Scholarly Communication

"Appeals Court Hears Internet Archive Copyright Case "

At a lengthy June 28 hearing in New York, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit heard oral arguments in the Internet Archive’s appeal of a March 2023 court decision finding its program to scan and lend print library books to be copyright infringement. And while the court clearly appeared skeptical of the Internet Archive’s arguments, the panel was deeply engaged and well-prepared, peppering both sides with a wide array of questions.

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Systems & Web Services Librarian at Carroll College

Serving as the technical expert for the Library’s Integrated Library System (ILS); maintaining and enhancing its operations as well as applications that support its services;

Providing leadership in solving problems associated with the ILS and other services;

Develop and document internal processes and procedures to support operations within Library Infrastructure Systems, including but not limited to the ILS, EZProxy, Worldshare Interlibrary Loan (OCLC), the Institutional Repository (Carroll Scholars), and the Carroll Digital Archives);

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Special Section of Against the Grain About AI and Libraries

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"US News Releases 2024-2025 Best Global Universities Rankings"

The new edition includes universities from more than 100 countries. The following countries have the most schools in the overall rankings:

China: 396

United States: 283

Japan: 112

India: 109

United Kingdom: 96

[Top 10:]

Harvard University (U.S.)

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (U.S.)

Stanford University (U.S.)

University of Oxford (U.K.)

University of California Berkeley (U.S.)

University of Cambridge (U.K.)

University College London (U.K; tie)

University of Washington (U.S.; tie)

Columbia University (U.S.)

California Institute of Technology (U.S.)

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Data Services Librarian at Wake Forest University

As a member of the library’s Digital Initiatives & Scholarly Communication department, the Data Services Librarian will shape the library’s data services, including collaborating with faculty and subject librarians to integrate data literacy into the classroom and course projects. They will develop instructional resources and workshops on locating, analyzing, and visualizing data. In addition to classroom instruction and engagement, this position will offer individual and small group consultations for students.

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Open Science, Research & Engagement Librarian at University of California Santa Barbara

The Open Science, Research & Engagement Librarian will contribute to the advancement of open science in the campus’ research ecosystem, serving as an expert and advocate for open science principles, tools, and practices. The incumbent will be actively involved in envisioning and shaping new approaches to how the Library supports scientific disciplines and communities at UCSB in collaboration with other Library departments and staff. They will help accelerate Library support in the data-driven STEM disciplines by identifying strategic campus-wide opportunities, such as with the Office of Research and Information Technology Services, for the development of new initiatives and services. . . . The librarian will be actively involved in service and tool development and promotion of key pieces of open science infrastructure, such as ORCID, DataCite, eScholarship, Research Organization Registry (RoR), and Open Science Framework (OSF).

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Systems Librarian at Marquette University

Reporting to the Head of Library Information Technology, this position collaborates across all library departments to ensure continuous, integrated access between the library services platform, Ex Libris Alma/Primo VE, and related digital platforms including OpenAthens, Springshare products, CONTENTdm, and the bepress institutional repository.

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UI/UX Designer at Boston College

Lead the technical development and design of the Libraries’ primary discovery interfaces including the Libraries’ website, Primo VE, ArchivesSpace PUI, and related user-facing web content management systems.

Coordinate changes and updates to the Libraries’ user-facing discovery platforms to ensure adherence to established standards for usability, accessibility, style guidelines, accuracy, and timeliness.

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"A Framework for Measuring Relevancy in Discovery Environments: Increasing Scalability and Reproducibility"

Institutional discovery environments now serve as central resource databases for researchers in the academic environment. Over the last several decades, there have been numerous discovery layer research inquiries centering primarily on user satisfaction measures of discovery system effectiveness. This study focuses on the creation of a largely automated method for evaluating discovery layer quality, utilizing the bibliographic sources from student research projects. Building on past research, the current study replaces a semiautomated Excel Fuzzy Lookup Add-In process witha fully scripted R-based approach, which employs the stringdist R package and applies the Jaro-Winkler distance metric as the matching evaluator. The researchers consider the error rate incurred by relying solely on an automated matching metric. They also use Open Refine for normalization processes and package the tools together on an OSF site for other institutions to use. Since the R-based approach does not require special processing or time and can be reproduced with minimal effort, it will allow future studies and users of our method to capture larger sample sizes, boosting validity. While the assessment process has been streamlined and shows promise, there remain issues in establishing solid connections between research paper bibliographies and discovery layer use. Subsequent research will focus on creating alternatives to paper titles as search proxies that better resemble genuine information-seeking behavior and comparing undergraduate and graduate student interactions within discovery environments.

https://tinyurl.com/3k4s7s96

Program Specialist, NNLM National Center for Data Services at NYU Health Sciences Library

Responsibilities for this position include serving as a director for courses offered by the NCDS, project managing NCDS undertakings such as codeathons and symposia, collaborating on the development of online educational resources. The Program Specialist will collaborate with other NCDS and NNLM personnel to develop and deliver classes to a national audience of information professionals in a range of data topics, including research data management, data standards, and/or coding.

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"Developing and Improving the Capability of Scientific Communities in Open Research Data: A Maturity Continuum Model: Concepts, Elements, and Applications"

This article presents a new tool developed to assess and increase the maturity level of a research community in terms of Open Research Data (ORD) practices and culture. This model, called the Maturity Continuum Model, is divided into four successive steps, starting from the awareness and initiation of the community to its full maturity in ORD, through the building and strengthening of this community. Each step has its own intermediate objectives, and each benefits from tools and means to support the process of gaining maturity. The steps are separated by evaluation boundaries that are used to assess whether the process can move to the next step. Key stakeholders are diverse and contribute at different stages of the process. The Maturity Continuum Model was inspired by the Data Curation Continuum Model (Treloar et al., 2007; Treloar and Klump, 2019). Considering the aspects in which these two tools differ, they can be seen as complementary tools in the broad field of research data management. Our model may be used at the level of a specific research community, with several possible purposes, such as assessing, developing, and monitoring its maturity. It can also be used to compare the maturity level of several communities at the same time and to identify the success factors of more advanced research communities in order to transfer them to less advanced ones. We have designed and created this model primarily to get an overview of a complicated topic, to find a common language, to provide a common basis for discussion, and to enable implementation over a long period of time. Successful implementation of the model would also allow for consolidation of scientific communities in terms of ORD, provide standards, and allow for evaluation.

https://doi.org/10.31274/jlsc.16320

"EBSCO FOLIO Celebrates the Implementation of More Than 200 Libraries and Library Systems Using Folio LSP"

Current EBSCO FOLIO sites represent more than 200 libraries, including academic research libraries, consortia, shared systems, universities of all sizes, community colleges, and public institutions. Some sites share the open source LSP across multiple libraries, such as the University of Missouri Libraries sharing FOLIO across six libraries, GALILEO sharing the system with 27 libraries, and MOBUIS with 62 libraries. EBSCO FOLIO Services consultants are located worldwide and provide services in multiple languages.

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Electronic Resources Access Coordinator at Ohio State University Libraries

The Electronic Resources Access Coordinator serves as an integral member of the Electronic Resources Management Team (Acquisitions and Discovery Program, Content and Access Division) with a focus on facilitating access management and enhancing discovery for the continuously expanding University Libraries electronic resource portfolio. The position coordinates electronic content access by overseeing the activation, configuration and data management needs for electronic resources. Specific duties include activation and maintenance of access to the Libraries electronic resources, including databases, journals, books and newer formats such as streaming video and purchased data sets; configuration of supporting interfaces for user discovery, including cataloging; and trouble-shooting reported access problems.

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"An Open Dataset of Article Processing Charges From Six Large Scholarly Publishers (2019-2023)"

This paper introduces a dataset of article processing charges (APCs) produced from the price lists of six large scholarly publishers — Elsevier, Frontiers, PLOS, MDPI, Springer Nature and Wiley — between 2019 and 2023. APC price lists were downloaded from publisher websites each year as well as via Wayback Machine snapshots to retrieve fees per journal per year. The dataset includes journal metadata, APC collection method, and annual APC price list information in several currencies (USD, EUR, GBP, CHF, JPY, CAD) for 8,712 unique journals and 36,618 journal-year combinations. The dataset was generated to allow for more precise analysis of APCs and can support library collection development and scientometric analysis estimating APCs paid in gold and hybrid OA journals.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.08356

Open Scholarship and Research Data Services Outreach Librarian at Harvard University

This role involves promoting and advancing department services and programs through outreach and engagement within and beyond Harvard Library. The successful candidate will be responsible for communicating and promoting OSRDS services, developing, coordinating, and supporting OSRDS projects and programs, as well as building collaborations and partnerships with various stakeholders on campus.

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Research Communications Librarian at Stanford University

Develop, lead, and implement an education program for Stanford Medicine on issues of scholarly communication in a digital environment, including copyright. Develop and coordinate research impact services to support Stanford Medicine in discovering, tracking and communicating the impact of a variety of research outputs, including scholarly articles and datasets. Be informed of, and keep library staff and its users up to date on national and international trends, legislation, and pending changes in intellectual property rights, commercial and academic/research scholarly publishing, and trends and issues in research data management, bibliometrics and research impact. Plan and organize regular events and programs in these areas.

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Electronic Resources Librarian at University of Tennessee

This position co-leads the Electronic Resources team within ACR which is responsible for managing the lifecycle of the Libraries’ electronic resources, including the renewing, licensing, preserving, activating, and troubleshooting of electronic resources. They will supervise, train, mentor, and evaluate 2 FTE.

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"Brigitte Weinsteiger Appointed H. Carton Rogers III Vice Provost and Director of Penn Libraries"

Weinsteiger has served as the Gershwind and Bennett Family Senior Associate Vice Provost for Collections and Scholarly Communications since September 2022 and as interim director since September 2023. In this capacity, she oversees the Penn Libraries’ $30 million budget for collections, its 10 million print and electronic volumes, 350,000 journals, and a rich array of digital resources. She leads the Collections and Scholarly Communications division of the libraries, ensuring that the selection, acquisition, management, and preservation of the libraries’ collections meet the diverse needs of the Penn community, and oversees outreach, teaching, and research support to faculty and students at Penn, in Philadelphia, and beyond.

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Scholarly Resources Librarian at University of Toronto (Term)

Scholars Portal (SP), a digital library initiative sponsored by the Ontario Council of University Libraries (OCUL), and a division of the University of Toronto Libraries, seeks to hire a Scholarly Resources Librarian who has strong technical skills, demonstrated familiarity with metadata best practices in libraries, and is eager to work with diverse stakeholder groups at the local, regional, and national levels.

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"Guest Post — DOAJ’s Role in Supporting Trust in Scholarly Journals: Current Challenges and Future Solutions"

All journals that apply for indexing in DOAJ need to demonstrate that they meet our current criteria, which include requirements for transparency, adequate peer-review processes, and clear and consistent copyright and licensing terms. Applications are reviewed by a member of the DOAJ editorial team or one of our specially trained community of volunteers, with the final decision on inclusion taken by a DOAJ Managing Editor. Only 24% of applications are accepted at initial application, but many journals use the advice given by our team to improve their procedures before reapplying.

https://tinyurl.com/4zn7d7hu

User Interface Designer and Developer at MIT Libraries

>The User Interface Designer and Developer will be a key member of the User Experience and Web Services team (UXWS), within the Discovery and Engagement Platforms (DEP) department. . . . Working closely with designers, developers, and engineers across the MIT Libraries, this individual’s key contributions will be creating visual and interaction designs, and translating those into front end code in order to implement fully accessible, inclusive solutions on both local and vended systems.

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"Measuring Data Rot: An Analysis of the Continued Availability of Shared Data from a Single University"

To determine where data is shared and what data is no longer available, this study analyzed data shared by researchers at a single university. 2166 supplemental data links were harvested from the university’s institutional repository and web scraped using R. All links that failed to scrape or could not be tested algorithmically were tested for availability by hand. Trends in data availability by link type, age of publication, and data source were examined for patterns. Results show that researchers shared data in hundreds of places. About two-thirds of links to shared data were in the form of URLs and one-third were DOIs, with several FTP links and links directly to files. A surprising 13.4% of shared URL links pointed to a website homepage rather than a specific record on a website. After testing, 5.4% the 2166 supplemental data links were found to be no longer available. DOIs were the type of shared link that was least likely to disappear with a 1.7% loss, with URL loss at 5.9% averaged over time. Links from older publications were more likely to be unavailable, with a data disappearance rate estimated at 2.6% per year, as well as links to data hosted on journal websites. The results support best practice guidance to share data in a data repository using a permanent identifier.

https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0304781

Electronic Resources and Systems Librarian at The Sullivan University System

Reporting to the Senior Director of University Libraries, the ERSL will have primary responsibility in three major areas. First, the ESRL will manage the life cycle of electronic resources. Second, the ESRL will manage the electronic systems for the library. Finally, the ESRL will support the consideration, adoption, and implementation of new library technologies.

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Oxford University Press: "How Are Researchers Responding to AI?"

We recently conducted a survey of over 2,000 researchers across geographies, subject disciplines—including Humanities, STM, and Social Sciences—and different career stages to hear directly from the research community about how they are reacting to and using AI in their work.

https://tinyurl.com/235f5yxz

"Streetlight Effect in PubPeer Comments: Are Open Access Publications More Scrutinized?"

The Streetlight Effect represents an observation bias that occurs when individuals search for something only where it is easiest to look. . . . Our findings indicate that OA journals are 33% more prevalent in PubPeer [a Post-Publication Peer Review system] than in the global total (52% for the most commented journals). . . . However, after normalization, the results reveal that PPPR does not exhibit a Streetlight Effect . . . These results suggest that the process of scientific self-correction operates independently of publication access status.

https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-024-05053-9