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"Public Launch of the European Diamond Capacity Hub and the ALMASI Project"

The European Diamond Capacity Hub (EDCH) will hold its public launch on the 15 January 2025 in Madrid, Spain. . . .

The EDCH aims to strengthen the Diamond OA community in Europe by supporting European institutional, national and disciplinary capacity centres and Diamond publishers and service providers in their mission of Diamond OA scholarly publishing. The EDCH will provide these Diamond stakeholders with coordination, sustainability, training modules, technical tools, and services at scale. The EDCH thus answers the need for capacity building in the Diamond OA community that was expressed in the Action Plan for Diamond Open Access. . . .

The EDCH will be launched in conjunction with a public event on 14 January 2025 announcing the EU-funded ALMASI project. This three-year project with 15 partners from three continents will seek a better understanding of the situation of non-profit OA publishing in three world regions – Africa, Latin America, and Europe – co-designing and aligning measures for quality alignment, training materials, and institutional and national policy development.

https://tinyurl.com/2s45urbm

Coordinator of Music Metadata and Digitization at University of North Texas

The UNT Libraries seeks an innovative thinker with strong people skills to plan, coordinate, create, and oversee the entry of high-quality metadata and digitization workflows for the UNT Music Library (http://www.library.unt.edu/music). Under the general supervision of the Head of Music Technical Services, the Coordinator of Music Metadata and Digitization will oversee the description of digital collections and digitization of physical collections, including hiring, training, and supervising student assistants.

https://tinyurl.com/bdh3z24e

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign: "Research Data Service Extended Review"

Building upon the first 5-year review in 2019, this report presents an extended review of the Research Data Service at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign from 2018-2023, assessing its current efforts and future directions.

https://hdl.handle.net/2142/124781

Open Content and Affordable Learning Librarian at Ball State University

The Ball State University Libraries is searching for a talented and knowledgeable collaborator to build out support for and implementation of Open Education Resources (OER) and a variety of open access scholarship material as our Open Content and Affordable Learning Librarian. This position helps advance the Textbook Affordability initiative at Ball State and is essential to identifying key open access resources for existing and new course delivery methods such as Coursera and Lifetime Learning where openly accessible resources are key to avoiding copyright infringements.

https://bsu.peopleadmin.com/postings/45466

"Geographical and Disciplinary Coverage of Open Access Journals: OpenAlex, Scopus and WoS"

This study aims to compare the geographical and disciplinary coverage of OA journals in three databases: OpenAlex, Scopus and the WoS. We used the ROAD database, managed by the ISSN International Centre, as a reference database which indexes 62,701 OA active resources (as of May 2024). Among the 62,701 active resources indexed in the ROAD database, the Web of Science indexes 6,157 journals, while Scopus indexes 7,351, and OpenAlex indexes 34,217. A striking observation is the presence of 25,658 OA journals exclusively in OpenAlex, whereas only 182 journals are exclusively present in WoS and 373 in Scopus. The geographical analysis focusses on two levels: continents and countries. As for disciplinary comparison, we use the ten disciplinary levels of the ROAD database. Moreover, our findings reveal a striking similarity in OA journal coverage between WoS and Scopus. However, while OpenAlex offers better inclusivity and indexing, it is not without biases. WoS and Scopus predictably favor journals from Europe, North America and Oceania. Although OpenAlex presents a much more balanced indexing, certain regions and countries remain relatively underrepresented. Typically, Africa is proportionally as under-represented in OpenAlex as it is in WoS, and some emerging countries are proportionally less represented in OpenAlex than in WoS and Scopus. These results underscore a marked similarity in OA journal indexing between WoS and Scopus, while OpenAlex aligns more closely with the distribution observed in the ROAD database, although it also exhibits some representational biases.

https://cnrs.hal.science/hal-04745665v1

Digital Preservation Production Manager at University of Michigan

The Digital Preservation Production Manager joins the Digital Preservation Unit to help lead the design and implementation of a comprehensive library-wide digital preservation program. You will take the lead in building and managing the production aspects of the library’s born-digital preservation program, including several existing archiving and preservation solutions and the daily activities of our Digital Preservation Lab, which serves as the center of the library’s digital archeological work and an incubation space for solutions to be implemented throughout the library.

https://tinyurl.com/n49an5m7

"Metrics to Increase Data Usage Understanding and Transparency "

Data metrics are essential to assess the impact of data repositories’ holdings and to understand the research practices of the community that they serve. These metrics are useful for reporting to funders, to inform community engagement strategies, and to direct and sustain repository services. In turn, communicating these metrics to the user community conveys transparency and elicits their trust in data sharing. However, because data metrics are time-sensitive and context-dependent, tracking, interpreting, and communicating them is challenging. In this work we introduce data usage analyses including benchmarking and grouping, developed to better assess the impact of the DesignSafe Data Depot, a natural hazards data repository. Make Data Count compliant metrics are analysed in relation to research methods, sub-disciplines, natural hazard types, and time, to learn what data is being used, what influences data usage, and to establish realistic usage expectations. Results are interpreted in relation to the research and publication practices of the community and to natural hazard events. In addition, we introduce strategies to clearly communicate dataset metrics to users.

https://doi.org/10.2218/ijdc.v18i1.929

Head of Research Data Management at University of Oxford

This role provides strategic leadership in the delivery of specialist systems and services which support research data management across the University. The post is based in the Open Scholarship Support department of the Bodleian Libraries, which provides a central point for advocacy and strategy in the areas of open access, open scholarship, research data management, copyright and licensing, and digital preservation. Open Scholarship Support is a small and dynamic team which supports hybrid working patterns.

https://tinyurl.com/awjmhvyc

"Video Game Preservationists Have Lost a Legal Fight to Study Games Remotely"

When video game scholars want to study games that are no longer on sale, they sometimes have to drive many hours to do it legally — and that won’t be changing anytime soon. The US Copyright Office has just denied a request from video game preservationists to let libraries, archives and museums temporarily lend individuals some virtual, remotely accessible copies of those works.

https://tinyurl.com/3sb37jn6

Department Head, Digital Scholarship at University of Central Florida

The Head of Digital Scholarship role is pivotal in fostering a collaborative environment that will manage and oversee a comprehensive suite of services that will serve and enhance the research needs of researchers across campus. This position will provide expertise and guidance on tools and methodologies that enhance discovery and inquiry, optimize research workflows, provide education on copyright and digital rights management, and increase engagement with collections and data.

https://tinyurl.com/3v7nny8t

Institutionally Based Research Data Services: Current Developments and Future Direction

The Summit for Academic Institutional Readiness in Data Sharing (STAIRS) was a multi-phased project that brought together a diverse group of representatives from academic institutions across the United States who support research data sharing efforts. Building off preliminary assessment work and a virtual learning series, this was a unique chance to discuss the opportunities and challenges in supporting researchers’ data sharing needs within and across institutions. This report captures the details of the project, including the preliminary assessment work as well as the summit. Following a description of the broad themes and overarching takeaways from this multi-phased effort, we conclude with next steps and future directions for the academic data services community.

https://tinyurl.com/3v8b5xc3

University College Librarian at University of Toronto Libraries

The University of Toronto Libraries system is the largest academic library in Canada and is consistently ranked in the top ten among academic research libraries in North America. The system consists of 40 libraries located on three university campuses: St. George, Mississauga, and Scarborough. This array of college libraries, special collections, and specialized libraries and information centres supports the teaching and research requirements of over 300 graduate programs, more than 70 professional programs, and about 700 undergraduate degree programs. In addition to more than 12 million volumes in 341 languages, the library system currently provides access to millions of electronic resources in various forms and over 31,000 linear metres of archival material. More than 150,000 new print volumes are acquired each year. The Libraries’ data centre houses more than 600 servers with a storage capacity of 1.5 petabytes.

https://tinyurl.com/mwvsnyrb

"Web of Science Index Puts eLife ‘On Hold’Because of Its Radical Publishing Model"

The Web of Science, a leading bibliometric indexing service, yesterday suspended the journal eLife from its listings because its novel publishing model adopted last year—which includes public peer review but no final decision on whether a manuscript is accepted or rejected—conflicts with the Web of Science’s standards for assuring quality.

https://tinyurl.com/2s4cad42

Digital Scholarship and Instruction Librarian at University of Iowa

Reporting to the Director of the Digital Scholarship & Publishing Studio and joining a collaborative team of librarians and technical specialists active in research services, instruction, and academic engagement, the Digital Scholarship & Instruction Librarian assists with the design, planning, and implementation of projects, services, and instruction related to digital scholarship and publishing.

https://tinyurl.com/44pxkac9

"Research Data Policy: A Library and Information Science Publishers’ Perspective"

Apart from the common features identified in the literature, the authors found numerous distinct research data policy features of publishers, such as deposition of data sets, division of research data policy types, and sharing of research code. Furthermore, institutional publishers with research data policies have more rigid features for the execution of research data policy features since their beneficiaries are uniform, in contrast to the varied nature of journals’ and publishers’ authors.

https://doi.org/10.1007/s11135-024-01994-8

Scholarly Communications and Copyright Librarian at Bucknell University

The Scholarly Communications and Copyright Librarian reports to the Director for Research Services and Information Literacy and is directly responsible for advocating for, supporting, and educating the campus community on issues related to scholarly communication, copyright, open access, and open education.

https://tinyurl.com/yucfrs4m

"Keeping Up-to-Date on New Scholarship with OpenAlex: Setting up the Perfect Email Notification"

In this installment of LibTech Tools hosted by Choice editor and publisher Rachel Hendrick and information services industry expert Gary Price, Gary highlights a useful tool within OpenAlex: email alerts for new scholarship. Of course, email alerts can be more annoying than useful, so Gary walks viewers through the different filter options to optimize their notifications and better stay up-to-date with the scholarship relevant to them.

https://tinyurl.com/3zddr3bj

Director, Open Scholarship & Publishing and Arts & Humanities at University of Washington

Under the general direction of the Senior Associate Dean of the Research & Learning Services Portfolio, the Director of Open Scholarship & Publishing and Arts & Humanities provides leadership, strategic vision, and oversight for Scholarly Communication, Copyright, physical and virtual services of the Open Scholarship Commons, Research Commons, and Government Publications, Maps, Microforms & Newspapers. The Director leads the Arts & Humanities liaison team, actively linking subject and functional expertise to develop robust services in support of key UW institutional initiatives (e.g. digital scholarship, open access mandates).

https://apply.interfolio.com/157537

"Data Curation Maturity Model"

The Data Curation Maturity Model (DCMM) enhances the effectiveness of data curation activities with its innovative, mathematically quantifiable matrix approach, specifically tailored to meet the dynamic needs of data curation. By integrating focus area maturity models with specific curation requirements, the DCMM provides a structured progression framework that allows organizations to visualize and measure their advancements in data management. This model not only elevates data quality and reproducibility across various research domains but also establishes a new standard for strategic, targeted improvement in data curation practices.

https://tinyurl.com/yb8am8ba

Scholarly Services Technical Administrator at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University

Lead technical administrator for the institutional repositories (bepress/Scholarly Commons and Data Commons)

Primary technical support for the Research Information Management System (Pure/Portfolio), and OER publishing platform (Pressbooks/Eagle Pubs). . . .

Contributes to the policy developments of the department in support of our OA efforts

https://tinyurl.com/yckknsn

"cOAlition S Announces the Release of an Independent Study on the Impact of Plan S"

The authors of the study highlight that Plan S has opened new avenues for achieving full and immediate Open Access, successfully placing Open Access high on policymakers’ agendas and bringing publishers to the negotiating table with institutions. The study underscores the potentially game-changing effect of the rights retention strategy, which institutions have since expanded into their own Rights Retention Policies. It also notes the contribution to the current momentum around Diamond Open Access, and the role of cOAlition S in raising awareness of the inequities of article-based charges publishing models.

The authors note that it may be too early to fully assess Plan S’s quantitative impact, as many policies only took effect in 2021 or later, and they recommend revisiting the study in 5-10 years. However, observing significant progress in the push towards full and immediate Open Access since Plan S was first announced and the influential role of the alliance of research funders, they recommend continuing cOAlition S beyond 2025.

https://tinyurl.com/2ecyu8ce

Report

Scholarly Communications Librarian at University of New Mexico

Leads, develops, and implements comprehensive scholarly communication strategies that enhance the visibility and accessibility of research outputs.

Actively participates in relevant committees and working groups within and beyond the institution to advocate for open science, open access, open data, and open educational resources.

Evaluates and recommends technological solutions and infrastructure improvements that support the management and sharing of research outputs openly and effectively.

Collaborates with HSLIC colleagues in the development and maintenance of digital collections and repositories that support the academic community.

https://tinyurl.com/yc2yabcw

"‘Massive Copyright Violation’ Threatens One of the World’s Hottest AI Apps"

News Corp has officially filed a lawsuit against Perplexity AI over accusations that the startup has committed copyright infringement on a “massive scale.” . . .

Perplexity’s value proposition is instead to insert itself between search and content producers as a middleman, training its AI on copyrighted content that its chatbot will then regurgitate. . . to its own paying customers, without compensating or attributing the original content producers. . . .

https://tinyurl.com/y2h5fpeu

Perplexity

University Librarian at University of California Santa Barbara

The University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) Library is the geographic and academic heart of the campus and an intellectual hub for the University, serving over 25,000 students, 1,200 academic faculty, 3,000 academic staff, and 8,000 non-academic staff. The Library welcomes over 2.2 million visitors annually, and its website receives over 1.3 million sessions each year. With annual expenditures of approximately $23 million, the Library is supported by approximately 130 librarians and staff, along with 140 student employees.

https://tinyurl.com/56j8uf6u

"Market Sizing Update 2024: Has OA Hit a Peak?"

The data suggest that OA’s share of output has likely peaked in 2023.

Our earlier sneak peek at the market suggested it peaked at 49% of output in 2022, falling to 48% in 2023. Our latest data here suggests OA just peaked at 50% share in 2022-2023 and may fall a few percentage points in the coming years.

Results from our survey and anecdotal feedback suggest more of the same for 2024: large OA-only publishers are likely to see continued declines, while established publishers will see continued growth.

The market will consolidate further. Long-term OA growth is likely to be less that it has been – perhaps mid-to-high single digits – but with increasing shares going to the larger publishers.

https://deltathink.com/news-views-market-sizing-update-2024-has-oa-hit-a-peak/