Month: May 2019

Digital Initiatives Director at Indiana State Library

The Indiana State Library is recruiting a Digital Initiatives Director

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

he position is housed in the Indiana Historical Bureau, one of three divisions of the state library, and reports to the Deputy Director of the IHB. The position manages and promotes the collections of Indiana Memory, coordinates the interface between Indiana Memory and the Digital Library of America (DPLA), and oversees Hoosier State Chronicles newspaper digitization efforts. Candidate will also coordinate with other divisions on the digitization of materials from the ISL collection; provide statewide assistance to academic libraries, public libraries, and other cultural heritage organizations using the ISL CONTENTdm license for their materials, and fielding digitization questions from other organizations within the state.

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Forum Planning Committee’s Report to UC Council of University Librarians on Choosing Pathways to Open Access

The UC Office of the President has released Forum Planning Committee's Report to UC Council of University Librarians on Choosing Pathways to Open Access.

Here's an excerpt:

On October 16-17, 2018, University of California (UC) libraries hosted a working forum in Berkeley, California entitled "Choosing Pathways to Open Access" ("CP2OA") (see https://cp2oa18.com/). Sponsored by the University of California’s Council of University Librarians ("CoUL"), the forum was designed to enable North American library or consortium leaders and key academic stakeholders to engage in action-focused deliberations about redirecting subscription and other funds toward sustainable open access ("OA") publishing.

This report was prepared by members of the forum's Planning Committee as a way to update CoUL on forum outcomes, and to synthesize these outcomes into recommendations for further collective (UC multi-institutional) action to advance OA. The recommendations reflect the opinions of the report drafters; they are not an official statement by CoUL, nor should publication of this report signify CoUL's endorsement of our recommendations. We (the Planning Committee) instead hope that CoUL will consider the recommendations in due course, particularly as some of them reflect efforts already underway within various UC libraries.

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Digital Scholarship Librarian at Harvard Medical School

Harvard Medical School is recruiting a Digital Scholarship Librarian.

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

The individual in this position will assist the Associate Director of Scholarly Communication at the Countway Library in a variety of digital initiatives and open science activities that support scholarly communication at Harvard Medical School, Harvard School of Public Health, and collaborative projects with colleagues throughout the Harvard Library system.

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EUA Big Deals Survey Report April 2018: The First Mapping of Major Scientific Publishing Contracts in Europe

The European University Association has released EUA Big Deals Survey Report April 2018: The First Mapping of Major Scientific Publishing Contracts in Europe.

Here's an excerpt:

The EUA Big Deals Survey Report: The first mapping of major scientific publishing contracts in Europe presents data from 28 negotiating consortia. The data, which was gathered between July 2016 and June 2017, was anonymous and aggregated, thus respecting the confidential nature of the information provided by respondents. The survey focused on the functions and working process of consortia, as well as on the conditions of contracts for big deals concerning scientific periodicals, databases and e-books. The results of the survey show that consortia broadly represent the interests of relevant stakeholders from the university and library sectors and are largely driven by researchers’ needs.

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Deputy Group Leader for Technology Strategy & Services at Los Alamos National Laboratory

The Los Alamos National Laboratory is recruiting a Deputy Group Leader for Technology Strategy & Services.

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

A newly created position, the Deputy Group Leader plays a critical and leading role in strategic decisions related to the Library's technological infrastructure and evolving services. The incumbent reports directly to the Research Library Group Leader and acts on her behalf as needed. In addition to general oversight of Research Library operations and strategic directions, the successful candidate will directly mentor and lead two teams providing applied information science research, scholarly publishing, and digital repository services.

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"Brian Bannon Named The Merryl and James Tisch Director of The New York Public Library"

The New York Public Library has released "Brian Bannon Named The Merryl and James Tisch Director of The New York Public Library."

Here's an excerpt:

The New York Public Library has named Brian Bannon, current head of the Chicago Public Library system with extensive experience in both education and urban libraries, as its first-ever Merryl and James Tisch Director of The New York Public Library.

Bannon, a known innovator and award-winning leader who has transformed the Chicago Public Library since his appointment as commissioner and chief executive officer in 2012, will be responsible for the operation and direction of The New York Public Library’s 88 neighborhood branches, as well as the Library’s educational strategy.

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"New Penn State Open Access Policy to Expand Reach of University Research"

Pennsylvania State University has released "New Penn State Open Access Policy to Expand Reach of University Research."

Here's an excerpt:

A new open access policy at Penn State, recently endorsed by the University Faculty Senate, will greatly increase public availability of original, peer-reviewed Penn State scholarly research in support of the University’s land-grant mission. . . .

Under the policy—expected to be implemented by Penn State President Eric Barron in the fall 2019 semester—Penn State researchers will remain free to submit their work to scholarly journals of their choice. The policy also will not transfer copyright ownership of scholarly works to Penn State. In addition, a waiver option in the policy guarantees that researchers are able to opt out of open access for each one of their publications on an individual-article basis; these waivers would be automatically approved.

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

In February, I transformed photos into chalk and charcoal drawings, oil paintings, and oil 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. A comprehensive list of my digital artworks is available.

Digital Oil Painting of a River in the Ozarks

Digital Oil Pastel Drawing of a Mill in Newcastle-on-Tyne

Digital Chalk and Charcoal Drawing of Mount Redoubt

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Senior Programmer Analyst at University of Alberta

The University of Alberta is recruiting a Senior Programmer Analyst.

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

As a member of the Digital Initiatives and Information Technology Services Teams, you will be responsible for identifying and analyzing problems, needs and opportunities for UAL to design and develop software systems and applications that support our institutional commitment to learning and research support within the university. You will design, develop and implement applications and tools to support a growing range of digital asset management use cases, including ingest, discovery, access, management, analysis, and preservation. We work with digital dissertations and theses, research data of many types, digitized library and archival materials, e-books, multimedia content, web archives, and other digital objects produced locally and abroad, along with metadata in many formats.

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Transformative Publishing: Requirements for a New Publishing Standard: A Proposal from Springer Nature

Springer Nature has released Transformative Publishing: Requirements for a New Publishing Standard: A Proposal from Springer Nature.

Read background information about this proposal in "A Faster Path to an Open Future" and "Springer Nature Calls on Publishers to Adopt New OA Role."

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Data Management Consultant at Johns Hopkins University

Johns Hopkins University is recruiting a Data Management Consultant.

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

Provide consultative data management planning support and training to JHU researchers as part of the Data Services team, administratively located in the Data Management Directorate. Maintain rich understanding of data management best practices for data sharing, curating, and archiving. Track funder sharing policies and compliance expectations. Support researchers in identifying research data sharing and archiving solutions, including deposit into the JHU Data Archive.

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"Article Processing Charge Hyperinflation and Price Insensitivity: An Open Access Sequel to the Serials Crisis"

Shaun Yon-Seng Khoo has published "Article Processing Charge Hyperinflation and Price Insensitivity: An Open Access Sequel to the Serials Crisis" in LIBER Quarterly.

Here's an excerpt:

Open access publishing has frequently been proposed as a solution to the serials crisis, which involved unsustainable budgetary pressures on libraries due to hyperinflation of subscription costs. The majority of open access articles are published in a minority of journals that levy article processing charges (APCs) paid by authors or their institutions upon acceptance. Increases in APCs is proceeding at a rate three times that which would be expected if APCs were indexed according to inflation. As increasingly ambitious funder mandates are proposed, such as Plan S, it is important to evaluate whether authors show signs of price sensitivity in journal selection by avoiding journals that introduce or increase their APCs. Examining journals that introduced an APC 4-5 years after launch or when flipping from a subscription model to immediate open access model showed no evidence that APC introduction reduced article volumes. Multilevel modelling of APC sensitivity across 319 journals published by the four largest APC-funded dedicated commercial open access publishers (BMC, Frontiers, MDPI, and Hindawi) revealed that from 2012 to 2018 higher APCs were actually associated with increased article volumes. These findings indicate that APC hyperinflation is not suppressed through market competition and author choice. Instead, demand for scholarly journal publications may be more similar to demand for necessities, or even prestige goods, which will support APC hyperinflation to the detriment of researchers, institutions, and funders.

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