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Systems Librarian at Middle Tennessee State University

Lead the unit responsible for managing the library’s systems, which includes the day-to-day operation and support of the following: the library’s LSP (FOLIO); the servers and configurations for Nagios, EZproxy, VuFind, Matomo, DSpace, Open Journal Systems (OJS), Open Monograph Press (OMP); ILLiad configuration and upgrades; and Veeam, the systems’ data backup solution. . . .

Advise the CDM Chair in articulating a user-centered, holistic vision to meet current and emerging information needs, technology, and new collection/content building and delivery models. Collaborate with relevant stakeholders and vendors to develop, coordinate, and implement policies and practices within the LSP (FOLIO).

https://tinyurl.com/yc35hfff

"Code Sharing Increases Citations, but Remains Uncommon"

Overall, R code was only available in 49 of the 1001 papers examined (4.9%) (Figure 1). When included, code was most often in the Supplemental Information (41%), followed by Github (20%), Figshare (6%), or other repositories (33%). Open-access publications were 70% more likely to include code than closed access publications (7.21% vs. 4.22%, X² = 4.442, p < 0.05). Code-sharing was estimated to increase at 0.5% / year, but this trend was not significant (p=0.11). The year of 2021 and 2022 showed a shift towards more frequent sharing, but the percentage of code-sharing has been consistently below 15% over the past decade (Figure 1).

We found papers including code disproportionately impact the literature (Figure 2), and accumulate citations faster (i.e., a marginally significant year-by-code-inclusion interaction; p = 0.0863). Further, we found a significant interaction between Open Access and code inclusion (p = 0.0265), with publications meeting both Open Science criteria (i.e., open code and open access) having highest overall predicted citation rates (Figure 2). For example, Open Science papers are expected to receive more than doubled citations (96.25 vs. 36.89) in year 13 post-publication compared with fully closed papers (Figure 2).

https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-3222221/v1

User Experience Designer at University of Arizona

The User Experience (UX) Designer (Web Designer II) is a member of the Libraries’ UX team and is dedicated to improving the digital experience for library users. They partner with colleagues to conduct UX research, identify themes and insights, and recommend changes to library websites, digital products, and services. . . .

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.

https://tinyurl.com/mrxxkp4j

NASA’s Public Access Plan for Increasing Access to the Results of Scientific Research

This section highlights the significant changes to this document since the original plan was released in 2014. To wit:

There shall be no publication embargo period for peer-reviewed publications

Data that support peer-reviewed publications shall be made available in a public archive at the time of publication

Software should be included as part of Open Access, subject to NASA software release requirements

Software used to generate research findings/results should be made available in a public archive at the time of publication

Other data products beyond peer-reviewed publications and software should be considered as part of Open Access

https://tinyurl.com/4h9ezkk8

Project Manager at University of Chicago (4 Year Term)

The Project Manager will manage and coordinate the NEH-funded UChicagoNode project (https://tinyurl.com/53azpe9v). UChicagoNode is initially a four-year partnership between the University of Chicago Library and the Humanities Division to bring together existing digital resources and services from Library and Faculty projects into a comprehensive, modernized, sustainable digital ecosystem.

During its four-year period of NEH funding, it will make digital collections and research outputs accessible through a distributed infrastructure that will allow modelling, analysis and sharing of content while ensuring its long-term preservation. UChicagoNode will play a central role in supporting the ongoing growth of digital humanities at the University and, given the University’s role as one of the world’s leading academic institutions, promises to have global impact.

https://tinyurl.com/nfx6y2fd

"The Rights of UC Authors Are at Stake. Here’s What We Are Doing about It."

"We have learned that many publishers are requiring UC authors to sign misleading License to Publish agreements, which undermine the spirit and intent of [UC’s open access policies]," wrote Susan Cochran, Chair of the faculty Academic Senate PDF.

By purporting to restrict an author’s abilities to reuse their own work, "these agreements essentially turn faculty authors into readers, as opposed to creators and owners of their own work," the Academic Senate chair concludes.

The team that leads negotiations with scholarly publishers on behalf of the university, including representatives from UC’s California Digital Library, the 10 campus libraries, and the Academic Senate, is now taking up the charge, making author rights the next frontier in advocating for the UC research community.

https://tinyurl.com/mry3hczw

Assistant Librarian for Experiential Learning at Northern Arizona University

Reporting to the Head of User Services and Experience, the successful candidate will coordinate the delivery of an outstanding and immersive user experience by overseeing, expanding, and building campus-wide partnerships around creation spaces in the Cline Library. The Cline Library hosts several high-profile creation spaces including the MakerLab and the Studios (including a Virtual Reality Studio, XR Creation Studio, Photography Studio, One-Button Studio, and three AV Production Studios). All programs provide materials, tools, technologies, training, and support for immersive experiential learning. The successful candidate will lead these programs and develop new creation spaces by acting as liaison to campus departments, actively seeking out opportunities for new partnerships, and conducting environmental scans of other academic institutions.

https://tinyurl.com/mst29kk6

"The Future of Open Source Is Still Very Much in Flux"

Today, 96% of all code bases incorporate open-source software. GitHub, the biggest platform for the open-source community, is used by more than 100 million developers worldwide. The Biden administration’s Securing Open Source Software Act of 2022 publicly recognized open-source software as critical economic and security infrastructure. Even AWS, Amazon’s money-making cloud arm, supports the development and maintenance of open-source software; it committed its portfolio of patents to an open use community in December of last year. Over the last two years, while public trust in private technology companies has plummeted, organizations including Google, Spotify, the Ford Foundation, Bloomberg, and NASA have established new funding for open-source projects and their counterparts in open science efforts—an extension of the same values applied to scientific research.

https://tinyurl.com/4ksns2ha

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User Experience Designer at Stanford University

The User Experience Designer will take a primary role in understanding user requirements, defining functionality, and designing the interface and application flow of digital library services and web properties in order to meet user needs. The successful candidate will work on a variety of projects relating to the core functions of an academic library and its digital library, including discovery and fulfillment systems, digital object access and presentation, and many other patron-facing services. You will also work with your colleagues to ensure that our applications and services meet accessibility guidelines and best practices. Understanding and designing open standards and open source software will be part of the work of the position.

https://tinyurl.com/3fb66t9k

Pew Research Center: What Americans Know About AI, Cybersecurity and Big Tech

Overall, Americans answer a median of five out of nine questions correctly on a digital knowledge survey that Pew Research Center conducted among 5,101 U.S. adults from May 15 to May 21, 2023. The questions span a range of topics, including cybersecurity practices, facts about major technology companies, artificial intelligence and federal online privacy laws.

Some 26% of U.S. adults can answer at least seven of the nine questions accurately, but just 4% can correctly answer all nine.

https://tinyurl.com/582bwmf3

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E-Resources Licensing Librarian at Harvard University

The E-Resources Coordinator and Licensing Specialist focuses on negotiating and developing licenses to support emerging needs, and manages electronic resources collections sponsored by multiple departments. This position also provides advice and consultation for library staff negotiating licenses in individual libraries across Harvard, and provides financial oversight for a subset of Harvard’s e-resource acquisitions, valued at approximately $8.1 million.

https://tinyurl.com/43vxduk7

"Generative AI, ChatGPT, and Google Bard: Evaluating the Impact and Opportunities for Scholarly Publishing"

My group within Wiley Partner Solutions designs and develops intelligent services that leverage advanced AI, big data, and cloud technologies to support publishers and researchers in open access and open science environments. To identify both benefits and risks of generative AI for our industry, we tested ChatGPT and Google Bard for authoring, for submission and reviews, for publishing, and for discovery and dissemination. I hope that our findings will inspire you to find fresh ideas for using Generative AI, and will stimulate further conversation about this new and controversial but potentially beneficial tool.

https://tinyurl.com/2y2ue6zr

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Software Engineer at Indiana University

Under limited supervision, performs software front-end design, programming, and other tasks required for the ongoing maintenance and enhancement of Library Technologies (LT) software systems, primarily in support of digital media services delivery. Serves as high-level technical support resource for software systems, including the Avalon Media System, coordinating with librarians, local support providers, Avalon partners and adopting institutions, and other frontend support providers as needed, as well as with other LT technical staff. Diagnoses problems reported by users and makes and tests software code changes to correct problems.

https://tinyurl.com/bdk25zfp

"USC Appoints Alumna Melissa Just as New Dean of Libraries"

Library veteran Melissa Just has been named USC’s new dean of libraries, effective Nov. 27. Just — a Trojan who received her doctoral degree from the USC Rossier School of Education in 2007 and spent several years early in her career at USC Libraries — has worked in academic libraries for nearly three decades.

Just, who will hold the Valerie and Ronald Sugar Dean’s Chair of the USC Libraries, joins the university following 6½ years as library dean at the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon, Canada. In that role, she oversaw the strategic, fiscal and operational success of a library system serving 26,000 students and 1,000 faculty across 17 colleges, schools and professional programs.

https://tinyurl.com/37mb2cz4

Robert Creeley Papers Project Digital Archivist at Stanford University (Term)

The Robert Creeley Papers Project Archivist will process the born-digital component of the Robert Creeley papers. This collection documents the life and work of this influential American poet of the 20th and 21st Centuries. The Project Archivist will work with the grant project team, including the Project Director, Project Manager, and Project Assistant to determine and implement required processes for workflows, including appraisal, transfer, discovery, access, and preservation for stewarding the born-digital component Robert Creeley papers. The Project Archivist will contribute to the definition and documentation of born-digital curation processes to create a model for future processing projects

https://tinyurl.com/2348a234

Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem (TOME) Project: TOME Stakeholder Value Assessment: Final Report

The Association of American Universities, the Association of Research Libraries, and the Association of University Presses published a final report assessing the success of the Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem (TOME) project. The five-year pilot project engaged with more than 60 university presses and more than 150 open access scholarly works to encourage sustainable digital publication of and public access to scholarly books. The Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem (TOME) project was launched in 2018 to publish humanities and social science scholarship on the internet, where these peer-reviewed works can be fully integrated into the larger network of scholarly and scientific research. The final report examines whether the pilot’s community of writers, institutions, libraries, and presses found it useful.

https://tinyurl.com/3wr7wv37

Scholarly Communications & Social Sciences Librarian at DePaul University

Serves as the expert on scholarly communication, including open educational resources, alternative publishing models, open access publishing, scholarly visibility and impact, online identity management, and equitable access to scholarly output. Supports digital scholarship by promoting the library’s institutional repository and other scholarly communication tools.

Develops and maintains collaborative partnerships within the Library and with faculty, staff and students, facilitating a seamless, interdisciplinary, and university-wide network supporting faculty and students in research publication and impact.

https://tinyurl.com/4fn9upkr

"Internet Archive Responds to Recording Industry Lawsuit Targeting Obsolete Media"

Late Friday, some of the world’s largest record labels, including Sony and Universal Music Group, filed a lawsuit against the Internet Archive and others for the Great 78 Project, a community effort for the preservation, research and discovery of 78 rpm records that are 70 to 120 years old. . . .

Of note, the Great 78 Project has been in operation since 2006 to bring free public access to a largely forgotten but culturally important medium. Through the efforts of dedicated librarians, archivists and sound engineers, we have preserved hundreds of thousands of recordings that are stored on shellac resin, an obsolete and brittle medium. The resulting preserved recordings retain the scratch and pop sounds that are present in the analog artifacts; noise that modern remastering techniques remove.

These preservation recordings are used in teaching and research, including by university professors like Jason Luther of Rowan University, whose students use the Great 78 collection as the basis for researching and writing podcasts for use in class assignments . . . While this mode of access is important, usage is tiny—on average, each recording in the collection is only accessed by one researcher per month.

https://tinyurl.com/bdevycm5

Electronic Resource Librarian at National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Lead a program to procure and maintain an electronic resource collection that supports the research needs of National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) staff. The electronic resource collection includes databases, ebooks, ejournals, streaming media, and membership-based resources.

Responsible for the entire lifecycle of electronic resources. Work with other NOAA Central Library (NCL) team members to investigate, establish, and maintain transformative agreements with publishers. Perform procurement market research, testing and implementation of new systems and products, and enhancements to current library systems. Act as Contracting Officer’s Representative on all systems-related procurements.

https://www.usajobs.gov/job/742285100

Paywall: "Identification and Portraits of Open Access Journals Based on Open Impact Metrics Extracted from Social Activities "

This study finds that open access journals strengthen international academic communication and cooperation, build cross-border and cross-regional knowledge-sharing projects, realize the knowledge of interdisciplinary sharing and exchange, and, most importantly, provide a one-stop service for readers. This research indicates that through the use of open impact metrics, it is possible to identify the portraits of open access journals, thus providing a new method to construct and reform open access journal evaluation systems.

https://tinyurl.com/3hvs2y8v

Electronic Resources Librarian at Butler University

This position provides leadership for the acquisition, support and analysis of electronic resources at Butler University Libraries, including managing and prioritizing expenditures on subscriptions and purchases of electronic content, as well as managing discovery and mediation of content in other acquisition models. The librarian in this position communicates to and supports library faculty in their selection and use of electronic resources, troubleshoots user access problems, and provides guidance or training to students and faculty as necessary. This position also manages all required e-resource information and management systems, and has additional responsibilities for the management of print serial subscriptions.

https://tinyurl.com/3f4h8yr9

"Research Reproducibility Activities in Health Sciences Libraries"

Within medical and health sciences libraries, research reproducibility work and services are seldom described in those terms, and are often hidden within other data services. RR work is highly dependent on institutional context, such as availability of partners and institutional needs. Most of the RR work is handled by individuals or teams who tend to focus on data services broadly. Meaningful assessment of the work is not done well at present. Getting administrators, researchers, and other stakeholders to associate the library with RR is a particular challenge. Librarians who are interested in RR could learn from others who are doing the work, understand their institutional context, identify relevant institutional partners, and model RR practices in their own work.

https://doi.org/10.7191/jeslib.650

Digital Archivist and Publishing Librarian at American Dental Association

The Digital Publishing Librarian is responsible for the design, development and implementation of ADACommons, the ADAs institutional repository, and will provide leadership and guidance to state and local societies in migrating publishing and archiving functions to ADACommons. The DPL will contribute to the development and delivery of education and training in all aspects of ADACommons and related scholarly communications programs and services to the ADA tripartite, including promoting new forms of scholarly publishing, communicating issues impacting the changing scholarly publishing landscape, and providing support for ADACommons digital publishing platform.

https://tinyurl.com/yuzu3dze

Paywall: "Proactive Institutional Repository Collection Development Techniques: Archiving Gold Open Access Articles and Metadata Retrieved with Web Scraping"

This article describes a method for copying open access articles and corresponding descriptive metadata from open repositories for archiving in an institutional repository using Beautiful Soup and Selenium as web scraping tools. This method quickly added hundreds of articles to an IR without relying on faculty participation or consulting publisher policies, increasing repository downloads and usage.

https://doi.org/10.1080/01930826.2023.2240190

"Judgment Entered in Publishers, Internet Archive Copyright Case"

Most importantly, the proposed agreement includes a permanent injunction that would, among its provisions, bar the IA’s lending of unauthorized scans of in-copyright, commercially available books, as well as bar the IA from "profiting from" or "inducing" any other party’s "infringing reproduction, public distribution, public display and/or public performance" of books "in any digital or electronic form" once notified by the copyright holder. . . .

The negotiated payment is all inclusive—it covers costs, fees, damages, and other claims, including the IA’s claim that damages should be remitted—something that should assuage initial concerns expressed by some who feared a massive damage award might force the nonprofit IA to cease operations. The negotiated judgment does seek destruction of the IA’s scans as the publishers’ initial complaint had suggested.

https://tinyurl.com/p3yaszd9

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