Author: Charles W. Bailey, Jr.

Charles W. Bailey, Jr.

"Open Access and Scholarly Books: Workshop Report, 19 June 2013"

The Berkman Center for Internet and Society has released the "Open Access and Scholarly Books: Workshop Report, 19 June 2013."

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The workshop brought together a group of 21 invited publishers, librarians, academics and Open Access innovators to discuss the challenge of making scholarly books Open Access. This report captures discussions that took place on the day. . . .

The day was divided into six sessions:

  1. Open Access Mandates and Implications for Books;
  2. Emerging Business Models for OA Books;
  3. The Impact of OA on the Monograph Ecosystem;
  4. Scholarly Publishing and Collective Action;
  5. Metadata and Metrics to Support OA Monographs;
  6. Roundup and Routes Forward.

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"Just Google It—Digital Research Practices of Humanities Scholars"

Max Kemman, Martijn Kleppe, and Stef Scagliola have self-archived "Just Google It—Digital Research Practices of Humanities Scholars" in arXiv.org.

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The transition from analogue to digital archives and the recent explosion of online content offers researchers novel ways of engaging with data. The crucial question for ensuring a balance between the supply and demand-side of data, is whether this trend connects to existing scholarly practices and to the average search skills of researchers. To gain insight into this process we conducted a survey among nearly three hundred (N= 288) humanities scholars in the Netherlands and Belgium with the aim of finding answers to the following questions: 1) To what extent are digital databases and archives used? 2) What are the preferences in search functionalities 3) Are there differences in search strategies between novices and experts of information retrieval? Our results show that while scholars actively engage in research online they mainly search for text and images. General search systems such as Google and JSTOR are predominant, while large-scale collections such as Europeana are rarely consulted.

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Migration Project Management Librarian at University of New Mexico Libraries

The University of New Mexico Libraries are recruiting a Migration Project Management Librarian.

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The Migration Project Manager, will plan and create timelines for the Libraries' migration from its ILS to a next generation system. The Project manager will work with all the functional teams (Acquisitions, Serials, Cataloging, Circulation, Web & Discovery, and E-Resources) to plan, set goals, keep deadlines, and assist with troubleshooting. A critical part of this position will be the communication between the teams, the Libraries' Academic & Research Technologies department (ART), and the UL&LS Administration (Dean's Cabinet) to keep all the stakeholders well informed and to consult when decision points are needed. The Project Manager will also facilitate outside communication with the chosen vendor and with LIBROS Consortium members outside the UNM system.

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Green OA Needed in UK: Open Access: Fifth Report of Session 2013-14

The House of Commons Business, Innovation and Skills Committee has released Open Access: Fifth Report of Session 2013-14.

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The Government's commitment to increasing access to published research findings, and its desire to achieve full open access, are welcome, says the Business, Innovation and Skills Committee in a Report published today. However, whilst Gold open access is a desirable ultimate goal, focusing on it during the transition to a fully open access world is a mistake, says the Report.

The Report calls on the Government and RCUK to reconsider their preference for Gold open access during the five year transition period, and give due regard to the evidence of the vital role that Green open access and repositories have to play as the UK moves towards full open access.

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Director of Public Policy Initiatives at ARL

ARL is recruiting a Director of Public Policy Initiatives.

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The Director of Public Policy Initiatives advocates for the policy priorities of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) and executes strategies to implement these priorities. The position monitors legislative trends and participates in ARL's outreach to the Executive Branch and the United States Congress. The Director works closely with the Associate Executive Director, Federal Relations and Information Policy, the ARL Executive Director, the ARL Board of Directors, relevant ARL committees, task forces and ARL members.

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"The Diamond Model of Open Access Publishing: Why Policy Makers, Scholars, Universities, Libraries, Labour Unions and the Publishing World Need to Take Non-Commercial, Non-Profit Open Access Serious"

Christian Fuchs and Marisol Sandoval have published "The Diamond Model of Open Access Publishing: Why Policy Makers, Scholars, Universities, Libraries, Labour Unions and the Publishing World Need to Take Non-Commercial, Non-Profit Open Access Serious" in tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique: Open Access Journal for a Global Sustainable Information Society.

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In the Diamond Open Access Model, not-for-profit, non-commercial organizations, associations or networks publish material that is made available online in digital format, is free of charge for readers and authors and does not allow commercial and for-profit re-use.

The fact that Diamond Open Access (DOA) has a digital format does not hinder that it is also made available in the form of printed publications in addition. We consider it as part of the model that publishers can charge for the actual printing costs without making monetary profits, but provide the digital version without charges. Publication "free of charge" means that neither authors nor individual readers nor institutions such as libraries have to pay for obtaining access to the literature published under the Diamond Open Access Model. Also authors or their institutions do not have to pay publication fees, article processing charges or other fees for getting articles published.

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Discovery Systems Technology Specialist at New York University Division of Libraries

The New York University Division of Libraries is recruiting a Discovery Systems Technology Specialist .

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Administer, develop, and evaluate metadata-driven applications that underlie BobCat, the primary discovery portal for the NYU Division of Libraries. Receive, submit, and respond to bug reports; consult with vendors and open-source community members as needed; and implement fixes or enhancements. Advise and consult colleagues on discovery system capabilities and strategies for mapping and searching across metadata schemes and across diverse collections and materials.

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"How Portable Are the Metadata Standards for Scientific Data? A Proposal for a Metadata Infrastructure"

Jian Qin and Kai Li have self-archived "How Portable Are the Metadata Standards for Scientific Data? A Proposal for a Metadata Infrastructure."

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The one-covers-all approach in current metadata standards for scientific data has serious limitations in keeping up with the ever-growing data. This paper reports the findings from a survey to metadata standards in the scientific data domain and argues for the need for a metadata infrastructure. The survey collected 4400+ unique elements from 16 standards and categorized these elements into 9 categories. Findings from the data included that the highest counts of element occurred in the descriptive category and many of them overlapped with DC elements. This pattern also repeated in the elements co-occurred in different standards. A small number of semantically general elements appeared across the largest numbers of standards while the rest of the element co-occurrences formed a long tail with a wide range of specific semantics. The paper discussed implications of the findings in the context of metadata portability and infrastructure and pointed out that large, complex standards and widely varied naming practices are the major hurdles for building a metadata infrastructure.

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Digital Resources Librarian at University of Mary Washington Libraries

The University of Mary Washington Libraries are recruiting a Digital Resources Librarian.

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The Digital Resources Librarian works collaboratively with the Special Collections Librarian and other personnel to create, maintain, and promote UMW Libraries' digital collections, including creating policies and usage guidelines, planning and implementing workflows, and overseeing quality control. Under the supervision of the Special Collections Librarian, this position will develop strategies for the management of digital assets, advise faculty and students on best practices for preserving scholarship and digital projects, and participate in campus-wide conversations on scholarly communications.

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"Copyright in the Digital Age"

Kyle K. Courtney has self-archived "Copyright in the Digital Age" in SSRN.

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The goal of this chapter is to provide the fundamental instruction for some of the most popular topics facing law libraries in the digital age. Whether it is scanning chapters for e-reserves or accessing databases online, knowledge of copyright law can help mitigate risk, and enhance our patron's services. As librarians, we want to provide whatever our patron's desire. But, we also must balance the law versus the patrons needs. Fortunately, copyright law does not always restrict a patron's uses. In many cases a solid understanding of copyright can help ease a patron's fears, or provide legal alternatives to a patron's request, or help educate the community at large.

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Executive Director at HathiTrust

HathiTrust is recruiting an Executive Director.

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Under the general supervision of the Dean of Libraries at the University of Michigan and reporting to the HathiTrust Board of Governors, the Executive Director serves as the chief executive officer of HathiTrust and is responsible for the administration of all HathiTrust operations and programs. The HathiTrust Executive Director serves in a non-voting role on the HathiTrust Board of Governors and its Executive Committee. The Executive Director also serves in a non-voting capacity on the Program Steering Committee and provides counsel to that body, relating programmatic initiatives to operational activities underway in HathiTrust and relating new initiatives to legal frameworks within which HathiTrust works. The Executive Director is an employee of the University of Michigan, and operates within the rules and policies of the University of Michigan.

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New Roles for New Times: Transforming Liaison Roles in Research Libraries

ARL has released New Roles for New Times: Transforming Liaison Roles in Research Libraries.

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The liaison role in research libraries is rapidly evolving. An engagement model in which library liaisons and functional specialists collaborate to understand and address the wide range of processes in instruction and scholarship is replacing the traditional tripartite model of collections, reference, and instruction. New roles in research services, digital humanities, teaching and learning, digital scholarship, user experience, and copyright and scholarly communication are being developed at research libraries across the country, requiring professional development and re-skilling of current staff, creative approaches to increase staff capacity, the development of new spaces and infrastructure, and collaborative partnerships within libraries, across campus units, and among research institutions.

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Web and Content Developer at Auraria Library

The Auraria Library is recruiting a Web and Content Developer

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This position, will provide in house web and interface design expertise for the Auraria Library. The Auraria Library's web presence consists of the main site, the mobile site and discovery systems such as a federated searching application, intranet, institutional repository, catalog, reserves and interlibrary loan systems. The incumbent will work closely with the Web Programmer and others throughout the library to make the web site more visually appealing and develop a content management plan to develop high quality content for the site.

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"Federal Research Data Requirements Set to Change"

Abigail Goben and Dorothea Salo have published "Federal Research Data Requirements Set to Change" in the latest issue of College & Research Libraries News.

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FERPA, HIPAA, FOIA, and other sunshine laws, National Science Foundation data-management plans—grant-funded research data has had compliance strings attached for some time. Attention to research data is now even more heightened following the responses of the federal agencies in August to the Obama Administration's Office for Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) directive from February 2013.2 Research libraries will need to educate and partner with researchers to improve understanding and compliance, promote proper archiving of digital data, and expand discovery and reuse of research datasets

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Head of Library Technology Services at Northern Arizona University Library

The Northern Arizona University Library is recruiting a Head of Library Technology Services.

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Under the direction of the Dean and University Librarian and in cooperation with LTS staff, the Head provides strategic leadership for an advanced, innovative, and highly dedicated unit. The Head will continue to advance the unit's momentum in a complex technology environment that includes virtualized computing; networks and systems infrastructure; web-based services; and user support services, including a newly renovated Mac lab and suite of production studios. As a member of the library's leadership team, the Head will work collaboratively across library units to ensure the effective deployment and support of technology to deliver library resources and services and will cooperate with NAU's Information Technology Services (ITS) on university-wide services and issues that impact library systems and service.

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Director, Informatics for Research Engagement at Drexel University Libraries

Drexel University Libraries are recruiting a Director, Informatics for Research Engagement.

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Reporting to the Dean of Libraries and working with librarians, system developers, researchers and faculty across campus, the Director is responsible for designing and implementing a university-wide approach to data management and curation of digital content and leading the Libraries' staff and partnerships to provide service support for preservation and access to the University's research data, digital content, records and archives. The Director will be involved in the integration of data literacy competencies with the Libraries' instructional programs and will lead development of services that apply research and system designs for effective data curation for the Libraries' partnership with the iSchool, College of Information Science and Technology Applied Informatics Group.

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Draft Policy on Open Access for Data and Information

The EU e-infrastructure coordination pro-iBiosphere project has released the Draft Policy on Open Access for Data and Information.

Here's an excerpt from the announcement:

The document addresses legal issues that hamper an integrative system for managing biodiversity knowledge in Europe. It describes the importance for scientists to have access to documents and data in order to synthesize disparate information and to facilitate data mining (or similar research techniques). It explores some aspects of copyright and database protection that influence access to and re-use of biodiversity data and information and refers to exceptions and limitations of copyright or database protection provided for within the relevant EU Directives.

The scientists also suggest that publicly funded institutions should refrain from claiming intellectual property rights for biodiversity data and information published or made accessible by them. Re-use of biodiversity data and information for research purposes should be allowed without any form of authorization. The only claims that publicly funded institutions should make are to ensure users fully acknowledge the sources of information that they rely on.

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