Health Sciences and Digital Scholarship Librarian at Lenoir-Rhyne University


The Health Sciences and Digital Scholarship Librarian will focus on information literacy sessions, reference and research services, and collection management. . . .

Additionally, the role includes collaboration with faculty, students, and staff on digital scholarship, data analytics, and online academic publishing.

https://tinyurl.com/mrxyft7m

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"New Bill Aims to Block Foreign Pirate Sites in the U.S."


Pirate site blocking orders are a step closer to becoming reality in the United States after Rep. Zoe Lofgren introduced the Foreign Anti-Digital Piracy Act earlier today. Should it become law, FAPDA would allow rightsholders to obtain site blocking orders targeted at verified pirate sites, presumably run by foreign operators.

https://tinyurl.com/zcyxms22

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Digital Scholarship and Innovation Librarian/Technologist at Hamilton College


The Digital Scholarship and Innovation Librarian/Technologist works collaboratively across disciplines with faculty and students to support all aspects of scholarly production. This includes capturing, analyzing, and visualizing data; communicating findings with rich media, and contextualizing both data and scholarly interpretations online. They provide expertise and training on commonly used digital scholarship platforms and tools, and seek to develop best practices for support of digital scholarship projects in the liberal arts. The Digital Scholarship and Innovation Librarian/Technologist will also be aware of current scholarship trends.

https://apply.interfolio.com/162746

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"A Decade of Open Access Policy at the Gates Foundation Based on Experimentation, Evidence and Evolution"


This article provides an in-depth look at the Gates Foundation’s open access (OA) policy journey as 2025 marks a decade of OA policy for the foundation. There have been two iterations of the policy – the original version that was launched in 2015 with a focus on gold OA, and which was then adapted in 2021 to reflect the Plan S principles, including limitations for publisher payments based on journal type and repository deposits. Now, in response to the ever-evolving needs of the scholarly ecosystem, the foundation is updating its policy again to strive for broader impact and to support practices that drive greater inclusion of scientists around the world, particularly those from low- and middle-income countries. This article will provide a deep dive into the decisions and data used to define a more equitable approach to dissemination of the research funded by the foundation.

https://doi.org/10.1629/uksg.690

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Scholarly Communication Librarian at Butler University


This position provides leadership for scholarly communication and digital scholarship initiatives at Butler University Libraries, with an emphasis on managing and developing Butler’s institutional repository (Digital Commons), and the Libraries’ digital publishing initiatives. This position also supports digital humanities projects, in collaboration with the Digital Initiatives Librarian. The librarian in this position leads education and outreach to faculty and provides strategic direction for the Libraries’ support of Open Scholarship, Open Access, and open publishing initiatives by evaluating opportunities and making recommendations for redirecting collections investments to bolster open research and other publishing trends as related to metrics, tenure, and promotion. The position also serves as the Libraries’ primary resource on copyright compliance, fair use, and other intellectual property issues that pertain to library collections and services.

https://tinyurl.com/4sfukuhp

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"Clarivate Identifies Top 50 Universities Powering Global Innovation"


Drawing on a host of Clarivate data – from the Web of Science to Derwent World Patent Index, and Derwent Patents Citation Index – the report highlights how knowledge flows between academia and industry across countries and regions, underscoring the global nature of innovation. The study identifies the top 50 universities named on the academic papers that received the highest number of citations from patents granted to the companies and organizations on the Top 100 Global Innovators 2024 list.

Key findings include:

The top 50 universities powering global innovation are distributed across eleven countries or regions – from Canada to South Korea

  • U.S. universities such as Harvard, Stanford, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) dominate. Harvard leads with its high volume of research outputs, but MIT’s smaller, yet highly impactful publications highlight its exceptional ability to translate research into groundbreaking innovations
  • Strong regional citation patterns emerge, with companies in Eastern Asia and Europe heavily relying on local academic research, while U.S. research is the most globally cited
  • The United Kingdom demonstrates particularly diverse international influence, with its research often serving as a bridge across regions.
  • Five organizations – Roche, Johnson & Johnson, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Samsung Electronics, and Siemens – account for over half (51%) of citations from top innovations to academic research

https://tinyurl.com/yc4nea6k

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Collections Digitization Librarian at University of Washington


Reporting to the Director of Preservation Services, the Collections Digitization Librarian oversees and directs still image digitization projects within the Preservation Services Department. In collaboration with other library departments and stakeholders, the Collections Digitization Librarian works with the unique and diverse collections held throughout the Libraries to ensure and enhance access to the University of Washington Libraries’ collections. The incumbent will work as part of a team of staff increasing internal capacity for digitization and supporting the Libraries’ preservation program.

https://tinyurl.com/4etppxk2

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"Understanding How to Identify and Manage Personal Identifying Information (PII) to Further Data Interoperability"


Respect for research participant rights is a key aspect for consideration when creating and utilizing interoperable data. From that perspective, requirements for sharing research data often call for the data to be de-identified, i.e., the removal of all personal identifying information (PII) prior to data sharing, to ensure that the participant’s data privacy rights are not infringed upon. However, what constitutes PII is often a point of confusion amongst researchers who are not familiar with privacy laws and regulations. This paper hopes to provide some clarity around what makes research data identifiable by presenting it under a different perspective from what most researchers are familiar with. It also provides a framework to help researchers determine where PII could exist within their data that they can use to help with privacy impact evaluations. The goal is to empower researchers to share their data with greater confidence that the privacy rights of their research subjects have been sufficiently protected, enabling access to greater amounts of data for research use.

https://tinyurl.com/2p95xtd2

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Chief Technology Officer at Library of Virginia


The CTO will oversee the Information Technology (IT) and Digital Initiatives/Web Presence (DIWP) divisions, managing two direct reports and a combined staff of 17 professionals. LVA’s robust infrastructure includes 61 virtual servers, nearly 500TB of storage, and a network supporting both the main library building and the State Records Center. The IT division supports over 250 deployed computers, while the DIWP division is responsible for digital collections, web applications, digital engagement, and the management of critical systems like Alma, Primo, and Rosetta. The divisions also maintain and provide access to over 130 million digital collection files.

https://tinyurl.com/2zb4x4cx

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"Staking Out the Stakeholders: Using NIST’s Research Data Framework within a Public University System"


Purpose: This article first introduces and contextualizes the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Research Data Framework (RDaF) and then explores its application in a local context.

Setting/Participants: The State University of New York (SUNY) System, both at a system-wide level and at two individual SUNY campuses, developed an approach to applying RDaF to improve research data management (RDM) practices.

Brief Description: As institutions work to establish sound, coordinated services and infrastructure that meet local needs, they look to strategic guidance and established best practices for doing so responsibly and successfully. Modeled after their Cybersecurity and Privacy Frameworks, NIST began developing RDaF in 2019 to address pressing research data community needs. The RDaF provides a comprehensive, structured approach to be used by diverse stakeholders to better understand the benefits, risks, and costs of research data management (RDM).

Results/Outcome: NIST continues to work with other organizations on RDaF’s utility in different contexts, and SUNY’s application offers both a use case and lessons learned that may offer other institutions a practical, grounded approach for leveraging the power of RDaF to improve their RDM strategy.

Conclusions: RDaF’s comprehensive guidance offers a robust, flexible framework for building thorough RDM strategy, whatever an organization’s institutional readiness.

https://tinyurl.com/55v3k7ux

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Head of Digital Strategies and Services for Archives and Special Collections at Harvard University


Reporting to the Director of Technical Services for Archives and Special Collections, the Head of Digital Strategies and Services will lead a team dedicated to digitization, stewardship of born-digital content, and metadata and systems support for stakeholders in Harvard University Archives and Houghton Library. The Head will help create collaborative culture and communities of practice across Harvard Library’s AASC portfolio, which consists of the Fine Arts Library, Harvard Film Archive, Harvard University Archives, Houghton Library, and Loeb Music Library. The incumbent will contribute to strategic efforts to enhance discovery of and access to archives and special collections, including University records, through new digital platforms and services. They will lead efforts to enhance capacity for born-digital stewardship; oversee programmatic and patron-driven digitization; and work to enhance interoperability, accessibility, and usability within our systems infrastructure. The Head will lead the team in innovative ways of doing work and experimentation with innovative technologies while balancing environmental impact, sustainability, and total costs of stewardship for digital content.

https://tinyurl.com/4yny3k2d

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"Persistent Identifiers for Instruments and Facilities: Current State, Challenges, and Opportunities"


Objective: Persistent Identifiers (PIDs) are central to the vision of open science described in the FAIR Principles. However, the use of PIDs for scientific instruments and facilities is decentralized and fragmented. This project aims to develop community-based standards, guidelines, and best practices for how and why PIDs can be assigned to facilities and instruments.

Methods: We hosted several online and in-person focus groups and discussions, cumulating in a two-day in-person workshop featuring stakeholders from a variety of organizations and disciplines, such as instrument and facilities operators, PID infrastructure providers, researchers who use instruments and facilities, journal publishers, university administrators, federal funding agencies, and information and data professionals.

Results: Our first-year efforts resulted in four main areas of interest: developing a better understanding of the current PID ecosystem; clarifying how and when PIDs could be assigned to scientific instruments and facilities; challenges and barriers involved with assigning PIDs; incentives for researchers, facility managers, and other stakeholders to encourage the use of PIDs.

Conclusions: The potential for PIDs to facilitate the discovery, connection, and attribution of research instruments and facilities indicates an obvious value in their use. The lack of standards of how and when they are created, assigned, updated, and used is a major barrier to their widespread use. Data and information professionals can work to create relationships with stakeholders, provide relevant education and outreach activities, and integrate PIDs for instruments and facilities into their data curation and publication workflows.

https://tinyurl.com/3b8r6xrx

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Digital Preservation Librarian at Texas A&M University Libraries


The Digital Preservation Librarian will lead the development of an active and comprehensive digital preservation program at the Texas A&M University Libraries. This Assistant Librarian will be responsible for the ongoing implementation of systems, strategies, and policies for the long-term preservation of digital content containing both digitized and born-digital materials. The Digital Preservation Librarian is expected to be accurate and precise in their work, as this charge includes stewardship or management of a considerable number of digital files, storage spaces, inventories, and processes.

https://tinyurl.com/37rvmnbt

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"In Sharing We Trust. Taking Advantage of a Diverse Consortium to Build a Transparent Data Service in Catalonia "


The Consorci de Serveis Universitaris de Catalunya (CSUC) is a consortium that serves 13 universities and 33 research centers in Catalonia and neighboring communities. In 2017 the Consortium created an Open Science department to collaborate with universities and research centers on facilitating the adoption of Open Science requirements. Even though CSUC also offers services to researchers directly (for example, its supercomputing resources), this report will focus on CSUC’s work with its member institutions to create and offer data management services. We will explain how CSUC has led the creation of a robust shared governance system, and how it takes advantage of the diversity of its members to create useful, high quality, and transparent services for all researchers in the Catalan research system. Through sharing each other’s experiences, values and priorities, the result is better than separate ad-hoc solutions. The process also creates a community of practitioners that develop expertise together with the help of professional development opportunities organized by CSUC, like recurrent self-learning labs focused on data curation tools, techniques and processes.

https://tinyurl.com/r2msbnsv

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Archivist (Digital Preservation) at University of Glasgow


To manage and develop Archives & Special Collections (ASC) digital preservation services, providing expert professional knowledge and expertise on ensuring the long-term preservation and accessibility of the Library’s unique and distinctive born-digital collections.

https://tinyurl.com/yspxz2fd

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"Researchers and Research Data: Improving and Incentivising Sharing and Archiving "


There has been a lot of discussion within the scientific community around the issues of reproducibility in research, with questions being raised about the integrity of research due to failure to reproduce or confirm the findings of some of the studies. Researchers need to adhere to the FAIR (findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable) principles to contribute to collaborative and open science, but these open data principles can also support reproducibility and issues around ensuring data integrity. This article uses observations and metrics from data sharing and research integrity related activities, undertaken by a Research Integrity and Data Specialist at the Francis Crick Institute, to discuss potential reasons behind a slow uptake of FAIR data practices. We then suggest solutions undertaken at the Francis Crick institute which can be followed by institutes and universities to improve the integrity of research from a data perspective. One major solution discussed is the implementation of a data archive system at the Francis Crick Institute to ensure the integrity of data long term, comply with our funders’ data management requirements, and to safeguard our researchers against any potential research integrity allegations in the future.

https://tinyurl.com/wkhw548z

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Research Data Librarian at Hofstra University


  • Work with a team of key university stakeholders to analyze and assess current campus research data management needs, and to collaboratively develop research data initiatives, services, and future directions.
  • Collaborate on the development and implementation of a plan for the Library to provide and sustain data services to support the University’s research mission.
  • Assist researchers in complying with funder-mandated data management and sharing requirements, working together with the Office of Sponsored Research and other university units as appropriate.
  • Advise on repository requirements and infrastructure, and assist in the implementation and management of repository systems and services.
  • Advocate for the value of responsible data practices and reproducibility, emphasizing considerations of privacy, ethics, attribution, and documentation when working with data.

https://tinyurl.com/3tynrca3

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"Starting with the Digital Doesn’t Make it Easier: Developing Transparent Born Digital Acquisition Policies for Archives "


As organizations continue to overwhelmingly abandon all forms of paper-based record keeping, libraries are still adapting to increased offers of born digital archival donations. Simple misunderstandings or disconnects between the units facilitating donations and maintaining born-digital collections creates pain-points for donor relations and can result in a lack of transparency over how their records may be processed. To facilitate better donor transparency and cross-area collaboration over born digital records, Special Collections and archives need comprehensive policies and shifts in training and collaboration paradigms. This paper analyses the intersections of born digital archiving, collection development polices, donor relations, human-supported AI tools, and digital records education within American academic libraries to propose a functional toolkit for born digital acquisitions. Unrealistic expectations of collection processing, retention, growth, and publication onto openly accessible platforms can quickly overwhelm a libraries’ digital collections’ team due to size, need for digital forensics work, copyright limitations, or other capacity-related issues. Intertwined within this discussion is an additional discourse over the need to carefully curate our digital spaces not only for practical cost reasons, but due to the environmental costs of massive data storage solutions. Through an analysis of the elements stated above, the paper will reflect on the need to integrate born digital materials into archival acquisition procedures and provide practical solutions to meet this need.

https://tinyurl.com/8r3ucesb

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Digital Projects Librarian (Open Scholarship Librarian) at University of Texas at Arlington


The Open Scholarship Librarian, who manages MavMatrix, will oversee the university’s institutional repository and archival hub. This role advocates for open access scholarship and develops strategies to increase scholarly impact and ensure global access to publications by UTA researchers. Additionally, the Open Scholarship Librarian partners with UTA faculty, staff, and students to successfully develop and implement research- and curriculum-focused digital projects.

https://tinyurl.com/5d3fm9u2

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"Preparing Institutions for the Transition: Consortial Cost-Sharing Models in Transformative Agreements in Austria"


Over the past ten years, the member institutions of the Austrian Academic Library Consortium (KEMÖ) have gradually opened up their researchers’ publications to the world, one publisher at a time. By pulling their resources together, KEMÖ members have successfully converted their subscription-only agreements, for the most part, to read and publish deals in a cost-neutral manner, which include an article allocation comfortably covering the consortium’s publishing needs. However, the new business models disrupted the pre-transition status quo: the existing distribution of costs, based predominantly on institutional subscription spending, differed from the emerging institutional-level output and potential associated costs. While moving to fully article-based pricing was felt premature, the consortium decided to explore ways to make the internal cost distribution more equitable. This article presents the various cost-sharing models reviewed and the process leading to the models ultimately introduced for several transformative agreements.

https://doi.org/10.1629/uksg.671

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Artificial Intelligence Research Data Science Specialist at Dartmouth College


This position works as part of the Dartmouth Libraries Research Data Services team to support research, curricular, and applied artificial intelligence work on campus. The person in this role will bring data science skills together with necessary expertise in information curation and knowledge management to support a variety of generative artificial intelligence applications, such as semantic search, retrieval augmented generation, and information/data retrieval application development. Working alongside campus partners engaged in data science and generative artificial intelligence work, this role will focus on database creation, data ingestion, information preprocessing and embedding, vector database management, and system optimization.

https://tinyurl.com/nhf34xhy

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"Trends and Changes in Academic Libraries’ Data Management Functions: A Topic Modeling Analysis of Job Advertisements"


This study aims to (i) track trends in academic library data management positions, (ii) identify key themes in job advertisements related to data management, and (iii) examine how these themes have evolved. Using text mining techniques, this study applied Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) and TF-IDF vectorization to systematically analyze 803 job advertisements related to data management posted on the IFLA LIBJOBS platform from 1996 to 2023. The findings reveal that the development of these positions has undergone three phases: exploration, growth, and adjustment. Four core themes in data management functions emerged: “Cataloging and Metadata Management,” “Data Services and Support,” “Research Data Management,” and “Systems Management and Maintenance.” Over time, these themes have evolved from distinct roles to a more balanced distribution.

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.acalib.2025.103017

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Digital Scholarship & Sciences Research Specialist Librarian at University of Nebraska–Lincoln


The Digital Scholarship & Sciences Research Specialist Librarian develops instruction and consults on research projects to leverage computational approaches, including using scripting tools, databases, APIs, large language models, social network analysis, and/or text analysis. Areas of support may include data analysis, data cleaning, and data visualization, and using programming languages or applications like Tableau or Flourish. This librarian will actively participate in the field of digital scholarship, leading our department engagement with efforts like Library Carpentries and Data Carpentries. Additionally, the Digital Scholarship Research Specialist will partner with other members of the department to help researchers and teams understand and use research metrics and other strategies to communicate the impacts of their research.

https://tinyurl.com/bdzdkraf

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"DeepSeek Panic Triggers Tech Stock Sell-off as Chinese AI Tops App Store"


There are three elements of DeepSeek R1 that really shocked experts. First, the Chinese startup appears to have trained the model for only $6 million (reportedly about 3% of the cost of training o1) as a so-called “side project” while using less powerful Nvidia H800 AI-acceleration chips due to US export restrictions on cutting-edge GPUs. Secondly, it appeared just four months after OpenAI announced o1 in September 2024. Finally, and perhaps most importantly, DeepSeek released the model weights for free with an open MIT license, meaning anyone can download it, run it, and fine-tune (modify) it.

https://tinyurl.com/3e5bk3cw

For an in-depth analysis see: “China’s DeepSeek AI Model Shocks the World: Should You Sell Your Nvidia Stock?

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