Author: Charles W. Bailey, Jr.

Charles W. Bailey, Jr.

Open Access Clauses in Publishers’ Licenses: Current State and Lessons Learned

COAR has released Open Access Clauses in Publishers' Licenses: Current State and Lessons Learned.

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As Open Access (OA) policies and laws are being adopted world-wide, the scholarly community is shifting its efforts from advocacy towards practical implementation and support. One of the major routes for making articles open access is through OA repositories. However the variety and lack of clarity of publishers' policies regarding article deposit can be a significant barrier to author compliance of OA policies.

In order to overcome this barrier, some organizations have successfully negotiated authors' or deposit rights with publishers in the context of purchasing content licenses. This report documents the existing OA licensing language that has been implemented by organizations around the world and presents some suggestions for their successful adoption. The report concludes that OA clauses offer a feasible option for institutions to address some of the obstacles to article deposit into repositories.

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Digital Repository Manager at Northeastern University Libraries

Northeastern University Libraries are recruiting a Digital Repository Manager.

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The Digital Repository Manager is responsible for the management and support of Northeastern's Digital Repository Service (DRS). Working with the Associate Dean for Digital Strategies and Services, the Director of the Digital Scholarship Group, and the Head of Library Technology Services, the Repository Manager guides the development of new functionalities and services based upon the DRS. The Repository Manager coordinates with other library units to develop workflows and standards for digitization projects.

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Issues in the Appraisal and Selection of Geospatial Data

The National Digital Stewardship Alliance has released Issues in the Appraisal and Selection of Geospatial Data.

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The report provides an illuminating background on the problem area, then suggests ways to establish criteria for appraisal and selection decisions for geospatial data. It then proposes some models and processes for appraisal and selection, including tools for the identification and evaluation of data resources and triggers for appraisal and selection, and finishes with further questions for the community to explore.

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SCAPE Training: Effective, Evidence-Based Preservation Planning

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Digital Curation Coordinator at University of Wisconsin–Madison Libraries

The University of Wisconsin–Madison Libraries are recruiting a Digital Curation Coordinator.

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Reporting to the Libraries' Digital Preservation Officer, the Digital Curation Coordinator will be the principal liaison and technical support for the UWDCC's Institutional Repository and digital publication services to University faculty, departments, and other librarians. The successful candidate will consult with the campus community about their data curation needs, and work with them to preserve the scholarly output of the University. This person will collaborate extensively with liaison librarians, library technologists, and Digital Collections staff, as well as with the University's research support community. In addition, the Digital Curation Coordinator will participate in the development of preservation policies, procedures, and workflows, researching and recommending best practices related to digital content management and preservation.

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MedOANet Guidelines for Implementing Open Access Policies for Research Performing and Research Funding Organisations

The MedOANet project has released the MedOANet Guidelines for Implementing Open Access Policies for Research Performing and Research Funding Organisations.

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The MedOANet Guidelines present the main concepts and issues with respect to open access, discuss the major steps that are necessary in the process of policy development and present the important components of an institutional and funder policy. The also provide model policies for research performing and research funding organisations and present best practices in policy development for research performing and research funding organisations.

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Digital Archivist at Western University of Health Sciences Library

The Western University of Health Sciences Library is recruiting a Digital Archivist.

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Under the direction of the University Archivist, the Digital Archivist's primary focus is to provide leadership and management of existing collections (such as photographs, newspaper articles, year books, videos, and museum items), including the ingestion, annotation, metadata schema and authority control, cataloging, storage, and retrieval of digital assets; and supervise the digitization and dissemination of information to patrons and the campus community.

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Library Publishing Directory

The Library Publishing Coalition has released the Library Publishing Directory.

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Published in October 2013, the Library Publishing Directory provides a snapshot of the publishing activities of 115 academic and research libraries, including information about the number and types of publications they produce, the services they offer authors, how they are staffed and funded, and the future plans of institutions that are engaged in this growing field. . . .

Specifically it is hoped that this Directory will:

  • Introduce all readers to the emerging field of library publishing and help articulate its unique characteristics as a distinctive "publishing field."
  • Facilitate collaboration among library publishers and other publishing entities, especially the university presses and learned societies that share their values.
  • Alert authors of scholarly content to a range of potential publishing partners dedicated to supporting their experimentation with new forms of scholarly communication and open access business models.

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User Experience Designer, Libraries at Indiana University Libraries

The Indiana University Libraries are recruiting a User Experience Designer, Libraries.

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Provides interaction design consulting services to key technology-based projects. Works with stakeholders across IU Bloomington Libraries' departments to understand requirements in order to design web-based user interfaces, mobile user interfaces, and online visual elements. Performs usability testing and ensures accessibility of services.

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"The Confluence of Collections at Johns Hopkins’s Sheridan Libraries"

Liz Mengel has published "The Confluence of Collections at Johns Hopkins's Sheridan Libraries" in a special issue of Research Library Issues on mainstreaming special collections.

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Since the creation of the Milton S. Eisenhower Library in 1964, Special Collections at Johns Hopkins University (JHU) has been housed in the main library and has been a part of the daily flow of overall library operations. As with many other special collections departments, this department was securely sheltered behind doors where the staff performed similar activities to other library departments such as collection development, reference, and instruction. Over the past four years, the Sheridan Libraries have been making deliberate efforts to remove the metaphorical silos that separate Special Collections and other library departments. In particular, the libraries have done this by looking at how collection funds are used and by blending positions to work in both Special Collections and the Academic Liaison Department.

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Director, Research Data Service at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library

The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library is recruiting a Director, Research Data Service.

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The Director of the Research Data Service provides leadership and direction for the newly-established campus-wide Research Data Service (RDS) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The RDS is a campus-wide service headquartered in the University Library that provides support to researchers to manage, preserve, and make their data accessible to the research community. The RDS provides support for campus researchers, colleges, research centers and groups, in partnership with the University of Illinois Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research (OVCR), CITES (Campus Information Technologies and Educational Services), NCSA (National Center for Supercomputing Applications), Office of the Provost, and GSLIS (Graduate School of Library and Information Science).

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OAPEN-NL: A Project Exploring Open Access Monograph Publishing in the Netherlands

SURF has released OAPEN-NL: A Project Exploring Open Access Monograph Publishing in the Netherlands.

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Between June 2011 and November 2012, fifty Open Access monographs in various subject areas were published in Open Access by nine participating publishers. For every Open Access title, the publishers provided a similar title that was published in the conventional way. Data were collected about usage, sales and costs, to study the effect of Open Access on monographs. OAPEN-NL consisted of a quantitative and a qualitative research component, measuring the effects of Open Access publishing and the perceptions and expectations of publishers and authors.

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Librarian, Digital Initiatives & Scholarship at Swarthmore College Libraries

The Swarthmore College Libraries are recruiting a Librarian, Digital Initiatives & Scholarship.

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The Librarian for Digital Initiatives and Scholarship will establish and grow a dynamic program to support new models of scholarship. S/he will foster the successful adoption and application of digital approaches to teaching, learning, and research, will develop sustainable and scalable digital resources, and will explore emerging and existing technologies which enable the use of digital content. Will manage a portfolio of digital scholarship, digital collection and library technology projects, in close collaboration with faculty, librarians, academic technologists and tri-college partners.

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"Open-Access Repositories Worldwide, 2005-2012: Past Growth, Current Characteristics and Future Possibilities"

Stephen Pinfield et al. have self-archived "Open-Access Repositories Worldwide, 2005-2012: Past Growth, Current Characteristics and Future Possibilities" in White Rose Research Online.

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This paper reviews the worldwide growth of open-access (OA) repositories, December 2005 to December 2012, using data collected by the OpenDOAR project. It shows that initial repository development was focused on North America, Western Europe and Australasia, particularly the USA, UK, Germany and Australia. Soon after, Japan increased its repository numbers. Since 2010, other geographical areas and countries have seen repository growth, including East Asia (especially Taiwan), South America (especially Brazil) and Eastern Europe (especially Poland). During the whole period, countries such as France, Italy and Spain have maintained steady growth, whereas countries such as China and Russia have experienced relatively low levels of growth. Globally, repositories are predominantly institutional, multidisciplinary and English-language-based. They typically use open-source OAI-compliant repository software but remain immature in terms of explicit licensing arrangements. Whilst the size of repositories is difficult to assess accurately, the available data indicate that a small number of large repositories and a large number of small repositories make up the repository landscape. These trends and characteristics are analyzed using Innovation Diffusion Theory (IDT) building on previous studies. IDT is shown to provide a useful explanatory framework for understanding repository adoption at various levels: global, national, organizational and individual. Major factors affecting both the initial development of repositories and their take up by users are identified, including IT infrastructure, language, cultural factors, policy initiatives, awareness-raising activity and usage mandates. It is argued that mandates in particular are likely to play a crucial role in determining future repository development.

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Research and Data Support Coordinator at University of North Carolina at Greensboro Libraries

The University of North Carolina at Greensboro Libraries are recruiting a Research and Data Support Coordinator.

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The position works with faculty, academic units and research centers, assisting in managing, describing, preserving and making research and data available and accessible to appropriate audiences. The position will assist faculty with writing data management plans, will work closely with the Libraries' subject liaisons, and will provide library-wide training, research, and assistance for our research and data support initiatives. The Research and Data Support Coordinator reports to the Head of ERIT, who is also an Assistant Dean of University Libraries. This is a non tenure-track professional position.

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"The Open Access Divide"

Jingfeng Xia has published "The Open Access Divide" in Publications.

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This paper is an attempt to review various aspects of the open access divide regarding the difference between those academics who support free sharing of data and scholarly output and those academics who do not. It provides a structured description by adopting the Ws doctrines emphasizing such questions as who, what, when, where and why for information-gathering. Using measurable variables to define a common expression of the open access divide, this study collects aggregated data from existing open access as well as non-open access publications including journal articles and extensive reports. The definition of the open access divide is integrated into the discussion of scholarship on a larger scale.

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Research Informationist at UCLA’s Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library

UCLA's Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library is recruiting a Research Informationist.

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The Research Informationist provides a broad range of information services, including data curation and management, across the entire research life cycle for UCLA students, faculty, staff, and researchers in the health and life sciences. The Research Informationist also contributes to research, consultation, instruction, and collection services within defined areas of responsibility from both clinical and basic science departments. The Research Informationist is a member of the Research, Instruction, and Collection Services (RICS) division and reports to the RICS Team Leader.

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Report of the European Commission Public Consultation on Open Research Data

The European Commission has released the Report of the European Commission Public Consultation on Open Research Data.

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The European Commission held a public consultation on open research data on 2 July 2013 in Brussels, which was attended by a variety of stakeholders from the research community, industry, funders, libraries, publishers, infrastructure developers and others. The debate focused on five questions posed by the Commission to structure the debate and can be summarized as follows. Information on the consultation, including the agenda, the list of participants, the list of contributions and the final report are available here: http://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/node/67533.

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Librarian—Digital Repository/Archivist/Special Collections at California State University, Long Beach Library

The California State University, Long Beach Library is recruiting a Librarian—Digital Repository/Archivist/Special Collections.

Here's an excerpt from the ad:

  • Oversee and manage the University's digital institutional repository, Scholarship @ the Beach (S@tB).
  • Oversee the University Library's Special Collections and Archives unit.
  • Oversee and manage the digitization of several archival collections.
  • Collaborate with library Technical Services staff and Academic Technology staff to make the digitized collections available via the library's web portal.
  • Provide reference and consultation services to the student, faculty, and visiting scholar patrons; conduct library instruction for classes by interpreting and helping students to appreciate the unique and rare resources.

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