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Online Services Librarian at Walsh University

Maintains the linking system which provides seamless access to journals through the databases.

Maintains the library’s online discovery layer (Search Everything), EBSCO databases, and the e-book collections.

Serve as lead librarian in maintaining the library’s Springshare services (i.e. LibAnswer, LibChat, and LibGuides).

Maintains the library’s home page.

Serves as lead implementer for updates to OhioLINK electronic resources and eResources liaison for all OhioLINK online resources.

http://tinyurl.com/3573upfv

"Data Management in Distributed, Federated Research Infrastructures: The Case of EPOS"

Data management is a key activity when Open Data stewardship through services complying with the FAIR principles is required, as it happens in many National and European initiatives. Existing guidelines and tools facilitate the drafting of Data Management Plans by focusing on a set of common parameters or questions. In this paper we describe how data management is carried out in EPOS, the European Research Infrastructure for providing access to integrated data and services in the solid Earth domain. EPOS relies on a federated model and is committed to remain operational in the long term. In EPOS, five key dimensions were identified for the Federated Data Management, namely the management of: thematic data; e-infrastructure for data integration; community of data providers committed to data provision processes; sustainability; and policies. On the basis of the EPOS experience, which is to some extent applicable to other research infrastructures, we propose additional components that may extend the EU Horizon 2020 Data Management Guidelines template, thus comprehensively addressing the Federated Data Management in the context of distributed Research Infrastructures.

https://doi.org/10.5334/dsj-2024-005

Educational Technologies Librarian at University of Virginia

This position will join a team responsible for the creation and delivery of instructional programming that develops students’ digital literacy and maker mindsets. The successful candidate will develop and deliver media production classes and workshops; create asynchronous teaching and training materials; assess curricular needs for audio visual production; consult with students and faculty; and collaborate with fellow Library staff on the operation of and training for the 3D Printing Studio.

https://apply.interfolio.com/139269

"Do Disappearing Data Repositories Pose a Threat to Open Science and the Scholarly Record? "

Only little more than half of the research data repositories in the sample have detailed strategies they use to mitigate data loss. It is important to note that none of the strategies analysed offers a permanent solution; instead, infrastructure maintenance requires continuous efforts. The burden of infrastructure maintenance and data preservation is currently placed on individual repositories alone; preservation systems comparable to those for scholarly texts, such as CLOCKSS, are not widely spread and can be difficult to realise.

http://tinyurl.com/3snrhxpk

Librarian for Geospatial Systems and Data at Vanderbilt University

The Librarian for Geospatial Systems and Data advances GIS services broadly through a combination of training, consultation, project management, and management of a newly created GIS lab. The incumbent manages hardware, software, data resources and user support to facilitate geospatial analysis, research and teaching activities within the GIS lab, and in partnership with units across campus. Working closely with the Assistant Director of Geospatial Initiatives, the Librarian for Geospatial Systems and Data actively contributes to the Libraries’ and University’s strategic priorities by promoting and fostering the use of GIS technology in research and learning.

http://tinyurl.com/pmyak67e

Paywall: "The Scientific Periphery and New Flows of Knowledge: The Case of Regional Preprint Servers"

It is unclear whether regional rather than global or discipline-focussed preprint platforms as an innovation in the communication of science are removing any of the barriers faced by researchers in the scientific periphery or whether they are increasing access to and visibility of science from the periphery. In response, this paper focusses on the uptake, visibility and academic impact of regional preprint publishing platforms in two peripheral regions (Africa and Latin America) to gain insights into the use and possible impact of regional preprint servers.

https://doi.org/10.1108/OIR-04-2023-0153

Digital Resources Librarian at Howard University

The Digital Resources Librarian, under the general direction of the Assistant Director of Operations, manages the Louis Stokes Health Sciences Library digital resource collection, including databases, e-Journals, and eBooks, and oversees access to these resources. Support of the digital holdings includes recording collection-related budgetary spending and facilitating the digital subscription renewal and purchasing process.

http://tinyurl.com/39x579az

"DataCite Launches First Release of the Data Citation Corpus"

DataCite, in partnership with the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI), is delighted to announce the first release of the Data Citation Corpus. A major milestone in the Make Data Count initiative, the release makes eight million data citations openly available and usable for the first time via an interactive dashboard and public data file.

https://makedatacount.org/first-release-of-the-open-global-data-citation-corpus/

Digitization Project Manager at Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library (Term)

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 including basic archival processing and preservation techniques. The incumbent will coordinate outsourced digitization of audiovisual formats including working with commercial vendors as needed. The Digitization Project Manager will report to the Assistant Director for Digital Services throughout the four-year project and will oversee the work of project staff and students and will coordinate with Archivists and HBCU Digital Library Trust staff.

http://tinyurl.com/5dbcjsux

"DIAMAS Results: Institutional Publishing Landscape Survey"

The publication of the survey results marks a significant milestone for DIAMAS and for Diamond Open Access. There is now a clear and intelligible picture of the European landscape of institutional publishing activities, with clear pathways to strengthen and support their operations. Our findings show how institutional publishers work, the scale of and nature of their operations, the ways finances and funding are managed, how open science practices are managed, and the nature of their challenges.

http://tinyurl.com/y3crvx8p

Director, Collections and Open Strategies at Emory University

Reporting to the Associate University Librarian for Research, Engagement, and Scholarly Communications, and collaborating with colleagues across the organization, the Director of Collections and Open Strategies provides leadership, vision, and strategic direction for the Emory Libraries crucial role in the life cycle of research and scholarship, transforming the processes of creating, disseminating, collecting, storing, managing, and preserving scholarship.

The Director will directly supervise the Head of Collection Management, Head of Scholarly Communications, and the Research Data Program Manager, as well as work collaboratively with other divisions and libraries across the organization, to foster shared initiatives enhancing information access, research support, and scholarly output.

https://apply.interfolio.com/140093

Pew Research Center: "Americans’ Use of Mobile Technology and Home Broadband"

In a far cry from the early 2000s, most U.S. adults today say they use the internet (95%), have a smartphone (90%) or subscribe to high-speed internet at home (80%), according to a Pew Research Center survey conducted May 19 to Sept. 5, 2023. . . .

There are large gaps between the lowest- and highest-income Americans in whether they have a broadband subscription. Nearly all (95%) adults with an annual household income of at least $100,000 say they have one. This compares with 57% of adults in households that make less than $30,000 per year. A similar pattern emerges by level of formal education.

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"Agile Research Data Management with Open Source: LinkAhead"

Research data management (RDM) in academic scientific environments increasingly enters the focus as an important part of good scientific practice and as a topic with big potentials for saving time and money. Nevertheless, there is a shortage of appropriate tools, which fulfill the specific requirements in scientific research. We identified where the requirements in science deviate from other fields and proposed a list of requirements which RDM software should answer to become a viable option. We analyzed a number of currently available technologies and tool categories for matching these requirements and identified areas where no tools can satisfy researchers’ needs. Finally we assessed the open-source RDMS (research data management system) LinkAhead for compatibility with the proposed features and found that it fulfills the requirements in the area of semantic, flexible data handling in which other tools show weaknesses.

https://doi.org/10.48694/inggrid.3866

Open Science Librarian at Utah State University

The Utah State University Libraries seeks a collaborative, innovative and user-centered candidate for the position of Open Science Librarian to join a team supporting our communities in discovering, creating, and sharing knowledge. Working with a team of librarians, the Open Science Librarian engages with students and faculty to support emerging open science and scholarly communication initiatives in all fields. This position also contributes to the Libraries’ scholarly communications team by developing skills and expertise with copyright.

http://tinyurl.com/2s4z2b7n

"Training Generative AI Models on Copyrighted Works Is Fair Use"

Why are scholars and librarians so invested in protecting the precedent that training AI LLMs on copyright-protected works is a transformative fair use? Rachael G. Samberg, Timothy Vollmer, and Samantha Teremi (of UC Berkeley Library) recently wrote that maintaining the continued treatment of training AI models as fair use is "essential to protecting research," including non-generative, nonprofit educational research methodologies like text and data mining (TDM). If fair use rights were overridden and licenses restricted researchers to training AI on public domain works, scholars would be limited in the scope of inquiries that can be made using AI tools. Works in the public domain are not representative of the full scope of culture, and training AI on public domain works would omit studies of contemporary history, culture, and society from the scholarly record, as Authors Alliance and LCA [Library Copyright Alliance] described in a recent petition to the US Copyright Office. Hampering researchers’ ability to interrogate modern in-copyright materials through a licensing regime would mean that research is less relevant and useful to the concerns of the day.

http://tinyurl.com/7jkyt2ae

Director of Digital Initiatives at University of Rochester Libraries

The Director of Digital Initiatives is responsible for the overall direction, development, and management of the River Campus Libraries’ (RCL) core and emerging digital infrastructure in support RCL’s strategic aims and the teaching, learning, and research mission of the University. Reporting to the Assistant/Associate Dean for Scholarly Resources and Curation, this position works closely with library administration, colleagues, and stakeholders to collaboratively envision and implement innovative services and technologies that underpin a wide range of programs and services. This role directs a team of nine to ensure the sustainable and effective operation of the Libraries’ core enterprise-systems, connections to/integrations with key University and vendor systems, and the development and implementation of new applications and services.

http://tinyurl.com/5zkv9esj

"RDA Professionalising Data Stewardship — What Does a Career Track for Data Stewards Look Like?"

The report "What does a career track for data stewards look like?" provides an initial discussion of the results of the RDA IG Professionalising Data Stewardship career tracks survey completed in 2022. The survey asked respondents who self-identified as performing data stewardship roles about their job titles, educational background, match between educational background and area of professional activity, contract types, as well as future career perspectives. The report is of value to international and national projects and initiatives seeking to define and develop the professional role of data stewards as well as to organizations employing data stewards that seek to define career progression pathways for data stewards and better job satisfaction and job security of data stewards. The report is also of value to the emerging communities of data stewards because it provides evidence base for understanding which professionals already fulfill data stewardship roles and how these professionals perceive their career paths.

https://zenodo.org/records/10571388

Scholarly Communication Librarian at Utah State University

The Scholarly Communication Librarian will support data literacy across the institution and provide expertise and guidance for managing, preserving, and sharing research data. Collaborating with library colleagues and groups across campus, including the Office of Research, this position will also help develop strategic initiatives and partnerships to promote open scholarship, including conducting outreach and providing training on topics such as research impact, open access, and open science.

http://tinyurl.com/5n9xzr29

"Could AI Change the Scientific Publishing Market Once and for All?"

Artificial-intelligence tools in research like ChatGPT are playing an increasingly transformative role in revolutionizing scientific publishing and re-shaping its economic background. They can help academics to tackle such issues as limited space in academic journals, accessibility of knowledge, delayed dissemination, or the exponential growth of academic output. Moreover, AI tools could potentially change scientific communication and academic publishing market as we know them. They can help to promote Open Access (OA) in the form of preprints, dethrone the entrenched journals and publishers, as well as introduce novel approaches to the assessment of research output. It is also imperative that they should do just that, once and for all.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.14952

Open Press Editorial Manager at University of Sussex

This is an exciting opportunity to help shape a new open access University Press from scratch. Following a highly successful12-month textbook pilot project, the Library is looking to expand its open publishing capacity; we’re keen to broaden our textbook offering and explore opportunities to develop a monograph imprint. The press is currently using the Pressbooks and OJS platforms.

http://tinyurl.com/27xu35xs

"Librarians as Agents of Change: New Sparc Europe Strategy for Open Education 2024-2026"

We are pleased to announce a new Open Education strategy for 2024-2026, Librarians as Agents of Change. We will support Higher Education policymakers, librarians, ambassadors and facilitators of OE in Europe to implement the UNESCO OER Recommendations using a targeted and action-oriented approach. With this strategy, we aim to make the many connections between Open Science policy and Open Education ever clearer to both policymakers and academic institutions.

http://tinyurl.com/mr45cv3f

Digital Archivist at Carnegie Mellon University

In this role, you will be responsible for developing, implementing, and maintaining the Carnegie Mellon University Archives’ born-digital program. This includes developing policies and procedures for accessioning, ingesting, preserving, managing, and providing access to electronic records; developing procedures and workflows for describing born-digital records within hybrid collections; managing web-archiving activities; and advising departments and donors on the management of electronic records.

https://apply.interfolio.com/139836

Ithaka S+R: The Second Digital Transformation of Scholarly Publishing

Today, the scholarly publishing sector is undergoing its second digital transformation. The first digital transformation saw a massive shift from paper to digital, but otherwise publishing retained many of the structures, workflows, incentives, and outputs that characterized the print era. A variety of shared infrastructure was developed to serve the needs of this first digital transformation. In this current second digital transformation, many of the structures, workflows, incentives, and outputs that characterized the print era are being revamped in favor of new approaches that bring tremendous opportunities, and also non-trivial risks, to scholarly communication. The second digital transformation requires shared infrastructure that is fit for purpose. It is our objective with this paper to examine the needs for shared infrastructure that will support this second digital transformation.

https://doi.org/10.18665/sr.320210

Bridge to Faculty Research Associate — Digital Publishing Librarian at University of Illinois Chicago (Term)

The Bridge to Faculty Digital Publishing Librarian will establish a research agenda during this time and work towards publishing their scholarship. There will be limited librarianship responsibilities and no service expectations during this year. The primary focus on research during this year is provided to ensure that the individual can establish a robust research agenda to support a possible transition to a tenure-track faculty position as Assistant Professor.

http://tinyurl.com/wm5rfp24

"Towards a Shared Framework: A Classificatory Matrix for Teaching Data Standards"

Standards for research data can be a mystifying topic for both researchers and data professionals. A common source of confusion is that they are multipurpose: standards can (and should) be applied to both primary data and metadata, enabling a wide range of functions from the search features in a repository to the integration of disparate data sources. This paper reviews examples of classificatory approaches used by both librarians and researchers to describe data standards. This literature is synthesized into a classificatory matrix that can be used to map different types of standards. The matrix is constructed around two organizing principles: purpose (finding or using data) and type of information controlled (meaning or syntax). The objective of this classificatory exercise is to encourage further discussion about the misunderstandings between researchers and data support professionals and to spur further development of the educational resources needed to improve understanding and use of data standards.

https://doi.org/10.7191/jeslib.758