Month: October 2019

University of Virginia: Hyku Open Source Institutional Repository Development Partnership Awarded $1M Arcadia Grant to Improve Open Scholarship Infrastructure

https://news.library.virginia.edu/2019/10/15/hyku-open-source-institutional-repository-development-partnership-awarded-1m-arcadia-grant-to-improve-open-scholarship-infrastructure/

Digital Strategist at Smith College

Smith College is recruiting a Digital Strategist.

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

Under the direction of the director of Discovery, Access & Digital Engagement, provide digital stewardship for the libraries’ special and general collections including planning, implementation, and assessment of current systems & information architecture, and guidance on new technologies and processes.

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ARL:Proceedings of the 2018 Library Assessment Conference

ARL has released "Proceedings of the 2018 Library Assessment Conference."

Here's an excerpt:

These proceedings, arranged by themed sessions, comprise 80 papers representing the diversity of assessment efforts, including value and impact, space, methods and tools, digital libraries, and non-traditional users.

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Associate Vice Provost of Technology and Digital Initiatives at University of Pennsylvania

The University of Pennsylvania is recruiting an Associate Vice Provost of Technology and Digital Initiatives.

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

The initial task for the Associate Vice Provost of Technology and Digital Initiatives (AVP) is to develop a cohesive strategy and vision to unite existing digital services and infrastructure, and ideate the path forward. The AVP will provide strong leadership and direction in the development, delivery, and integration of both traditional and innovative digital services, systems, and initiatives across the libraries.

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Recommendations of the Ad Hoc Task Force on Open Access to MIT’s Research

MIT has released "Recommendations of the Ad Hoc Task Force on Open Access to MIT's Research."

Here's an excerpt:

The recommendations include ratifying an Institute-wide set of principles for open science and open scholarship, which affirm MIT's larger commitment to the idea that scholarship and its dissemination should remain in the hands of researchers and their institutions. The MIT Libraries are working with the task force and the Committee on the Library System to develop a framework for negotiations with publishers based on these principles.

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Data Curation Librarian at University of California, Irvine

The University of California, Irvine is recruiting a Data Curation Librarian.

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

The Data Curation Librarian is 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 preservation and stewardship. This position will support data practices in a wide variety of disciplines, as well as supporting the library's own data curation initiatives. T

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"When Does Burnout Begin? the Relationship between Graduate School Employment and Burnout Amongst Librarians"

Jade Geary and Brittany Hickey have published "When Does Burnout Begin? the Relationship between Graduate School Employment and Burnout Amongst Librarians" in In the Library with the Lead Pipe.

Here's an excerpt:

The purpose of this study was to identify the percentage of LIS workers (current and former) and students who have experienced burnout. Additionally, this study focused on the correlation between those who work while obtaining their LIS degree and whether or not they later experience burnout. These objectives aim to answer the question: what percentage of future librarians are more susceptible to burnout once they enter the profession because they are currently working while enrolled in classes?

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Head of Digital Scholarship Services Department at University of California, Irvine

The University of California, Irvine is recruiting a Head of Digital Scholarship Services Department.

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

The Head of the Digital Scholarship Services (DSS) Department is responsible for planning, implementing, and managing an active, comprehensive digital scholarship program that meets the needs of a growing campus and the evolving environment of scholarly communication. Within the UCI Libraries, the Head of DSS and team members often partner with library managers, research librarians, and staff on initiatives and services. Externally, the Head and DSS team members collaborate with faculty, administrators, staff, and students in all disciplines across campus as well as with other campus organizations such as the Office of Information Technology, the Office of Research, and the Graduate Division.

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"From Provider to Partner: How Digital Humanities Sparked a Change in Gale’s Relationship with Universities"

Chris Houghton and Sarah Ketchley have published "From Provider to Partner: How Digital Humanities Sparked a Change in Gale's Relationship with Universities" in Insights.

Here's an excerpt:

This article shows how publishers of traditional digital archives have adapted to the increasing prevalence of DH amongst their traditional customers. The success of this adaptation depends entirely on the relationship with the academic community, and Gale has seen a shift from being a provider of products to a partner, trusted to help libraries, scholars and institutions achieve their objectives.

As a leading global provider of digital archives, Gale is well placed to review the current state of DH research and teaching, and this article will discuss significant academic events that have brought scholars, librarians and students together, and the lessons learned for institutions around the world looking to expand into DH.

Finally, the article looks at how working to understand the common challenges and barriers to DH research and teaching has pushed many archive publishers to re-evaluate traditional archive publishing and enable new and innovative ways to explore the past.

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MacDonald Director of Preservation at University of Pennsylvania

University of Pennsylvania is recruiting a MacDonald Director of Preservation.

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

This position is responsible for developing, coordinating, and implementing the Penn Libraries’ preservation and conservation program. The incumbent will revise and maintain a comprehensive preservation plan for the libraries covering all formats, physical and digital, in all locations. The position is responsible for investigating new strategies and technologies to address the current challenges to long-term preservation and access to Penn’s heterogeneous collections, including responsibility for developing effective policies and coordinating them across library departments. T

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"An Active Learning Approach to Teaching Copyright Essentials"

Jennifer Zerkee and Malina Thiede have self-archived "An Active Learning Approach to Teaching Copyright Essentials."

Here's an excerpt:

This chapter first establishes principles to guide the design and development of content, structure, and delivery for copyright education programs. . . .

The chapter then illustrates the application of these principles using active learning pedagogy in a detailed lesson plan for undergraduate students.

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Scholarly Communication Informationist at Johns Hopkins University and Medicine

Johns Hopkins University and Medicine is recruiting a Scholarly Communication Informationist.

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

The Welch Medical Library seeks to hire a scholarly communication Informationist to provide and grow our deeply embedded library services while educating the faculty, staff, and students of the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, School of Nursing, Bloomberg School of Health, and the Johns Hopkins Health System. This Informationist will work as an expert in scholarly communication, publishing, dissemination of research, and open access and science, alongside faculty, staff, researchers, clinicians, and students across the health sciences schools and hospitals.

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"The NIH Open Citation Collection: A Public Access, Broad Coverage Resource"

B. Ian Hutchins et al.have published "The NIH Open Citation Collection: A Public Access, Broad Coverage Resource" in PLoS Biology.

Here's an excerpt:

Citation data have remained hidden behind proprietary, restrictive licensing agreements, which raises barriers to entry for analysts wishing to use the data, increases the expense of performing large-scale analyses, and reduces the robustness and reproducibility of the conclusions. For the past several years, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of Portfolio Analysis (OPA) has been aggregating and enhancing citation data that can be shared publicly. Here, we describe the NIH Open Citation Collection (NIH-OCC), a public access database for biomedical research that is made freely available to the community. This dataset, which has been carefully generated from unrestricted data sources such as MedLine, PubMed Central (PMC), and CrossRef, now underlies the citation statistics delivered in the NIH iCite analytic platform. We have also included data from a machine learning pipeline that identifies, extracts, resolves, and disambiguates references from full-text articles available on the internet. Open citation links are available to the public in a major update of iCite (https://icite.od.nih.gov).

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