October 2022 – DigitalKoans

"Europe Prepares to Rewrite the Rules of the Internet"

Next week, a law takes effect that will change the internet forever—and make it much more difficult to be a tech giant. On November 1, the European Union’s Digital Markets Act comes into force, starting the clock on a process expected to force Amazon, Google, and Meta to make their platforms more open and interoperable in 2023. That could bring major changes to what people can do with their devices and apps, in a new reminder that Europe has regulated tech companies much more actively than the US.

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Emerging Technologies Librarian at New Mexico State University

The Emerging Technologies Librarian is a tenure-track faculty position (12 months) that works directly with students to help them develop digital fluency skills. This position supervises the library’s new Emerging Technologies Learning Lab, including directing student employees, and provides expertise in demonstrating how new hardware and software systems can be applied for use in academic research to augment subject matter inquiry. The Emerging Technologies Librarian will teach workshops and credit courses in digital scholarship and contemporary research methods, such as digital exhibits, video production, data visualizations, text analysis, interactive maps, and born-digital books.

https://jobs.nmsu.edu/postings/48420

ARL: "Two-Page Table Compares 2013 and 2022 Public-Access Guidance from US Office of Science and Technology Policy"

In an effort to highlight the significant differences between the 2013 [OSTP] memorandum and the 2022 guidance, the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has published a comparison table of the two documents. This table breaks down the 2013 and 2022 OSTP public-access guidance into sections for a quick side-by-side comparison of 10 key components, including embargo period, data policies, formats, and metadata expectations.

https://cutt.ly/jNm0OeT

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Digital Lifecycle Archivist at Stanford University

The Hoover Institution Library & Archives (HILA) is seeking a Digital Lifecycle Archivist to support the migration, organization, and maintenance of HILA’s digital assets for the long-term preservation of and enduring access to these collection materials. These collections include a mix of distinctive and archival collections, formats, languages, and content types.

https://careersearch.stanford.edu/jobs/digital-lifecycle-archivist-19386

Paywall: "A New Decade of Uses for Geographic Information Systems (GIS) As a Tool to Research, Measure and Analyze Library Services"

The purpose of this paper is to explore library research that uses geographic information systems (GIS) as a tool to evaluate library services and resources to ascertain current trends and establish future directions for this growing research area.

https://doi.org/10.1108/LHT-03-2020-0052

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Head of Digital Scholarship Services at Michigan State University

The Head of Digital Scholarship Services is responsible for planning, implementing, and managing an active, comprehensive digital scholarship program that engages faculty and students in a variety of ways through teaching, learning, research, and outreach to the community. Within the MSU Libraries, the Head of Digital Scholarship Services reports to the Associate Dean of Teaching, Learning and Research Engagement and partners with librarians and staff on initiatives and services. The Head leads a team of digital scholarship librarians, a data services librarian, staff and numerous student workers.

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"Lessons Learned from Reevaluating Big Deals with Unsub"

The value of big deals is increasingly unclear. This article briefly discusses factors others have considered in evaluating big deals and covers the four factors that should be considered moving forward: open access, interlibrary loan, post-termination access, and a-la-carte costs. Unsub, a tool for reevaluating big deals created by the nonprofit OurResearch, is introduced. Lessons learned are shared from two years of helping libraries reevaluate big deals to provide insight into the complexities and tradeoffs involved in evaluating big deals across many libraries.

https://doi.org/10.1080/00987913.2022.2132090

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Emerging Technologies Librarian at University of Houston Clear Lake

The Emerging Technologies Librarian is responsible for maintaining, troubleshooting, and training users on technology and equipment; developing training materials; coordinating outreach activities; providing group/individual consultations; and working in collaboration with technologists and content experts to develop and host tutorials, workshops, and instruction sessions. Serves as the library resource for planning, development, troubleshooting, and coordination of digital tools, software and other library technology. Staffs, trains, and supervises student workers for area’s hours of operation.

https://cutt.ly/gNxeTC9

"AAAS Survey: Many Researchers Face Difficulties Paying Open Access Fees"

The ability of researchers to obtain funding for APCs varied based on institution size, the survey found. Researchers at institutions with a student body between 3,000 and 9,999 students were three times as likely to find it very difficult to obtain funds for APCs as their counterparts at larger institutions with more than 10,000 students, adjusting for gender, race, and length of time conducting research. The survey also found gender disparities in funding for APCs: women were three times as likely to use grant funds to pay for APCs than their male counterparts, adjusting for race, length of time conducting research, and institution size.

https://cutt.ly/lNkyZCf

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Digital Archivist at California Institute of Technology

Caltech Library seeks a Digital Archivist committed to continual learning and collaboration to steward our born-digital and digitized special collections. The Digital Archivist will play a key role in a small university library, leading our efforts in digital archives collection development, description, access, and preservation and sharing expertise in these areas with colleagues.

https://cutt.ly/MNjLSCp

"Impact of the 2022 OSTP Memo: A Bibliometric Analysis of U.S. Federally Funded Publications, 2017-2021"

Therefore, this study seeks to more deeply investigate the characteristics of U.S. federally funded research over a 5-year period from 2017-2021 to better understand the updated guidance’s impact. It uses a manually created custom filter in the Dimensions database to return only publications that arise from U.S. federal funding. Results show that an average of 265,000 articles were published each year that acknowledge U.S. federal funding agencies, and these research outputs are further examined by publisher, journal title, institutions, and Open Access status.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.14871

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Digital Preservation Specialist at Western University of Health Sciences

Under the direction of the University Archivist, the Digital Preservation Specialist will maintain media equipment, make appropriate reformatting and digitizing decisions, and develop in-house workflows in support of preservation, description, long-term storage, and access of University moving images.

https://jobs.westernu.edu/postings/24156

"Lyrasis Announces John Wilkin as New Chief Executive Officer"

Lyrasis, a mission-driven, community-led nonprofit serving libraries, museums and research communities, is pleased to announce the appointment of John Wilkin as the organization’s new CEO. He will begin the role effective December 1, 2022.

Wilkin, who is currently Dean of Libraries and University Librarian at the University of Illinois, brings deep experience in building community-driven programs with a focus on increasing access to knowledge, a core tenet of the Lyrasis mission. Wilkin played a key role in the creation of HathiTrust, a nonprofit collaborative digital library that preserves and provides access to 17+ million digitized items, serving as its first Executive Director. He has long been an advocate for open source and open access initiatives, developing pioneering digital library systems and spearheading open access to content such as Making of America. Wilkin was the recipient of the 2011 LITA/Library Hi Tech award for Outstanding Communication in Library and Information Technology and the 2019 Hugh Atkinson Memorial Award.

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Research Data Librarian at Tufts University

The Research Data Librarian supports a range of services related to accessing, using, and managing quantitative and other types of scientific data. This position works with student, faculty, and staff users and producers of data, and helps to identify, develop, implement, and assess data services to meet the needs of the Tufts community.

https://jobs.tufts.edu/jobs/18035?lang=en-us

"The Changing Landscape of Open Access Compliance"

Globally, the past decade has seen a move from 70% of all publishing being closed access to 54% being open access. . . . Figure 1 shows a dramatic 10x increase of OA policies adopted between 2005 and 2022 by institutions, according to ROARMAP. Numbers of policies adopted by funders increased from 19 in 2005 to 142 to 2022. . . . On top of the divergent paths for making research output "open" or "publicly available" (which are not always clearly defined), many policies also mention requirements about metadata and/or research data. However, clearer guidance on these areas are yet to be published.

https://cutt.ly/TNjHhl0

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Open Research Officer (Open Access and Publications) at Newcastle University (Term)

This post offers an exciting opportunity to join our Library Research Services team in providing high quality, expert services to the research community at Newcastle University. Against the backdrop of rapid change in the academic publishing landscape, you will specialise in open access and scholarly communications, whilst also promoting the wider remit of Library Research Services in providing guidance and advice to researchers in support of open research more generally. You will work closely with all stakeholders, both internal and external, to ensure the service reflects and underpins the University Research Strategy.

https://cutt.ly/VNd5Ixm

Digital Art: April and May’s Charcoal Drawings, Oil Paintings, and Oil Pastel Drawings

In April and May, I transformed public domain or CC photos into 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.

Digital Oil Pastel Drawing of an Olympic Peninsula Sunset

Digital Oil Pastel Drawing of Beaver Creek

Digital Oil Painting of Denali

Digital Charcoal Drawing of the Rocky Mountains in Montana

Digital Oil Pastel Drawing of Mountains in Alberta

Digital Oil Pastel Drawing of Great Blue Heron Eating a Fish

Charles W. Bailey, Jr., Digital Artist | List of All Artworks

Research Data Steward at University of Sheffield (Term)

This is an exciting opportunity for someone with expertise and experience with research data to take a leading role in the implementation of the University’s FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Re-usable) roadmap, a key part of the institution’s commitment to open research. You will be based in the Scholarly Communications Team in the Library and report to the Associate Director (Digital Strategies, Research and Engagement). You will work extremely closely with research data management (RDM) stakeholders across the University (including in the Library, Research Services, IT Services, Faculties and research centres), and use your communication skills to embed the FAIR principles across the institution.

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"How Open Is the U15? A Preliminary Analysis of Open Access Publishing in Canadian Academic Libraries"

Introduction: This study offers insight into open access (OA) culture at Canadian university libraries by detailing the degree to which librarians working at Canada’s U15 (a collective of research-intensive institutions in Canada) make their research OA, as well as exploring the depth and reach of any OA mandates these institutions have. Method: This study uses a combination of bibliometric analysis and a review of institutional OA policies, beginning with an examination of a six-year span (2014–2019) of librarian-authored publications, searching four key library and information science databases, followed by a systematic search for a university-wide or library OA statement, policy, or mandate on each of the U15 websites. Results & Discussion: The data suggest that Canadian academic librarians are personally motivated to self-archive and make their research open. The high rate of publication in Gold OA journals, combined with the fact that several of the key library and information science journals for Canadian librarians are already OA, points to the importance of OA publishing for librarians as a community, as does the high number of expressions of commitment to OA publishing. Given the lack of variance comparatively between schools with an expression and without, the authors cannot comment on whether the expressions of support correlate to higher proportions of OA articles. Conclusion: This article provides a snapshot of a positive OA publishing culture at 15 Canadian university libraries by presenting data that show that most libraries have an expression of commitment to OA principles and most Canadian academic librarians working at U15 schools ensure that their research is OA.

https://doi.org/10.31274/jlsc.13831

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Tocker Open Education Librarian at University of Texas at Austin

This position will build on existing work and relationships to lead the planning, implementation, and assessment of the UT Austin open education program. This position will coordinate the Libraries open education services, including collaborating with faculty, students, staff, and administrators across the university to promote the adoption and creation of open and affordable course content, and assisting faculty in identifying appropriate open educational resources (OER) and support materials. This position will also promote best practices for digital accessibility, archiving, assessment, attribution, and resource sharing of OER in collaboration with other Libraries units.

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"An Assessment of Research Data Services through Client Interaction Records"

Research data services have become a key feature of academic libraries. In this paper, we provide an internal assessment of consulting reach and effectiveness for our Data Services provided by the University Libraries at Virginia Tech and using client records from 2016 to 2020. Through this assessment, we explore how service growth and reach across Virginia Tech has evolved with time. We also look more closely at these aspects for one college and discuss how we will use this data to assess the impact of our services. Finally, through the lens of client outcomes, we examine the trends of client interactions over the term of the study. Initially, we envisioned a successful service as one useful to the largest number of entities (primarily colleges and institutes) across Virginia Tech. However, analysis of the data we have gathered over the past 4 years leads us to consider target ing our service growth where it might be most useful. Rather than prioritizing services that are useful to the largest number of researchers, we instead could (and perhaps should) prioritize engagement with researchers and research communities for whom our assistance can make the largest positive impact on their research projects. This assessment of our client data demonstrates the utility of detailed client management records for periodic formative and summative assessment of research data services.

https://doi.org/10.31274/jlsc.14439

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NC State University Libraries Fellows, 2023-2026

What do Libraries Fellows work on? The NC State University Libraries is well known for its digital research and learning initiatives, technological advances such as immersive visualization, support for open scholarship, interdisciplinary teaching and learning, public engagement with research, and commitment to advancing equity, diversity, and inclusion—all of which help to redefine the future of librarianship. We seek out candidates with interests and aptitudes in these areas, and Fellows’ assignments reflect these areas of focus. Fellows perform as entry-level librarians with their time during the first 18 months divided between a home department and an initiative of strategic importance in another area. The second 18 months will typically focus on areas that have emerged over the course of the Fellowship, taking into consideration both the Libraries’ needs and the professional interests and goals of the Fellow.

https://jobs.ncsu.edu/postings/172795

"The Challenging State of University Campus and Library Open Access Policies"

Introduction: This study investigates whether United States university libraries’ commitment to increasing open access (OA) to scholarly outputs as demonstrated by their support of campus level OA policies translates into adoption of OA policies that apply specifically to library employees. Method: This mixed-methods study used an anonymous survey and optional open-ended interviews of scholarly communications librarians at Carnegie Classification Doctoral Universities (Very High Research [R1] and High Research [R2]) to gather information about OA policies or statements at their institutions and/or within their libraries. Results & Discussion: Variation in campus culture and governance structure meant the path from creation to adoption to implementation of a campus and/or library OA policy was similarly varied. The research reveals librarians’ motivations for and contributions to advancement of OA on their campuses, and sometimes also within their libraries. Conclusion: Many of the rationales driving adoption of campus OA policies similarly drive adoption of library-specific OA policies. Those surveyed whose institutions did have library-based OA policies referenced both the importance of leading by example and alignment with institutional mission and values.

https://doi.org/10.31274/jlsc.13049

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Digital Scholarship Librarian at Tufts University

The Digital Scholarship Librarian works collaboratively to advance the scholarly and research activities of faculty, students, and staff engaged in digital scholarship, with particular attention to providing support for projects that involve the creation of digital editions, digital exhibits, and multimodal storytelling in a classroom setting.

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Digital Services Librarian at University of Maryland Libraries

The Digital Services Librarian is responsible for supporting digital applications, cross-platform integrations, and product management activities at the University of Maryland Libraries. Reporting to the Manager, Digital Programs and Initiatives, the Digital Services Librarian actively works with staff throughout the UMD Libraries to gather business requirements for development of new and refined digital library software application features, integrations, and workflows, and provides support and instruction to UMD Libraries’ staff in the installation, development, and use of digital applications.

https://ejobs.umd.edu/postings/101190