Project Manager for Digital Repository Technology at University of Michigan


As the Project Manager for Digital Repository Technology, you will facilitate and coordinate planning of digital repository systems to be shared by multiple services. You will also be responsible for project management and coordinating and executing implementation strategies. You will engage with experts in the organization to complement your own background in digital repository technologies and digital preservation. Project completion and partner satisfaction will be important, providing a unique opportunity to collaborate on the development of digital repository systems that meet the library’s digital preservation and access goals.

https://tinyurl.com/yv4z3rcu

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"Wiley and German DEAL Consortium to Sign New 5-Year Agreement "


Wiley (NYSE: WLY) today announced its intent to enter a new five-year agreement with the DEAL Consortium, a countrywide consortium representative of more than 1,000 academic institutions in Germany, commencing January 2024. Wiley and DEAL are creating a blueprint for the next phase of open access publishing to better meet the evolving needs of the scholarly community.

Wiley and DEAL will build on the unprecedented success achieved in their first five years of partnership, which has resulted in:

  • Nearly 100% of eligible hybrid DEAL articles published open access across Wiley’s portfolio.
  • 90% of Wiley’s article output from Germany published open access. Increased usage of research content in Germany by 83%, resulting in nearly 20 million full text downloads in 2022 alone.
  • Rapid growth in usage of German-authored content globally, especially in low-income countries.

https://tinyurl.com/3f8rvzd7

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Paywall: "The Open Access Movement and its March in Africa"


While the goal of the OA movement remains good, it appears the epistemic disbalance in global knowledge creation and access has not abated. However, the promise of OA, the motivation on which it stands, its consequence and current state are reviewed in this paper with particular focus on the contribution of Africa to the global OA movement. It has been reported that the emergence of OA on the continent is albeit slow but with a mixed fortune of both progress and challenges. Notwithstanding, open access is seen as a development imperative for Africa that offers tremendous opportunities to the continent to actively contribute to global knowledge. It was reported that a number of universities and research institutions in Africa have adopted open access policies that require their researchers to publish their work in open access journals or repositories. The paper presented a number of open access initiatives and platforms that are actively being deployed to achieve OA mandate in the continent and concluded with recommendations.

https://tinyurl.com/f7zhss6m

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Web Application Developer at Michigan State University


This position will support and create applications using languages such as Python and PHP, and the successful applicant will be encouraged and well supported to learn new programming languages and frameworks as needs arise. Work may also include installing, managing, configuring, and developing plugins for open-source software, and making contributions to open-source projects.

https://tinyurl.com/2mdeva8k

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Metadata Projects Librarian at University of Rochester


The Metadata Projects Librarian leads the development of creative, sustainable, and interoperable metadata solutions in support of the preservation, discovery, and access of RCL’s rich and unique collections, which includes historical manuscripts, born-digital and digitized archival collections, digital projects, and digital exhibits. Under the direction of the Director, they are responsible for creating, enhancing, and adjusting metadata in a variety of online environments and within a variety of metadata workflows.

https://tinyurl.com/49mnhzpe

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"Implementation of a Federated Information System by Means of Reuse of Research Data Archived in Research Data Repositories"


At universities, research data is increasingly stored in research data repositories according to a data management plan (DMP) and thus made available for further use. The challenge of reusing hundreds, thousands, or millions of data sets is to obtain an overview of the data in a short period of time and to search through all the data. The high variability of the formats used to store research data requires a new approach to data reusability that focuses on the visualisation and searchability of archived research data, which can also be combined with each other. In this article, we present a practical DMP that describes how information systems can be created on demand by reusing research data archived in research data repositories and how these systems can be merged into a federated information system. As a result, in our projects, information systems have been created in minutes or a couple of hours with few resources. The initial effort to create a federated system remains; however, this allows federated searches to be performed. Extending a federated system to include other information systems can then be accomplished by making a few configurations and manageable adjustments to the source code.

https://doi.org/10.5334/dsj-2023-039

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Open Scholarship Librarian at Portland State University


The Open Scholarship Librarian provides oversight, strategic planning, advocacy, outreach, and project management for the Library’s open educational resources (OERs) including developing strategic partnerships with campus stakeholders, assisting in compliance with legislative mandates, promoting and advocating for open access policies, participating in OER-related university initiatives and collaborating on OER projects with other academic institutions and consortiums. This position also creates and implements OER-related instructional resources, including webpages, tutorials, and workshops on open and affordable course content. In addition, the Open Scholarship Librarian leads, manages, and participates in projects related to PDXScholar, the Library’s digital repository, including establishing policies and best practices and building awareness participation, and support for its collections and services.

https://jobs.hrc.pdx.edu/postings/43076

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"A Bibliometric Study of Open Educational Resources, Open Textbooks, and Academic Librarianship: Assessing Trends and Scholarly Productivity in Library and Information Science"


Open Educational Resources (OER) play a key role in reducing the financial burden and increasing the accessibility of learning for students in higher education. OER can be considered an important field of research for academic librarians and supports the democratic mission of academic libraries. This study aimed to track the publication of scholarly literature about OER and higher education from 2002 to 2022 using a bibliometric research methodology. In addition, this research sought to assess the productivity of Library and Information Science (LIS) scholarship on this topic and investigate research trends, like open textbooks. Web of Science (WOS) was searched for publications and the search results were mapped to determine publication productivity, core authors, core journals, and research topics in the scholarly literature about OER and higher education. Research on OER has been steadily increasing since 2002, and this study indicates that research has increased significantly on the topic in the last six years. The data in this study support that most productivity in research on this topic is in the field of Education, but also found a presence of scholarship on the topic in the field of LIS.

https://doi.org/10.13001/joerhe.v2i1.7877

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Digital Resources Manager at Longwood Gardens


As one of the great gardens of the world located just 30 miles outside of Philadelphia, Longwood Gardens is rooted in a steadfast mission of excellence in horticulture, education, and the arts. . . .

Longwood Gardens is seeking a full time Digital Resource Manager to join our Library and Information Services Division. This individual develops the image collection, documents, and communicates strategies for metadata and authority control.

https://tinyurl.com/mr3k4s8c

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"Elsevier Introduces Geographical Pricing Pilot to Support Authors in Low- And Middle-Oncome Countries with Equitable Open Access Publishing Options"


The GPOA [Geographical Pricing for Open Access] model, a publishing industry first, is set to take effect from January 2024. As part of the pilot, Elsevier will structure its article publishing charges for this subset of journals based on countries’ local economic conditions and average income. By tailoring pricing structures according to Gross National Income (GNI) per capita, a transparent and well-established measure used by many international organisations including Research4Life, Elsevier aims to reduce financial barriers that have traditionally hindered researchers and institutions from low and middle-income countries from publishing the latest research in Gold Open Access journals. Elsevier’s approach to GPOA and country banding based on GNI are outlined on our website. A full list of the journals taking part in this novel pilot can be found here. Elsevier will continue to waive APCs for authors in the lowest economic band and already provides affordable access to over 100,000 peer-reviewed resources for institutions in 120 low- and middle-income countries through Research4Life.

https://tinyurl.com/jxzt8d7e

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Software Engineer – Archiving and Data Services at Internet Archive


The role will focus on Archive-It (archive-it.org), our platform for building, sharing, and preserving web archive collections. This position offers the opportunity to work with a range of technologies and gain deep knowledge about web crawling, archival replay, and large-scale distributed systems. Our services work with petabytes of archived data and facilitate the discovery and use of large-scale digital collections. The Software Engineer will have the unique opportunity to build things that further open access to information and advance the public good.

https://tinyurl.com/536yzr76

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Research Data Librarian at East Carolina University


The Research Data Librarian is responsible for providing education, support, and expertise to faculty, students, and researchers engaged in data management planning, data acquisition, data sharing, and long-term data stewardship. This position emphasizes collaboration with faculty, students, and researchers in the ECU Health Sciences Community by supporting data practices and literacies. This position will coordinate data education, curation, and consultation activities. The Research Data Librarian will draw on a broad knowledge of research data management and stewardship, communicate clearly and effectively with researchers and colleagues, and monitor and creatively respond to emerging researcher data needs.

https://ecu.peopleadmin.com/postings/66431

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"Springer Nature and Authors Successfully Use Generative AI to Publish Academic Book"


As part of an innovative experiment, Springer Nature has become the first publisher to create a whole new academic book by empowering authors to use GPT as part of the integrated workflow. Developed during a —Hack Day— in the Spring which brought together authors, editors and experts from across Springer Nature, the German-language book Einsatzmöglichkeiten von GPT in Finance, Compliance und Audit (Applications of GPT in finance, compliance and audit) has now been published. It took less than five months from inception to publication — about half the time normally taken. . . .

The process was as follows:

  1. Working simultaneously on six screens, the team defined commands which GPT then executed chapter by chapter to create the first version of the manuscript
  2. At each stage of the process, the content generated by the Large Language Model (LLM) was reviewed by the authors, who then asked the machine to adapt the text
  3. This "prompt ping pong" ensured that the knowledge expertise of the authors renowned in their field was combined with the language expertise of the LLM
  4. After the Hack Day, the authors and Springer Nature’s editorial team further checked, corrected and supplemented the text
  5. The team then linked the relevant data sources to ensure proper attribution

https://tinyurl.com/4x7nvvks

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User Experience Designer at University of Arizona


They serve as Website Product Manager for the Libraries, providing oversight to several (mostly Drupal-based) websites and ensuring that colleagues make user-centered content and design decisions. They chair the library’s Web Strategy Group, the cross-departmental team that makes decisions and recommends priorities for the library’s public-facing web presence. They serve on the Web Support team to address web requests from library employees. They also identify ways to improve our web-based library tools for search, discovery, and content management.

https://tinyurl.com/ycywnee5

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"Leading an Open Revolution: Promoting Awareness of Open Resources through an Interdisciplinary Learning Community"


This article discusses the case study of an interdisciplinary faculty learning community (FLC) focused on open practices and resources. The community, which was facilitated by three academic librarians, explored the case as a framework for open outreach and advocacy on a university campus. Composed of participants across disciplines and academic departments, the FLC created a setting for librarians and teaching faculty to explore open education topics together from divergent perspectives and degrees of experience. In this article, the authors present the FLC case as a collaborative model for forging relationships on campus and consider its effectiveness as an outreach and advocacy strategy for academic libraries.

https://tinyurl.com/36shazrf

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Digital Projects Librarian at University of Oklahoma


The Digital Projects Librarian will be responsible for digital projects through tracking and coordinating departmental needs with other library departments. They will promote and represent the library to stakeholders through service operations, such as creating research guides, cataloging data and creative outputs, and offering workshops and instruction. They may be responsible for the selection, training, and evaluation of staff. This position performs various duties needed to successfully fulfill the function of the position, such as task-managing small digital project teams that include Graduate Assistants.

https://tinyurl.com/vh3puvkp

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"Connecting Fragmented Support on Campus: Growing Research Data Services Programs Through Collaboration"


Research data services are provided by multiple units across and beyond the library, which is why communication and collaboration are paramount to building support for researchers. By exploring how Research Data Services (RDS) programs can function in the fragmented landscape of research support on campuses, we outline the role of collaboration in building programs. In this paper, we discuss building an RDS program by emphasizing three strategies for collaboration: collaborating within the library, collaborating across campus, and collaborating externally with those without direct ties to your organization. The aim of this paper is to offer attainable examples and strategies for building collaborations across campuses for libraries that have small or nascent RDS programs—how to approach and cultivate partnerships, how to set realistic goals, and how to work holistically within the fragmented academy.

https://tinyurl.com/9hbz49df

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Scholarly Communications Librarian at Clemson University


The Scholarly Communications Librarian will be a critical position to the Libraries’ strategic growth as an R1 institution and will help expand the Libraries’ data and research services that will further support Clemson strategic priority to double research by 2035. The Scholarly Communications Librarian will also provide specialized research consultations and instruction services in the areas of scholarly publishing. The Scholarly Communications Librarian will work closely with campus groups such as the Division of Research, the Office of General Counsel, and the Graduate School.

https://tinyurl.com/3sx5w687

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Using Altmetric Data Responsibly: A Guide to Interpretation and Good Practice

This guide focuses specifically on data from the data provider and company, Altmetric, but other types of altmetrics are mentioned and occasionally used as a comparison in this guide, such as the Open Syllabus database to find the educational engagement with scholarly outputs. This guide opens with an introduction followed by an overview of Altmetric and the Altmetric Attention Score, Altmetrics and Responsible Research Assessment, Output Types Tracked by Altmetric, and the Altmetric Sources of Attention, which include: News and Mainstream Media, Social Media (X (formerly Twitter), Facebook, Reddit, and historical data from Google+, Pinterest, LinkedIn, and Sina Weibo); Patents, Peer Review, Syllabi (historical data only), Multimedia, Public Policy Documents, Wikipedia, Research Highlights, Reference Managers, and Blogs; finally, there is a conclusion, a list of related resources and readings, two appendices, and references. This guide is intended for use by librarians, practitioners, funders, and other users of Altmetric data or those who are interested in incorporating altmetrics into their bibliometric practice and/or research analytics. It can also help researchers who are going up for annual evaluations and promotion and tenure reviews, who can use the data in informed and practical applications. It can also be a useful reference guide for research managers and university administrators who want to understand the broader online engagement with research publications beyond traditional scholarly citations, also known as bibliometrics, but who also want to avoid misusing, misinterpreting, or abusing Altmetric data when making decisions, creating policies, and evaluating faculty members and researchers at their institutions.

http://hdl.handle.net/10919/116448

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Head of Digital Services at University of Bristol


You will drive forward the development of a user-centred digital strategy, reviewing current tools and approaches, identifying opportunities for innovation, and engaging with exciting emerging technologies.

You will be a member of the Library Leadership Team, playing a full role across the breadth of our divisional strategic priorities as we head into a multi-year transformation project in response to the University’s 2030 Strategy.

https://tinyurl.com/45xnyebd

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"Springer Nature Introduces Curie, Its AI-powered Scientific Writing Assistant"


Springer Nature today announced a new AI-powered in-house writing assistant to support researchers, particularly those whose first language is not English, in their scientific writing. . . .

It has been specifically trained on academic literature, spanning 447+ areas of study, more than 2,000 field-specific topics and on over 1 million edits on papers published including those in leading Nature journals. It combines the power of large language models (LLMs) with specialised AI digital editing developed in-house and designed specifically for scientific writing. Unlike generalist AI writing apps, Curie focuses on the unique pain points of researchers in their professional writing, including translation to English and English language editing to address grammatical errors and improve phrasing and word choice.

https://tinyurl.com/msvc28ra

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Medway Library Systems & Collections Team Leader at University of Greenwich


The Medway Library Systems and Collections Team Leader will possess experience of configuring library systems technology or have experience of similar technologies within a library or learning environment. The ability to work alongside library systems developers from partner institutions to ensure the stability, integrity, and security of the library systems technology is maintained at all times.

https://tinyurl.com/tc3sjevy

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Paywall: "Implementing a Rules-Based Chatbot for Reference Service at a Large University Library"


While some chatbots or virtual assistants generate automatic and custom responses to user input, this paper explores the implementation of a rules-based chatbot, where all responses have been input and configured by library staff. Details are provided to describe the process before, during, and after the initial implementation with data and observations from the pilot in mid-2023.

https://doi.org/10.1080/19322909.2023.2268832

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