OhioLINK is Ohio’s statewide academic library consortium, delivering both IT infrastructure and content negotiation to provide students, faculty, researchers and staff with access to valuable digital research collections at a fraction of the cost if those collections had to be purchased by individual institutions.
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In "Attributions toward artificial agents in a modified Moral Turing Test"—which was recently published in Nature’s online, open-access Scientific Reports journalmdash;those researchers found that morality judgments given by ChatGPT4 were "perceived as superior in quality to humans" along a variety of dimensions like virtuosity and intelligence. But before you start to worry that philosophy professors will soon be replaced by hyper-moral AIs, there are some important caveats to consider.
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OhioLINK seeks a Consortial Systems Librarian to serve as an integral part of supporting OhioLINK’s consortial Library Services Platform (LSP). The individual in this position will additionally help support the migration of OhioLINK libraries to Ex Libris’ Alma LSP.
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The report shows that although institutional publishers and service providers are diverse — in terms of their missions, sizes, services they provide and tasks they perform, access to funding options and the choices they make — they face similar challenges, such as the need for more financial resources, the lack of stability and permanence in personnel and the dependence on parent organizations. Along with public national or regional funders, parent organizations, which provide significant in-kind support (personnel, services), are the main local supporters of Diamond open access (OA).
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Texas A&M University Libraries is hiring a new Data Planning and Presentation Librarian (Associate) with a passion for curating research data and data visualization to join their team. This Associate Librarian will be responsible for ensuring compliance with university, funding agency, and government requirements, and facilitating all parts of the research data lifecycle. In addition, this position will ensure that research data are cataloged, discoverable, and preserved in accordance with requirements.
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At the behest of top-tier libraries, the race is on to create bibliographic and discovery environments supporting BIBFRAME and other linked data concepts. Companies will likely soon complete enhancements to support BIBFRAME, but the level of demand for these products remains to be seen.
The real unknown is AI. While many companies featured in this year’s and last year’s reports have announced ongoing plans to add generative AI to their offerings, this technology has not yet been integrated in any significant way. As the industry continues to work on harnessing AI in ways that limit bias and error, libraries can anticipate more prominent use of this technology in products within the next year or so.
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Reporting to the Senior Digital Preservation Specialist and collaborating with Harvard Library units and Library Technology Services, the incumbent will provide support for preservation systems, including the Digital Repository Service (DRS), ePADD, and the hosted Archive-It (AIT) web archiving service. Additional responsibilities include creating and maintaining documentation and training modules; the collection, analysis, and visualization of usage and outcome statistics for these systems; maintenance of the public online web presence for the Digital Preservation team; and collaborative investigation of innovative and emerging technical solutions.
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This study reports on the implementation of institutional repositories (IRs) at regional public universities (RPUs) in the United States and its territories. The author investigated repository platform choice, operation style, and content. More than half of RPUs have implemented an IR. The author discusses how these findings align with trends in previous research and explores the unique aspects of IRs at RPUs—particularly the prevalence of student works and special collections materials. For over two decades, institutional repositories (IRs) have been used at institutions of higher education to collect, preserve, and share the scholarly works of an institution. During that same time there have been an increasing number of studies looking at who has implemented an IR, the most popular IR platforms, and type and number of objects deposited in IRs. While some studies have looked at small or teaching-focused institutions, most of these studies have focused on IR implementations at large research-focused institutions.
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The Publishing and Authorship Librarian provides leadership, direction, consultation, and outreach in the areas of copyright, digital scholarship, publishing, and research data management, both within the library and broader UMD campus. This person leads our library’s efforts to promote open scholarship at UMD with collaboration and support from UMD library colleagues and from our Twin Cities University Libraries colleagues.
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In the summer of 2021, the University of California (UC) migrated to a new integrated library system, called the Systemwide Integrated Library System project (SILS), which for the first time brought all ten UC campuses, two regional storage facilities, and the California Digital Library (CDL) together into one shared library system. With new potential for increased collaboration and cooperation, SILS leadership groups identified consortial open access (OA) resource management as a key opportunity in the new system, in alignment with UC’s priorities around discovery and access to library collections, as well as UC’s commitment to open access and transforming the scholarly communication landscape. This article discusses the formation of the UC Open Access Resource Management Task Force (OARMTF), a group charged to investigate what it would mean to consortially manage OA resources. Specifically, this article focuses on the OARMTF’s work setting out principles for OA resource management, which the authors hope may serve as a useful case study for other institutions or consortia interested in developing principles around OA resource management, as well as encourage more discussion and research into best practices for consortial management of OA resources.
https://doi.org/10.5860/lrts.68n1.8216
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The Head of Digital Scholarship Services is responsible for planning, implementing, and managing current and emerging research support services, including, digital scholarship, digital humanities, data management, scholarly communications and digital maker space technologies.
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Open access policies and mandates can be a useful tool in persuading faculty at higher education institutions around the globe to produce and share open scholarship. But are such policies widely written, accepted, and adopted? Leveraging information found on the Registry of Open Access Repositories Mandatory Archiving Policies, this paper analyzes open access policies at higher education institutions worldwide. The data indicate that Europe holds the most policies, while fewer policies have been enacted in the Americas, Africa, Oceania, and Asia due to a myriad of barriers. Overall, better strategies to promote open access are needed, and such strategies may not necessarily take the form of an open access policy. My own investigation of global open access policies has informed my practices with respect to open access. In this paper, I demonstrate how librarians acting as policy entrepreneurs can assist with the promotion of open access at their institutions and then conclude with suggestions, solutions, and pathways beyond policy adoption to promote and advocate for open access.
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The Professional will be part of the Libraries Digital Services Department. Under the direction of the Manager of Digital Services, this position will support two areas: helping users publish their scholarship in the University’s institutional repository and efforts to preserve research data generated on campus using the Libraries’ digital preservation system. This work involves troubleshooting technical issues and applying best practices regarding file formats and metadata, while working closely with faculty and students.
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The study sought to answer the following research questions:
RQ 1: How do data-centric tasks with different products and levels of multi-disciplinarity affect data search behaviors?
RQ 2: How do data-centric tasks with different products and levels of multi-disciplinarity affect the utilization of different cognitive systems?
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lisr.2024.101302
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This position serves a dual role as a librarian participating in multimodal library and information literacy instruction and as an instructional design specialist directly developing content and training liaison librarians who are building instructional design projects.
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From BBS to Facebook, Here’s How Messaging Platforms Have Changed over the Years
In 1971, Ray Tomlinson wrote the first inter-computer messaging program, SNDMSG. Because he had to differentiate between the receiver’s username and the name of the computer they were using, he needed a character that wouldn’t be part of either. He hit "SHIFT-P" on the Model 33 Teletype, got an @, and the rest was history. Email was born. . . .
In 1978, Randy Seuss and Ward Christensen took a jury-rigged clone of an Altair computer, connected it to a modem, and wrote the software that would change the world. CBBS, which stood for Chicago Bulletin Board System, was a server that anyone in the world could call up on their own computer, using their own modem, through regular phone lines. . . .
Usenet, which came alive in 1979, was a public message board divided into different "newsgroups" on various topics. . . . Admins at each site, which were generally Unix servers at universities or corporate laboratories, would decide which newsgroups to carry, and the software would automatically dial up other servers to send every message posted to these newsgroups.
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Harvard Library is beginning significant work related to the Reimagining Discovery Project to revolutionize how researchers, students, and the global community access and explore Harvard’s extensive collections. Through this work we want to make all kinds of information easily discoverable and accessible. We intend to center our users in the design of this new unified search.
Reporting to the Head of UX & Digital Accessibility, the UX Researcher/Designer will play a significant role in this project. Building on existing research, the person in this role will engage with users to confirm their needs, preferences, and behaviors for a unified search system. They will conduct user research with multiple audience segments and synthesize findings into recommendations for the product team. Additionally, the person in this role will create wireframes and prototypes as research artifacts that will inform the product development.
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While AI in the context of scientific investigation has existed for decades, advances in computational technology and sensing in the physical world have created opportunities to integrate AI into science in unexpected ways, with capabilities that are rapidly accelerating. As a result, AI has been leveraged by an expanding collection of disciplines in the physical and biological sciences, as well as engineering domains. While the opportunities for AI in scientific discovery seem endless, there are numerous questions about what makes for trustworthy and reliable discovery, whether such investigation should be performed without human oversight or intervention, and how best to prioritize the research agenda and allocation of resources without magnifying disparities for individuals and nations alike.
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As a part of the Preservation & Digital Stewardship unit, this position provides management and oversight of the Digital Asset Management System (DAMS) and affiliated public-facing discovery interfaces for UT Libraries, including policy and workflow development, training, and metadata support.
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In this study, we investigate whether adopting one or more Open Science practices leads to significantly higher citations for an associated publication, which is one form of academic impact. We use a novel dataset known as Open Science Indicators, produced by PLOS and DataSeer, which includes all PLOS publications from 2018 to 2023 as well as a comparison group sampled from the PMC Open Access Subset. In total, we analyze circa 122’000 publications. We calculate publication and author-level citation indicators and use a broad set of control variables to isolate the effect of Open Science Indicators on received citations. We show that Open Science practices are adopted to different degrees across scientific disciplines. We find that the early release of a publication as a preprint correlates with a significant positive citation advantage of about 20.2% on average. We also find that sharing data in an online repository correlates with a smaller yet still positive citation advantage of 4.3% on average. However, we do not find a significant citation advantage for sharing code.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.16171
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Of 2109 studies identified through our search, 116 were included in the qualitative synthesis, yielding a total of 228,501 participants and various types of HD represented: person-generated HD (n = 17 studies and 10,771 participants), personal HD in general (n = 69 studies and 117,054 participants), Biobank data (n = 7 studies and 27,073 participants), genomic data (n = 13 studies and 54,716 participants), and miscellaneous data (n = 10 studies and 18,887 participants). The majority of studies had a moderate level of quality (83 [71.6%] of 116 studies), but varying levels of quality were observed across the included studies. Overall, studies suggest that sharing intentions for primary purposes were observed to be high regardless of data type, and it was higher than sharing intentions for secondary purposes. Sharing for secondary purposes yielded variable findings, where both the highest and the lowest intention rates were observed in the case of studies that explored sharing biobank data (98% and 10%, respectively). Several influencing factors on sharing intentions were identified, such as the type of data recipient, data, consent. Further, concerns related to data sharing that were found to be mutual for all data types included privacy, security, and data access/control, while the perceived benefits included those related to improvements in healthcare. Findings regarding attitudes towards sharing varied significantly across sociodemographic factors and depended on data type and type of use. In most cases, these findings were derived from single studies and therefore warrant confirmations from additional studies. . ..
Sharing health data is a complex issue that is influenced by various factors (the type of health data, the intended use, the data recipient, among others) and these insights could be used to overcome barriers, address people’s concerns, and focus on spreading awareness about the data sharing process and benefits.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eclinm.2024.102551
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The Library Technology Services (LTS) team at Harvard University is seeking an inquisitive and motivated Data Engineer to join our exciting project to build the the university’s next generation Digital Preservation System. This role will be responsible for the design, development, and maintenance of data APIs, extract/load/transform (ETL) activities, helping to manage data migration from existing data endpoints to the new systems and defining data integration services for our application portfolio.
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The Open Research Coordinator will provide research data and software sharing assistance to UT faculty, students, and staff. They will work in coordination with campus partners such as the UT Open Source Program Office and support university researchers through consultation sessions, resource guides, instructional programming, and event coordination. Their work will facilitate researcher use of the Texas Data Repository and ensure that deposited data and code is curated in accordance with FAIR principles to foster research reproducibility.
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Research data sharing has become an expected component of scientific research and scholarly publishing practice over the last few decades, due in part to requirements for federally funded research. As part of a larger effort to better understand the workflows and costs of public access to research data, this project conducted a high-level analysis of where academic research data is most frequently shared. To do this, we leveraged the DataCite and Crossref application programming interfaces (APIs) in search of Publisher field elements demonstrating which data repositories were utilized by researchers from six academic research institutions between 2012–2022. In addition, we also ran a preliminary analysis of the quality of the metadata associated with these published datasets, comparing the extent to which information was missing from metadata fields deemed important for public access to research data. Results show that the top 10 publishers accounted for 89.0% to 99.8% of the datasets connected with the institutions in our study. Known data repositories, including institutional data repositories hosted by those institutions, were initially lacking from our sample due to varying metadata standards and practices. We conclude that the metadata quality landscape for published research datasets is uneven; key information, such as author affiliation, is often incomplete or missing from source data repositories and aggregators. To enhance the findability, interoperability, accessibility, and reusability (FAIRness) of research data, we provide a set of concrete recommendations that repositories and data authors can take to improve scholarly metadata associated with shared datasets.
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0302426
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The Specialist will serve as the lead for the Research Data Services Department in geospatial visualization services in addition to assisting researchers across disciplines in data analysis and visualization tools, methods, and best practices. Through outreach to faculty, students, and interdisciplinary partners, the Specialist promotes and engages the university community with the Libraries’ data visualization and GIS services.
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