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STM: Trusted Identity in Academic Publishing: The Central Role of Digital Identity in Research Integrity

As the digital landscape evolves, the foundational trust that has long supported academic publishing faces new vulnerabilities. Rising cases of identity fraud and integrity breaches are challenging the scholarly community to protect research integrity without imposing unnecessary burdens on genuine contributors. In response, STM Solutions released Trusted Identity in Academic Publishing: The Central Role of Digital Identity in Research Integrity, a new report analyzing the role of digital identity in scholarly publishing and presenting a foundation for the development of guidelines and recommendations to enhance trust through technology.

https://tinyurl.com/5n9y8v75

Report

GIS Support Specialist at Rice University

As a staff member of Fondren, the GIS Support Specialist manages the day-to-day functions of the GIS/Data Center (GDC), which provides a central location on campus for faculty, staff, and students to work with GIS (Geographic Information Systems) and use geospatial data. Typical duties will include managing schedules for staffing coverage of the GDC, scheduling and providing reference appointments with GDC patrons, preparing for future appointments by researching GIS tasks and searching for data, authoring and updating instruction materials, and working with staff on campus regarding mapping. . . . The GIS support specialist also provides training through classes and one-on-one instruction with geospatial/numeric analysis, display, and management.

https://tinyurl.com/ej7uy2ap

The Cost and Price of Public Access to Scholarly Publications: A Synthesis

As part of our project to investigate “reasonable costs” for public access to United States federally funded research and scientific data, we have developed a synthesis report focused on the multi-model scholarly publication ecosystem that facilitates public access as required by the Nelson Memo. This paper outlines the historical developments that have shaped the current landscape, the key financial (cost and payment) stakeholders in the system, and the models and approaches that have developed in the continued shift to public and open access.

This paper is a companion to the February 2024 report, The Cost and Price of Public Access to Research Data: A Synthesis.

https://tinyurl.com/232vaw49

Report

Data Services Librarian at Indiana University Indianapolis

Indiana University Indianapolis University Library is seeking a Data Services Librarian to join the Center for Digital Scholarship in supporting researchers across the research lifecycle. The successful candidate will collaborate to extend current support to include data information literacy instruction and the use of computational tools and methods for research. The successful candidate will also collaborate to support researchers with research data management and sharing strategies that will foster success as funder policies and research practices evolve.

https://indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/26445

"An Analysis of the Effects of Sharing Research Data, Code, and Preprints on Citations"

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% (±.7) on average. We also find that sharing data in an online repository correlates with a smaller yet still positive citation advantage of 4.3% (±.8) on average. However, we do not find a significant citation advantage for sharing code. Further research is needed on additional or alternative measures of impact beyond citations. Our results are likely to be of interest to researchers, as well as publishers, research funders, and policymakers.

https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0311493

Electronic Resources Acquisitions Librarian at Toronto Metropolitan University

This role resides within the Collections Services (CS) Department, under the leadership portfolio of the Associate Dean of Libraries for Scholarly, Research and Creative (ADL, SRC) activities. The ER Acquisitions Librarian will work closely with the Head of Collection Services and ADL SRC to ensure planning, coordination and execution of overarching collection strategies while ensuring the library meets its expenditure targets as communicated by the Dean of Libraries. The ER Acquisitions Librarian is the Chair of the Electronic Resources and Serials Review Committee (ERSRC), working with liaison librarians and Collections Leads to determine the resource priorities for the libraries, including resource trial, selection, deselection, and promotion.

https://tinyurl.com/2753rh6n

"An Assessment of Whether Educated Non-researcher Audiences Understand How to Reuse Research Data"

Most participants reported that they figured out how to reuse the data, although their self-reports can be an overestimated assessment.. . . Data set type tends to play a role in understanding how to reuse data sets and the purpose of data sets. Participants reported that unless a data set is self-explanatory, instructions on data set reuse and the purpose of data set were necessary for understanding how to reuse data set.

https://doi.org/10.1108/EL-10-2023-0241

Systemwide Digital Library Content Analytics and Collection Assessment Manager at California State University

The California State University, Office of the Chancellor, is seeking a Systemwide Digital Library Content Analytics and Collection Assessment Manager to lead and manage systemwide data analysis projects and processes to support decision-making for systemwide library electronic resource collections and ensure that mandated statistical reports are accurate, complete, and timely. The SDLC Analytics and Collection Assessment Manager conducts in-depth analysis of varied library collections and publishing data, such as usage statistics, financial information, qualitative data, and open access publishing information to guide strategy and communicate with campus library leadership.

https://tinyurl.com/yu9tzc23

"AI Can Carry out Qualitative Research at Unprecedented Scale"

We have developed and launched an easy-to-use platform for conducting large-scale qualitative interviews, based on artificial intelligence in just this way. A chat interface allows the respondent to interact with a LLM that collects their responses and generates new questions. . . .

First, we asked a team of sociology PhD students from Harvard and the London School of Economics, who specialise in qualitative methods, to assess the quality of interviews based on the interview scripts. The AI-led interviews were rated approximately comparable to an average human expert (under the same conditions). . . . A vast majority of participants reported enjoying their interaction with the conversational agent and preferred this mode of interview over open text fields.

https://tinyurl.com/mry3vrat

Head, Research Data Services at University at Buffalo

The Head, Research Data Services at the University at Buffalo Libraries leads a dynamic and evolving team to create and deliver programming, resources, and services to support researchers at every stage of the data lifecycle. The individual in this position will assist researchers in meeting the data management and sharing requirements of funding agencies and publishers and help guide researchers in creating data sets of value to others outside of the context in which the data were developed.

https://tinyurl.com/2b5ucdcz

Ithaka S+R: A Third Transformation? Generative AI and Scholarly Publishing

What is not yet clear is how disruptive this [AI] growth will be. To this end, we interviewed 12 leaders in stakeholder communities ranging from large publishers and technology disruptors to academic librarians and scholars. The consensus among the individuals with whom we spoke is that generative AI will enable efficiency gains across the publication process. Writing, reviewing, editing, and discovery will all become easier and faster. Both scholarly publishing and scientific discovery in turn will likely accelerate as a result of AI-enhanced research methods. From that shared premise, two distinct categories of change emerged from our interviews. In the first and most commonly described future, the efficiency gains made publishing function better but did not fundamentally alter its dynamics or purpose. In the second, much hazier scenario, generative AI created a transformative wave that could dwarf the impacts of either the first or second digital transformations [URL added].

https://doi.org/10.18665/sr.321519

UI/UX Developer at Virginia Tech

Reporting to the Digital Libraries Product Manager, the UI/UX Developer plays a pivotal role in steering the evolution of the University Libraries’ online digital services, blending technical expertise with a profound understanding of user-centered design. The role demands a candidate adept in Human-Centered Design (HCD), capable of delving deeply into the user experience to develop intuitive, accessible, and integrated digital solutions. The UI/UX Developer position is central to the continual improvement of the Digital Libraries Platform and will also contribute significantly to a range of other projects including digital library and repository initiatives and the overarching Libraries’ website.

https://tinyurl.com/mrwzfmee

Paywall: "Detecting New Hijacked Journals by Using a List of Known Hijacked Journals and the Diagnosis of Web Domain Data"

This paper presents a new method for hijacked journals detection that uses the web domain data and list of known hijacked journals to identify new ones. By implementing this method, nine new hijacked journals were identified. This method can be used for detecting new hijacked journals and preventing additional victims – authors who submit papers to the hijacked instead of the legitimate journal.

https://doi.org/10.1080/00987913.2024.2411664

Associate Librarian, Discovery and Systems at San Francisco State University

Provides vision and project leadership critical for the technical infrastructure that delivers information resources to students and faculty via the Library’s discovery system and website. They share responsibility for running local and remote systems, including those supported and developed by the California State University (CSU) Library consortium as well as coordinating workflows associated with third-party software that is crucial to resource discovery, research support, and student success.

https://tinyurl.com/y2hznrbh

Paywall: "A ‘Delve’ into the Evidence of AI in Production of Academic Business Literature"

The author performed a t-test using the average growth rates of articles published in the database ProQuest ABI/INFORM Global containing keywords or phrases purported to be commonly used in content generated by AI during the years before and after common generative AI availability. Results show evidence that publication rates after generative AI availability experienced an improbably high deviation from the norm.

https://doi.org/10.1080/08963568.2024.2420300

Digital Library Application Developer at Virginia Tech

-Primary responsibilities include designing, developing, and deploying code to aid in the ingest, retrieval and preservation of the digital object(s) into the digital library platform.

-Responsible for code development, fixing bugs and adding changes/enhancements to the digital library applications.

-Responsible for maintaining, testing, and evaluating components to ensure the components in the digital library meet accessibility standards and regulations.

https://tinyurl.com/yckdzmkj

"Public Launch of the European Diamond Capacity Hub and the ALMASI Project"

The European Diamond Capacity Hub (EDCH) will hold its public launch on the 15 January 2025 in Madrid, Spain. . . .

The EDCH aims to strengthen the Diamond OA community in Europe by supporting European institutional, national and disciplinary capacity centres and Diamond publishers and service providers in their mission of Diamond OA scholarly publishing. The EDCH will provide these Diamond stakeholders with coordination, sustainability, training modules, technical tools, and services at scale. The EDCH thus answers the need for capacity building in the Diamond OA community that was expressed in the Action Plan for Diamond Open Access. . . .

The EDCH will be launched in conjunction with a public event on 14 January 2025 announcing the EU-funded ALMASI project. This three-year project with 15 partners from three continents will seek a better understanding of the situation of non-profit OA publishing in three world regions – Africa, Latin America, and Europe – co-designing and aligning measures for quality alignment, training materials, and institutional and national policy development.

https://tinyurl.com/2s45urbm

Coordinator of Music Metadata and Digitization at University of North Texas

The UNT Libraries seeks an innovative thinker with strong people skills to plan, coordinate, create, and oversee the entry of high-quality metadata and digitization workflows for the UNT Music Library (http://www.library.unt.edu/music). Under the general supervision of the Head of Music Technical Services, the Coordinator of Music Metadata and Digitization will oversee the description of digital collections and digitization of physical collections, including hiring, training, and supervising student assistants.

https://tinyurl.com/bdh3z24e

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign: "Research Data Service Extended Review"

Building upon the first 5-year review in 2019, this report presents an extended review of the Research Data Service at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign from 2018-2023, assessing its current efforts and future directions.

https://hdl.handle.net/2142/124781

Open Content and Affordable Learning Librarian at Ball State University

The Ball State University Libraries is searching for a talented and knowledgeable collaborator to build out support for and implementation of Open Education Resources (OER) and a variety of open access scholarship material as our Open Content and Affordable Learning Librarian. This position helps advance the Textbook Affordability initiative at Ball State and is essential to identifying key open access resources for existing and new course delivery methods such as Coursera and Lifetime Learning where openly accessible resources are key to avoiding copyright infringements.

https://bsu.peopleadmin.com/postings/45466

"Geographical and Disciplinary Coverage of Open Access Journals: OpenAlex, Scopus and WoS"

This study aims to compare the geographical and disciplinary coverage of OA journals in three databases: OpenAlex, Scopus and the WoS. We used the ROAD database, managed by the ISSN International Centre, as a reference database which indexes 62,701 OA active resources (as of May 2024). Among the 62,701 active resources indexed in the ROAD database, the Web of Science indexes 6,157 journals, while Scopus indexes 7,351, and OpenAlex indexes 34,217. A striking observation is the presence of 25,658 OA journals exclusively in OpenAlex, whereas only 182 journals are exclusively present in WoS and 373 in Scopus. The geographical analysis focusses on two levels: continents and countries. As for disciplinary comparison, we use the ten disciplinary levels of the ROAD database. Moreover, our findings reveal a striking similarity in OA journal coverage between WoS and Scopus. However, while OpenAlex offers better inclusivity and indexing, it is not without biases. WoS and Scopus predictably favor journals from Europe, North America and Oceania. Although OpenAlex presents a much more balanced indexing, certain regions and countries remain relatively underrepresented. Typically, Africa is proportionally as under-represented in OpenAlex as it is in WoS, and some emerging countries are proportionally less represented in OpenAlex than in WoS and Scopus. These results underscore a marked similarity in OA journal indexing between WoS and Scopus, while OpenAlex aligns more closely with the distribution observed in the ROAD database, although it also exhibits some representational biases.

https://cnrs.hal.science/hal-04745665v1

Digital Preservation Production Manager at University of Michigan

The Digital Preservation Production Manager joins the Digital Preservation Unit to help lead the design and implementation of a comprehensive library-wide digital preservation program. You will take the lead in building and managing the production aspects of the library’s born-digital preservation program, including several existing archiving and preservation solutions and the daily activities of our Digital Preservation Lab, which serves as the center of the library’s digital archeological work and an incubation space for solutions to be implemented throughout the library.

https://tinyurl.com/n49an5m7

"Metrics to Increase Data Usage Understanding and Transparency "

Data metrics are essential to assess the impact of data repositories’ holdings and to understand the research practices of the community that they serve. These metrics are useful for reporting to funders, to inform community engagement strategies, and to direct and sustain repository services. In turn, communicating these metrics to the user community conveys transparency and elicits their trust in data sharing. However, because data metrics are time-sensitive and context-dependent, tracking, interpreting, and communicating them is challenging. In this work we introduce data usage analyses including benchmarking and grouping, developed to better assess the impact of the DesignSafe Data Depot, a natural hazards data repository. Make Data Count compliant metrics are analysed in relation to research methods, sub-disciplines, natural hazard types, and time, to learn what data is being used, what influences data usage, and to establish realistic usage expectations. Results are interpreted in relation to the research and publication practices of the community and to natural hazard events. In addition, we introduce strategies to clearly communicate dataset metrics to users.

https://doi.org/10.2218/ijdc.v18i1.929

Head of Research Data Management at University of Oxford

This role provides strategic leadership in the delivery of specialist systems and services which support research data management across the University. The post is based in the Open Scholarship Support department of the Bodleian Libraries, which provides a central point for advocacy and strategy in the areas of open access, open scholarship, research data management, copyright and licensing, and digital preservation. Open Scholarship Support is a small and dynamic team which supports hybrid working patterns.

https://tinyurl.com/awjmhvyc

"Video Game Preservationists Have Lost a Legal Fight to Study Games Remotely"

When video game scholars want to study games that are no longer on sale, they sometimes have to drive many hours to do it legally — and that won’t be changing anytime soon. The US Copyright Office has just denied a request from video game preservationists to let libraries, archives and museums temporarily lend individuals some virtual, remotely accessible copies of those works.

https://tinyurl.com/3sb37jn6