December 2022 – Page 3

ARLIS Electronic Resources & Repository Librarian at University of Alaska Anchorage

Join the award-winning Alaska Resources Library & Information Services (ARLIS) in Anchorage, Alaska! The University of Alaska Anchorage/Alaska Pacific University Consortium Library is seeking a full-time ARLIS Electronic Resources & Repository Librarian who will oversee electronic resources, online services, and repository systems. This position will also manage technical projects and join the ARLIS Management Team.

https://cutt.ly/k19XtKN

"Why We Need Open-Source Science Innovation — Not Patents and Paywalls"

The results of a survey study of university professors in Canada found 81.1 percent of Canadian faculty would trade all IP for an open-source endowed chair and 34.4 percent of these faculty would require no additional compensation. Surprisingly, even more American faculty (86.7 percent) are willing to accept an open-source endowed professorship.

https://cutt.ly/x190Hso

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Head, Digitization and Preservation at Texas State University

The Head of Digitization and Preservation is responsible for leading the creation, implementation, and ongoing policies, procedures, and workflows to collectively preserve the born-digital and digitized collections of the Texas State University Libraries. The person in this position will oversee operations of the Digitization Lab, provide strategic planning to expand digitization services, and operationalize processes for new media format digitization and the development of a robust digital preservation workflow.

https://jobs.hr.txstate.edu/postings/40868

"Institute of Physics Publishing Strikes Unlimited Publishing Deal with Big Ten Academic Alliance"

Strengthening the commitment to opening research, IOP Publishing (IOPP) has agreed to a three-year unlimited open publishing agreement with the Big Ten Academic Alliance (BTAA) consortium in the United States (US). Beginning January 2023, the agreement enables affiliated researchers to publish unlimited Open Access (OA) papers at no cost to them. . . . During the agreement, authors affiliated with Big Ten Academic Alliance institutions will be able to make their research openly accessible to the global community immediately after publication while retaining their copyright.

https://cutt.ly/u19NN2u

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Dean and University Librarian at University of Cincinnati

The Dean will serve a critical role in supporting the university’s strategic direction Next Lives Here and its growth as a premier public research university. Within the University, the Dean operates as a thought leader who partners with other deans, senior administration, faculty, staff, and students to ensure that the Libraries elevate all aspects of UC’s core educational and research enterprise, whether it be in the classroom, in community partnerships, or in creative endeavors. As such, the Dean coordinates the daily operations of 10 different library locations.

https://cutt.ly/h19X1sJ

"Are We Undervaluing Open Access by Not Correctly Factoring in the Potentially Huge Impacts of Machine Learning? — An Academic Librarian’s View (I)"

Synopsis: I have recently adjusted my view to the position that the benefits of Machine learning techniques are more likely to be real and large. This is based on the recent incredible results of LLM (Large Language models) and about a year’s experimenting with some of the newly emerging tools based on such technologies.

If I am right about this, are we academic librarians systematically undervaluing Open Access by not taking this into account sufficiently when negotiating with publishers? Given that we control the purse strings, we are one of the most impactful parties (next to publishers and researchers) that will help decide how fast if at all the transition to an Open Access World occurs.

https://cutt.ly/U19MZzK

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User Experience/Digital Services Librarian at Southern Utah University

Working with SUU Web Services and the Library Network Administrator, this position is responsible for the design, development and maintenance of the Library’s online ecosystem including the web site(s) and user interfaces and an array of electronic resources and digital platforms. The person in this position also provides leadership, vision, and expertise to ensure a welcoming and equitable library experience for all patrons and works to promote user-centered design of library tools, services, and spaces.

https://cutt.ly/K1NArM2

"Access to Research Data and EU Copyright"

The article seeks to contribute to this aim by exploring the legal framework in which research data can be accessed and used in EU copyright law. First, it delineates the authors’ understanding of research data. It then examines the protection research data currently receives under EU and Member State law via copyright and related rights, as well as the ownership of these rights by different stakeholders in the scientific community. After clarifying relevant conflict-of-laws issues that surround research data, it maps ways to legally access and use them, including statutory exceptions, the open science movement and current developments in law and practice.

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Lead Software Engineer, Data Engineering at ICPSR, University of Michigan

The Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR), based at the University of Michigan, is the world’s premier political and social science data archive. We are building a next-generation platform for delivering digital social science artifacts to a global research community on a cloud-native platform, and we need a Lead Software Engineer, specialized in Data Engineering, to join our team.

https://cutt.ly/B1NPvvy

"New Report on Value and Utility of FAIR Implementation Profiles (FIPs) Available from the WorldFAIR project"

In the WorldFAIR project, CODATA (the Committee on Data of the International Science Council), with the RDA (Research Data Alliance) Association as a major partner, is working with a set of eleven disciplinary and cross-disciplinary case studies to advance implementation of the FAIR principles and, in particular, to improve interoperability and reusability of digital research objects, including data.

To that end, the WorldFAIR project created a range of FAIR Implementation Profiles (FIPs) between July and October 2022 to better understand current FAIR data-related practices. The report, "FAIR Implementation Profiles (FIPs) in WorldFAIR: What Have We Learnt?", is published this week and available at https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7378109.

The report describes the WorldFAIR project, its objectives and its rich set of Case Studies; and it introduces FIPs as a methodology for listing the FAIR implementation decisions made by a given community of practice. Subsequently, the report gives an overview of the initial feedback and findings from the Case Studies, and considers a number of issues and points of discussion that emerged from this exercise. Finally, and most importantly, we describe how we think the experience of using FIPs will assist each Case Study in its work to implement FAIR, and will assist the project as a whole in the development of two key outputs: the Cross-Domain Interoperability Framework (CDIF), and domain-sensitive recommendations for FAIR assessment.

https://cutt.ly/x1NDUAd

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Web Designer at University of Michigan-Dearborn

Under direct supervision of the Head of Library Technical Systems for the Mardigian Library, designs and builds web pages using a variety of software applications, techniques, and tools. Designs and develops web pages in accordance with accessibility standards. Contributes to the design of the Mardigian Library’s discovery tools and resources.

https://cutt.ly/a1NYIXa

"A Landscape of Open Science Policies Research"

This literature review aims to examine the approach given to open science policy in the different studies. The main findings are that the approach given to open science has different aspects: policy framing and its geopolitical aspects are described as an asymmetries replication and epistemic governance tool. The main geopolitical aspects of open science policies described in the literature are the relations between international, regional, and national policies. There are also different components of open science covered in the literature: open data seems much discussed in the works in the English language, while open access is the main component discussed in the Portuguese and Spanish speaking papers. Finally, the relationship between open science policies and the science policy is framed by highlighting the innovation and transparency that open science can bring into it.

https://doi.org/10.1177/21582440221140358

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And It Ran: "I Used ChatGPT to Create an Entire AI Application on AWS"

So in this blog post I describe how I used ChatGPT to create a simple sentiment analysis application from scratch. The app should run on an EC2 instance and utilize a state-of-the-art NLP model from the Hugging Face Model Hub. The results were astonishing.

https://cutt.ly/a1Z6c8i

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Illinois State University at Metadata Librarian

Reporting to the Head of Technical Services, the Metadata Librarian focuses on the creation, enrichment, and maintenance of metadata representing born-digital and digitized materials in repositories for the library’s archives, special collections, and the university community.

https://cutt.ly/z1Xrmq5

ChatGPT: "Finally, an A.I. Chatbot That Reliably Passes ‘the Nazi Test ’"

A chatbot that meets the hype is finally here. On Thursday, OpenAI released ChatGPT, a bot that converses with humans via cutting-edge artificial intelligence. The bot can help you write code, compose essays, dream up stories, and decorate your living room. And that’s just what people discovered on day one.

https://cutt.ly/d1XqQKN

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Systems Administrator – Library at University of Texas at Arlington

The Systems Administrator is responsible for the support, maintenance, and enhancement of Linux servers, their operating systems, and associated server-based applications and services in the University Libraries.

https://uta.peopleadmin.com/postings/19417

"Big Data-Driven Investigation into the Maturity of Library Research Data Services (RDS)"

The creation of library research data services (RDS) requires assessment of their maturity, i.e., the primary objective of this study. Its authors have set out to probe the nationwide level of library RDS maturity, based on the RDS maturity model, as proposed by Cox et al. (2019), while making use of natural language processing (NLP) tools, typical for big data analysis. The secondary objective consisted in determining the actual suitability of the above-referenced tools for this particular type of assessment.

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.acalib.2022.102646

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Dean of Libraries at Binghamton University

Binghamton University is seeking an innovative, visionary, and collaborative leader to serve as its next Dean of Libraries. . . . One of four research universities in the SUNY system, Binghamton enrolls more than 18,000 undergraduate and graduate students in its six schools and colleges. . . . The Binghamton University Libraries lay claim to more than 3.2 million books and journals and an expanding network of 225 electronic databases. The Binghamton Libraries is comprised of four physical locations: Glenn G. Bartle Library, Science Library, University Downtown and the Annex. Faculty, staff and more than 100 student employees deliver an array of critical services, including digital scholarship, open repository and digital preservation and more.

https://cutt.ly/U1Xe2iw

"Free and Open-Source Automated Open Access Preprint Harvesting"

Universities are attempting to ensure that all of their research is publicly accessible because of funding mandates. Many universities have established campus open access (OA) repositories but are struggling with how to upload millions of manuscripts under numerous license agreements while also linking metadata to make them discoverable. To do this manually requires around 15 minutes per manuscript from an experienced librarian. The time and cost to do this campus-wide is prohibitive. To radically reduce the time and costs of this process and to harvest all past work, this article reports on the development and testing of a free and open source (FOSS) JavaScript-based application, aperta-accessum, which does the following: 1) harvests names and emails from a department’s faculty webpage; 2) identifies scholars’ Open Researcher and Contributor Identifiers (ORCID iDs); 3) obtains digital object identifiers (DOIs) of publications for each scholar; 4) checks for existing copies in an institution’s OA repository; 5) identifies the legal opportunities to provide OA versions of all of the articles not already in the OA repository; 6) sends authors emails requesting a simple upload of author manuscripts; and 7) adds link-harvested metadata from DOIs with uploaded preprints into a bepress repository; the code can be modified for additional repositories. The results of this study show that, in the administrative time needed to make a single document OA manually, aperta-accessum can process approximately five entire departments worth of peer-reviewed articles. Following best practices discussed, it is clear that this open-source OA harvester enables institutional library’s stewardship of OA knowledge on a mass scale for radically reduced costs.

https://doi.org/10.31274/jlsc.14421

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Electronic Resources Librarian at Florida Atlantic University

The FAU Libraries seek a collaborative, innovative, and proactive Electronic Resources Librarian to manage the life cycle of the Libraries’ licensed and purchased electronic resources. Reporting directly to the Assistant Dean for Collection Strategies and Discovery Services and working closely with the Electronic Resources Coordinator, the ideal candidate is dependable and flexible, detail-oriented, exhibits a strong work ethic, and effectively engages with Libraries and University colleagues, as well as externally with vendors and consortia members.

https://cutt.ly/w1PG7EO

Open Research Community Manager (Term) at University of Cambridge

The role will establish and develop a Cambridge Open Research Community, bringing researchers across the university community together through regular online and in person events to enable exchange of expertise in open and rigorous research practices. They will develop an understanding of how research needs differ across disciplines and use this understanding to inform the development of open research policies and services as part of the University’s Open Research Programme, leading projects to further develop these services. They will raise the profile of open research at Cambridge through internal and external engagement in collaboration with researchers and professional services leads across the university.

https://cutt.ly/L1P3Y3l

Paywall: Academic Librarian Faculty Status

ACRL announces the publication of Academic Librarian Faculty Status, compiled and written by Edgar Bailey and Melissa Becher. . . This book focuses exclusively on tenure, promotion, and appointment at small to mid-sized academic libraries and provides many sample criteria and policies for librarians with and without faculty status.

https://cutt.ly/21PAadM

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Electronic Resources Librarian at Western Kentucky University

The Electronic Resources Librarian is part of the newly merged Department of Technical Services and Special Collections and is a key contributor to the work required in the life cycle of WKU’s licensed scholarly electronic resources, ensuring ongoing access through existing and newly envisioned technologies in support of teaching, learning, and research. This position will assist in the daily tasks associated with acquiring and managing electronic resources and contribute to efforts to create efficiencies and improve service to library users.

https://cutt.ly/g1PGPuI

Federating Research Infrastructures in Europe for Fair Access to Data: Science Europe Briefing on EOSC

The European research and innovation ecosystem is going through a period of profound change. Researchers, organisations that fund or perform research, and policymakers are reshaping the research process and its outputs based on the opportunities offered by the digital transition. The findability, accessibility, interoperability, and reusability (FAIRness) of research publications, data, and software in the digital space will define research and innovation going forward. Closely related, the transition to an open research process and Open Access of its outputs is becoming the ‘new normal’. One of the most prominent initiatives in the digital and open transition of research is the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC). This federation of existing research data infrastructures in Europe aims to create a web of FAIR data and related services for research.

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7346887

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Metadata and Discovery Services Librarian at Florida Atlantic University

The FAU Libraries seek a collaborative, innovative, and proactive Metadata and Discovery Services Librarian to provide high quality metadata for the Libraries’ subscribed and purchased electronic resources and to coordinate the procedures and processes of e-resources metadata management for the library catalog.

https://cutt.ly/s1PGaAI