March 2025 – Page 2 – DigitalKoans

Digital Archivist at The Art Institute of Chicago

Reporting to the Director of the Art Institute of Chicago Archives, the Digital Archivist is responsible for developing a sustainable infrastructure for collecting, organizing, describing, and preserving digital materials across the museum, and making digital materials accessible to staff and researchers; deploying that infrastructure to bring historically important digital institutional records into the AIC institutional archive; and preserving, processing, and making accessible other digital materials currently in the archival collections as well as newly acquired digital materials.

https://tinyurl.com/362udvxu

Paywall: “Bridging the AI Gap: Comparative Analysis of AI Integration, Education, and Outreach in Academic Libraries”

This study examines AI integration, education, and outreach in academic libraries across Europe, North America (Canada and USA), Sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean. An environmental scan of 40 academic library websites from the Times Higher Education 10 highest-ranked libraries in each region was conducted. Results show that more than 50% of the libraries offered educational materials and 42.5% conducted educational activities, while only 12.5% included AI policies.

https://doi.org/10.1177/03400352251325274

Data Services Librarian at University of Denver

The position will provide support and instruction in data management tools and techniques required by faculty, researchers, and students in line with FAIR Guiding Principles for scientific data management and stewardship: https://www.nature.com/articles/sdata201618. The Data Services Librarian offers workshops and consultation services in the Anderson Academic Commons’ Research Center, partners with the Scholarly Communications Librarian, the Digital Initiatives Librarian, and liaison librarians as appropriate. T

https://tinyurl.com/2ah2np6d

“Elsevier Launches ScienceDirect AI to Transform Research with Rapid Mission-Critical Insights from Trusted Content”

Researchers grapple with an ever-growing and overwhelming volume of information and need to quickly get accurate insights they can rely on. Studies show that they spend 25%-35% of their time sifting through literature. ScienceDirect AI helps address this challenge by drawing on the broadest and deepest content set of millions of peer-reviewed full-text research articles and book chapters to generate instant accurate summaries and highlight key findings, while providing references to support reproducibility and integrity of research.

https://tinyurl.com/2s3m2hwp

Metadata & Digitization Specialist at Johns Hopkins University (Term)

We are seeking a Metadata & Digitization Specialist to support the Eleanor & Lester Levy Family Curator of Sheet Music and Popular Culture in enhancing access to the Sheridan Libraries collections of popular sheet music. . . .

The Metadata & Digitization Librarian will enhance access to the library’s collections of American popular sheet music through archival processing, metadata creation, and digitization of new collections. They will also provide recommendations for supplementing the existing metadata and digital objects in the Levy Collection, and suggestions for new acquisitions.

https://tinyurl.com/yab39m7b

“De Gruyter Brill Accelerates Open Access Transformation, Making 58 Journals Freely Available via Subscribe to Open”

De Gruyter Brill is expanding its Subscribe to Open program, DG2O, by immediately switching 37 additional journals to open access. In total, 58 journals from the De Gruyter portfolio will be published open access via DG2O in 2025, making approximately 2,300 research articles freely available to the global scholarly community. The transition is made possible through the continued commitment of libraries and institutions, whose renewed subscriptions helped meet the necessary funding threshold.

https://tinyurl.com/5n7z8z7k

Electronic Resources Librarian at New Jersey Institute of Technology

Reporting to the Associate University Librarian for Collections and Information Technology, the ERL will oversee the lifecycle management of electronic and digital resources, including contract negotiations, licensing, and transformative agreements, and ensure discovery and seamless access to digital collections. This position will play a key role in supporting digital resource management initiatives, collaborating with faculty and stakeholders, staying informed on trends in libraries and higher education, and maintaining a strong focus on exceptional customer service and teamwork.

https://tinyurl.com/442kkr4u

“Springer Nature Achieves Revenue and Profit Targets and Projects Further Growth for 2025”

Revenue grew by 5% on an underlying[1] basis to €1,847 million and adjusted operating profit rose by 7% on an underlying[1] basis to €512 million

Research was main growth driver, posting underlying[1] 6% revenue increase following strong performance of the Open Access (OA) Journals portfolio

For the first time, Springer Nature published 50% of its primary research articles

https://tinyurl.com/bdd7umwm

Digital Scholarly Librarian at SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University

Create, maintain and manage resources on the Libraries Open Access, Open Educational Resources and Academic Publishing, including print materials and websites.

Investigates the Intersection of AI in research to inform Faculty how technology can shape research Interpretation and output.

Advise faculty, students, and staff on strategies to better manage, describe. preserve, and make available their scholarly work.

https://tinyurl.com/mvr6rwmp

“Cambridge to Conduct ‘Radical’ Review of Open Research ”

Cambridge University Press is to conduct a “radical, community-led” review of the open research publishing ecosystem. The review aims to identify bold and workable solutions that support innovation and researchers’ needs in a manner that’s sustainable for all major stakeholders.

The project will focus on four areas crucial to the future of open research:

The link between publishing, reward and recognition

Equity in research dissemination

Research integrity

Technological change and the future of research publishing

https://tinyurl.com/2879upe8

Open Research Manager at University of Exeter

This is an exciting time to be joining our Open Research team, you’ll play a key role in how we get a sustainable open access future, including responding to changes in funder and REF open access policies and helping our researchers do the right thing. Locally we are migrating our repository software to Figshare at the end of April and one of your first tasks will be to make sure we get the best out of our investment. We spend about £1.6 million each year on supporting open access through read and publish agreements, article processing charges and support for emerging open research models, getting value for money from this is increasingly important.

https://tinyurl.com/3ccfaw7d

“Litigating Fair Use”

Copyright law, and fair use specifically, starts from Congress’s statutory text, is informed by the Copyright Office’s guidance, is interpreted by the courts, and is analyzed by law professors. But litigators are not passive in this process; rather, they play an important role as well. In fact, the modern litigator often is in a uniquely good position to affect the development of fair use. These days, litigators practice all around the country, with admissions in many courts and pro hac vice appearances before others. This cross-country practice creates the opportunity—and in fact the necessity—to keep abreast of trends and splits across the various circuits, to figure out what best to argue in a given case, and thereby to hope to advance the law and their clients’ interests. Simply put, if the law of fair use is developed by case precedent, then the people whose arguments impact cases—that is, litigators—can help shape the law.

How do litigators do it? In this Article, I will discuss three of the primary tools in the litigator’s proverbial tool kit: law, facts, and persuasion. At the end of the day, these three things determine every fair use outcome. The art of litigating fair use is found in the gaps between precedent, when a litigator’s cutting-edge case is one about which reasonable minds may disagree. It is in those gaps where the litigator shines, because the law there is at its most malleable and the ability to persuade is most important. And with fair use, there are a lot of those gaps.

https://doi.org/10.52214/jla.v48i1.13531

Legal Data Scientist at Yale University

This position provides project-based support and consultation services for Law School student and faculty researchers throughout the entire research lifecycle. The Legal Data Scientist will enhance local capacity to create, maintain, and promote research-ready data deliverables and help raise scientific standards for empirical legal research. The Legal Data Scientist will work closely with researchers, research support specialists, students, and librarians at the Law School and around Yale University to deliver responsive and accurate data support services that meet local research needs. As such, the position involves staying informed of developments in research data management, research design, data analysis, and computational social science

https://tinyurl.com/ycx38urx

“Are Data Papers Cited as Research Data? Preliminary Analysis on Interdisciplinary Data Paper Citations”

Introduction. Research data sharing and reuse have become increasingly important in modern science, and data papers represent a new academic publication genre aimed at enhancing the visibility, sharing, and reuse of research data. However, whether citations to data papers reflect actual data reuse remains largely unexplored. This paper presents preliminary findings from a project designed to address this gap.

Method. we conducted a content analysis to manually annotate 437 citation sentences from 309 research articles referencing 50 data papers published in Data in Brief, a chief academic journal that only publishes data papers. The data papers were sampled from five knowledge domains based on a paper-level classification system.

Results. Our results show that most citations to all selected data papers (89%) are unrelated to the research data being described in the paper, instead focusing on the research findings or methodologies. This suggests that data papers are being cited similarly to traditional research articles, despite their unique purpose and content.

Conclusion. These findings raise questions about the effectiveness of data papers as representations of research data within the scholarly communication system, as well as their utility in quantitative studies on data reuse.

https://tinyurl.com/3f5u33fs

Digital Collections Project Manager at University of California, Riverside

Under the supervision of the Associate University Librarian for Content & Discovery, the Digital Collections Project Manager will work collaboratively with staff and departments across the library on a variety of projects related to digital collections, digital cultural heritage access, and digital preservation. Provides consulting services, leads and project manages digitization and digital collection workflows, and also works collaboratively on team-based digital initiatives. . . . Advises and integrates born-digital and post custodial collections into DAMs and other digital collection workflows. . . . Administers and ensures interoperability and continuity across DAMS (ex. Nuxeo), discovery platforms (ex. Calisphere, JSTOR, Omeka, CDNC etc.), and preservation services (ex. Merritt).

https://jobsportal.ucr.edu/jobs/35152710

“Can LLMs Categorize the Specialized Documents from Web Archives in a Better Way?”

The explosive growth of web archives presents a significant challenge: manually curating specialized document collections from this vast data. Existing approaches rely on supervised techniques, but recent advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs) offer new possibilities for automating collection creation. Large Language Models (LLMs) are demonstrating impressive performance on various tasks even without fine-tuning. This paper investigates the effectiveness of prompt design in achieving results comparable to fine-tuned models. We explore different prompting techniques for collecting specialized documents from web archives like UNT.edu, Michigan.gov, and Texas.gov. We then analyze the performance of LLMs under various prompt configurations. Our findings highlight the significant impact of incorporating task descriptions within prompts. Additionally, including the document type as justification for the search scope leads to demonstrably better results. This research suggests that well-crafted prompts can unlock the potential of LLMs for specialized tasks, potentially reducing reliance on resource-intensive fine-tuning. This research paves the way for automating specialized collection creation using LLMs and prompt engineering.

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3677389.3702591

Library Systems Administrator at University of Rhode Island

Lead the development and management of library systems and applications, focusing on user-centered services and sustainable information ecosystems. Oversee system configurations, programming, and technology stacks across various platforms. Collaborate with stakeholders to analyze requirements, solve issues, and guide projects to successful completion. Supervise staff and student employees while engaging with the university community to support evolving research library roles.

https://jobs.uri.edu/postings/14910

“Investing in the Future: A New Strategic Agreement for Diamond Open Access in Canada”

The Canadian Research Knowledge Network (CRKN) and Érudit are proud to announce a new five-year agreement (2025–2029) for the Partnership for Open Access, with 57 participating libraries. . . .

Thanks to the ongoing engagement of participating libraries, the Partnership for Open Access (POA) provides financial support to 260 scholarly journals. Independent and diverse, these journals reflect the linguistic diversity and the impactful research conducted in Canada and beyond. They are also deeply rooted in their academic communities, as over 1,500 Canadian researchers publish their work in these journals annually, which are often based on Canadian university campuses. . . .

Through its 10+ years, the POA has established itself as a successful and sustainable model: it enables the distribution of over 2,000 articles per year without APCs, and has already helped 40 journals make the transition to open access.

https://tinyurl.com/yrwz2pkp

Audiovisual Systems Archivist and Access Coordinator at University of Georgia

The Audiovisual Systems Archivist and Access Coordinator plays a critical role in managing and optimizing audiovisual and oral history digitization, metadata workflows, and system integrations across Special Collections. This position provides strategic leadership in planning and implementing sustainable, efficient workflows for audiovisual digitization, metadata migration, and access to audiovisual materials. Working closely with the Digital Archivist and other colleagues in Special Collections’ Digitization and Data unit and the Libraries’ Discovery and Digital Services unit, the librarian supports system integrations, explores emerging technologies—including AI-based solutions—and leads professional development efforts to enhance audiovisual preservation and access.

https://tinyurl.com/3un625ue

Royal Society at 71% OA: “Our Open Access Transition Enters the 70’sEra”

Looking back on the Royal Society journals’ progress over 2024, I am pleased to report that we have increased our open access output from 66% in 2023 to 71% across the research journals. . . .

Data from articles published in our Transformative Journals in 2022 shows that open access papers received on average 100% more citations and 116% more downloads than subscription articles. Of all articles published in 2022, 99 of the top 100 articles by Altmetric score were open access.

https://tinyurl.com/5a84jt5d

SHAREOK [Repository] Program Coordinator at University of Oklahoma

Reporting to the Associate Dean for Digital Strategies and Innovation, the successful candidate will be responsible for coordinating shared governance and leading the outreach, operation and strategic growth of the SHAREOKTM Consortium, a joint institutional repository serving the University of Oklahoma (OU) and the University of Central Oklahoma (UCO). . . .

Key responsibilities include establishing operational efficiency; coordinating and leading member meetings; leading the development of and managing the consortia governance structure to foster a collaborative environment; and assisting in the planning for long-range strategic plans. The Program Coordinator will also lead efforts to analyze data, generate reports, organize program events, manage budgets, and ensure compliance with program and institutional policies. Additionally, the successful candidate will be tasked with administering grants and contracts, performing project management, and developing policies and documenting procedures that align with the goals and objectives of the consortium.

https://tinyurl.com/3kzzmmxs

“AI Search Engines Cite Incorrect Sources at an Alarming 60% Rate, Study Says”

A new study from Columbia Journalism Review’s Tow Center for Digital Journalism finds serious accuracy issues with generative AI models used for news searches. The research tested eight AI-driven search tools equipped with live search functionality and discovered that the AI models incorrectly answered more than 60 percent of queries about news sources.

https://tinyurl.com/5ym7mc92

Scholarly Communications Librarian at West Texas A&M University

This position enhances the faculty’s ability to find scholarly resources by helping faculty find and adapt no-cost textbook options and by sharing with faculty the new and innovative ways that library resources are evolving, and by helping assess the faculty experience with scholarly databases. This position supports the faculty in making their scholarly efforts easier to access by helping faculty publish open-access content on the Pressbooks platform and leading library-faculty collaborations such as the Faculty and Student Research Poster Session and Research Fair.

https://tinyurl.com/32dnc86r

“Promoting AI Literacy through U.S. Academic Libraries: An Analysis of LibGuides from ARL and Oberlin Group Libraries Using the EDUCAUSE AI Literacy Framework”

Introduction. As the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) rapidly advances, academic libraries are increasingly pivotal in supporting AI literacy among students and faculty.

Method. Through content analysis, the present study examines 70 newly developed generative AI LibGuides from academic libraries affiliated with the association of research libraries (ARL) and the Oberlin group, using the EDUCAUSE AI literacy framework.

Analysis. Through a detailed examination, the present research reorganizes and improves the EDUCAUSE AI literacy framework, proposing a more comprehensive version tailored to higher education needs. The adapted framework fills the gaps in the original model and offers a nuanced approach to AI literacy, reflecting the unique challenges faced by academic libraries.

Results. The findings reveal that most LibGuides emphasize foundational AI tools and responsible use, with less focus on advanced technical competencies related to AI creation. Significant differences were observed between ARL and Oberlin Group LibGuides, with ARL offering more comprehensive coverage. To address these differences, consistent training and knowledge sharing initiatives are recommended to ensure a common standard of AI literacy support across academic libraries.

Conclusion. This study provides insights into the role of libraries in promoting generative AI literacy and identifies areas for future strategic partnerships and improvement.

https://doi.org/10.47989/ir30iConf47182

Library Data Strategist at Virginia Tech

The Library Data Strategist works closely with colleagues across the library to find strategic solutions to library data-related problems. Working under the Associate Director of Library Data Strategies and alongside the Technical Services and Metadata Services departments, this position develops and maintains connections between University Libraries systems, such as Figshare, Alma, Springshare, and Wikibase, among others. The Library Data Strategist is a problem-solver who assesses problems, researches options, suggests solutions, and implements and maintains processes that improve the ease and efficiency of workflows for data-related library services and projects.

https://tinyurl.com/57959446