Month: February 2019

"Public Knowledge Opposes Net Neutrality Bills Weakening FCC’s Authority to Protect Consumers"

Public Knowledge has released "Public Knowledge Opposes Net Neutrality Bills Weakening FCC's Authority to Protect Consumers" by Shiva Stella.

Here's an excerpt:

At today's House Energy & Commerce Committee's Communications & Technology Subcommittee hearing on protecting the Open Internet, Republican members announced they have introduced or will introduce several pieces of legislation aimed at prohibiting anti-competitive and harmful broadband-provider practices. Congressman Bob Latta (R-OH) announced he has introduced the Open Internet Act of 2019. Congressman Greg Walden (R-OR) announced he intends to introduce legislation modeled on the 2015 Thune/Upton draft net neutrality legislation, and that Congresswoman Cathy McMorris-Rodgers (R-WA) intends to introduce legislation modelled after Washington state's 2018 net neutrality law.

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Associate Librarian, Data Management Services at Memorial Sloan Kettering

Memorial Sloan Kettering is recruiting an Associate Librarian, Data Management Services.

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

Reporting to and working closely with the Director of Library Services, this dynamic individual will provide comprehensive and customized data services in support of the Center’s research needs. In this newly created position, the candidate will be responsible for designing services and programs to support research data management and data literacy, as well as developing policies and procedures for data curation, sharing, and reuse.

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"Research Data Reusability: Conceptual Foundations, Barriers and Enabling Technologies"

Costantino Thanos has published "Research Data Reusability: Conceptual Foundations, Barriers and Enabling Technologies" in Publications (CC BY 4.0).

Here's an excerpt:

High-throughput scientific instruments are generating massive amounts of data. Today, one of the main challenges faced by researchers is to make the best use of the world's growing wealth of data. Data (re)usability is becoming a distinct characteristic of modern scientific practice. By data (re)usability, we mean the ease of using data for legitimate scientific research by one or more communities of research (consumer communities) that is produced by other communities of research (producer communities). Data (re)usability allows the reanalysis of evidence, reproduction and verification of results, minimizing duplication of effort, and building on the work of others. It has four main dimensions: policy, legal, economic and technological. The paper addresses the technological dimension of data reusability. The conceptual foundations of data reuse as well as the barriers that hamper data reuse are presented and discussed. The data publication process is proposed as a bridge between the data author and user and the relevant technologies enabling this process are presented.

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Data Services Librarian at Clemson University

Clemson University is recruiting a Data Services Librarian.

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

The Data Services Librarian will develop and provide services that support faculty, researchers, and students in the discovery, use, preservation, and visualization of data. The Data Services librarian will coordinate and teach instruction sessions and programming related to research data management and provide consultations for researchers in collaboration with subject librarians.

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"Data Discovery Paradigms: User Requirements and Recommendations for Data Repositories"

Mingfang Wu et al. have published "Data Discovery Paradigms: User Requirements and Recommendations for Data Repositories" in Data Science Journal (CC BY 4.0).

Here's an excerpt:

As data repositories make more data openly available it becomes challenging for researchers to find what they need either from a repository or through web search engines. This study attempts to investigate data users’ requirements and the role that data repositories can play in supporting data discoverability by meeting those requirements. We collected 79 data discovery use cases (or data search scenarios), from which we derived nine functional requirements for data repositories through qualitative analysis. We then applied usability heuristic evaluation and expert review methods to identify best practices that data repositories can implement to meet each functional requirement. We propose the following ten recommendations for data repository operators to consider for improving data discoverability and user’s data search experience:

1. Provide a range of query interfaces to accommodate various data search behaviours.

2. Provide multiple access points to find data.

3. Make it easier for researchers to judge relevance, accessibility and reusability of a data collection from a search summary.

4. Make individual metadata records readable and analysable.

5. Enable sharing and downloading of bibliographic references.

6. Expose data usage statistics.

7. Strive for consistency with other repositories.

8. Identify and aggregate metadata records that describe the same data object.

9. Make metadata records easily indexed and searchable by major web search engines.

10. Follow API search standards and community adopted vocabularies for interoperability.

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"The Relationship between Usage and Citations in an Open Access Mega Journal"

Barbara McGillivray and Mathias Astell have self-archived "The Relationship between Usage and Citations in an Open Access Mega Journal."

Here's an excerpt:

How does usage of an article relate to the number of citations it accrues? Does the timeframe in which an article is used (and how much that article is used) have an effect on when and how much that article is cited? What role does an article's subject area play in the relationship between usage and citations? This paper aims to answer these questions through an observational study of usage and citation data collected about a multidisciplinary, open access mega journal, Scientific Reports. We find that while the direct correlation between usage and citations is only moderate at best, the relationship between how early and how much an article is used and how early it is cited is much clearer. What is more, we find that when an article is cited earlier it is also cited more often, leading to the assertion that if an article is more highly accessed early on, it is more likely to be cited earlier and more often.

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Digital Program Librarian at Syracuse University

Syracuse University is recruiting a Digital Program Librarian.

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

Reporting to the Associate Dean of Research and Scholarship, the Head of the Digital Library Program (DLP) works with the Digital Library Core Team, Libraries' administration, and relevant senior departmental managers to establish the vision, set strategic goals, and identify projects and priorities for the Digital Library Program. The Head of the DLP manages day-to-day activities of the DLP, collaborates closely with library and campus partners on DLP projects, establishes and adheres to policies and procedures, and ensures overall coherence within the organization.

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"Library Publisher Resources: Making Publishing Approachable, Sustainable, and Values-Driven"

Jenny Hoops and Sarah Hare have published "Library Publisher Resources: Making Publishing Approachable, Sustainable, and Values-Driven" in College & Research Libraries News.

Here's an excerpt:

This article highlights exemplary library publishing resources that are educational and prompt editorial team reflection about author rights, open access, or experimental publishing. We hope that this will serve as an immediately useful resource for those embedded in library publishing work, as many of these resources can be easily adapted and remixed.

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Application Developer at University of Iowa

The University of Iowa is recruiting an Application Developer.

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

The Library Application Developer provides support and development for central library applications, including commercial applications as well as locally developed systems. Consults with users to define functional/technical specifications for limited scope solutions. Troubleshoots/debugs/identifies malfunctioning systems and implements software fixes. This position reports to the Head of LIT Department.

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"Academic Libraries as Unlikely Defendants: A Comparative Fair Use Analysis of the Georgia State University E-Reserves and HathiTrust Cases"

Laura Burtle and Mariann Burright have self-archived "Academic Libraries as Unlikely Defendants: A Comparative Fair Use Analysis of the Georgia State University E-Reserves and HathiTrust Cases."

Here's an excerpt:

Academic libraries rely on fair use for key functions in support of education. Among these functions are provision of electronic reserves, mass digitization, provision of access for print-disabled students, and preservation. These were the practices at issue in the 2008 Georgia State University e-reserves case and the 2012 HathiTrust case. This article explores the two lawsuits where libraries were sued for alleged copyright infringement. We explore how the courts in each case applied fair use to the facts of the case, compare and contrast the courts' analysis, and explain the role that transformative use plays in distinguishing the outcomes. Finally, the article applies lessons learned from the two cases to common library activities.

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