October 2023 – Page 4

One Health and Scholarly Communications Librarian at University of Prince Edward Island

Reporting to the University Librarian, the One Health and Scholarly Communications Librarian will be the liaison librarian for several faculties and departments and will collaborate with colleagues to provide in-depth reference service and instruction to students, graduate students, post-graduate students, faculty and staff and participates in the development and assessment of collections. They will be the lead in coordinating and providing support for the Robertson Library’s institutional repository and scholarly communications.

https://www.upei.ca/hr/competition/51a23

"How ChatGPT and Other AI Tools Could Disrupt Scientific Publishing"

More broadly, generative AI tools have the potential to change how research is published and disseminated, says Patrick Mineault, a senior machine-learning scientist at Mila — Quebec AI Institute in Montreal, Canada. That could mean that research will be published in a way that can be easily read by machines rather than humans. "There will be all these new forms of publication," says Mineault.

https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-023-03144-w

Digital Humanities Librarian at Florida State University

Florida State University (FSU) Libraries seeks a highly motivated, innovative, and collegial librarian for the position of Digital Humanities Librarian. Duties will include managing and growing FSU Libraries’ academic web-hosting service, CreateFSU, digital project incubator program, PEN & Inc., digital project consulting, and course-integrated digital humanities instruction program. The incumbent will collaborate closely with colleagues in the Libraries and a range of institutional partners on projects that advance FSU’s strategic goals around research excellence and innovation. Situated in FSU Libraries’ Office of Digital Research and Scholarship (DRS), the Digital Humanities Librarian is a key member of the DRS team, collaborating closely with the Director and other stakeholders to shape the vision of the office, set and assess goals, and provide a range of services, programming, and support for digital humanities research.

https://tinyurl.com/73k2wesz

"Disappearing Repositories — Taking an Infrastructure Perspective on the Long-Term Availability of Research Data"

Currently, there is limited research investigating the phenomenon of research data repositories being shut down, and the impact this has on the long-term availability of data. This paper takes an infrastructure perspective on the preservation of research data by using a registry to identify 191 research data repositories that have been closed and presenting information on the shutdown process. The results show that 6.2 % of research data repositories indexed in the registry were shut down. The risks resulting in repository shutdown are varied. The median age of a repository when shutting down is 12 years. Strategies to prevent data loss at the infrastructure level are pursued to varying extent. 44 % of the repositories in the sample migrated data to another repository, and 12 % maintain limited access to their data collection. However, both strategies are not permanent solutions. Finally, the general lack of information on repository shutdown events as well as the effect on the findability of data and the permanence of the scholarly record are discussed.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.06712

arXiv Production Editor at Cornell University

The Operations Support Specialist provides primary support for specialist tools and workflows that promote the success of publishing and repository service users, both internal and external. In addition to providing direct operational support, you will provide feedback on business and user needs to improve upon existing workflows. Tools that the Specialist focuses on are Firebrand TMM, the enterprise book metadata management system, and Symplectic Elements, the University’s research information management system. Workflows include ensuring that information supply chain partners are robustly indexing original published content.

https://tinyurl.com/4ay27k92

"IFLA ARL Section’s ‘Inclusiveness through Openness’ Conference Proceedings Now Available!"

All videos and slides from this August IFLA Academic & Research Libraries Section (ARL) Satellite conference to the 2023 WLIC in Rotterdam IFLA conference are now available:

https://tinyurl.com/4cywvp9h

Dataverse Curation Assistant at Harvard University

The Dataverse Data Management and Curation Assistant is responsible for the collection, organization, and management of data within the field of Environmental Health, Climate, and Migration data. Their primary focus is ensuring the quality and availability of acquired data. Working closely with data scientists, analysts, and stakeholders, they identify data needs and maintain data integrity to ensure deposits within the Harvard Repository are findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable (FAIR). Reporting to the Harvard Dataverse Curation Manager and the PIs of the grant, the Data Curation Assistant collaborates with partners and stakeholders, including the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH), Boston University (BU), the Institute for Quantitative Social Science (IQSS), and the Center for Geographic Analysis (CGA). They identify and source relevant data and curate them into the Harvard Dataverse Repository. This role involves establishing data transfer mechanisms in collaboration with data providers and conducting data audits to assess the quality and completeness of the data.

https://tinyurl.com/mr2hrykr

"2024 EBSCO Serials Price Projection Report"

Each year, EBSCO strives to help its academic and academic medical library customers plan their library budgets by projecting publisher price increases for the upcoming year. We use recent information received from publishers, as well as historical price data to calculate these projections. As of now, we expect the overall effective publisher price increases for academic and academic medical libraries in 2024 to be in the range of three to four percent for individual titles and two to three percent for e-journal packages.

https://tinyurl.com/2s3akjmw

E-Resource Librarian at University of Pennsylvania

Part of the Acquisitions, Access and Licensing (AAL) Department at the University of Pennsylvania Libraries, the eResource Librarian contributes to the responsible and efficient expenditure of the Libraries’ budget for collections and directly supports the research, teaching and learning mission of the Libraries by participating in electronic resource lifecycle management and workflows, including acquisition, licensing, discovery, access, maintenance, and evaluation. The incumbent ensures access to and support for robust, distinctive and innovative collecting, efficient and careful acquisition of online resources, and effective engagement with colleagues across the Libraries and externally with consortia and vendors.

https://tinyurl.com/uwuhf86w

"A Large Scale Perspective on Open Access Publishing: Examining Gender and Scientific Disciplines in 38 OECD countries"

Gender inequality is a persistent issue in scientific publishing. Recent studies suggest that Open Access (OA) publishing can increase the visibility and impact of female scientists’ research. Despite the growing acceptance of OA as a means of disseminating research results, there is a notable gap in studies focusing on the role of gender in OA publishing trends. The presented research offers a comprehensive analysis of OA publishing with a focus on gender differences and specific scientific disciplines in 38 OECD countries. Our study using the OpenAlex database included over 20 million publications from 1990-2021 and revealed that 39.3 percent of these were freely available in some form of OA. Results showed, over time, a decline in Bronze OA and Green OA but also an increase in Gold OA and, as of 2018, a rapid increase in Hybrid OA. The results also showed that females are more likely to publish in gold OA than males, both in cases of female-only authorship and mixed-gender authorship. Disciplinary analysis showed that Biology, Physics and Mathematics had the most OA publications. The results also showed the influence of major OA initiatives on publication trends. This study highlights the need for a more inclusive scientific publishing system that promotes gender equality and wider accessibility.

https://doi.org/10.55835/6442b2f80dd9c5d18e7caff8

Data Services Librarian at Clemson University

The Data Services Librarian will play a key role in continuing and expanding the Libraries’ research data services that will further support Clemson’s strategic priority to double research by 2035. The Data Services Librarian will support faculty, researchers, and students in the discovery, use, organization, curation, preservation, and visualization of data.

https://tinyurl.com/4beyy97x

"Which Database with Article Processing Charges Should Be Used?"

This study investigated the characteristics of three databases compiling article processing charges—price lists on publishers’ official websites, Directory of Open Access Journals, and OpenAPC—for open access journals published by Elsevier, Springer Nature, and Wiley. Although many article processing charges listed on Directory of Open Access Journals are identical to those listed on price lists for 2023, several article processing charges on the Directory are not updated. . . . journals on OpenAPC are not representative of open access journals in general. Nevertheless, the correlation between list prices and actual article processing charges paid indicates a strong positive relationship, implying that even if empirical studies on article processing charges use different databases, the database chosen might not significantly influence their conclusions.

https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-023-04841-z

Global Network Support Librarian at Northeastern University [E-resources Licensing]

Under the direction of the Department Head, the Global Network Support Librarian will be responsible for supporting the licensing and renewal of electronic resources to support the research, teaching, and learning at all Northeastern sites around the world. They will be responsible for outreach to content providers to update them on changes in the Global Network and to negotiate access for all authorized Northeastern users. They will be responsible for updating Library license and purchase tracking systems to document negotiated terms and for reporting out fiscal impact of the addition of new sites. They will serve on the licensing team within Resource & Discovery Services, helping to negotiate new licenses and advising internal and external users on the appropriate use of library resources under the terms of the negotiated licenses.

https://tinyurl.com/2p9bupc

"A Comprehensive Survey of ChatGPT: Advancements, Applications, Prospects, and Challenges"

This survey offers an overview of ChatGPT, delving into its inception, evolution, and key technology. We summarize the fundamental principles that underpin ChatGPT, encompassing its introduction in conjunction with GPT and LLMs. We also highlight the specific characteristics of GPT models with details of their impressive language understanding and generation capabilities. We then summarize applications of ChatGPT in a few representative domains. In parallel to the many advantages that ChatGPT can provide, we discuss the limitations and challenges along with potential mitigation strategies. Despite various controversial arguments and ethical concerns, ChatGPT has drawn significant attention from research industries and academia in a very short period. The survey concludes with an envision of promising avenues for future research in the field of ChatGPT.

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.metrad.2023.100022

Director, Libraries Information Technology Services & Digital Strategies at University of Washington

The UW Libraries Information Technology Services & Digital Strategies (ITSDS) department is one of eight departments in the Libraries’ Research & Learning Services portfolio. The department provides support, development, and infrastructure for many systems and services for Libraries staff and end-users including: the integrated library system, digital collections, content repositories, off-campus proxy service, web platforms, GIS support, 800+ staff and public workstations, software, phone, printer, and general technology implementations. These systems and services provide access to the Libraries’ collections, and support research, teaching, and learning at the UW.

https://tinyurl.com/4tc7vvde

"What Happens When a Journal Converts to Open Access? A Bibliometric Analysis"

In recent years, increased stakeholder pressure to transition research to Open Access has led to many journals converting, or "flipping," from a closed access (CA) to an open access (OA) publishing model. Changing the publishing model can influence the decision of authors to submit their papers to a journal, and increased article accessibility may influence citation behaviour. In this paper we aimed to understand how flipping a journal to an OA model influences the journal’s future publication volumes and citation impact. We analysed two independent sets of journals that had flipped to an OA model, one from the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) and one from the Open Access Directory (OAD), and compared their development with two respective control groups of similar journals. For bibliometric analyses, journals were matched to the Scopus database. We assessed changes in the number of articles published over time, as well as two citation metrics at the journal and article level: the normalised impact factor (IF) and the average relative citations (ARC), respectively. Our results show that overall, journals that flipped to an OA model increased their publication output compared to journals that remained closed. Mean normalised IF and ARC also generally increased following the flip to an OA model, at a greater rate than was observed in the control groups. However, the changes appear to vary largely by scientific discipline. Overall, these results indicate that flipping to an OA publishing model can bring positive changes to a journal.

https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-021-03972-5

Research Impact Librarian at University of Idaho

The University of Idaho Library is seeking a detail-oriented, flexible, and collaborative Research Impact Librarian. Reporting to the Dean, the Research Impact Librarian is responsible for developing, advancing, implementing and supporting a range of services around scholarly output research impact for the University of Idaho community. To accomplish these tasks, they will work extensively with the library’s new Research Information Management System, VERSO, which is being built on the Esploro platform, assisting community members with the data, reporting, data visualization, and profile publishing the system makes possible.

https://tinyurl.com/4vtk45ms

"Developing a Preservation Metadata Standard for Languages"

We have so many languages to communicate with others as humans. There are approximately 7000 languages in the world, and many are becoming extinct for a variety of reasons. In order to preserve and prevent the extinction of these languages, we need to preserve them. One way of preservation is to have a preservation metadata for languages. Metadata is data about data. Metadata is required for item description, preservation, and retrieval. There are various types of metadata, e.g., descriptive, administrative, structural, preservation, etc. After the literature study, the authors observed that there is a lack of study on the preservation metadata for language. Consequently, the purpose of this paper is to demonstrate the need for language preservation metadata. We found some archaeological metadata standards for this purpose, and after applying inclusion and exclusion criteria, we chose three archaeological metadata standards, namely: Archaeon-core, CARARE, and LIDO (Lightweight Information Describing Objects) for mapping metadata.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.04155

Scholarly Resources Licensing Librarian at Boston College

The Resource Acquisition and Management Department of the Boston College Libraries invites applications for the newly envisioned position of Scholarly Resources Licensing Librarian. This position will establish and lead licensing terms negotiation for the Libraries’ scholarly resources, including journal packages, databases, ebooks, datasets, and streaming media. The successful candidate will contribute to the re-envisioning of the Libraries’ licensing strategies, and will work closely with library content vendors to negotiate the most advantageous and appropriate licensing terms for new library content and renewals in keeping with Libraries’ core values and strategic directions, university procurement processes, as well as professional and industry best practices.

https://tinyurl.com/umw9vbt3

"Preprints Are Now Searchable on Scopus!"

In total, we have 1.8M preprint records in Scopus (as of June 2023) from the following seven preprint servers:

arXiv

ChemRxiv

bioRxiv

medRxiv

SSRN

TechRxiv

Research Square

https://tinyurl.com/4jp2nayv

Metadata Consultant for the Humanities at Virginia Tech

Description The University Libraries at Virginia Tech seeks a full-time Metadata Consultant for the Humanities to serve as a library metadata expert for publishing and digital humanities work. This position will have a dual reporting line to the Coordinator of Metadata Technologies within the Metadata Services Unit (70% time), and to the Interim Director of Publishing Services (30% time). The Metadata Consultant for the Humanities will apply the latest in metadata best practices and emerging standards to University Libraries’ metadata, and will consult on digital humanities.

https://tinyurl.com/3w7uu3yp

60 Minutes: "’Godfather of Artificial Intelligence’ Geoffrey Hinton on the Promise, Risks of Advanced AI"

Scott Pelley: You think these AI systems are better at learning than the human mind.

Geoffrey Hinton: I think they may be, yes. And at present, they’re quite a lot smaller. So even the biggest chatbots only have about a trillion connections in them. The human brain has about 100 trillion. And yet, in the trillion connections in a chatbot, it knows far more than you do in your hundred trillion connections, which suggests it’s got a much better way of getting knowledge into those connections.

https://tinyurl.com/4a7bmn5p

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Digital Scholarship Team Leader at Case Western Reserve University

The Digital Scholarship Team Leader heads a highly collaborative team that supports the Creation and Curation Services division in the Kelvin Smith Library at Case Western Reserve University. The Team Leader has responsibility for articulating, developing, and implementing a digital scholarship strategy and is responsible for the management of the Digital Scholarship team and services including areas of scholarly communication, open access, text analysis, geographic information systems, and data management services. . . .The Digital Scholarship Team Leader serves as a member of the library leadership team.

https://tinyurl.com/2s42tf5k

"The Strain on Scientific Publishing"

Scientists are increasingly overwhelmed by the volume of articles being published. Total articles indexed in Scopus and Web of Science have grown exponentially in recent years; in 2022 the article total was 47% higher than in 2016, which has outpaced the limited growth, if any, in the number of practising scientists. Thus, publication workload per scientist (writing, reviewing, editing) has increased dramatically. We define this problem as the strain on scientific publishing. To analyse this strain, we present five data-driven metrics showing publisher growth, processing times, and citation behaviours. We draw these data from web scrapes, requests for data from publishers, and material that is freely available through publisher websites. Our findings are based on millions of papers produced by leading academic publishers. We find specific groups have disproportionately grown in their articles published per year, contributing to this strain. Some publishers enabled this growth by adopting a strategy of hosting special issues, which publish articles with reduced turnaround times. Given pressures on researchers to publish or perish to be competitive for funding applications, this strain was likely amplified by these offers to publish more articles. We also observed widespread year-over-year inflation of journal impact factors coinciding with this strain, which risks confusing quality signals. Such exponential growth cannot be sustained. The metrics we define here should enable this evolving conversation to reach actionable solutions to address the strain on scientific publishing.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.15884

Digital Collections Librarian at Boston University

Reporting to the Director of Digital Ventures, the Digital Collections Librarian develops programming and services that connect scholars with tools and resources for facilitating data-informed research, digital projects creation, and digital collections management. This individual will collaboratively work with the Digital Ventures team and other library staff, students, and faculty members to plan and implement projects that digitize collections or reformat born-digital collections that will: 1) promote the strategic directions of the university and its library system, including and especially those that enhance the discovery and use of library collections; 2) connect with faculty and student research projects; 3) support learning at BU in the classroom and beyond; and 4) advance and responsibly increase the representation of all persons and voices present through the Libraries’ collections. This position will also be responsible for the day-to-day management of our first ever digital collections repository, which is separate from our already established institutional repository, OpenBU.

https://tinyurl.com/yc79euk2