- Develop code for library service applications and enhance complex Library applications and integrations. Test, maintain, debug/troubleshoot.
- Develop interfaces that integrate the functionality of library services in a web-driven user experience.
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- Administer, evaluate, and maintain integrity and functionality of all modules (acquisition, cataloging, circulation, interlibrary loan, discovery, user management, and reporting analysis and visualization) of a cloud-based library service platform (such as Ex Libris Alma/PrimoVE).
- Maintain service operation, apply new releases, fixes, and enhancements, and provides information updates to library departments as appropriate.
- Serve as technical liaison to service and system vendors and the National Gallery’s Digital Services (TDS) department. Coordinate the library service platform integrations with National Gallery institutional IT infrastructure and external environment (the enterprise digital asset management system, or EDAMS), ADFS/SAML, staff directory, email, AWS cloud services, network, firewall, and security); perform in-depth configuration and troubleshooting and to ensure library service platform’s functionality, security, compatibility, upgrades, and enhancements.
- Lead library’s technology projects and coordinate these with other internal projects and institution-wide IT projects. Conduct user needs research and develops criteria for expansion of existing services to meet new demands. Provide and develop configuration, workflows, improvements, and new features to meet library staff work requirements and to improve patron experience.
https://www.usajobs.gov/job/800302100
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Last month, the Microscopy Society of America (MSA) quietly launched a journal that its creators hope will lead academic publishing in the future. Elemental Microscopy, a publication focused on reviews and methods tutorials, leverages an authoring and publishing platform called Curvenote to create rich, interactive, digital papers with coding and data analysis at their heart. By allowing readers to explore data and recreate results in the publication, the firm behind the platform, also called Curvenote, and its growing list of clients seek to ease science’s long-standing reproducibility crisis and modernize the scientific literature.
https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-024-02577-1
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The User Experience (UX) Professional will be instrumental in ensuring a seamless and empowering online user experience for staff and users by eliminating barriers to managing, discovering, and using library resources and services. The person in this position will be responsible for creating a deep understanding of Libraries’ online user behavior with UX assessment methods and analysis. They will actively work with the Library Technology Services team and library staff to apply their findings and implement solutions across a wide variety of online applications and discovery methods. CSU Libraries supports flexible work options for this role including in-person, hybrid or fully remote with expected on-site visits up to 3 times a year.
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This study conducted a systematic analysis of data quality assurance (DQA) practices in RDRs, guided by activity theory and data quality literature, resulting in conceptualizing a data quality assurance model (DQAM) for RDRs. DQAM outlines a DQA process comprising evaluation, intervention, and communication activities and categorizes 17 quality dimensions into intrinsic and product-level data quality. It also details specific improvement actions for data products and identifies the essential roles, skills, standards, and tools for DQA in RDRs. By comparing DQAM with existing DQA models, the study highlights its potential to improve these models by adding a specific DQA activity structure.
https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.24948
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The Digital Asset Manager will join the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame’s Digital Technology Division to provide leadership and expertise in the governance, maintenance, and support of stewarding digital assets. The Digital Asset Manager works closely with our Library & Archives and collaborates with departments across the Rock Hall to ensure a high-level approach to acquiring, processing, preserving, discovering, and delivering digital content and collections metadata.
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Several widely used scholarly systems are using ROR IDs to identify and disambiguate funding organizations. In this post, we’ll give you a glimpse of how and why these systems use ROR IDs as funder identifiers. . . .
DataCite, the DOI registration agency that most data repositories use, has supported ROR identifiers in the fundingReferences element of its metadata schema since August of 2019. This early schema change encouraged data repositories to send ROR IDs to DataCite in DOI metadata. Note, too, that DataCite is now encouraging funders to register DOIs for awards, and ROR is DataCite’s recommended funder identifier in award metadata.
DataCite’s API shows that nearly one-third of DataCite DOIs with an identifier in the funding reference use ROR as the funder identifier. Out of a total of about 1.4 million DataCite DOIs with funding identifiers, over 432,000 of them include ROR IDs. . . .
Another factor that has driven early adoption of ROR for funder identification in repository systems is the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) Generalist Repository Ecosystem Initiative (GREI), whose primary aim is to develop “a common set of cohesive and consistent capabilities, services, metrics, and social infrastructure across generalist repositories” so that NIH-funded researchers can more easily discover and share their research data. Seven generalist repository systems are participating: Dataverse, Dryad, Figshare, Mendeley Data, the Open Science Framework (OSF), and Vivli. All seven have agreed to implement ROR for author affiliations, and some have also taken the opportunity to implement ROR for funder identification sooner rather than later. . . .
See the full list of ROR Integrations to see more systems that are using or planning to use ROR for all kinds of purposes beyond funder identification — author affiliations, Open Access deal management, publisher identification, internal statistics, and more.
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As a faculty member of the Collections, Acquisitions, and Resource Discovery Services (CARDS) Unit, the Electronic Resources Management (ERM) Librarian provides leadership in overseeing the lifecycle of the University Library’s extensive electronic collections and assists in administering the daily operations of the University Library, primarily within the ERM Unit.
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In a new publication, the German-wide DEAL consortium presents the key achievements of its first contract phase with the publishers Wiley and Springer Nature. The newly published infographic brochure provides a comprehensive insight into the background, objectives and results of the DEAL initiative. . . .
A particular focus is on the enormous increase in Open Access publications. Between 2019 and 2023, more than 105,000 publications from German scientific institutions were published under the DEAL agreements, 97 percent of which are Open Access. This remarkable success means that two-thirds of all research output from Germany is now freely accessible worldwide — a significant increase from the 30% before the DEAL initiative began.
“The First DEAL Agreements 2019-2023: Setting the Path for Open Access and Transparency“
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Reporting to the Head of Preservation and Reformatting, the person in this position will support the development and implementation of the Libraries’ digital access and preservation services. The successful candidate will provide project management across departments for the overall digital projects pipeline, including creating project plans, scheduling and facilitating project meetings, and setting milestones and deadlines. The position will supervise a team of student workers, providing training on digitization activities and delegating project tasks to PARD staff and student workers. The position also will lead the maintenance and troubleshooting of digital reformatting equipment and software. At a broader level, the successful candidate is expected to evaluate the department’s reformatting workflows and develop strategies and automation to maximize digitization efficiency for all material formats. The position will be responsible for implementing UH Libraries’ digital preservation policies, and will ensure best practice approaches to sustainably store and manage files created through all PARD digitization services, including on-demand digitization.
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We are pleased to announce a new initiative to support open access for books, Oxford Scholarship Online: Commit to Open. . . .
Commit to Open aims to secure funding from libraries and institutions for 30 monographs to be published open access, ensuring that their digital editions are freely available, globally and in perpetuity.
There are three collections of 10 books available for libraries to support:
Support new voices: The landscape of academic publishing can often present particular challenges for those just starting their career. To nurture this community, we have a collection available where every book is written by an early career researcher. The titles in this collection are diverse, feature several titles on topics relating to under-represented groups, and cover eight different academic disciplines.
Humanities: This showcases the vitality and variety of our publishing across the Humanities. These books cover topics including the cross-pollination of ideas via missionaries, the cultural influences on music and music genres, and the flow of religious ideas and identities around the Mediterranean in both the ancient and modern worlds.
Law & Social Sciences: This collection has a strong focus on marginalized groups, with books on current controversies in development studies, incarceration systems, and voters from ethnic minorities and the LGBT community. It also features titles on radical ideas such as what we owe to animals and how states can exist without armed forces. If we reach our funding targets by March 2025, we will publish all 30 titles open access. If we receive a proportion of our target, we will make the corresponding proportion of the titles open access, with the remaining titles made available for purchase.
The price for a single collection is £2,500 / $3,500. If you commit financially to all three collections, you will receive a 10% discount.
The goal for our two subject-based collections is to reach a total of £122,500 (the equivalent to 10x our standard book processing charge). For our collection of books supporting authors who are Early Career Researchers we have a smaller goal of £73,500 (the equivalent to 6x our standard book processing charge).
Books that publish open access within this pilot will be excluded from any of our Oxford Scholarship Online purchasable collections and subscriptions — meaning you won’t be paying twice.
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The scope of DAR includes the migration of collections data and digital collections to The National Archives (TNA) systems, the transfer of web archiving collections and functions to TNA, the review and transfer of Parliamentary Archives’ web content, and the establishment of future processes to enable the continuing transfer of digital records from Parliament to TNA.
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In July, IOI hosted its second State of Open Infrastructure Community Conversation — this time, exploring the state of open infrastructure grant funding.
To set the stage,, IOI’s senior researcher Gail Steinhart provided an overview of the methods that were used to gather over $415M USD in grant funding data for open infrastructures (OIs) and broke down some of the key findings from the analysis. To dive further into the topic of funding data, IOI Executive Director Kaitlin Thaney facilitated a panel conversation that featured Steinhart, collaborators Cameron Neylon and Karl Huang from the Curtin Open Knowledge Initiative (COKI), and John Mohr, CIO of Information Technology for theMacArthur Foundation and co-founder of the Philanthropy Data Commons. With their extensive experience in grant funding from diverse perspectives of the scholarly ecosystem, the panel shed light on the trends, impact, and limitations of grant funding for OIs. . . . .
Across the grants the team mapped for the 36 open infrastructures represented in this dataset, awards were categorized to reflect whether they provide direct support to an OI, indirect support (meaning the OI is referenced in the award title or abstract, but the funding does not directly support the OI though it may provide some indication of on OI’s broader impact), adoption support (funding that supports the implementation of an instance of an OI at a local or community scale), and grants we were unable to classify (unknown). While a significant amount (42%) of funding goes to direct support, the majority of the funding (52%) goes to indirect support.
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The Digital Project Librarian will manage a grant-funded project to create digital surrogates of unique and rare primary source materials. The position manages production workflows, trains and supervises student assistants, oversees digital image production and quality control, creates and reviews metadata, coordinates work between partners, and collaborates with technology partners in the Libraries to support application development. The Digital Project Librarian develops the project’s website, explores evaluative methods to assess reach and impact of the digital collection, prepares promotional materials, and supports the project’s outreach efforts. The position will work in a highly collaborative environment with colleagues in the SCRC, throughout the NC State University Libraries, and with project partners to create an innovative, sustainable, and accessible online resource.
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This article presents the OpenCitations Index, a collection of open citation data maintained by OpenCitations, an independent, not-for-profit infrastructure organisation for open scholarship dedicated to publishing open bibliographic and citation data using Semantic Web and Linked Open Data technologies. The collection involves citation data harvested from multiple sources. To address the possibility of different sources providing citation data for bibliographic entities represented with different identifiers, therefore potentially representing same citation, a deduplication mechanism has been implemented. This ensures that citations integrated into OpenCitations Index are accurately identified uniquely, even when different identifiers are used. This mechanism follows a specific workflow, which encompasses a preprocessing of the original source data, a management of the provided bibliographic metadata, and the generation of new citation data to be integrated into the OpenCitations Index. The process relies on another data collection: OpenCitations Meta, and on the use of a new globally persistent identifier, namely OMID (OpenCitations Meta Identifier). As of July 2024, OpenCitations Index stores over 2 billion unique citation links, harvest from Crossref, the National Institute of Heath Open Citation Collection (NIH-OCC), DataCite, OpenAIRE, and the Japan Link Center (JaLC). OpenCitations Index can be systematically accessed and queried through several services, including SPARQL endpoint, REST APIs, and web interfaces. Additionally, dataset dumps are available for free download and reuse (under CC0 waiver) in various formats (CSV, N-Triples, and Scholix), including provenance and change tracking information.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.02321
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- Technology Leadership and Oversight: Lead the exploration, adoption, and integration of emerging technologies to support information discovery and access, library technology for teaching and learning, web services architecture and integration, digital humanities, and college archives.
- · Digital Collections Management: Oversee all aspects of the electronic resource lifecycle, including acquisition, licensing, discovery, access, maintenance, and evaluation, employing creative solutions to maximize the impact and accessibility of online resources.
- · User Experience and Accessibility: Champion the development and management of user-centered designs and practices across the library’s digital platforms, ensuring a seamless and accessible digital experience for all users.
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Net neutrality, the judges wrote, “is likely a major question requiring clear congressional authorization,” and the “Communications Act likely does not plainly authorize the Commission to resolve this signal question. Nowhere does Congress clearly grant the Commission the discretion to classify broadband providers as common carriers. To the contrary, Congress specifically empowered the Commission to define certain categories of communications services—and never did so with respect to broadband providers specifically or the Internet more generally.” . . .
Even if the FCC loses, each US state would be allowed to regulate net neutrality because the Trump-era FCC lost its attempt to preempt state laws.
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The Integrated Systems Librarian will be the primary contact with our system vendor Ex Libris, coordinating the use of Alma, Primo, and Leganto platforms throughout the University Library and across our global university system. As an expert in system configurations and analytics, the Integrated Systems Librarian will provide instruction, assist in creating custom reports, and co-chair the Alma and Primo operations committees. The role involves working independently and collaboratively with library staff to implement, assess, and enhance tools and services focusing on usability, accessibility, sustainability, and performance.
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Wiley and Oxford University Press (OUP) told The Bookseller they have confirmed AI partnerships, with the availability of opt-ins and remuneration for authors appearing to vary. . . .
Meanwhile, Cambridge University Press has said it is talking to authors about opt ins along with ‘fair remuneration’ before making any deals.
Hachette, HarperCollins, and Pan Macmillan have not made AI deals.
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This position will be responsible for managing the Library’s enhancement and maintenance of e-resources metadata to support and maximize e-resource discovery in the Brown University Library Alma/Primo environment, and will manage and develop local workflows for providing and maintaining quality metadata for our electronic resources. In addition, the position provides leadership and expertise for establishing and maintaining stable and consistent online access to e-resources through coordination and leadership of e-resource troubleshooting, engaging subject librarians, vendors, and staff in the process.
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The Big Ten Academic Alliance is thrilled to welcome the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), the University of Southern California (USC), the University of Oregon, and the University of Washington. This expansion increases our membership to 18 institutions and includes a historic affiliation with the University of Chicago. . . .
With the new members, Big Ten Academic Alliance institutions now boast 75,000 instructional staff, 810,000 students, $17.4 billion in annual research expenditures, and 145 million library volumes—25% of all print titles in North America.
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The Digital Repository Coordinator serves as the front-line representative for OSRDS to help increase the awareness and visibility of DASH within and beyond the University by educating faculty; faculty assistants; graduate and undergraduate students; and library staff about DASH and its benefits through presentations, office hours, one-on-one tutorials, and printed and digital media. The Digital Repository Coordinator will assist Harvard scholars in depositing their scholarship; maintain repository communities and collections; liaise with university user groups, admins, and technical partners to maintain our repository; and continuously improve repository workflow, data quality, and reporting tools. In close partnership with the SRM, the Digital Repository Coordinator will assist with repository migration, collection, and service strategies, including electronic dissertations and theses (ETD) efforts and other repository-based collaborations within OSRDS, HL, and externally.
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Methods This study performed a cross-sectional audit on the publicly available policies of 163 academic publishers, indexed as members of the International Association of the Scientific, Technical, and Medical Publishers (STM). . . .
Results A total of 56/163 (34.4%) STM academic publishers had a publicly available policy guiding the authors’ use of AI chatbots. No policy allowed authorship accreditations for AI chatbots (or other generative technology). Most (49/56 or 87.5%) required specific disclosure of AI chatbot use. Four policies/publishers placed a complete ban on the use of AI tools by authors.
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The developer supports and enhances the Brown Digital Repository (BDR) and its ecosystem of web applications, regularly works with the Center for Digital Scholarship (CDS) on faculty projects, and supports the John Hay Library staff to support and enhance special collection digitization projects and web applications. This position also supports special projects affiliated with peer institutions. . . In addition, the developer meets Library project needs that arise such as developing interfaces and integrations with enterprise University systems or Library systems, as well as development projects that range from small file uploaders to larger web applications.
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In a lot of cases, yes, publishers can license AI training rights without asking authors first. Many publishing contracts include a full and broad grant of rights–sometimes even a full transfer of copyright to the publisher for them to exploit those rights and to license the rights to third parties. . . .
Not all publishing contracts are so broad, however. For example, in the Model Publishing Contract for Digital Scholarship (which we have endorsed), the publisher’s sublicensing rights are limited and specifically defined, and profits resulting from any exploitation of a work must be shared with authors. . . .
There are lots of variations, and specific terms matter. Some publisher agreements are far more limited–transferring only limited publishing and subsidiary rights. . . .
This is further complicated by the fact that authors sometimes are entitled to reclaim their rights, such as by rights reversion clause and copyright termination. . . .
We [the Authors Alliance] think it is certainly reasonable to be skeptical about the validity of blanket licensing schemes between large corporate rights holders and AI companies, at least when they are done at very large scale. Even though in some instances publishers do hold rights to license AI training, it is dubious whether they actually hold, and sufficiently document, all of the purported rights of all works being licensed for AI training.
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