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Manager, Information Technology at Emory University

Reporting to the Chief Technology Officer for Emory University Libraries and the Museum (EULM), the Manager of Information Technology – Infrastructure Operations oversees and manages the staff and operations within Infrastructure and Operations for EULM, ensuring compliance and uniformity across the division’s technologies and systems. This role involves close collaboration with other managers and the Director of Digital Programs and Client Services to ensure smooth processes and system integrations. Key responsibilities include managing the Infrastructure and Operations unit, comprising application support analysts and systems administrators, and ensuring consistent and visible documentation and IT processes. The manager also provides strategic direction for technology infrastructure implementation, integration, monitoring, and support for Emory University Libraries and Museum (EULM).

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cOAlition S: "Pricing Framework to Foster Global Equity in Scholarly Publishing"

cOAlition S is pleased to announce the release of a new pricing framework designed to foster global equity in scholarly publishing. Developed by Information Power following consultation with the funder, library/consortium, and publisher communities, the framework is introduced to enable discussion, promote greater transparency and inspire publishers and other service providers to implement more equitable pricing across different economies. To support this, the framework provides users with guiding principles, data, information, and tools. The approach is adaptable, allowing publishers to implement changes gradually and in line with their specific circumstances. It can be applied to various pricing models, including article processing charges (APCs), subscriptions, and transformative agreements.

Global differentiated pricing that fosters equity is:

Part of a broader commitment to equity, inclusion, diversity, and belonging.

Aligned ideally with a single consistent approach developed in meaningful, open, and transparent consultation with the research community.

Relative to the context of each country, including income and purchasing power.

Communicated clearly, easy to understand, and transparent to all.

Transparently based on independent, open datasets that are regularly updated and that can be accessed, validated, and reused by everyone.

Based on shared risk. Customers and publishers should share currency risks.

Key features of the framework include:

Open, Transparent Data: Utilizing World Bank International Comparison Program data, reflecting each country’s income and ability to pay.

Banding: Grouping countries into bands eases administration.

Excel-Based Tool: Allowing publishers to explore and set their own bands and differential prices using the same transparent data.

Local Currencies: Issuing invoices in local currencies where possible.

Comprehensive Appendices: Detailed guidance on data sources, downloading World Bank datasets, and changes in country indices from 2017 to 2021.

The full report on the Pricing Framework to Foster Global Equity in Scholarly Publishing is available for download at https://zenodo.org/uploads/12784905, along with the More Equitable Pricing Tool and a set of frequently asked questions.

https://tinyurl.com/2jf7z43v

Head, Infrastructure Operations at Emory University

Reporting to the Chief Technology Officer for Emory University Libraries and the Museum (EULM), the Manager of Information Technology – Infrastructure Operations oversees and manages the staff and operations within Infrastructure and Operations for EULM, ensuring compliance and uniformity across the division’s technologies and systems. This role involves close collaboration with other managers and the Director of Digital Programs and Client Services to ensure smooth processes and system integrations. Key responsibilities include managing the Infrastructure and Operations unit, comprising application support analysts and systems administrators, and ensuring consistent and visible documentation and IT processes. The manager also provides strategic direction for technology infrastructure implementation, integration, monitoring, and support for Emory University Libraries and Museum (EULM).

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"Is the AI Bubble about to Pop? Internal Documents Reveal OpenAI May Go Bankrupt within 12 Months"

Net losses for 2024 alone are expected to hit US$5 billion. . . .

The company spends US$7 billion on training its GPT models, with additional US$1.5 billion in staffing expenses.

It makes back anywhere between US$3.5 to US$4.5 billion in ChatGPT subscriptions and access fees. . .

https://tinyurl.com/y8hen3ep

Associate University Librarian for Digital Strategies and Services at Arizona State University

The AUL will lead a newly reconfigured directorate to help shape a future-forward digital culture at ASU Library by leveraging a deep understanding of libraries, library services, and library ambitions and how they are supported by library digital systems, educational technology, software development, implementation, and usage combined with empathetic leadership and the ability to foster a collaborative and inclusive work environment. Additionally, as a member of the Library Management Group, reporting to the University Librarian, the AUL will also contribute to the success of the ASU Library through high-level participation in university and library planning, policymaking, and goal setting.

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"Copyright Office Releases Part 1 of Artificial Intelligence Report, Recommends Federal Digital Replica Law"

Today, the U.S. Copyright Office is releasing Part 1 of its Report on the legal and policy issues related to copyright and artificial intelligence (AI), addressing the topic of digital replicas. This Part of the Report responds to the proliferation of videos, images, or audio recordings that have been digitally created or manipulated to realistically but falsely depict an individual. Given the gaps in existing legal protections, the Office recommends that Congress enact a new federal law that protects all individuals from the knowing distribution of unauthorized digital replicas. The Office also offers recommendations on the elements to be included in crafting such a law. . . .

The Report is being released in several Parts, beginning today. Forthcoming Parts will address the copyrightability of materials created in whole or in part by generative AI, the legal implications of training AI models on copyrighted works, licensing considerations, and the allocation of any potential liability.

https://tinyurl.com/yc2fhthm

Open Publishing Platform Manager at Texas A&M University

The Open Publishing Platform Manager will be responsible for managing the overall operation of the open publishing platform, Pressbooks site, for all TAMU System entities. In addition, they are responsible for managing the design and layout specifications to create, maintain, and transmit digital files that will be used in the publication of the openly licensed textbooks. This position will consult and lead faculty and/or staff with complex instructional design within the open publishing framework to create content for online textbooks and ensure that all material in each publication is openly licensed and all conditions for fair use and/or open licensing are satisfied.

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"AI Is Complicating Plagiarism. How Should Scientists Respond?"

A central question is whether using unattributed content written entirely by a machine — rather than by a human — counts as plagiarism. Not necessarily, say many researchers. For example, the European Network for Academic Integrity, which includes universities and individuals, defines the prohibited or undeclared use of AI tools for writing as "unauthorized content generation" rather than as plagiarism as such.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-02371-z

Research Data Management Librarian at University of Miami

Reporting to the Director of Research Data & Open Scholarship, the Research Data Management Librarian is responsible for research data-oriented pedagogical and support services for students, faculty and staff across UM’s campuses. The person in this role will provide guidance for research data management, open science, data curation, data literacy, and data publishing, as well as play an important role in teaching, developing workshops, course support, consultations, and small group/one-on-one instruction for a range of disciplines across the natural sciences, social sciences, and the humanities.

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Paywall: "Metadata Management in Data Lake Environments: A Survey"

Data lakes are storage repositories that contain large amounts of data in its native format; either structured ssemi-structured or unstructured, to be used when needed. . . .This survey congregates different facets of metadata management in data lakes and presents a global view along with the technological implications and the required features for building successful metadata management systems. Besides, this survey summarizes and discusses research gaps, open problems and main challenges facing both industrialists and academics.

https://doi.org/10.1080/19386389.2024.2359310

Research Data Librarian at University of Pittsburgh

The position provides support and expertise to students, faculty, and researchers engaged in research data management planning, data acquisition, data sharing, and computational research methods. This position emphasizes collaborating with researchers and students primarily in the sciences and social sciences; however, supporting data practices and literacies in a wide variety of disciplines is also expected.

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"Breach of Academic Values and Misconduct: The Case of Sci-Hub"

This paper investigates the growing evidence of research-related misconduct by developing and testing a theoretical framework. We study the deep causes of misconduct by asking whether the perception of an erosion of the core academic values, formally an ideology-based psychological contract breach, is associated with research-related misconduct. We test our framework by examining the use of Sci-Hub and providing empirical evidence that the loss of faith in scientific research sparkles research-related misconduct against publishers. Based on a stratified sample of 2849 academics working in 30 institutions in 6 European countries, we find that ideology-based psychological contract breach explains Sci-Hub usage, also when controlling for other possible motivations. The magnitude of the effect depends on contextual and demographic characteristics. Females, foreign, and tenured scholars are less likely to download papers illegally when experiencing a contract breach of academic values. Our results suggest that policies restoring academic values might also address research-related misconduct.

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11192-024-05046-8

Data Infrastructure Librarian at University of Toronto (Term)

Working under the direction of the lead service librarian and working closely with the SP [Scholars Portal]data services team, which includes programmers, developers, analysts, and librarians, the Data Infrastructure Librarian will play a key role in ensuring the efficient operations of technical repository data systems and infrastructure developments in Odesi, Scholars GeoPortal, and Borealis, including leading technical development of service platforms and managing technical policies, procedures, code repositories, and documentation in support of SP’s data systems and repository services.

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Paywall: "Engagement Scenarios for Tomorrow’s Library Labs"

This article looks at ways that researchers engage with library [technology] labs and proposes a lab engagement pyramid to distinguish models for deploying trained staff and resources within the library lab space. A lab in an academic library requires the right mindset, skill set, tool set, programs, and staffing. The authors posit that a lab will be most successful if the library identifies the conditions that are desirable for the proposed lab space before it is designed and built. When a lab is already in existence but is underutilized, changing engagement strategies can lead to new growth.

https://doi.org/10.1353/pla.2024.a931768

Publishing & Open Repository Administrator at University of Tennessee, Knoxville

The Publishing and Open Repository Administrator manages the full spectrum of daily operations for two large systems: our institutional repository platform, Tennessee Research and Creative Exchange (TRACE), as well as V.O.L Journals, our journal publishing service. This position designs and develops service strategies, technical solutions, communication workflows and policies for the publishing services delivered by these systems. This position tests and assesses the success of these services.

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"Reproducible and Attributable Materials Science Curation Practices: A Case Study"

While small labs produce much of the fundamental experimental research in Material Science and Engineering (MSE), little is known about their data management and sharing practices and the extent to which they promote trust in and transparency of the published research. In this research, a case study is conducted on a leading MSE research lab [at MIT] to characterize the limits of current data management and sharing practices concerning reproducibility and attribution. The workflows are systematically reconstructed, underpinning four research projects by combining interviews, document review, and digital forensics. Then, information graph analysis and computer-assisted retrospective auditing are applied to identify where critical research information is unavailable orat risk.

Data management and sharing practices in this leading lab protect against computer and disk failure; however, they are insufficient to ensure reproducibility or correct attribution of work,especiallywhen a group member withdraws before the project completion.Therefore, recommendations for adjustments in MSE data management and sharing practices are proposed to promote trustworthiness and transparency by adding lightweight automated file-level auditing and automated data transfer processes.

https://doi.org/10.2218/ijdc.v18i1.940

Collections Strategist at University of Michigan (HathiTrust Digital Library)

HathiTrust Digital Library is a partnership of academic and research institutions offering a collection of 18+ million titles digitized from libraries around the world. We are administratively based at the University of Michigan Library and our staff are employees of the University. HathiTrust is in a period of transformational change. HathiTrust has recently released a new 5-year strategic vision. The Collections Strategist will help us accomplish this vision by positioning us to increase access to and use of an expanded, diversified, and enhanced collection. You will be responsible for developing and implementing a collection strategy and supporting the development of new collection uses in alignment with the Strategic Vision.

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Paywall: "Copyright and Text and Data Mining: Is the Current Legislation Sufficient and Adequate?"

This paper presents the basic aspects of legislation applicable to text and data mining activities. It offers a detailed comparative analysis of the norms of the main jurisdictions that have regulated them to date [Japan, UK, US, and EU] highlighting in each case the positive and negative aspects.

https://doi.org/10.1353/pla.2024.a931775

Data Analysis & Visualization Librarian – Libraries at West Virginia University

The Data Analysis & Visualization Librarian will deliver specialized research support aimed at skill development and training, information sharing, and advocacy on statistical software and data visualization, locating advising on data privacy regulations and ethical considerations. Candidates with strong data analysis and visualization experience inside or outside the traditional library setting are encouraged to apply.

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Paywall: "What Is Research Data ‘Misuse’? And How Can It Be Prevented or Mitigated?"

In the article, we emphasize the challenge of defining misuse broadly and identify various forms that misuse can take, including methodological mistakes, unauthorized reuse, and intentional misrepresentation. We pay particular attention to underscoring the complexity of defining misuse, considering different epistemological perspectives and the evolving nature of scientific methodologies. We propose a theoretical framework grounded in the critical analysis of interdisciplinary literature on the topic of misusing research data, identifying similarities and differences in how data misuse is defined across a variety of fields, and propose a working definition of what it means to "misuse" research data. Finally, we speculate about possible curatorial interventions that data intermediaries can adopt to prevent or respond to instances of misuse.

https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.24944

Digitization Project Manager – HBCU Digital Library Trust at Atlanta University Center

The Digitization Project Manager will coordinate and implement in-house digitization, metadata creation, and online access of a range of unique and original archival materials, including but not limited to photographs, documents, publications, and audio and video formats from HBCU Libraries located around the U.S. The incumbent will also provide support for participating libraries as they prepare collections for digitization, which will include basic archival processing and preservation techniques. The incumbent will coordinate the outsourced digitization of audiovisual formats, including working with commercial vendors as needed.

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"Considerations and Challenges for Collecting Digital Games in Academic Libraries"

The gaming industry is increasingly moving toward the digital distribution of games, making games available as digital downloads licensed to single end-user consumers from online storefronts rather than releasing games on physical media like discs or cartridges. Libraries have adapted to similar shifts in the distribution of books and audiovisual materials largely by licensing content from ebook and digital video vendors, but there are currently no such vendors or platforms set up to license digital games to libraries in ways comparable to these other kinds of electronic resources. This paper reports on findings from interviews with librarians at 13 academic libraries in the US who are beginning to explore digital game collecting efforts, presenting some of the key considerations for how libraries might approach digital game licenses as well as the major challenges, issues, and factors that will influence digital game collecting.

https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.24944

Research Data Librarian at University of Tennessee Libraries

As a member of the department of Data and Digital Scholarship, the Research Data Librarian works with research experts to support scholarship and research success across the UTK community including groups such as the Office of Innovative Technologies (OIT) and the Office of Research, Innovation, and Economic Development (ORIED). They support scholars through research consultations in the areas of open science, open data, data management, data sharing, data preservation; workshops and course-integrated instruction; development of online research guides; outreach; and active participation with their colleagues in Data and Digital Scholarship and throughout the Libraries, specifically Research Impact and Open Access and Digital Initiatives. They collaborate with colleagues on data-related initiatives and projects to develop services within the libraries and broader campus community. They integrate data ethics, justice, accessibility, and equity into the provision of data services. Librarians are expected to be active professionally and to contribute to developments in the field.

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Paywall: "Digital Curation Practices on Web and Social Media Archiving in Libraries and Archives"

Qualitative research was undertaken to explore the archiving practices through semi-structured interviews with 13 practitioners working in international libraries and archives at national and institutional levels across three continents. . . . Challenges were found in barriers to social media acquisition, lack of awareness, limited resources for preservation, uneven technical capacity, copyright and privacy concerns, and meeting user demands.

https://doi.org/10.1177/09610006241252661

Processing and Digital Archivist – Tufts Archival Research Center

The Processing and Digital Archivist is focused on the processing and description of archival collections held within Tufts Archival Research Center at Tufts University.. . . . This work will include refining, implementing, and executing processes that enable effective acquisition, appraisal, description, preservation, access to and security of born-digital and hybrid archival collections acquired and stewarded by TARC.

The Processing and Digital Archivist will collaborate with TARC staff in developing new acquisitions and transfer models for managing born-digital content, including post-custodial approaches.

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