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“Making Your Repository (More) Accessible”

Introduction: As colleges and universities make increasing and overdue efforts under the auspices of access, equity, and inclusion to make their resources accessible to all users, these efforts must extend to the institution’s online presence, including its institutional repository. IR managers must first ask what “accessible” means for compliance with university policies as well as the Americans with Disability Act (ADA), immediately followed by plans for both remediating existing content and imposing best practices on new content, amid current workflows and budgetary restraints.

Literature Review: Literature on the topic of accessibility in IRs has mostly focused on the need to make collections accessible and the challenges for doing so. Advice on how to navigate the actual process is harder to come by.

Description of Service: The University of Mississippi established a goal that everything going into its IR would use OCR software to convert images of text into searchable text and create a process by which patrons could request remediation of older content from the IR, whether documents or recordings. A combination of shared tools (including Equidox and SensusAccess) and interdepartmental partnerships has made a significant difference in making these digital collections proactively accessible.

Next Steps: We continue to maintain partnerships with units around campus, made challenging by frequent turnover as in demand specialists take positions at other institutions. Despite our efforts to provide searchable text as a minimum level of service, OCR correction provides tags but not necessarily headings or alt-text. Hopefully future versions of OCR editors will include such features.

https://doi.org/10.31274/jlsc.18308

Research Data Librarian at Dartmouth College

This position works as part of the Dartmouth Libraries’ Research Facilitation team to develop and deliver a robust suite of services supporting data-intensive advanced research and curricular needs at Dartmouth. The person in this position will coordinate, develop, and provide deep research support, curricular and co-curricular educational modules, and data-related collections services to faculty, students, and staff. They will hold primary liaison responsibility for the economics department, and will work with other data-intensive subject areas, programs, and centers.

https://tinyurl.com/2zar5hf5

“Making an Open Information Literacy Textbook: A Case Study in OER Collaborations Among Four Oklahoma Academic Librarians”

Springboarding from a statewide initiative, four academic librarians from three different universities collaborated to create an openly licensed textbook on the Pressbooks platform that could be easily embedded into one-shots or general education research courses. The project developed over the span of a year, which included: planning, exploring, creating, evaluating, sharing, and implementing. The first three steps taught the authors to set and agree upon shared expectations early, decide to either clone or create original content, and trust remixing material from other OER is firmly within the moral framework of sharing knowledge. In the final three stages the authors learned to recruit more reviewers/editors than needed, recognize when to turn off perfectionism and publish, and stay open to new collaborative opportunities. The authors experienced firsthand how OER transforms libraries from information gate-keepers to become content owners. This transformation brings libraries closer to their missions of access for all.

https://doi.org/10.33011/newlibs/18/2

Digital Preservation Librarian at Tulane University

The Digital Preservation Librarian leads the development of the cohesive digital preservation program ensuring the long-term access and preservation of digital assets under Tulane University Libraries’(TUL) stewardship. In collaboration with other library units, the Digital Preservation Librarian maintains and updates TUL Digital Preservation Framework, policies and practices appropriate for the long-term management and preservation of TUL’s digital assets both digitized and born-digital.

https://apply.interfolio.com/161582

“What Are Journals and Reviewers Concerned about in Data Papers? Evidence From Journal Guidelines and Review Reports”

The evolution of data journals and the increase in data papers call for associated peer review, which is intricately linked yet distinct from traditional scientific paper review. This study investigates the data paper review guidelines of 22 scholarly journals that publish data papers and analyses 131 data papers’ review reports from the journal Data. Peer review is an essential part of scholarly publishing. Although the 22 data journals employ disparate review models, their review purposes and requirements exhibit similarities. Journal guidelines provide authors and reviewers with comprehensive references for reviewing, which cover the entire life cycle of data. Reviewer attitudes predominantly encompass Suggestion, Inquiry, Criticism and Compliment during the specific review process, focusing on 18 key targets including manuscript writing, diagram presentation, data process and analysis, references and review and so forth. In addition, objective statements and other general opinions are also identified. The findings show the distinctive characteristics of data publication assessment and summarise the main concerns of journals and reviewers regarding the evaluation of data papers.

https://doi.org/10.1002/leap.2001

Web and User Experience Specialist at University of Cincinnati

The University of Cincinnati Libraries (UCL) seeks a Web & User Experience Specialist to support and advance UCL’s mission by ensuring its website and digital resources are discoverable, accessible, and aligned with the needs of the university community. This position will oversee the content and continuous improvement of the UCL website, ensuring usability, accuracy, and accessibility. The Web & User Experience Specialist will collaborate with library partners to develop and implement strategies that optimize the library’s digital services and overall web experience.

https://tinyurl.com/3rva7bmp

“NVIDIA Announces DGX Spark and DGX Station Personal AI Computers”

DGX Spark — formerly Project DIGITS — and DGX Station™, a new high-performance NVIDIA Grace Blackwell desktop supercomputer powered by the NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra platform, enable AI developers, researchers, data scientists and students to prototype, fine-tune and inference large models on desktops. Users can run these models locally or deploy them on NVIDIA DGX Cloud or any other accelerated cloud or data center infrastructure. . . .

NVIDIA DGX Station brings data-center-level performance to desktops for AI development. The first desktop system to be built with the NVIDIA GB300 Grace Blackwell Ultra Desktop Superchip, DGX Station features a massive 784GB of coherent memory space to accelerate large-scale training and inferencing workloads. The GB300 Desktop Superchip features an NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra GPU with latest-generation Tensor Cores and FP4 precision — connected to a high-performance NVIDIA Grace™ CPU via NVLink-C2C — delivering best-in-class system communication and performance.

https://tinyurl.com/2r66z523

Ars Technica reports that: “Since the systems will be manufactured by different companies, Nvidia did not mention pricing for the units. However, in January, Nvidia mentioned that the base-level configuration for a DGX Spark-like computer would retail for around $3,000.”

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