The University of Oregon is recruiting a Core Systems Librarian.
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Reporting to the Director, Library Technology Services, the Core Systems Librarian has primary responsibility for the daily management, configuration, and support of the Discovery and Unified Resource Management [ILS] services, currently Ex Libris Alma and Primo.
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Tom Willaert et al. have published "Research Data Management and the Evolutions of Scholarship: Policy, Infrastructure and Data Literacy at KU Leuven" in LIBER Quarterly.
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This case study critically examines ongoing developments in contemporary scholarship through the lens of research data management support at KU Leuven, and KU Leuven Libraries in particular. By means of case-based examples, current initiatives for fostering sound scientific work and scholarship are considered in three associated domains: support for policy-making, the development of research infrastructures, and digital literacy training for students, scientists and scholars. It is outlined how KU Leuven Libraries collaborates with partner services in order to contribute to KU Leuven's research data management support network. Particular attention is devoted to the innovations that facilitate such collaborations. These accounts of initial experiences form the basis for a reflection on best practices and pitfalls, and foreground a number of pertinent challenges facing the domain of research data management, including matters of scalability, technology acceptance and adoption, and methods for effectively gauging and communicating the manifold transformations of science and scholarship.
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The University of Illinois at Chicago is recruiting an University Librarian and Dean of Libraries.
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The University of Illinois at Chicago invites expressions of interest and nominations for the position of University Librarian and Dean of Libraries. The University seeks an experienced and strategic leader who will create a vision and a plan to advance the mission of the University by building on the Library's momentum to provide innovative services to diverse users and communities. The Dean reports to the Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, is the executive officer for the University Library and is a permanent member of the University Deans Council.
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Edition Donau-Universität has released Digital Art through the Looking Glass: New Strategies for Archiving, Collecting and Preserving in Digital Humanities.
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The aim of this collection is to focus on how we need to redefine preservation methods for digital art by creating a transdisciplinary dialogue between all the involved stakeholders and how we can archive digital artworks by acknowledging their authenticity and mediality. The discussion goes beyond preservation as such and questions how digital artworks can be further re-used for curatorial and dissemination projects, and as research data.
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DigitalKoans posts will resume on 9/18/2019.
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Wright State University is recruiting a Digital Initiatives and Scholarly Communication Librarian.
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This position will advance the University Libraries' scholarly communications efforts and is responsible for metadata creation and associated authority and quality control and other duties associated with enhancing discovery, access, and delivery of content through our institutional repository, CORE Scholar. This work supports research, innovation, scholarship, and creative activities at Wright State University.
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Amy Fry has published "Ebook Rate of Use in OhioLINK: A Ten-Year Study of Local and Consortial Use of Publisher Packages in Ohio" in College & Research Libraries.
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This paper examines publisher ebook package use in the OhioLINK academic library consortium between 2007 and 2017 alongside use of the same titles at individual institutions. With nearly 100,000 titles acquired over 10+ years from three publishers and available to users at more than 90 institutions, the picture of ebook use this study presents is unique in its breadth and scope. The data show that, consortiumwide, close to 100 percent of titles were used, with their initial use overwhelmingly taking place within one year of their publication date. At individual institutions, the rate of use was far lower and never exceeded the rate of use of print books at the author’s own institution. These findings have important implications for how institutions approach ebook acquisition to maximize rate of use of ebook collections.
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Georgetown University is recruiting an Associate University Librarian for Scholarly Resources and Services.
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The AUL provides leadership and direction for a division that includes the departments of Research Services, which is responsible for collection development, instruction, and research services; Copyright and Scholarly Communications; Library Assessment; the Bioethics Research Library; the School of Continuing Studies Library; and the Woodstock Theological Library. O
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Alicia Wise and Lorraine Estelle have published "How Libraries Can Support Society Publishers to Accelerate Their Transition to Full and Immediate OA and Plan S" in Insights: The UKSG Journal.
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The relationship between libraries and society publishers has not previously been a close one. While transactions have in the past been mediated by third parties, larger commercial publishers or agents, there is now an opportunity for strategic new collaborations as societies seek to transition to open access (OA) and deploy business models compliant with Plan S. Wellcome, UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) and the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP) commissioned Information Power Ltd to undertake to support society publishers in accelerating their transition to OA in alignment with Plan S. Outcomes demonstrate support in principle from library consortia and their members to repurpose existing expenditure to help society publishers to successfully make a full transition to OA. Principles to inform the short- and medium-term development of OA transformative agreements have been co-developed by consortium representatives and publishers to inform development of an OA transformative agreement toolkit.
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The University of Alabama is recruiting an Institutional Repository and Scholarly Communications Librarian.
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Reporting to the Associate Dean for Technology, this position works both independently and collaboratively to promote use of the repository (currently DSpace) for university research and publications, including electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs), faculty and student works, open access ejournals and ebooks, data sets, and emerging digital scholarship. This person will lead University Libraries efforts in promoting the Institutional Repository (IR) as an integrated tool in the scholarly communications process on campus. This position also leads the efforts to raise awareness of scholarly communication issues, such as open access publishing and open educational resources.
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have self-archived "Lost or Found? Discovering Data Needed for Research."
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Finding or discovering data is a necessary precursor to being able to reuse data, although relatively little large-scale empirical evidence exists about how researchers discover, make sense of and (re)use data for research. This study presents evidence from the largest known survey investigating how researchers discover and use data that they do not create themselves. We examine the data needs and discovery strategies of respondents, propose a typology for data (re)use and probe the role of social interactions and other research practices in data discovery, with the aim of informing the design of community-centric solutions and policies.
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The California Digital Library is recruiting a Senior DevOps/Infrastructure Engineer .
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Monitor, triage, and intervene to ensure high-performance, high-availability (16×7) of UC3 service offerings. Work with CDL Infrastructure and Application Services (IAS) to define appropriate monitors and escalation responses using CDL's enterprise Nagios system, and backup/recovery services for business continuity. Collaborate with product managers on diagnosing user-reported problems. Develops conversion and system implementation plans. (
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Jonathan L. Petters et al. have published "The Impact of Targeted Data Management Training for Field Research Projects—A Case Study" in Data Science Journal.
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We present a joint effort at Virginia Tech between a research group in the Department of Fish and Wildlife Conservation and Data Services in the University Libraries to improve data management for long-term ecological field research projects in the Florida Panhandle. Consultative research data management support from Data Services in the University Libraries played an integral role in the development of the training curriculum. Emphasizing the importance of data quality to the field workers at the beginning of this training curriculum was a vital part of its success. Also critical for success was the research group’s investment of time and effort to work with field workers and improve data management systems. We compare this case study to three others in the literature to compare and contrast data management processes and procedures. This case study serves as one example of how targeted training and efforts in data and project management for a research project can lead to substantial improvements in research data quality.
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