Web Services Manager at University of Colorado Denver

University of Colorado Denver is recruiting a Web Services Manager.

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

  • Serve as the Auraria Library’s website administrator.
  • Lead a service-focused department in continuous web services development, evaluation, and improvement initiatives, including strategic hiring, project prioritization, and website assessment/evaluation.
  • Supervise, train, coach, encourage professional development and evaluates the work of personnel in the Web Services team.

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Director of User Experience and Innovation at San Jose State University

San Jose State University is recruiting a Director of User Experience and Innovation.

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The Director provides leadership, planning, administration, and supervision for all aspects of the User Experience (UX) and Innovations units' work including the Unified Service Point (USP), late night tutoring services, user experience services, web services, student technology training center, media services, information technology help desk, library network and servers, student computing services, emerging technologies and the library's catalog discovery system. The Director implements services, spaces and technology in support of library transformations, providing a vision for library innovations, defining priorities, and making strategic recommendations related to services and technologies.

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"Virtuous and Vicious Circles in the Data Life-Cycle"

Elizabeth Yakel et al. have published "Virtuous and Vicious Circles in the Data Life-Cycle" in Information Research.

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We address the following research questions:

  • How do different aspects of data production positively and negatively impact other phases in the life-cycle?
  • How do data selection decisions during sharing positively and negatively impact other phases in the life-cycle?
  • How can the work of data curators intervene to reinforce positive actions or mitigate negative actions?

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"A Link Is Not Enough—Reproducibility of Data"

Mateusz Pawlik et al. have published "A Link Is Not Enough—Reproducibility of Data" in Datenbank-Spektrum.

Here's an excerpt:

Although many works in the database community use open data in their experimental evaluation, repeating the empirical results of previous works remains a challenge. This holds true even if the source code or binaries of the tested algorithms are available. In this paper, we argue that providing access to the raw, original datasets is not enough. Real-world datasets are rarely processed without modification. Instead, the data is adapted to the needs of the experimental evaluation in the data preparation process. We showcase that the details of the data preparation process matter and subtle differences during data conversion can have a large impact on the outcome of runtime results. We introduce a data reproducibility model, identify three levels of data reproducibility, report about our own experience, and exemplify our best practices.

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Head of Library Technology at University of Miami

The University of Miami is recruiting a Head of Library Technology.

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Under the general direction of the Associate Dean for Information Systems, Access, & Facilities, the Head of Library Technology provides creative leadership, management, budgetary oversight, and expertise to develop and execute the long-term technology strategy in support of the Libraries' mission. . . . This individual will lead the support and administration of the shared ExLibris Alma platform, Primo discovery service and related enterprise applications, including serving as the technical lead in UM's partnership with ExLibris for the development of the Esploro Research Services Platform.

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Share–Publish–Store–Preserve. Methodologies, Tools and Challenges for 3D Use in Social Sciences and Humanities

Anas Alaoui M'Darhri et al. have self-archived "Share–Publish–Store–Preserve. Methodologies, Tools and Challenges for 3D Use in Social Sciences and Humanities."

Here's an excerpt:

Through this White Paper, which gathers contributions from experts of 3D data as well as professionals concerned with the interoperability and sustainability of 3D research data, the PARTHENOS project aims at highlighting some of the current issues they have to face, with possible specific points according to the discipline, and potential practices and methodologies to deal with these issues. During the workshop, several tools to deal with these issues have been introduced and confronted with the participants experiences, this White Paper now intends to go further by also integrating participants feedbacks and suggestions of potential improvements. Therefore, even if the focus is put on specific tools, the main goal is to contribute to the development of standardized good practices related to the sharing, publication, storage and long-term preservation of 3D data.

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Senior Program Officer, Scholarly Communications at The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation is recruiting a Senior Program Officer, Scholarly Communications.

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

In this role, the successful candidate will shape and direct the Foundation's grantmaking in what is now known as Scholarly Communications while participating as a senior member of the Foundation’s program leadership team and serving as a source of information and expertise about developments and opportunities in this broad domain. The SPO will supervise a small team of colleagues and, given that the Foundation is the nation's largest funder in the arts and humanities, will oversee and manage a large and complex budget in partnership with Foundation leadership.

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Yale: "Gibbons Named Vice Provost for Collections and Scholarly Communications"

Yale has released "Gibbons Named Vice Provost for Collections and Scholarly Communications."

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Susan Gibbons, the Stephen F. Gates '68 University Librarian and deputy provost for collections and scholarly communications, has been appointed Yale’s vice provost for collections and scholarly communications, President Peter Salovey announced. The appointment is effective July 1. . . .

In addition to the Yale University Library, her expanded portfolio of responsibilities will include the Institute for the Preservation of Cultural Heritage at West Campus, Yale University Art Gallery, Yale Center for British Art, Yale Peabody Museum, and Yale University Press.

The university will launch a search for a new university librarian, and Gibbons will continue to steward the library system until her successor is appointed.

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"The Majority of Authors Agree That All Future Scholarly Books Should Be OA": The Future of Open Access Books: Findings from a Global Survey of Academic Book Authors

Springer Nature has released The Future of Open Access Books: Findings from a Global Survey of Academic Book Authors .

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A global Springer Nature survey of more than 2,500 academic book authors provides in-depth insights into attitudes towards open access.

The survey looks at researchers' motivations for publishing a book, and analyses the parameters and key drivers which influence academics to publish OA or not. The white paper also identifies the major obstacles to OA publication which book authors still face: from a lack of awareness of OA publishing options and low funding, to concerns about how OA books are perceived.

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Research Data Systems Integration Specialist at University of Arizona

The University of Arizona is recruiting a Research Data Systems Integration Specialist.

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

This position will work closely with stakeholders within the Library and across campus to identify, prioritize, develop, deploy, and evaluate bi-directional integrations between stakeholders' workflows and the data repository that (1) enable transitioning research data from active-phase computing and storage systems to the data repository for long-term storage and publication in a way that is streamlined, sustainable, and provides a value-added experience to UA researchers; and (2) adds value to existing scholarly and research information management systems, and provides a framework for improved compliance with campus data policies. . . . This is a fixed-term 3 year position, renewed annually.

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"Supporting Web Archiving via Web Packaging"

Sawood Alam et al. have self-archived "Supporting Web Archiving via Web Packaging."

Here's an excerpt:

We describe challenges related to web archiving, replaying archived web resources, and verifying their authenticity. We show that Web Packaging has significant potential to help address these challenges and identify areas in which changes are needed in order to fully realize that potential.

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Research Data Librarian at University of Pittsburgh

The University of Pittsburgh is recruiting a Research Data Librarian.

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The Research Data Librarian is a full-time Librarian position in the ULS Digital Scholarship Services unit, responsible for providing support and expertise to faculty, students, and researchers engaged in research data management planning, data acquisition, data sharing, and long-term data stewardship. This position emphasizes collaborating with faculty and graduate students in the sciences and social sciences, but may support data practices and literacies in a wide variety of disciplines and with other populations.

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"Assessing the Size of the Affordability Problem in Scholarly Publishing"

Alexander Grossmann and Björn Brembs have self-archived "Assessing the Size of the Affordability Problem in Scholarly Publishing."

Here's an excerpt:

For many decades, the hyperinflation of subscription prices for scholarly journals have concerned scholarly institutions. After years of fruitless efforts to solve this "serials crisis", open access has been proposed as the latest potential solution. However, also the prices for open access publishing are high and are rising well beyond inflation. What has been missing from the public discussion so far is a quantitative approach to determine the actual costs of efficiently publishing a scholarly article using state-of-the-art technologies, such that informed decisions can be made as to appropriate price levels. Here we provide a granular, step-by-step calculation of the costs associated with publishing primary research articles, from submission, through peer-review, to publication, indexing and archiving. We find that these costs range from less than US$200 per article in modern, large scale publishing platforms using post-publication peer-review, to about US$1,000 per article in prestigious journals with rejection rates exceeding 90%. The publication costs for a representative scholarly article today come to lie at around US$400. We discuss the additional non-publication items that make up the difference between publication costs and final price.

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