Month: August 2019

"The Oregon Digital Newspaper Program’s Commitment to Open Access"

Sarah Seymore, has published "The Oregon Digital Newspaper Program's Commitment to Open Access" in the OLA Quarterly.

Here's an excerpt:

The Oregon Digital Newspaper Program (ODNP) at the University of Oregon Libraries is an initiative to digitize historic and current Oregon newspapers, making them freely available to the public through a keyword-searchable online database. The ODNP is committed to open access and has included collaboration and data sharing with larger programs like the Library of Congress' Chronicling America historic newspaper website. Since 2015, the ODNP has increased its open access mission by archiving and hosting born-digital newspaper content, as well as continuing digitization of historic newspapers from microfilm and print. This article outlines the ODNP's past and current open access efforts, inclusion of diverse content, and open source, sustainable applications, websites, and workflows.

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Digital Initiatives Specialist at University of California Riverside

The University of California Riverside is recruiting a Digital Initiatives Specialist.

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

Under the supervision of the Associate University Librarian for the Digital Library, the Digital Initiatives Specialist will work collaboratively with staff and departments across the library on a variety of projects related to digital scholarship technologies, digital cultural heritage access, interpretation and digital preservation. The position will provide consulting services, manage individual digital projects, and also work collaboratively on team-based digital initiatives. The Digital Initiatives Specialist will work in all phases of development on digital library initiatives, including initial research and requirements gathering, prototyping, project and website design, web page and digital content development, digitization, digital preservation, and contributing to project communication and distribution plans.

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"Teaching Research Data Management for Students"

Cord Wiljes and Philipp Cimiano has published "Teaching Research Data Management for Students" in Data Science Journal.

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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Scholarly Publishing Librarian at Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College is recruiting a Scholarly Publishing Librarian.

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

The Scholarly Publishing Librarian helps support new models and services for the creation, dissemination, and management of research and scholarship at Dartmouth College. . . . The Scholarly Publishing Librarian will participate in the implementation, development, and planning of publishing initiatives including the institutional repository of Dartmouth research, and will coordinate and execute those aspects of the program that provide faculty, students, and staff with tools, information, education, and resources for publishing the results of their scholarly activities.

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Mind the Gap: A Landscape Analysis of Open Source Publishing Tools and Platforms

John W Maxwell et al. have published Mind the Gap: A Landscape Analysis of Open Source Publishing Tools and Platforms

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Here's an excerpt:

In 2018 the MIT Press secured a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon foundation to conduct a landscape analysis of open source publishing systems, suggest sustainability models that can be adopted to ensure that these systems fully support research communication and provide durable alternatives to complex and costly proprietary services. John Maxwell at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver conducted the environmental scan and compiled this report.

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Director of Library Digital Technologies at Brown University Library

Brown University Library is recruiting a Director of Library Digital Technologies.

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

The Director of Library Digital Technologies (LDT) provides energetic, creative, and forward-looking leadership for the Brown University Library’s digital infrastructure and applications. Reporting to the Deputy University Librarian, and a member of the Library's leadership team, the Director coordinates and collaborates with partners in the Library, the University’s Computing and Information Services (CIS) department, and other campus units to ensure that the Library’s digital services are aligned with the teaching and research mission of the University.

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"Consortial RightsStatements.org Implementation and Faceted Search for Reuse Rights in Digital Library Materials"

Wilhelmina Randtke, Randy Fischer, and Gail Lewis have published "Consortial RightsStatements.org Implementation and Faceted Search for Reuse Rights in Digital Library Materials" in the Code4Lib Journal.

Here's an excerpt:

The Florida Academic Library Services Cooperative (FALSC) makes available digital library hosting free-of-charge to all institutions of Florida public higher education. 21 institutions participate in the Islandora digital library platform hosted through FALSC. Centralized digital library hosting through FALSC, or its predecessor consortium, has been available since 1994. Meanwhile, the RightsStatements.org standard, which provides a controlled vocabulary for indicating the copyright status of digital library material, was released in 2016. After the standard was released, participating libraries expressed interest in implementing RightsStatements.org for existing digital content. During Fall 2018 and Spring 2019, FALSC implemented RightsStatements.org values on Islandora sites. This article describes the process undertaken by FALSC, the lessons learned, and recommendations for libraries looking to implement RightsStatements.org values.

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