Responsible for the library’s electronic resources (including databases, e-books, and the products used to manage electronic resources) throughout the life cycle, including evaluation, setup, renewals, and troubleshooting.
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In the current scientific and political discourse surrounding the transformation of the scientific publication system, significant attention is focused on Diamond Open Access (OA). This article explores the potential and challenges of Diamond OA journals, using Germany as a case study. Two questions are addressed: first, the current role of such journals in the scientific publication system is determined through bibliometric analysis across various disciplines. Second, an investigation is conducted to assess the sustainability of Diamond OA journals and identify associated structural problems or potential breaking points. This investigation includes an in-depth expert interview study involving 20 editors of Diamond OA journals. The empirical results are presented using a landscape map that considers two dimensions: ‘monetized and gift-based completion of tasks’ and ‘journal team size.’ The bibliometric analysis reveals a substantial number of Diamond OA journals in the social sciences and humanities, but limited adoption in other fields. The model proves effective for small to mid-sized journals, but not for larger ones. Additionally, it was found that 23 Diamond OA journals have recently discontinued their operations. The expert interviews demonstrate the usefulness of the two dimensions in understanding key differences. Journals in two of the four quadrants of the map exemplify sustainable conditions, while the other two quadrants raise concerns about long-term stability. These concerns include limited funding leading to a lack of division of labor and an excessive burden on highly committed members. These findings underscore the need for the development of more sustainable funding models to ensure the success of Diamond OA journals.
https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2306.13080
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Reporting to the Associate Director, Collection Management & Services, and working collaboratively with colleagues, the Electronic Resources & Discovery Librarian is responsible for managing, maintaining, and optimizing access to the libraries’ electronic resources collections and the discovery service to ensure seamless online access to resources that support teaching, learning, and research.
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This report investigates the current landscape of non-legislative policy practices affecting researchers and authors in the authors’ rights and licensing domain. It is an outcome of research conducted by Project Retain led by SPARC Europe, as part of the Knowledge Rights 21 programme. The report concludes with a set of recommendations for institutional policymakers, funders and legislators, and publishers. It is accompanied by the study dataset.
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8084050
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Under the general direction of the Head of Access and Delivery Services, the Digitization Services Specialist will guide the development of both high-quality and high-production digitization workflows to meet the needs of both internal and external customers, ranging from Library Archives and Special Collections to approved, on-request digitization projects to support the instructional, research, and clinical care mission of the campus. The position will work on a variety of digitization activities assisting scholarly research, online discovery, exhibits, and preservation.
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Romanosky currently serves as dean of university libraries at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio, a position he has held since 2019. His accomplishments in this role include developing a strategic plan for the libraries with a focus on diversity, equity and inclusion; overseeing the alignment of the Ohio University Press and five regional campus libraries into the university libraries portfolio; working with campus partners to launch libraries-led, university-wide task forces on research data management and improving student study spaces; and spearheading Ohio University’s joining the HathiTrust, allowing for expanded university access to digital collections and other collaborative academic and research tools and services.
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Diamond OA 2023: The World of No-Fee OA Publishing is now available as an $8 trade paperback or a free PDF ebook.
This new study is based on the no-fee portion of the dataset for Gold Open Access 2017-2022 [GOA8]. A little tentative original added research looks at apparent funding/sponsorship sources for no-fee journals that are not published by universities, societies or government. (Spoiler alert: in about 98% of the cases, that is, those published by traditional and open access publishers, funding appears to be from either universities and academia or from societies and government.)
This book offers overviews and tables by subject and size of journals, but most of the book is "the world"—regional profiles with notes on countries with one to nine diamond journals, and 75 profiles of countries with ten or more such journals.
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The Systems Engineer will be responsible for building and supporting deployment and operations infrastructure for software applications and data as part of the Digital Research & Curation Center. They will create and administer the systems necessary to effectively and efficiently build, test, release, and deploy software into scalable, reliable, and secure application environments. They will work closely with software engineers, following DevOps practices, to create tools and automation to simplify the transition of software from development environments into production deployment architectures.
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Under the agreement, 519 journal titles, including the entire open access portfolios of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) and the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), and all Hindawi titles, will now benefit from an enhanced presence on ResearchGate through its new Journal Home offering.
With Journal Home, all version-of-record content from these titles, including newly published articles, will be syndicated to ResearchGate. Additionally, dedicated journal profiles are activated and made accessible throughout the ResearchGate platform with each journal prominently represented on all its associated article pages and at all other relevant touch points with members.
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The OER Librarian supports the growth of open educational resource (OER) adoption and creation initiatives at the UTA Libraries by developing targeted outreach strategies and providing training for faculty, staff, and students on topics including copyright and open licensing, open pedagogy, and accessibility. This position provides leadership for OER publishing activities on behalf of Mavs Open Press and administration of the UTA CARES Grant Program. Reporting to the Director of OER, the OER Librarian contributes to departmental strategic planning and assessment and serves as a subject liaison to an academic department.
https://uta.peopleadmin.com/postings/23810
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Data from global research publisher Springer Nature details the visibility and value it’s providing to researchers, authors and editors around the world. Its latest annual progress report, covering 2022, shows:
- Springer Nature has now published more than 1.25 million open access articles, and is on track for half of its research article output to be open access by the end of 2024.
- Open access research published in its hybrid portfolio within a transformative agreement grew three times faster than that published outside of one.
- Product and technology investments grew 13% year-on-year, and reached €370 million over the past three years. Springer Nature’s platforms now support 7.9 million downloads every day — that’s 92 every second.
- Average downloads per article are up 80% from 2018 to 2021, and average citations growing more than 40% over the same period, delivering increased impact and value for money.
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Reporting directly to the Executive Vice Chancellor and Chief Academic Officer, the Dean of Libraries is a key member of the Executive Vice Chancellor’s leadership team, serving on the Deans’ Council. . . .
The Dean is supported by a seasoned administrative team of six direct reports and oversees 40 faculty librarians, 72 support staff, and 130 student employees and an annual budget of $16 million, including a collections budget of $8 million. This team is in the final stages of implementing a restructuring of the organization to better fulfill the strategic planning vision.
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At the annual meeting of the Society for Scholarly Publishing held in Portland, Oregon last month, the closing plenary session was a formal debate on the proposition "Resolved: Artificial intelligence will fatally undermine the integrity of scholarly publishing." Arguing in favor of the proposition was Tim Vines, founder of DataSeer and a Scholarly Kitchen Chef. Arguing against was Jessica Miles, Vice President for Strategy and Investments at Holtzbrinck Publishing Group.
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In this post you will be responsible for the management and administration of the Library’s digital asset management system (currently Arkivum’s Perpetua). You will analyse the Library’s requirements for collections to be added to the system, and ensure those collections are adequately described and preserved. You will analyse and develop metadata standards and requirements for the service and contribute to developing the Library’s capacity to display its digital collections via the web. You will also contribute to the wider work of the Team, Group and Library, as a member of project teams and as a source of expertise on digital collections and digital preservation.
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One article (4.8%, 95% CI 0.12%-23.8%) had a change in the primary outcome. Seven articles (33.3%, 95% CI 14.6%-57.0%) had a change in the primary outcome’s effect measure. Five studies (23.8%, 95% CI 8.2%-47.2%) had changes in statistical significance of at least one secondary outcome. Four studies (19.0%, 95% CI 5.4%-41.9%) had a change in study conclusion.
https://doi.org/10.1177/08850666231182563
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Reporting to the Associate Vice Provost for University Libraries & Online Education, the systems librarian is responsible for managing the library’s technical infrastructure and systems. This includes performing and overseeing the evaluation, configuration, implementation, and feedback analysis of various library systems and technology. The librarian serves as the contact point to troubleshoot and triage systems and technology related issues.
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The most common material types reported in 2023 were journals (89%), conference papers and proceedings (80%), theses and dissertations (75%), educational resources (66%), and monographs (60%). Under half of respondents (46%) reported publishing datasets. Other material types reported include gray literature, newsletters, multimedia, expansive digital publications, and databases. . . . Over 80% of respondents provide copyright support and DOI assignment. Over half provide metadata services (71%), author advisory services (66%), training (66%), ISSN registry (64%), hosting of supplemental content (60%), cataloging (56%), and analytics (55%). The decline in the number of library publishers providing digitization services holds steady with 49% of respondents in 2023 identifying it as one of their services.
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As a Digitizer-Archivist (Library Professional 2) you will digitize physical collections and create metadata to support a robust catalog, in collaboration with the NSRC Digital Collections Team Leaders and NSRC Librarians, to assist in the retrieval of the material. You will conduct quality control for the digitized materials and may assist in the upload of digitized material and associated metadata into the Online Vault, the NSRC customer access database. . . . Position duties also include actively seeking out improvements to the digitization processes and procedures, trouble-shooting digitization equipment and systems, as well as providing mentoring and training to less senior staff.
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Cronk comes to Tulane from the University of Rochester, where she worked for the past six years, including the last two as the assistant dean for scholarly resources and curation. She also held the positions of director for collection strategies and head of collection strategies.
While at Rochester, Cronk oversaw seven departments, including digital initiatives, scholarly communication, metadata and rare books, special collections and preservation. She successfully implemented a variety of campus-wide initiatives and community partnerships, including establishing the libraries as the licensing clearinghouse of the university, initiating the campus affordability Access to Course Textbooks Commitment, co-authoring the university’s open access and copyright policies and supporting multiple web and system migrations.
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The successful candidate must have, and your application should clearly demonstrate you have:
A degree level qualification in any discipline OR Substantial relevant experience in a similar role.
Substantial recent relevant experience, including at least two of the following:
- Work in higher education or research environment, working with staff, students and visitors
- Engaging proactively with researchers
- Working with metadata and/or large amounts of data.
Demonstrable experience planning and managing digital or other projects effectively.
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This paper intends to analyse whether journals that had been removed from the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) in 2018 due to suspected misconduct were cited within journals indexed in the Scopus database. Our analysis showed that Scopus contained over 15 thousand references to the removed journals identified.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.acalib.2023.102749
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The successful candidate will be expected to teach 9 credit hours per semester to graduate and undergraduate students and to advise students in the program [Carolina Health Informatics Program]. Secondary appointment in digital humanities programs such as the William Blake Archive or the Center for information, Technology, and Public Life are possible. Ability to teach online, as well as residential sections, is required. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to: Digital Humanities, Socio-technical system design and analysis, programming, databases, HCI/UX.
https://unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/260057
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There is widespread debate on whether to anonymize author identities in peer review. The key argument for anonymization is to mitigate bias, whereas arguments against anonymization posit various uses of author identities in the review process. The Innovations in Theoretical Computer Science (ITCS) 2023 conference adopted a middle ground by initially anonymizing the author identities from reviewers, revealing them after the reviewer had submitted their initial reviews, and allowing the reviewer to change their review subsequently. We present an analysis of the reviews pertaining to the identification and use of author identities. Our key findings are: (I) A majority of reviewers self-report not knowing and being unable to guess the authors’ identities for the papers they were reviewing. (II) After the initial submission of reviews, 7.1% of reviews changed their overall merit score and 3.8% changed their self-reported reviewer expertise. (III) There is a very weak and statistically insignificant correlation of the rank of authors’ affiliations with the change in overall merit; there is a weak but statistically significant correlation with respect to change in reviewer expertise. We also conducted an anonymous survey to obtain opinions from reviewers and authors. The main findings from the 200 survey responses are: (i) A vast majority of participants favor anonymizing author identities in some form. (ii) The “middle-ground” initiative of ITCS 2023 was appreciated. (iii) Detecting conflicts of interest is a challenge that needs to be addressed if author identities are anonymized. Overall, these findings support anonymization of author identities in some form (e.g., as was done in ITCS 2023), as long as there is a robust and efficient way to check conflicts of interest.
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0286206
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Working closely with librarians and staff in Library Technologies and special collections units such as University Archives, as well as with University Information Technology Services and other library, campus, and university units, the Digital Collections Librarian will: Manage services related to Digital Collections repository service, including onboarding and supporting collection managers to host repositories, identifying appropriate metadata schema for item-level description and/or identifying appropriate digitization/born-digital workflows, providing training support for collection managers, leading the IU-wide Digital Collections Working Group; Serve as Product Owner for Digital Collections (curation and discovery) and Product Owner for Spotlight (digital exhibitions)
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ARCH helps users easily conduct and support computational research with digital collections at scale — e.g., text and data mining, data science, digital scholarship, machine learning, and more. Users can build custom research collections relevant to a wide range of subjects, generate and access research-ready datasets from collections, and analyze those datasets. In line with best practices in reproducibility, ARCH supports open publication and preservation of user-generated datasets. ARCH is currently optimized for working with tens of thousands of web archive collections, covering a broad range of subjects, events, and timeframes, and the platform is actively expanding to include digitized text and image collections. ARCH also works with various portions of the overall Wayback Machine global web archive totaling 50+ PB going back to 1996, representing an extensive archive of contemporary history and communication.
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