The Supreme Court has declined to consider reinterpreting foundational internet law Section 230, saying it wasn’t necessary for deciding the terrorism-related case Gonzalez v. Google. The ruling came alongside a separate but related ruling in Twitter v. Taamneh, where the court concluded that Twitter had not aided and abetted terrorism.
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The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that silkscreens pop artist Andy Warhol made of rock star Prince infringed on the copyright held by a prominent photographer who captured the original image. . . . Sotomayor wrote that the images "share substantially the same purpose, and the use is of a commercial nature. " The Warhol foundation had "offered no other persuasive justification for its unauthorized use of the photograph, " she added.
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- Develops, maintains, and promotes all aspects of the law school’s institutional repository, LARC, including faculty profiles, loading content, metadata and performing outreach to the law school community to solicit new projects.
- Manages and maintains the faculty’s presence on scholarly platforms including SSRN, HeinOnline, and ORCID, including managing faculty working papers.
- Develops resources and initiatives to support faculty scholarly services in collaboration with the Director of the Law Library and Head of Reference.
PeerJ has announced a new Open Access model and their first institutional partner. The award-winning publisher intends to move towards collective action for globally equitable Open Access, and their first step to this goal is a new model for institutional partners — Annual Institutional Memberships (AIMs). AIMs remove payment barriers to Open Access for authors, reduces the administration of Open Access payments, and guarantees value for partners. The University of Bath is PeerJ’s first partner in this new program, which will provide unlimited publishing for Bath’s faculty for a flat annual fee.
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/989462
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Reporting to the Library Director, the Electronic and Media Resources Librarian (EMRL) is responsible for the day-to-day management of the library’s electronic resources: databases, e-books, e-journals, access and discovery tools, LibGuides, and EZproxy configuration. The EMRL takes part in the acquisition, development, and supervision of the media collections in physical and digital formats, to include use of media materials and collections by students, faculty and staff with special emphasis on curricular uses of media; and anticipates technology/ format migrations and upgrades and identifies older materials for conversion and preservation.
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Preprints are open and accessible scientific manuscript or report that has not been submitted to a peer reviewed journal. The value and importance of preprints has grown since its contribution during the public health emergency of the COVID-19 pandemic. Funders and publishers are establishing their position on the use of preprints, in grant applications and publishing models. However, the evidence supporting the use and acceptability of preprints varies across funders, publishers, and researchers. The purpose of this scoping review was to explore the current evidence on the use and acceptability of preprints by publishers, funders, and the research community throughout the research lifecycle.
https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/nug4p
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The Systems Librarian will be primarily responsible for management of Koha (Integrated Library System), the Maxwell Library website (which is set for a complete redesign in the upcoming months), Springshare’s LibApps suite of software, and the ILLiad Interlibrary Loan system, as well as any new applications the library may adopt or develop. The incumbent will also collaborate as required to maintain systems and applications that the e-Resources Librarian, Digital Services & Metadata Librarian, and the Head of Archives & Special Collections employ.
https://jobs.bridgew.edu/postings/24925
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To better align with the changing scholarly communications landscape, MUSE has created a new department for Library & Publisher Partnerships. With many of our partner publishers now reporting to libraries, and many libraries now delving into publishing activities, MUSE seeks to create more connections between these two key constituencies. Kelley Squazzo has been appointed Director of Library & Publisher Partnerships, and will oversee both the current publisher relations and library sales teams at MUSE.
https://about.muse.jhu.edu/news/new-organization
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The Library Technology Services team at Harvard University is seeking an experienced and motivated Digital Library Software Engineer (DLSE) to support the development of the next-generation Digital Repository Service (DRS) and its integration in the current software ecosystem.
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Maria Schneider’s lawsuit against YouTube alleges several types of mass copyright infringement and repeat infringer failures. The trial begins next month, with proposed jury instructions already running to 243 pages. YouTube believes it will win, but the stakes are rarely this high. In addition to damages, the plaintiffs want YouTube to disclose details of files that remain on the site after identical copies were removed due to DMCA notices. And that’s not all.
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The Enterprise Library Systems Team in UITS encompasses a team-based work environment in which we develop and support all aspects of Indiana University Library Systems including the SirsiDynix Symphony Library Management System, the IU online Catalog (IUCAT), and the locally developed Bento-style library discovery tool. . . . Enterprise Solutions is seeking a collaborative professional Software Engineer with proven experience building well-architected applications and services.
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Yet the old library dream of a unified library system remains strong. Ex Libris, the biggest technology services provider in the academic library sector for library management systems, is increasingly coupling its flagships Alma and Primo VE together. Most other large providers work towards similar unified platforms. Koha ILS, previously focused more on print material, recently created its own, internal ERM module rather than integrating with other more specialized software. Even the new open-source software platform FOLIO, where modularity is one of its key components, is often branded as a unified solution (though with choice among its movable parts).
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The Library Technology Services (LTS) team at Harvard University is seeking an inquisitive and motivated Digital Library Data Engineer (DLDE) to join our exciting project to build the university’s next generation Digital Preservation System (DPS). This role will be responsible for the design, development, and maintenance of data APIs, extract/load/transform (ETL) activities, helping to manage data migration from existing data endpoints to the new systems and defining data integration services for our application portfolio.
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When computer scientists at Microsoft started to experiment with a new artificial intelligence system last year, they asked it to solve a puzzle that should have required an intuitive understanding of the physical world. . . . The clever suggestion [by the AI] made the researchers wonder whether they were witnessing a new kind of intelligence. In March, they published a 155-page research paper arguing that the system was a step toward artificial general intelligence, or A.G.I., which is shorthand for a machine that can do anything the human brain can do.
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The team works in the areas of scholarly communication and open access, including electronic theses and the Research Excellence Framework (REF); research data management; information skills for researchers, including induction of new staff and students; research insight and the responsible use of metrics in research assessment; the promotion of open research practices in the institution. In addition, the team maintains our publications management system (Symplectic Elements), our research data repository (SHURDA), and our journal publishing system (Sheffield Hallam Journals). The current focus of our work lies in starting a conversation in the institution around Open Research, and the rollout of rights retention for all scholarly papers.
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Scholarly publications are key to the transfer of knowledge from scholars to others. However, research papers are information-dense, and as the volume of the scientific literature grows, the need for new technology to support the reading process grows. In contrast to the process of finding papers, which has been transformed by Internet technology, the experience of reading research papers has changed little in decades. The PDF format for sharing research papers is widely used due to its portability, but it has significant downsides including: static content, poor accessibility for low-vision readers, and difficulty reading on mobile devices. This paper explores the question "Can recent advances in AI and HCI power intelligent, interactive, and accessible reading interfaces — even for legacy PDFs?" We describe the Semantic Reader Project, a collaborative effort across multiple institutions to explore automatic creation of dynamic reading interfaces for research papers. Through this project, we’ve developed ten research prototype interfaces and conducted usability studies with more than 300 participants and real-world users showing improved reading experiences for scholars. We’ve also released a production reading interface for research papers that will incorporate the best features as they mature. We structure this paper around challenges scholars and the public face when reading research papers — Discovery, Efficiency, Comprehension, Synthesis, and Accessibility — and present an overview of our progress and remaining open challenges.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.14334
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The Systems Librarian serves as a key part of the librarian team and participates in instruction, collection development, and liaison support to select academic departments. The position also manages mission critical systems and services within Wardman Library at Whittier College, in addition to the setup, maintenance, and troubleshooting of the Library’s hardware and software.
https://www.whittier.edu/humanresources/support
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Historic data in analog (or print) format is a valuable resource that is utilized by scientists in many fields. This type of data may be found in various locations on university campuses including offices, labs, storage facilities, and archives. This study investigates whether biological data held in one institutional university archives could be identified, described, and thus made potentially useful for contemporary life scientists. Scientific data was located and approximately half of it was deemed to be of some value to current researchers and about 20% included enough information for the study to be repeated. Locating individual data sets in the collections at the University Archives at the University of Minnesota proved challenging. This preliminary work points to possible ways to move forward to make raw data in university archives collections more discoverable and likely to be reused. It raises questions that can help inform future work in this area.
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The OER Librarian develops strategies for increasing the use of open educational resources, and alternative textbook and course material solutions at Bentley University. The Librarian will advocate for OER adoption with faculty, develop relationships with campus partners to promote student success, and assess the impact on the Library’s equity efforts.
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While data sharing has received research interest in recent times, its real status remains unclear, owing to its ambiguous concept. To understand the current status of data sharing, this study examined primary reuse, data integration, and dataset release as the actual practices of data sharing. A total of 963 articles, chosen from those published in 2018 and registered in the Web of Science global citation database, were manually checked. Existing data were reused in the mode of data integration (13.3%) as frequently as they were for the mode of primary reuse (12.1%). Dataset release was the least common mode (9.0%). The results show the variation in data sharing and indicate the need for standardization of data description in articles based on thorough registration and expansion in public data archives to close the loop that results in the virtuous cycle of research data.
https://doi.org/10.1002/leap.1546
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The Librarian contributes to implementation, policies, and procedures in relation to the discovery and visibility of the professional and personal research assets of Drexel University faculty and researchers through the Libraries’ information management platforms including Esploro, Primo VE, Alma/Alma Digital, and ArchivesSpace, as well as through Google Scholar and other non-library discovery systems.
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The analysis identifies three social forms of data-sharing in peer-to-peer relationships: (a) closed communal sharing, which is based on a feeling of belonging together; (b) closed associative sharing, in which the participants act on the basis of an agreement; and (c) open associative sharing, which is oriented to “institutional imperatives” (Merton) and to formal regulations. The study shows that far more data-sharing is occurring in scientific practice than seems to be apparent from a concept of open data alone.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11024-023-09487-y
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The Library Systems Analyst ensures that services meet coding and quality standards and oversees the quality, accessibility, security and stability of the Librarie’’ web presence. As the Libraries expand its digital infrastructure, the Systems Analyst will collaborate with teams of experts in the Libraries, the University Information Technology Unit (UBIT) and other administrative and decanal nodes. . . . Additionally, the incumbent will be involved in assisting with the developing implementation of an open data repository infrastructure and the UBIR as well as other library digital initiatives.
https://www.ubjobs.buffalo.edu/postings/42609
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The Technical Guidelines for Digitizing Cultural Heritage Materials: Third Edition (linked below) were developed by the Still Image Working Group in 2022-2023. This document is an update of the 2016 Technical Guidelines for Digitizing Cultural Heritage Materials: Creation of Raster Image Master Files. The latest revision of the guidelines expands on earlier works and incorporates new material reflecting the advances in imaging science and cultural heritage imaging best practice. The Guidelines include shared best practices for still image materials (e.g., textual content, maps, and photographic prints and negatives) followed by agencies participating in the Federal Agencies Digital Guidelines Initiative (FADGI).These guidelines are intended to be used in conjunction with digital image conformance evaluation targets and software. Together, these guidelines and appropriate testing and monitoring systems provide the foundation for a FADGI-conforming digitization program.
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Reporting to the Lead Library Software Engineer, this 3-year term position leads critical development on the creation and maintenance of software, workflows, multi-system integrations, and data extraction processes in service of TigerData, a data storage and management ecosystem that supports the advancement of research in the Princeton University community. Working on a team of developers in the Princeton University Library (PUL), you will be instrumental in crafting a holistic vision to serve the needs of researchers, developing software and tools for data curation, metadata entry and management, and automation workflows from multi-tiered storage on campus and externally, ensuring data integrity and safe transfer between storage stages, including movement of data to publication and long-term archiving.
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