Month: March 2019

Web Application Developer at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is recruiting a Web Application Developer.

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

Serving as a member of the Web Team, the Web Application Developer will program and maintain complex web-based applications or sites within the Library. This position is expected to act independently within guidelines, make changes with limited risk, and propose work.

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"Guidelines for Open Peer Review Implementation"

Tony Ross-Hellauer and Edit Gõrõgh have published "Guidelines for Open Peer Review Implementation" in Research Integrity and Peer Review (Attribution 4.0 International License).

Here's an excerpt:

Open peer review (OPR) is moving into the mainstream, but it is often poorly understood and surveys of researcher attitudes show important barriers to implementation. As more journals move to implement and experiment with the myriad of innovations covered by this term, there is a clear need for best practice guidelines to guide implementation. This brief article aims to address this knowledge gap, reporting work based on an interactive stakeholder workshop to create best-practice guidelines for editors and journals who wish to transition to OPR. Although the advice is aimed mainly at editors and publishers of scientific journals, since this is the area in which OPR is at its most mature, many of the principles may also be applicable for the implementation of OPR in other areas (e.g., books, conference submissions).

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Digital Publishing Specialist at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is recruiting a Digital Publishing Specialist.

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

Reporting to the Head of Scholarly Communications and Publishing, the Digital Publishing Specialist will provide the Library’s Scholarly Communications and Publishing Unit with outreach, project management, and production workflow support as part of the Library’s effort to offer high quality, open access publishing services to the Urbana-Champaign campus and beyond. The Specialist will initially also participate in the Andrew W. Mellon-funded "Publishing Without Walls" initiative (https://news.illinois.edu/blog/view/6367/256174).

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"Decoding Academic Fair Use: Transformative Use and the Fair Use Doctrine in Scholarship"

Matthew D. Bunker has published "Decoding Academic Fair Use: Transformative Use and the Fair Use Doctrine in Scholarship" in The Journal of Copyright in Education and Librarianship.

Here's an excerpt:

Fair use in copyright law is an enormously complex legal doctrine. Although much scholarly attention has been paid to fair use in the context of teaching—particularly in on-line education—relatively little research exists on the problem of fair use in scholarship. This article analyzes reported federal cases on fair use in scholarly contexts, with a particular emphasis on the transformative use doctrine that has become enormously influential in fair use determinations. The article explores insights from this body of case law that may assist future scholars wishing to fairly use copyrighted expression in their scholarship.

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Digital Publishing Librarian at York University

York University is recruiting a Digital Publishing Librarian.

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

Reporting to the Director, Digital Scholarship Infrastructure, the Digital Publishing Librarian leads in developing policies and processes that underpin a robust library scholarly publishing program. Collaborating closely with the Open Scholarship and Library Digital Systems and Initiatives Departments, the Digital Publishing Librarian is an important member in a larger functional team that engages in campus-wide advocacy and targeted education to promote the values and opportunities of openness.

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"Don’t Sacrifice Fair Use to the Bots"

Elliot Harmon has published "Don't Sacrifice Fair Use to the Bots" in DeepLinks.

Here's an excerpt:

It's easy to see the impact that Content ID has had on the YouTube community—a simple search reveals hundreds of videos about how to avoid a Content ID takedown, with litanies of guidelines about keeping clips to a certain length, adding a colored border to them, or keeping the copyrighted content in a certain corner of the screen.

That's the problem. The beauty of fair use is its inherent flexibility. The law does not provide specific rules about how long of a clip must be for you to use it in your parody or criticism or whether it can take up the full screen. But in a filtered Internet, the algorithms create new restrictions on our online speech. The danger of mandatory filtering is that machines will replace human judgment.

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Digital Scholarship Librarian at York University

York University is recruiting a Digital Scholarship Librarian.

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

Reporting to the Director, Digital Scholarship Infrastructure, the incumbent will collaborate with colleagues and stakeholders to expand digital fluencies and address the growing interest in digital scholarship at York University. This individual will take a lead role by cultivating programmatic approaches for digital scholarship, developing sustainable workflows and practices, and elevating and maturing the Libraries’ digital programs.

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"Bringing Citations and Usage Metrics Together to Make Data Count"

Helena Cousijn et al. have published "Bringing Citations and Usage Metrics Together to Make Data Count" in Data Science Journal.

Here's an excerpt:

Over the last years, many organizations have been working on infrastructure to facilitate sharing and reuse of research data. This means that researchers now have ways of making their data available, but not necessarily incentives to do so. Several Research Data Alliance (RDA) working groups have been working on ways to start measuring activities around research data to provide input for new Data Level Metrics (DLMs). These DLMs are a critical step towards providing researchers with credit for their work. In this paper, we describe the outcomes of the work of the Scholarly Link Exchange (Scholix) working group and the Data Usage Metrics working group. The Scholix working group developed a framework that allows organizations to expose and discover links between articles and datasets, thereby providing an indication of data citations. The Data Usage Metrics group works on a standard for the measurement and display of Data Usage Metrics. Here we explain how publishers and data repositories can contribute to and benefit from these initiatives. Together, these contributions feed into several hubs that enable data repositories to start displaying DLMs. Once these DLMs are available, researchers are in a better position to make their data count and be rewarded for their work.

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More Coverage of the University of California’s Cancellation of Its Elsevier Subscriptions

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Assistant Librarian–Data Management at University of Wyoming

The University of Wyoming is recruiting an Assistant Librarian–Data Management.

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Provide leadership and management for the UW Libraries' data repository. Work with campus partners including the Advanced Research Computing Center and the Office of Research and Economic Development to manage the lifecycle of datasets related to UW faculty research. Provide consultation services to UW researchers and faculty about data management plans, data sharing platforms and funder requirements for datasets. Coordinate with library systems staff and university IT for the development and maintenance of the data repository.

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"Open Social Knowledge Creation and Library and Archival Metadata"

Dean Seeman and Heather Dean have published "Open Social Knowledge Creation and Library and Archival Metadata" in KULA: Knowledge Creation, Dissemination, and Preservation Studies.

Here's an excerpt:

While libraries and archives have attempted various ways to allow for open and social contributions to their metadata, these have not generally been effective or employed on a large scale, seemingly undercut by technical barriers, including the lack of broad and unfettered access to descriptive systems and standards. In addition, more open and social metadata creation brings into clearer focus the role and value of professional expertise and, at times, the mistrust in uncontrolled terminology within the profession. More open and social metadata production has the potential to be a disruptor in libraries and archives. While both librarians and archivists have preliminarily explored more social descriptive work, and are in theory open to experimentation, very real practical constraints have limited the realization of radically new approaches to metadata production to date. A profession and practice accustomed to constant change—and the promise and possibilities new technologies enable—will open new paths for metadata within libraries and archives.

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Manager of Library Systems and Development at Rutgers University

Rutgers University is recruiting a Manager of Library Systems and Development.

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

This position reports to the Assistant Vice President for Scholarly Communication and Collections. This position plays a leadership role for a team of library IT professionals in identifying and implementing powerful software solutions to fulfill the mission of the Rutgers University Libraries over four campuses (New Brunswick, Camden, Newark, RBHS). This position provides leadership for a team of library technical professionals responsible for developing, enhancing, and maintaining an extensive portfolio of Library applications and platforms.

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"Towards Open Annotation: Examples and Experiments"

Lindsey Seatter has published "Towards Open Annotation: Examples and Experiments" in KULA: Knowledge Creation, Dissemination, and Preservation Studies.

Here's an excerpt:

This article interrogates how digital text annotation tools and projects facilitate online engagement and virtual communities of practice. With the rise of the Web 2.0 movement and the proliferation of digital resources, annotation has evolved from an isolated practice to a collaborative one. This article unpacks the impact of this shift by providing an in-depth discussion of five web-based tools and two social reading projects. This article examines issues of design, usability, and applicability to pedagogical intervention as well as underscores how productive group dynamics can be fostered through digital, social annotation.

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