Month: April 2019

Systems and Web Development Librarian at Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine

The Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine is recruiting a Systems and Web Development Librarian.

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

The Systems and Web Development Librarian is responsible for implementing, maintaining, supporting, and enhancing a wide range of technologies and systems to provide innovative library services and ensure access to the library’s extensive range of online information resources and digital collections. This position supports library staff and local and remote library users in the use of existing information technology as well as the adoption of new technology.

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Open Access Tracking Project Has Tagged Over 77,200 Works


The Open Access Tracking Project is now an all volunteer project. Want to help? See: "Get Started as a Tagger."

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Application Administrator/Developer at University at Albany

The University at Albany is recruiting an Application Administrator/Developer.

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

The successful candidate will be a domain expert for the management of multiple proprietary and open source/community-developed library applications, including systems that support interlibrary loan, electronic reserves, proxy, archives, special collections, and institutional repository services. The position is responsible for administering, developing, integrating, deploying, and maintaining production-level library technology services that are robust, high-quality, and reliable, and meet the needs of library patrons and the University.

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"NYU Receives Major Grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation; Collaborative Effort Aims to Meet the Challenge of Preserving New Forms of Digital Scholarship"

New York University has released "NYU Receives Major Grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation; Collaborative Effort Aims to Meet the Challenge of Preserving New Forms of Digital Scholarship."

Here's an excerpt:

New York University has received a grant of $527,000 from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for a project to help ensure the preservation of complex new forms of digital scholarship. In the collaborative project, "Enhancing Services to Preserve New Forms of Scholarship," participating preservation service organizations will test the limits of their capabilities today, using their existing tools or drawing on partnerships to preserve a series of increasingly complex works from participating scholarly publishers. The ultimate goal is a clearly defined range of currently preservable technologies, as well as a set of guidelines and best practices for the publishing field.

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Digital Art: January’s Chalk and Charcoal Drawings, Oil Paintings, Oil Pastel Drawings, and Pastel Drawings

In January, I transformed photos into chalk and charcoal drawings, oil paintings, oil pastel drawings, and pastel drawings using a variety of specialized Photoshop plug-ins. Full-size download images and descriptions of the processing steps involved are freely available on Flickr. The images are available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License.

Digital Oil Painting of the North Window Arch

Digital Pastel Drawing of the Piazza San Marco

Digital Chalk and Charcoal Drawing of a Metaki Waterfall

Digital Oil Painting of the Madison River

Digital Pastel Drawing of Fossil Springs

Digital Oil Pastel Drawing of a View of San Giorgio Maggiore

Digital Oil Painting of Going-to-the-Sun Road

Charles W. Bailey, Jr., Digital Artist | List of All Artworks

Data Services Coordinator at University of North Carolina, Greensboro

University of North Carolina, Greensboro is recruiting a Data Services Coordinator.

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

Reporting to the Head of ROI [Research, Outreach and Instruction Department], the Data Services Coordinator will support the data needs of faculty, staff, and students at UNC Greensboro by coordinating data service initiatives across the libraries. The Coordinator will also provide oversight for government information.

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"Evaluating Zotero, SHERPA/RoMEO, and Unpaywall in an Institutional Repository Workflow "

Ashley D. R. Sergiadis has self-archived "Evaluating Zotero, SHERPA/RoMEO, and Unpaywall in an Institutional Repository Workflow."

Here's an excerpt:

East Tennessee State University developed a workflow to add journal publications to their institutional repository and faculty profiles using three tools: Zotero for entering metadata, SHERPA/RoMEO for checking copyright permissions, and Unpaywall for locating full-text documents. This study evaluates availability and accuracy of the information and documents provided by Zotero, SHERPA/RoMEO, and Unpaywall for journal publications in four disciplines.

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Immersive Technologies Librarian at University of Rochester

The University of Rochester is recruiting an Immersive Technologies Librarian.

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

The Immersive Technologies Librarian's primary focus is the creation of Studio X, a program and space for students, staff, and faculty to augmented, extended, mixed, and virtual reality (XR) and related technologies. . . . With the support of a range of collaborators within the libraries and beyond, the Immersive Technologies a Librarian designs and delivers an exploratory program that introduces students and faculty to tools, approaches, and technologies that make up XR, with an eye towards transforming coursework, inspiring new research directions, and providing support to innovative student and faculty projects.

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"COCI, the OpenCitations Index of Crossref Open DOI-to-DOI Citations"

Ivan Heibi et al. have self-archived "COCI, the OpenCitations Index of Crossref Open DOI-to-DOI Citations."

Here's an excerpt:

In this paper, we present COCI, the OpenCitations Index of Crossref open DOI-to-DOI citations (this http URL). COCI is the first open citation index created by OpenCitations, in which we have applied the concept of citations as first-class data entities, and it contains more than 445 million DOI-to-DOI citation links derived from the data available in Crossref. . . . We introduce the workflow we have developed for creating these data, and also show the additional services that facilitate the access to and querying of these data by means of different access points: a SPARQL endpoint, a REST API, bulk downloads, Web interfaces, and direct access to the citations via HTTP content negotiation. Finally, we present statistics regarding the use of COCI citation data, and we introduce several projects that have already started to use COCI data for different purposes.

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Analyst Programmer, Lead at Georgia State University

Georgia State University is recruiting an Analyst Programmer, Lead.

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

The University Library seeks to migrate our digital assets onto an open-source digital collections management system (Samvera). In order to adopt this system, a dedicated developer will be needed to improve and adapt this emerging software to meet our specifications. To that end, the developer will actively participate in and contribute to the Samvera software development community. Working with library staff in Digital Projects, Web Services, and Special Collections and Archives the developer will assess needs for the new open-source system, and will take the lead on installing, customizing, and maintaining Samvera components.

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"The ‘Invisible Hand’ of Peer Review: The Implications of Author-Referee Networks on Peer Review in a Scholarly Journal"

Pierpaolo Dondio et al. have published "The 'Invisible Hand' of Peer Review: The Implications of Author-Referee Networks on Peer Review in a Scholarly Journal" in the Journal of Informetrics.

Here's an excerpt:

Peer review is not only a quality screening mechanism for scholarly journals. It also connects authors and referees either directly or indirectly. This means that their positions in the network structure of the community could influence the process, while peer review could in turn influence subsequent networking and collaboration. . . . By reconstructing temporal co-authorship networks, we found that referees tended to recommend more positively submissions by authors who were within three steps in their collaboration network. We also found that co-authorship network positions changed after peer review, with the distances between network neighbours decreasing more rapidly than could have been expected had the changes been random. This suggests that peer review could not only reflect but also create and accelerate scientific collaboration.

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Head of the Digital Library at Washington University

Washington University is recruiting a Head of the Digital Library.

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

Reporting to the Associate University Librarian for the Digital Scholarship and Technology Services division at Washington University Libraries, the Director of the Digital Library plans, implements, directs, and sustains projects, partnerships, and initiatives for the Digital Library at Washington University Libraries in alignment with Libraries’ objectives and institutional goals for teaching and research. The incumbent will be a key leader in the development and expansion of the Digital Library and its comprehensive program of services, including digital publishing, repository services, metadata curation, and digital library application development.

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"Cold Storage Data Archives: More Than Just a Bunch of Tapes"

Bunjamin Memishi et al. have self-archived "Cold Storage Data Archives: More Than Just a Bunch of Tapes."

Here's an excerpt:

The abundance of available sensor and derived data from large scientific experiments, such as earth observation programs, radio astronomy sky surveys, and high-energy physics already exceeds the storage hardware globally fabricated per year. . . . While high-performance data analytics has received much attention from the research community, the growing number of problems in designing and deploying cold storage archives has only received very little attention.

In this paper, we take the first step towards bridging this gap in knowledge by presenting an analysis of four real-world cold storage archives from three different application domains. In doing so, we highlight (i) workload characteristics that differentiate these archives from traditional, performance-sensitive data analytics, (ii) design trade-offs involved in building cold storage systems for these archives, and (iii) deployment trade-offs with respect to migration to the public cloud.

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