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Metadata and Digital Resources Librarian at University of Chicago

The Metadata and Digital Resources Librarian creates and maintains accurate metadata in the library catalog, the library website, the Law School’s institutional repository, Chicago Unbound, and in other discovery platforms and tools. The Metadata and Digital Resources Librarian works on projects to create access to collections and resources through the web pages, online guides and digital exhibits. As part of the Collection Services Department, the librarian creates access to online and print content expediently and ensures that these materials are easily discoverable by our users.

https://apply.interfolio.com/123459

"Science’s Fake-Paper Problem: High-Profile Effort Will Tackle Paper Mills"

A high-profile group of funders, academic publishers and research organizations has launched an effort to tackle one of the thorniest problems in scientific integrity: paper mills, businesses that churn out fake or poor-quality journal papers and sell authorships. In a statement released on 19 January, the group outlines how it will address the problem through measures such as closely studying paper mills, including their regional and topic specialties, and improving author-verification methods.

http://tinyurl.com/2nxt93h4

H. Carton Rogers III Vice Provost and Director of Libraries at University of Pennsylvania

The Director will be a visionary, collegial, entrepreneurial, and courageous leader who will nurture, sustain, and extend the record of strength established by Penn Libraries and its personnel. This is a liminal moment for the University and the Libraries: a new university strategic framework, In Principle and Practice, was released in Fall 2023 and sets forth a vision of an institution anchored in the campus, local, and global communities; interwoven and interconnected; inventive in confronting society’s great challenges and opportunities; and engaged in service and collaboration. The Libraries themselves are in the midst of a strategic plan for building technical, structural, and human capacity, which includes a digital strategic plan that presents a broad vision to plan, implement, scale, and sustain digital technologies and practices.

http://tinyurl.com/zyc7cxvj

"Digital Scholarly Journals Are Poorly Preserved: A Study of 7 Million Articles"

This work reveals an alarming preservation deficit. Only 0.96% of Crossref members (n = 204) can be confirmed to digitally preserve over 75% of their content in three or more of the archives that we studied. (Note that when, in this article, we write "preserved," we mean "that we were able to confirm as preserved," as per the specified limitations of this study.) A slightly larger proportion, i.e., 8.5% (n = 1,797), preserved over 50% of their content in two or more archives. However, many members, i.e., 57.7% (n = 12,257), only met the threshold of having 25% of their material in a single archive. Most worryingly, 32.9% (n = 6,982) of Crossref members seem not to have any adequate digital preservation in place, which is against the recommendations of the Digital Preservation Coalition.

https://doi.org/10.31274/jlsc.16288

GIS Librarian at University of Maine

The GIS Librarian provides GIS-related leadership, vision, and planning to support the instructional, research, scholarship, creative activity, and public service missions of the University of Maine. The position will collaborate closely with faculty, research staff, and library colleagues to improve the discoverability of geospatial data through experimentation and innovative solutions. The successful candidate will be willing to learn and understand the process of data generation for any scientific or geospatial domain, including understanding instrumentation, keeping up-to-date on metadata standards and ontologies, assessing key discoverability parameters, and activating and implementing versioning capabilities.

http://tinyurl.com/3jkyesmu

"Determinants of Manuscript Submissions to Fully Open Access Journals: Elasticity to Article Processing Charges"

Article processing charges that authors and research institutions pay to make articles open access are increasing. If manuscript submission is price elastic, then rising charges will cause a significant reduction in submissions, leading to decreased revenues under constant acceptance rates. Therefore, the elasticity of manuscript submission to article processing charge is one of the determinants of publishers’ charges. However, several studies that investigated the determinants of article processing charges did not consider this elasticity. This study investigated the determinants of submissions, including the elasticity to article processing charge, by formulating the number of manuscript submissions to fully open access journals published by Hindawi and Elsevier in 2022. Moreover, this study formulated manuscript submissions using both list prices and charges paid to Elsevier that OpenAPC collected to compare the results. The estimation results reveal that the two publishers increase their revenues by raising the article processing charges due to the inelasticity. Moreover, these conclusions do not depend on the data set used, although the number of observations sourced from OpenAPC is small.

https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-024-04934-3

Digital Repository Metadata Specialist at Oregon State University

As a member of the Oregon Digital team, they apply metadata standards to describe born-digital and digitized items to be ingested into the repository. They ensure that the metadata is harvested by external systems such as the Digital Public Library of America to expand the points of access for digital collections. As a member of the LIT department, they offer consultations on metadata creation for OSU researchers at several levels — undergraduates, graduate students, faculty and staff. They may also support metadata work for the institutional repository (ScholarsArchive@ OSU) or other digital repository services used by the library. This position contributes to departmental research and assessment activities. They collaborate with library colleagues across departments, communicate with campus partners and research groups, and participate in professional organizations and societies.

http://tinyurl.com/535er78a

"Promotion of Scientific Publications on ArXiv and X Is on the Rise and Impacts Citations"

Here, based on a large dataset of computer science publications, we study trends in the use of early preprint publications and revisions on ArXiv and the use of X (formerly Twitter) for promotion of such papers in the last 10 years. We find that early submission to ArXiv and promotion on X have soared in recent years. Estimating the effect that the use of each of these modern affordances has on the number of citations of scientific publications, we find that in the first 5 years from an initial publication peer-reviewed conference papers submitted early to ArXiv gain on average 21.1±17.4 more citations, revised on ArXiv gain 18.4±17.6 more citations, and promoted on X gain 44.4±8 more citations. Our results show that promoting one’s work on ArXiv or X has a large impact on the number of citations, as well as the number of influential citations computed by Semantic Scholar, and thereby on the career of researchers. We discuss the far-reaching implications of these findings for future scientific publishing systems and measures of scientific impact.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.11116

Digital Processing Archivist at University of Texas

This position works across departments at UT Libraries to support processing of and access to born-digital and digitized archival collection materials held at UT Libraries Special Collections, including the Alexander Architectural Archives and the Benson Latin American Collection.

http://tinyurl.com/45h9vdfn

"MIT Press’s Direct to Open Reaches Annual Funding Goal, Opens Access to Full List of 2024 Monographs"

Now in its third year of operation, Direct to Open (D2O) is proud to announce that it has reached its full funding goal in 2024 and will open access to 79 new monographs and edited book collections this year. What makes this year noteworthy is that this is the first year in which D2O has been fully funded by its November 30 deadline and will not require an extension through the end of the fiscal year.

http://tinyurl.com/4phkat8x

Library Systems Engineer at Clemson University

The Library Systems Engineer develops and writes custom code to integrate with web applications and custom plugins; engineers and integrates all server solutions in AWS Cloud and on premises for library information systems in support of services and initiatives; and develops and ensures infrastructure documentation such as design and environment specifications, user and technical manuals, and process methodology.

http://tinyurl.com/yuvxb4dk

"On the Readiness of Scientific Data for a Fair and Transparent Use in Machine Learning"

To ensure the fairness and trustworthiness of machine learning (ML) systems, recent legislative initiatives and relevant research in the ML community have pointed out the need to document the data used to train ML models. Besides, data-sharing practices in many scientific domains have evolved in recent years for reproducibility purposes. In this sense, the adoption of these practices by academic institutions has encouraged researchers to publish their data and technical documentation in peer-reviewed publications such as data papers. In this study, we analyze how this scientific data documentation meets the needs of the ML community and regulatory bodies for its use in ML technologies. We examine a sample of 4041 data papers of different domains, assessing their completeness and coverage of the requested dimensions, and trends in recent years, putting special emphasis on the most and least documented dimensions. As a result, we propose a set of recommendation guidelines for data creators and scientific data publishers to increase their data’s preparedness for its transparent and fairer use in ML technologies.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.10304

MarBina Rothblatt Assistant Digital Archivist

The MarBina Rothblatt Assistant Digital Archivist will work with the Martine A. and Bina Aspen Rothblatt Digital Archivist to ensure the organization, access, and long-term preservation of APS Library & Museum born-digital content, and participate in the accession, migration, processing, and handling of born-digital collections.

https://apply.interfolio.com/139615

"ChatGPT in Medical Libraries, Possibilities and Future Directions: An Integrative Review"

Positioned as a review, our study elucidates the applications of ChatGPT in medical libraries and discusses relevant considerations. The integration of ChatGPT into medical library services holds promise for enhancing information retrieval and user experience, benefiting library users and the broader medical community.

https://doi.org/10.1111/hir.12518

Head of Library Technology Initiatives and Development at California State University San Marcos

The Head of LTID will provide leadership, guidance, and strategic direction to the Library Technology Initiatives and Development Department and foster a creative, collaborative, and inclusive work environment. The LTID Department, which is comprised of four library staff members and two student assistants, includes the work of project management, web development, discovery services, management of CSUSM’s instance of the CSU collaborative Unified Library Management System, knowledge management, systems integration, and close collaboration with the User Experience Librarian.

http://tinyurl.com/3t5tm6cf

Scaling Up: How Data Curation Can Help Address Key Issues in Qualitative Data Reuse and Big Social Research

This book explores the connections between qualitative data reuse, big social research, and data curation. A review of existing literature identifies the key issues of context, data quality and trustworthiness, data comparability, informed consent, privacy and confidentiality, and intellectual property and data ownership. Through interviews of qualitative researchers, big social researchers, and data curators, the author further examines each key issue and produces new insights about how domain differences affect each community of practice’s viewpoints, different strategies that researchers and curators use to ensure responsible practice, and different perspectives on data curation.

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-49222-8

"Launch of Scopus AI to Help Researchers Navigate the World of Research "

Scopus AI is based on Scopus’ trusted content from over 27,000 academic journals, from more than 7,000 publishers worldwide, with over 1.8 billion citations, and includes over 17 million author profiles. Scopus content is vetted by an independent board of world-renowned scientists and librarians who represent the major scientific disciplines.

Since the alpha launch in August 2023, thousands of researchers across the world have tested Scopus AI. Their feedback has reinforced that, as generative AI evolves, researchers want trustworthy, cited research that is relevant and highly personalized to their needs.

Feedback from the research community has led to Scopus AI offering the following powerful features:

Expanded and Enhanced Summaries that provide researchers with fast overviews of key topics that they can dig deeper into, sometimes even highlighting gaps in literature. . . .

Foundational and Influential Papers that enable researchers to rapidly pinpoint seminal works, navigating academic progress and impact with precision and ease.

Academic Expert Search identifies leading experts in their fields and provides explanations of their expertise relevant to the user’s query, helping save time.

Enhanced breadth of research, covering ten years of Scopus content to support well-rounded perspective on topics of interest, and improved design to enhance the user experience.

http://tinyurl.com/22f78hv6

Systems Librarian California State University, Northridge

The University Library at California State University, Northridge seeks a professionally engaged, innovative, and collaborative Systems Librarian to join our Library systems and technology team. In a team environment, the successful candidate will be responsible for: Managing and supporting the Unified Library Management System (Ex Libris Alma and Primo data display and indexing); Facilitating import, export, and interoperability of metadata in library systems; Guiding the creative integration of the library system with the Library’s website and other systems; Collaborating with the Library Systems Group, campus technology departments, staff, librarians, and teaching faculty to design, promote, and improve online access and integration of library resources and collections; Initiating both the implementation and the awareness of new features that enhance user success in finding and using library content; Serving on Library, campus, regional, and national organizations and initiatives.

http://tinyurl.com/8xwzns83

Paywall: "Can ChatGPT Identify Predatory Biomedical and Dental Journals? A Cross-Sectional Content Analysis"

ChatGPT may effectively distinguish between predatory and legitimate journals, with accuracy rates of 92.5% and 71%, respectively. The potential utility of large-scale language models in exposing predatory publications is worthy of further consideration.

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jdent.2024.104840

Head of Digital Project Management Office at University of Greenwich

The successful candidate will be responsible for supporting the overall planning, management and reporting of the Digital Strategy programme and the wider enhancement developments and projects, including resource management, risk monitoring, issue management, financial tracking, and benefits tracking, including embedding appropriate tooling to execute these effectively.

http://tinyurl.com/42ec9k9h

"Towards a Quality Indicator for Research Data Publications and Research Software publications — A Vision from the Helmholtz Association"

Research data and software are widely accepted as an outcome of scientific work. However, in comparison to text-based publications, there is not yet an established process to assess and evaluate quality of research data and research software publications. This paper presents an attempt to fill this gap. Initiated by the Working Group Open Science of the Helmholtz Association the Task Group Helmholtz Quality Indicators for Data and Software Publications currently develops a quality indicator for research data and research software publications to be used within the Association. This report summarizes the vision of the group of what all contributes to such an indicator. The proposed approach relies on generic well-established concepts for quality criteria, such as the FAIR Principles and the COBIT Maturity Model. It does — on purpose — not limit itself to technical implementation possibilities to avoid using an existing metric for a new purpose. The intention of this paper is to share the current state for further discussion with all stakeholders, particularly with other groups also working on similar metrics but also with entities that use the metrics.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.08804

Assistant Director Library Systems and Data at Southern New Hampshire University

Reporting to the Assistant VP Library Technology and Information Management, you will ensure the ongoing development of systems and technology under the Office of Knowledge Management and Information Science (OKMIS). Working alongside colleagues, partners, and university subject matter experts, you will help develop new technology to support OKMIS functions and student success, monitor performance, troubleshoot, and address technical issues. You will be responsible for data management within OKMIS, ensuring data maintenance, collection, and organization, and providing statistical reporting, analysis, and support to staff in data-related tasks.

http://tinyurl.com/e36kyx82

"Very Scary’: Mark Zuckerberg’s Pledge to Build Advanced AI Alarms Experts"

The Meta chief executive has said the company will attempt to build an artificial general intelligence (AGI) system and make it open source, meaning it will be accessible to developers outside the company. The system should be made "as widely available as we responsibly can," he added.

AGI? "An artificial general intelligence (AGI) is a hypothetical type of intelligent agent. If realized, an AGI could learn to accomplish any intellectual task that human beings or animals can perform. Alternatively, AGI has been defined as an autonomous system that surpasses human capabilities in the majority of economically valuable tasks."

http://tinyurl.com/2apt6kh6