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"The Rise of Open Science: Tracking the Evolution and Perceived Value of Data and Methods Link-Sharing Practices"

In recent years, funding agencies and journals increasingly advocate for open science practices (e.g. data and method sharing) to improve the transparency, access, and reproducibility of science. However, quantifying these practices at scale has proven difficult. In this work, we leverage a large-scale dataset of 1.1M papers from arXiv that are representative of the fields of physics, math, and computer science to analyze the adoption of data and method link-sharing practices over time and their impact on article reception. To identify links to data and methods, we train a neural text classification model to automatically classify URL types based on contextual mentions in papers. We find evidence that the practice of link-sharing to methods and data is spreading as more papers include such URLs over time. Reproducibility efforts may also be spreading because the same links are being increasingly reused across papers (especially in computer science); and these links are increasingly concentrated within fewer web domains (e.g. Github) over time. Lastly, articles that share data and method links receive increased recognition in terms of citation count, with a stronger effect when the shared links are active (rather than defunct). Together, these findings demonstrate the increased spread and perceived value of data and method sharing practices in open science.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.03193

Discovery Systems Librarian at Dartmouth College

The Discovery Systems Librarian is responsible for configuring and managing the Library’s main catalog/discovery layer (Ex Libris’s Primo VE). The incumbent will manage a variety of information discovery pathways, and will monitor and report on key analytics for stakeholders throughout the Library. The person in this position will work collaboratively to promote discovery across electronic resource systems, institutional repositories, and archives and special collections systems. They will also work closely with our User Experience Designer to apply UX approaches and best practices to our discovery systems.

https://tinyurl.com/2s46623b

"Creating a Scholarly API Cookbook: Supporting Library Users with Programmatic Access to Information"

Scholarly web-based application programming interfaces (APIs) allow users to interact with information and data programmatically. Interacting with information programmatically allows users to create advanced information query workflows and quickly access machine-readable data for downstream computations. With the growing availability of scholarly APIs from open and commercial library databases, supporting access to information via an API has become a key support area for research data services in libraries. This article describes our efforts with supporting API access through the development of an online Scholarly API Cookbook. The Cookbook contains code recipes (i.e., tutorials) for getting started with 10 different scholarly APIs, including for example, Scopus, World Bank, and PubMed. API tutorials are available in Python, Bash, Matlab, and Mathematica. A tutorial for interacting with library catalog data programmatically via Z39.50 is also included, as traditional library catalog metadata is rarely available via an API. In addition to describing the Scholarly API Cookbook content, we discuss our experiences building a student research data services programming team, challenges we encountered, and ideas to improve the Cookbook. The University of Alabama Libraries Scholarly API Cookbook is freely available and hosted on GitHub. All code within the API Cookbook is licensed with the permissive MIT license, and as a result, users are free to reuse and adapt the code in their teaching and research.

https://tinyurl.com/93essmxj

Digital Archivist and Institutional Repository Manager at Pittsburg State University

The primary functions of the Digital Archivist and IR Manager are the management, promotion, and digital preservation of the library’s digital collections of archival and scholarly documents; management of the institutional repository services; to create, standardize, and revise metadata for digital collections using appropriate schema, standards, and best practices; develop and manage future digital content initiatives, including digitization and programs for Library Services; and participation in the library’s support and development of open educational resources.

https://tinyurl.com/292ucw37

"Introducing the Journal of the Medical Library Association’s Policy on the Use of Generative Artificial Intelligence in Submissions"

With the arrival of ChatGPT, the academic community has expressed concerns about how generative artificial intelligence will be used by students and researchers alike. After consulting policies from other journals and discussing among the editorial team, we have created a policy on the use of AI on submissions to JMLA. This editorial provides a brief background on these concerns and introduces our policy.

https://doi.org/10.5195/jmla.2023.1826

Accessibility Digitization Specialist at Princeton University

This position will serve as the primary point of contact for all matters related to the accessibility of various library resources, including both print and digital materials. Implementing the Library’s and the University’s strong commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion, this position assumes the responsibility of managing the digitization and remediation of materials to make them accessible to patrons with disabilities, ensuring that Princeton University’s education and research needs are met while promoting equitable access for all.

https://tinyurl.com/5f26msdd

"Introducing Open Data Editor (beta): Towards a No-Code Data App for Everyone "

Intuitive Data Editing: Open Data Editor (beta) provides a user-friendly, spreadsheet-like interface that allows you to view, edit, and validate your data effortlessly.

Data Transformation: Easily transform your data from one format to another with a wide range of supported data formats, including CSV, Excel, JSON, and more.

Data Validation: Ensure data quality and consistency with built-in validation checks that generate a visual validation report, making it super easy for you to clean your data.

Schema Management: Define and manage data schemas to ensure data consistency and compliance with standards.

Data Publishing: Seamlessly publish your data to the web or data portals. It is easy to publish the processed data to CKAN, Github and Zenodo with a single button click, making it accessible to a wider audience and increasing its impact.

Generative AI: Optionally add a generative AI provider to unlock many features based on chat-based language models. The feature is currently limited to OpenAI, but more providers will be added soon.

https://tinyurl.com/2xwcp87x

"Where Does ChatGPT Fit into the Framework for Information Literacy? The Possibilities and Problems of AI in Library Instruction"

We have found that the idea of ChatGPT (and generative AI more broadly) can be connected to many of the knowledge practices and dispositions from the six frames of the ACRL Framework. In some places, the Framework enables us to embrace ChatGPT as an exciting new tool that adds value to information literacy instruction. In other places, the Framework’s discussions of evaluating authority and examining bias shines light on the inherent flaws of ChatGPT.

https://tinyurl.com/2shjyukb

"UKRN ORCC Primer on Open Access"

This is an introductory guide for those working and considering working in the area of open access. It was drafted by members of the Open Research Competencies Coalition. Open Access (OA) refers to research that is published as digital, online, free of charge for reading, and free to re-use or share.

https://doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/v3q75

Applications Programmer/Analyst at University of Michigan

You will be a programmer developing large-scale digital library systems as a part of a team of programmers, librarians, and designers working on major projects including development of an overall architecture to serve the U-M Library and campus. You will have opportunities to gain experience with modern technologies that support research, digital preservation, publishing, archives and broad public access. You will most often code in Ruby using Docker and Kubernetes for containerization and hosting.

https://tinyurl.com/3t7hj3xp

"JSTOR releasing First 100 Path to Open Books"

Launched as a pilot in January 2023, Path to Open is a delayed open access model where new books are made available to supporting libraries upon publication and become open access after three years. Thirty-seven university presses have joined the initiative along with over sixty academic libraries, including consortia like the Big Ten Academic Alliance who are looking to develop sustainable open access solutions. . . .

JSTOR recently released forty-three of the first 100 Path to Open titles. These books, all peer-reviewed, were selected by the participating university presses and JSTOR, and explore topics in thirty-six subjects like Public Health, Religion, Education, Communications, Literature, Conflict Resolution, and Film Studies.

https://tinyurl.com/2p92439j

Senior Digital Archivist (Team Leader) at The National Archives

This is a hands-on role, facilitating the lifecycle of our digital records, but you will also line-manage our team of Digital Archivists, providing guidance and direction, and motivating the team to deliver to our objectives. You will play a major role in our work to establish a new cloud-based digital repository.

https://tinyurl.com/5559sfah

"Yale University Selects Clarivate to Provide Their Next Library Services and Discovery Platforms"

Yale will implement Ex Libris Alma and Ex Libris Primo VE to unify Yale’s main and law libraries’ workflows and data, including electronic and digital materials, onto a single platform. Combining the benefits of using AI with trusted content sources will enable users to find new insights, fast and at scale. The cloud-based platform will help Yale elevate the user experience and enhance services within the library ecosystem.

https://librarytechnology.org/pr/29331

Engagement Librarian at University of Southampton (Research Data Management)

You will engage with staff and students to promote and develop best practice RDM. You will be part of a small team responsible for the University’s data catalogue and data repository, and for planning, outreach, and service development to address the data life cycle needs of researchers in line with the University’s commitment to open research and the FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Re-usable) principles.

https://jobs.soton.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?ref=2440123KX

Kristin Briney: The Research Data Management Workbook

The Research Data Management Workbook is made up of a collection of exercises for researchers to improve their data management. The Workbook contains exercises across the data lifecycle, though the range of activities is not comprehensive. Instead, exercises focus on discrete practices within data management that are structured and can be reproduced by any researcher.

The book is divided into chapters, loosely by phases of the data lifecycle, with one or more exercises in each chapter. Every exercise comes with a description of its value within data management, instructions on how to do the exercise, original source of the exercise (when applicable), and the exercise itself.

https://tinyurl.com/2p8sk5xd

GIS Specialist at Purdue University Libraries

You will work with the Libraries’ GIS team to fulfill this mission by engaging with faculty and students to meet their geospatial information needs. You will be working with the Libraries’ GIS team, this position will contribute to the instruction program at both undergraduate and graduate level, advise students in the GIS certificate program, support research projects with geospatial analysis and visualization, manage geodatabase and the GIS servers. You will also participate in the Big Ten Academic Alliance geospatial information network, contribute to outreach efforts such as Purdue GIS Day and BTAA GIS Conference.

https://tinyurl.com/bdh8wcxz

Harvard Library: "Yuan Li Appointed University Scholarly Communication Officer"

Yuan comes to Harvard from Princeton, where she served as the Scholarly Communications Librarian, leading and managing Princeton University Library’s efforts in scholarly communication innovations and reforms. During her tenure she established the Scholarly Communications Office and launched several open-access programs and services, including the Princeton Open Access Repository, Princeton Open Access Publication Fund Program, Princeton Open Access Publishing Program, and PUL Copyright Services. She also helped establish the groundwork for Princeton Research Data Services, which evolved into a robust program that provides data curation, data education, and open data services. . . .

She holds a master’s degree in library science and information studies from the University of Rhode Island, a master’s degree in computer science from the National Computer System Engineering Research Institute of China, and a bachelor’s degree in computer science from Yanshan University in Qinhuangdao, China. Additionally, she is currently pursuing a PhD in organizational leadership from Liberty University.

https://tinyurl.com/2j9r3yfh

IT Specialist at Library of Congress

The position serves as a technical expert in the design, development, testing, implementation and support of Digital Collections Management tools and applications for the Library of Congress, supporting the Digital Library Services (DLS) program within a hybrid environment that includes systems developed leveraging cloud technologies in AWS. DLS tools support the ingest, preservation and access to millions of digitized manuscript, newspaper, map, photo, film, audio, web archive, book, and other items from the Library’s collections. The current suite of tools supports inventory, reporting, derivative making and processing, submission and ingest, search and browsing, workflow, and other processes required to support all aspects of digital collections management.

https://bit.ly/48PWkJ1

"Western Appoints Mark Daley as First-Ever Chief AI Officer"

Mark Daley has been appointed Western University’s first-ever chief Artificial Intelligence (AI) officer, as Western becomes the first university in Canada to house such a role within its senior executive. Daley’s five-year term begins Oct. 15. . . .

Daley’s experience includes tenure as vice-president of research at the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, a world-renowned institute supporting AI research and Canada’s AI strategy. The multidisciplinary scholar has held cross-appointments in several departments at Western, including computer science, mathematics, statistics and actuarial sciences, biology, electrical and computer engineering, and epidemiology and biostatistics.

He most recently served as Western’s first-ever chief digital officer leading Western Technology Services, and is excited to take on his new role, buoyed by Western’s "forward-thinking approach to AI."

https://bit.ly/3RIWziF

Assistant Digital Preservation Analyst at at Rockefeller Archive Center

The Rockefeller Archive Center seeks a highly collaborative and self-motivated individual to join its Digital Strategies team as an Assistant Digital Preservation Analyst. In this early career role, you will develop into an organizational resource for the implementation and use of digital preservation methodologies, tools, and standards, and help to shape our strategy for future initiatives in these areas. You will report to the Associate Director of Archives & Chief Digital Strategies Officer and work closely with the other members of the Digital Strategies team.

https://bit.ly/3ZCtAPF

"Data Curation in Interdisciplinary and Highly Collaborative Research"

This paper provides a systematic analysis of publications that discuss data curation in interdisciplinary and highly collaborative research (IHCR). Using content analysis methodology, it examined 159 publications and identified patterns in definitions of interdisciplinarity, projects’ participants and methodologies, and approaches to data curation. The findings suggest that data is a prominent component in interdisciplinarity. In addition to crossing disciplinary and other boundaries, IHCR is defined as curating and integrating heterogeneous data and creating new forms of knowledge from it. Using personal experiences and descriptive approaches, the publications discussed challenges that data curation in IHCR faces, including an increased overhead in coordination and management, lack of consistent metadata practices, and custom infrastructure that makes interoperability across projects, domains, and repositories difficult. The paper concludes with suggestions for future research.

https://doi.org/10.2218/ijdc.v17i1.835

Librarian/Archivist for Digital Programs at Harvard Radcliffe Institute

Reporting to the Head of Digital Collection and Services, the Librarian/Archivist for Digital Programs has shared responsibility for technical program management, digitization and the enabling of data integration across local and external data sources in the Digital Collections and Services unit. The Schlesinger Library contributes to one of the largest shares of special collections book and paper reformatting among dozens of repositories at the largest university library system in the United States. As a result, the Librarian/Archivist for Digital Programs will be responsible for the operation and growth of a highly impactful program for collection access and preservation, contribute to the management of a mature technical program, and help set strategy for the future of digital services at Schlesinger.

https://bit.ly/459Q37O

Scholarly Communication Librarianship and Open Knowledge

The book consists of three parts. Part I offers definitions of scholarly communication and scholarly communication librarianship and provides an introduction to the social, economic, technological, and policy/legal pressures that underpin and shape scholarly communication work in libraries. These pressures, which have framed ACRL’s understanding of scholarly communication for the better part of the past two decades, have unsettled many foundational assumptions and practices in the field, removing core pillars of scholarly communication as it was practiced in the twentieth century. These pressures have also cleared fresh ground, and scholarly communication practitioners have begun to seed the space with values and practices designed to renew and often improve the field. Part II begins with an introduction to "open," the core response to the pressures described in part I. This part offers a general overview of the idea of openness in scholarly communication followed by chapters on different permutations and practices of open, each edited by a recognized expert of these areas with authors of their selection. Amy Buckland edited chapter 2.1, "Open Access." Brianna Marshall edited chapter 2.2, "Open Data." Lillian Hogendoorn edited chapter 2.3, "Open Education." Micah Vandegrift edited chapter 2.4, "Open Science and Infrastructure." Each of them brought on incredible expertise through contributors whom they identified, through both original contributions and repurposing existing openly licensed work, which is something we want to model where possible. Part III consists of twenty-four concise perspectives, intersections, and case studies from practicing librarians and closely related stakeholders, which we hope will stimulate discussion and reflection on theory and implications for practice. In every single case, we’re really excited by the editors and authors and the ideas they bring to the whole. Each contribution features light pedagogical apparatuses like suggested further reading, discussion or reflection prompts, and potential activities. It’s all available for free and openly licensed with a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial (CC BY-NC) license, so anyone is encouraged to grab whatever parts are useful and to adapt and repurpose and improve them to meet specific course goals and student needs within the confines of the license.

https://bit.ly/SCLAOK

Metadata Coordinator at University of Southern Mississippi

The Metadata Coordinator coordinates the creation, enhancement, and transformation of metadata for digital resources in the Libraries’ Digital Collections, Institutional Repository, digital humanities collaborations, grant projects, the Mississippi Digital Library, and related initiatives.

https://tinyurl.com/4vyvmdfm

"Now You Have to Pay! A Deeper Look At Publishing Practices of Predatory Journals"

In this study, by using Beall’s (Scholarly open-access, 2014; Beall’s list of predatory journals and publishers, 2018) predatory journal lists as well as direct e-mail solicitations from journals, we intentionally submitted a poorly written manuscript to 58 open-access journals using counterfeit names and affiliations. . . . Regarding "positive responses," we point to five common flaws associated with such journals, namely that (1) they lack any interest in the researchers who are submitting manuscripts; (2) they do not judge academic writing in accordance with expected conventions; (3) they appear to be indifferent to scholarship including research design, plagiarism issues, and citation quality; (4) their review process is opaque and overly hasty, and (5) the tone they use in correspondence e-mail messages is highly inappropriate. Based upon the investigation, it is clear that such journals’ primary aim is in securing the article processing fee.

https://doi.org/10.1002/leap.1583