, the most important principles and conceptual frameworks that can be considered in the application of social media metrics for scientific evaluation. We propose conceptually valid uses for social media metrics in research evaluation. The chapter discusses frameworks and uses of these metrics as well as principles and recommendations for the consideration and application of current (and potentially new) metrics in research evaluation.

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Digital Initiatives Coordinator at Georgetown University Law Center

The Georgetown University Law Center is recruiting a Digital Initiatives Coordinator.

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

The Digital Initiatives Coordinator is responsible for the oversight, maintenance, and advancement of digital projects and collections falling under the purview of the Digital Initiatives Department at the Georgetown University Law Library.

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"A Conceptual Enterprise Framework for Managing Scientific Data Stewardship"

Ge Peng et al. have published "A Conceptual Enterprise Framework for Managing Scientific Data Stewardship" in the Data Science Journal.

Here's an excerpt:

Scientific data stewardship is an important part of long-term preservation and the use/reuse of digital research data. It is critical for ensuring trustworthiness of data, products, and services, which is important for decision-making. Recent U.S. federal government directives and scientific organization guidelines have levied specific requirements, increasing the need for a more formal approach to ensuring that stewardship activities support compliance verification and reporting. However, many science data centers lack an integrated, systematic, and holistic framework to support such efforts. The current business- and process-oriented stewardship frameworks are too costly and lengthy for most data centers to implement. They often do not explicitly address the federal stewardship requirements and/or the uniqueness of geospatial data. This work proposes a data-centric conceptual enterprise framework for managing stewardship activities, based on the philosophy behind the Plan-Do-Check-Act (PDCA) cycle, a proven industrial concept. This framework, which includes the application of maturity assessment models, allows for quantitative evaluation of how organizations manage their stewardship activities and supports informed decision-making for continual improvement towards full compliance with federal, agency, and user requirements.

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Teaching and Digital Projects Librarian at Emory University

Emory University is recruiting a Teaching and Digital Projects Librarian.

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

The successful candidate for this position will develop innovative services, modules, and programs to assist first and second year students in building important information literacy abilities.

The Teaching and Digital Projects librarian will also oversee development of innovative services and programs for students and faculty; assist with development of digital portfolios; assist with scholarly communications and open access initiatives; and use knowledge of disciplinary trends to maintain and/or implement digital systems and repositories.

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"More Than 1 Million Images Now Publicly Available at library.artstor.org!"

Artstor has released "More Than 1 Million Images Now Publicly Available at library.artstor.org!."

Here's an excerpt:

Artstor has made more than 1 million image, video, document, and audio files from public institutional collections freely available to everyone—subscribers and non-subscribers alike—at library.artstor.org. These collections are being shared by institutions who make their content available via JSTOR Forum, a tool that allows them to catalog, manage, and share digital media collections and make them discoverable to the widest possible audience.

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Digital Library QA Developer Lead at University of Notre Dame

The University of Notre Dame is recruiting a Digital Library QA Developer Lead.

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

Under the direction of the Co-Director, Digital Initiatives and Scholarship Program, we are seeking an experienced quality assurance professional to direct the testing and monitoring of our library applications. We develop and host a wide range of software services from web applications (library website), messaging services, databases, search indexes, and our digital repository (CurateND). These provide, discovery, access, and preservation of content including digital collections, research data, exhibits, and digitized videos for classroom usage. Ensuring both access and data integrity of our hosted collections is critical to our mission.

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"Looking for Commitment: Finnish Open Access Journals, Infrastructure and Funding"

Jyrki Ilva has published "Looking for Commitment: Finnish Open Access Journals, Infrastructure and Funding" in Insights.

Here's an excerpt:

Most of the 100+ Finnish scholarly journals are published by small learned societies. Since 2015, the National Library of Finland and the Federation of Finnish Learned Societies have been working on a joint project which aims to provide the journals with the support they need for making a transition to open access. The project has launched an OJS-based shared publication platform (Journal.fi), which is already used by 50 journals. It has also been developing a new funding model for the journals. Since the subscription and licensing costs paid by the research libraries for these journals have been very small, it is not possible to simply use these funds to pay for open access. Instead, the project has been working on a consortium-based model, under which the Finnish research organizations and funders would commit themselves to providing long-term funding to the journals. In return, the journals would pledge to follow strict standards in openness, licensing, peer review and infrastructure.

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Front-End Web Developer at NC State University

NC State University is recruiting a Front-End Web Developer.

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

The Front-End Web Developer will collaborate with experienced project coordinators on the development of an open source web application for displaying digital media in large-scale visualization environments. Work will primarily involve the creation of a web template that allows an end-user to develop and deploy a responsive display web page with varied digital media.

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University of California: "Re: Declaration of Rights and Principles to Transform Scholarly Communication"

The University of California's University Committee on Library and Scholarly Communication has released "Re: Declaration of Rights and Principles to Transform Scholarly Communication."

Here's an excerpt:

1. No copyright transfers. Our authors shall be allowed to retain copyright in their work and grant a Creative Commons Attribution license of their choosing.

2. No restrictions on preprints. Our authors shall have the right to submit for publication work they have previously made available as preprints.

3. No waivers of OA Policy. Publishers shall not require our authors to provide waivers of our Institutional OA Policy as a condition for publishing our work.

4. No delays to sharing. Publishers shall make work by our authors immediately available for harvest or via automatic deposit into our Institutional OA repository or another public archive.

5. No limitations on author reuse. Our authors shall have the right to reuse figures, tables, data, and text from their published work without permission or payment.

6. No impediments to rights reversion. Publishers shall provide a simple process for our authors to regain copyright in their previously published work.

7. No curtailment of copyright exceptions. Licenses shall not restrict, and should instead expressly protect, the rights of authors, institutions, and the public to reuse excerpts of published work consistent with legal exceptions and limitations on copyright such as fair use.

8. No barriers to data availability. Our authors shall have the right to make all of their data, figures, and other supporting materials from their published work publicly available.

9. No constraints on content mining. Publishers shall make licensed materials open, accessible, and machine-readable for text and data mining by our researchers, at no additional cost and under terms that allow retention and reuse of results.

10. No closed metadata. Publishers shall make bibliographic records, usage metrics, and citation data for our authors freely available, easy to parse, and machine-readable.

11. No free labor. Publishers shall provide our Institution with data on peer review and editorial contributions by our authors in support of journals, and such contributions shall be taken into account when determining the cost of our subscriptions or OA fees for our authors.

12. No long-term subscriptions. Publishers shall provide our Institution with plans and timelines for transitioning their subscription journals to OA.

13. No permanent paywalls. Our Institution shall receive perpetual access for previously licensed content and back files shall be made freely available once a journal transitions to OA.

14. No double payments. Publishers shall provide our Institution with data on hybrid OA payments from our authors and such payments shall reduce the cost of our subscriptions.

15. No hidden profits. Publishers shall use transparent pricing for the services they provide our authors when levying article processing charges and other fees associated with publishing.

16. No deals without OA offsets. Our Institution shall only enter into publishing agreements that include offsets for OA publishing by our authors.

17. No new paywalls for our work. Work by our authors shall be made OA on the publisher’s website as part of subscription terms for new journals.

18. No non-disclosure agreements. Publisher agreements with our Institution shall be transparent and shall not contain terms that prevent the sharing of their contents.

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User Experience Resident Librarian at University of Chicago

The University of Chicago is recruiting a User Experience Resident Librarian.

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

Reporting to the Web Program Director, the User Experience Resident Librarian will develop and coordinate the User Experience (UX) Program for the Library's websites and discovery systems, and bring knowledge of user research methods, current approaches to web design, and an understanding of users in the context of higher education. This position will work closely with the Library's web and application developers and other Library staff.

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"Stanford Libraries Awarded $4 Million Grant to Implement Linked Data Metadata Environment"

The Stanford Libraries have released "Stanford Libraries Awarded $4 Million Grant to Implement Linked Data Metadata Environment."

Here's an excerpt:

A proposal to dramatically shift how libraries create metadata and greatly improve how users discover library holdings has been accepted and awarded to Stanford Libraries by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. In partnership with the libraries of Cornell, Harvard and the University of Iowa, Stanford will lead the effort to integrate library data into the Web, in a semantic way, so it can be discovered intelligently in Web searches as well as in a library’s catalogue.

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