Month: April 2019

Information Technology Projects Librarian at North Carolina State University

North Carolina State University is recruiting an Information Technology Projects Librarian.

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

The Information Technology Projects Librarian leads project and portfolio management for the Information Technology Department. Reporting directly to the Department Head of Information Technology, this position works closely with IT managers to improve project planning and apply project management practices to help department staff successfully bring projects to completion.

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"Teaching Research Data Management for Students"

Cord Wiljes and Philipp Cimiano have self-archived "Teaching Research Data Management for Students."

Here's an excerpt:

Sound skills in managing research data are a fundamental requirement in any discipline of research. Therefore, research data management should be included in academic education of students as early as possible. We have been teaching an interdisciplinary full semester's course on research data management for six years. We report how we established the course. We describe our competency-based approach to teaching research data management and the curriculum of topics that we consider essential. We evaluate our approach by a survey done among the participants of the course and summarize the lessons we learned in teaching the course.

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Head of Scholarly Communications and Data Management at Boise State University

Boise State University is recruiting a Head of Scholarly Communications and Data Management .

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

Boise State University's Albertsons Library seeks a Head of Scholarly Communications and Data Management who will serve as a strong open access advocate with a firm understanding of the practical challenges involved in transforming traditional research dissemination systems.

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Lead Library System & Applications Developer at University of California, Santa Barbara

The University of California, Santa Barbara is recruiting a Lead Library System & Applications Developer .

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Plays a key role in enhancing and optimizing the library enterprise systems, including Alma/Primo, Alexandria Digital Research Library, Inter-library loan, EZproxy, and integration with other campus systems and applications, in order to enable quality service and efficient workflows and meet the needs of our diverse user community. The UCSB Library Unified Resource Management Systems keeps track of nearly all the library collections, functions and workflows. . . . Primarily responsible for the UCSB Library Unified Resource Management System including, but not limited to, the design, development, modification, debugging, deployment and evaluation of library's highly complex enterprise software and scripts.

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"From Closed to Open Access: A Case Study of Flipped Journals"

Fakhri Momeni et al. have self-archived "From Closed to Open Access: A Case Study of Flipped Journals."

Here's an excerpt:

The aim of this paper is to show changes in the number of published articles and citations after the flipping of a journal. We analysed a set of 171 journals in the Web of Science (WoS) which flipped to open access. In addition to comparing the number of articles, average relative citation (ARC) and normalized impact factor (IF) are applied, respectively, as bibliometric indicators at the article and journal level, to trace the transformation of flipped journals covered. Our results show that flipping mostly has had positive effects on journal's IF. But it has had no obvious citation advantage for the articles. We also see a decline in the number of published articles after flipping. We can conclude that flipping to open access can improve the performance of journals, despite decreasing the tendency of authors to submit their articles and no better citation advantages for articles.

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Programming, Senior Specialist at University of Chicago

The University of Chicago is recruiting a Programming, Senior Specialist.

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Reporting to the Director of the Digital Library Development Center (DLDC), the Programming, Senior Specialist works with internal and external stakeholders to analyze workflows, develop design specifications, create, modify, implement, customize, test, document and maintain software solutions that provide access to information resources and that support the University of Chicago Library Digital Repository, the Library's digital collections, the Center for Digital Scholarship, the University's Institutional Repository, and systems for which the DLDC is responsible.

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"Ten Principles for Machine-Actionable Data Management Plans"

Tomasz Miksa et al. have published "Ten Principles for Machine-Actionable Data Management Plans" in PLOS Computational Biology.

Here's an excerpt:

Data management plans (DMPs) are documents accompanying research proposals and project outputs. DMPs are created as free-form text and describe the data and tools employed in scientific investigations. They are often seen as an administrative exercise and not as an integral part of research practice.

There is now widespread recognition that the DMP can have more thematic, machine-actionable richness with added value for all stakeholders: researchers, funders, repository managers, research administrators, data librarians, and others. The research community is moving toward a shared goal of making DMPs machine-actionable to improve the experience for all involved by exchanging information across research tools and systems and embedding DMPs in existing workflows. This will enable parts of the DMP to be automatically generated and shared, thus reducing administrative burdens and improving the quality of information within a DMP.

This paper presents 10 principles to put machine-actionable DMPs (maDMPs) into practice and realize their benefits. The principles contain specific actions that various stakeholders are already undertaking or should undertake in order to work together across research communities to achieve the larger aims of the principles themselves. We describe existing initiatives to highlight how much progress has already been made toward achieving the goals of maDMPs as well as a call to action for those who wish to get involved.

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