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Research Data Services Librarian/Specialist at Bucknell University

This role will contribute to the vibrant teaching, learning, and research culture at Bucknell University, which encompasses data-rich courses and undergraduate research experiences in the social sciences, natural sciences, humanities, engineering, and management. As part of the Research Services team, this position will provide instructional and research support for students, faculty, and staff, working closely with data-intensive courses, assignments, and research projects across the disciplines. The successful candidate will also support research data management activities, promote data literacy, and develop policies and procedures for data curation, sharing, and reuse at Bucknell.

https://tinyurl.com/2kth295m

The Research Data Services Landscape at US and Canadian Higher Education Institutions

The following are our high-level findings:

While there are wide divergences in the number and variety of services offered both within and across Carnegie Classifications, R1 institutions offer approximately three times the number of services offered by R2s, and more than nine times the number offered by liberal arts colleges.

General research data services are the most common type offered regardless of institution type. Statistical services, geospatial services, and visualization services are also common at research universities, which typically offer a much wider range of specialized services than liberal arts colleges.

Libraries remain the largest provider of research data services at US and Canadian research universities, but IT and units associated with the research office play important collaborative roles, especially with specialized services.

Bioinformatics services are offered almost exclusively through the interdisciplinary units associated with the research office or core facilities associated with medical schools.

Consulting services are the most common mode of service provision, comprising almost three quarters of all data services.

https://doi.org/10.18665/sr.320420

Open Publishing Librarian at University of Idaho

Reporting to the Dean, this position will work within the Digital Scholarship and Open Strategies (DSOS) unit and closely collaborate across the library. In collaboration with the librarys Open Strategies Team, the Open Publishing Librarian will contribute to open initiatives such as the Open Access Publishing Fund, the Pressbooks platform, and the Think Open Fellowship program. They will provide expertise, guidance, and outreach for open publishing, and directly support projects and library fellowship programs for faculty and students. The open publishing librarian will collaborate with colleagues in the Center for Digital Inquiry and Learning (CDIL) on digital scholarship projects related to publishing, such as web development, metadata transformation, and open data work, with opportunities to explore and develop new static web approaches building on our CollectionBuilder initiative.

https://uidaho.peopleadmin.com/postings/43225

"The Cost of Open Access: Comparing Public Projects’ Budgets and Article Processing Charges Expenditure"

Thus, this research tries to estimate the percentage of the budget of the projects funded by the Spanish State Plan for the Generation of Knowledge and Scientific and Technological Strengthening of the R&D&I, Spain’s two main public project funding calls in Spain. The period studied is 2013-2019. Additionally, we study the relationships between publication intensity, funding attraction, and the availability of OA journals with APC expenditure at the area level. The results show that €43.67 million were spent on APCs, with most projects spending 3-8% of their budgets. However, numerous outliers with rates over 10% suggest further study on the role of APCs in the financial performance of the research activity.

https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/98j5p

Electronic Resources Acquisitions and Licensing Librarian at University of Notre Dame

The Electronic Resources Librarian serves as the Hesburgh Libraries primary contact with the University’s General Counsel, regarding resource licensing and interpretation; advising the program leadership and other colleagues by reviewing and recommending approval or changes in terms that align with evolving service needs and campus requirements. The Electronic Resources Acquisitions and Licensing Librarian supports the procurement, licensing, renewal, and maintenance of electronic resources and print serials for the Hesburgh Libraries in a multi-faceted environment.

https://apply.interfolio.com/142742

"Microsoft Is Developing Tech That Would Let Users Write with Their Eyes, a Huge Win for Accessibility"

Microsoft published a new patent for a device called the Eye-Gaze, which would allow users to communicate and interact with electronic devices without the use of hands and fingers for typing. . . .

The only other peripheral that comes to mind that’s remotely similar to the Eye-Gaze is the Apple Vision Pro, but that’s in a mixed reality setting which still requires some hand movements.

https://tinyurl.com/2s443y86

Research Data Management Librarian at Old Dominion University

The Research Data Management (RDM) Librarian will develop and deliver RDM services to faculty and graduate student researchers, be responsible for communicating developments in research data management (RDM) requirements of federal agencies and publishers, provide training and consultations with faculty and students on finding, evaluating, and sharing datasets using data analytics tools and systems, build internal and external partnerships, and participate in other scholarly communication projects as needed.

https://jobs.odu.edu/postings/20514

"To Preprint or Not to Preprint: A Global Researcher Survey"

Open science is receiving widespread attention globally, and preprinting offers an important way to implement open science practices in scholarly publishing. To develop a systematic understanding of researchers’ adoption of and attitudes toward preprinting, we conducted a survey of authors of research papers published in 2021 and early 2022. Our survey results show that the United States and Europe led the way in the adoption of preprinting. The United States and European respondents reported a higher familiarity with and a stronger commitment to preprinting than their colleagues elsewhere in the world. The adoption of preprinting is much stronger in physics and astronomy as well as mathematics and computer science than in other research areas. Respondents identified free accessibility of preprints and acceleration of research communication as the most important benefits of preprinting. Low reliability and credibility of preprints, sharing results before peer review and premature media coverage are the most significant concerns about preprinting, emphasized in particular by respondents in the life and health sciences. According to respondents, the most crucial strategies to encourage preprinting are integrating preprinting into journal submission workflows and providing recognition for posting preprints.

https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.24880

Electronic Resources Management Librarian at University of North Carolina School of Arts

Reporting to the Head of Cataloging and Metadata Services, the Electronic Resources Librarian manages and supports the entire lifecycle of electronic resources for the Library and Learning Commons including the acquisition, licensing, troubleshooting, and assessment of e-books, electronic journals, DDA plan, and databases. This position will work closely with colleagues to implement and maintain access to electronic resources and be the expert for issues related to access.

https://employment.uncsa.edu/postings/8597

"Fostering Undergraduate Academic Research: Rolling out a Tech Stack with AI-Powered Tools in a Library"

With the increasing integration of AI tools like Yewno Discover, Scholarcy, and Grammarly in academic libraries, undergraduate research has witnessed transformative changes. These tools, while elevating the research process, also bring forth challenges rooted in ethics and application. . . . This paper underscores the need for proactive measures in academic settings, including specialized training and policy development, to ensure that undergraduate researchers harness the power of AI responsibly and efficiently.

https://doi.org/10.1080/01930826.2024.2316523

McDermott Project Archivist at The University of Texas at Austin (Term)

Appraise, arrange, describe, preserve and provide access to the papers of American philosopher and professor John J. McDermott in accordance with DACS Standards.

Perform word processing and use Archives Space to produce finding aids.

Select and digitize original documents from the John J. McDermott Papers for online access via the Briscoe Center’s digital media repository. Create metadata using library and archival descriptive standards and controlled vocabularies.

https://tinyurl.com/ycxa93b8

Advancing Ireland’s Open Repository Landscape: A Strategic Roadmap

This report presents an in-depth analysis and strategic roadmap for advancing the open repository landscape in Ireland. Drawing on comprehensive data from interviews, surveys, self-assessments, and both national and international initiatives, the document outlines the current status, challenges, and future prospects for open repositories in Ireland. Key findings highlight significant advancements in open access adherence. Despite these successes, persistent challenges such as metadata quality, resource limitations, and sustainability issues underscore the need for concerted effort and strategic planning.

The report proposes a forward-looking roadmap spanning from 2025 to 2030 and beyond, prioritising the enhancement of repository infrastructures, metadata quality improvement, open mandates promotion, technological advancements, capacity building, and fostering collaborative partnerships. This strategic vision aims to develop and encourage Ireland’s transition to open research, leveraging innovative practices and collaborative efforts to facilitate a more open, inclusive, and sustainable research environment. By addressing current limitations and embracing future opportunities, the roadmap sets the stage for a transformative shift in Ireland’s scholarly communication landscape, with potential significant impacts on researchers, institutions, and society at large.

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10810233

Research Data Librarian at Cornell University

Reporting to the Director, Research Data and Open Scholarship (RDOS), the Research Data Librarian helps support Cornell University researchers throughout the research data lifecycle to meet their planning, management, analysis, sharing and archival needs. The Research Data Librarian collaborates with peers in RDOS, the Digital Scholarship Services group, and other library and disciplinary units to provide a suite of services related to the stewardship of findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable data. This may include advising researchers on the use of disciplinary repositories, Cornell’s eCommons Institutional Repository, and other data sharing and preservation platforms to facilitate discovery, reproducibility and long-term access.

https://tinyurl.com/ycy2xwhc

"Responsible Artificial Intelligence: A Structured Literature Review"

Our research endeavors to advance the concept of responsible artificial intelligence (AI), a topic of increasing importance within EU policy discussions. The EU has recently issued several publications emphasizing the necessity of trust in AI, underscoring the dual nature of AI as both a beneficial tool and a potential weapon. This dichotomy highlights the urgent need for international regulation. Concurrently, there is a need for frameworks that guide companies in AI development, ensuring compliance with such regulations. Our research aims to assist lawmakers and machine learning practitioners in navigating the evolving landscape of AI regulation, identifying focal areas for future attention. This paper introduces a comprehensive and, to our knowledge, the first unified definition of responsible AI. Through a structured literature review, we elucidate the current understanding of responsible AI. Drawing from this analysis, we propose an approach for developing a future framework centered around this concept. Our findings advocate for a human-centric approach to Responsible AI. This approach encompasses the implementation of AI methods with a strong emphasis on ethics, model explainability, and the pillars of privacy, security, and trust.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.06910

Application Analyst I at University of Mississippi

This position supports one or more software applications. The incumbent manages accounts, runs reports, configures applications for departmental use and trains end users.

https://tinyurl.com/2zf697rc

"Supporting Open Access Monographs: Penn State University Libraries’ Participation in the TOME Initiative"

In 2017, Penn State pledged to participate in the then newly established Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem (TOME) Initiative. TOME was launched by the Association of American Universities (AAU), the Association of Research Libraries (ARL), and the Association of University Presses (AUPresses) as a five-year pilot with two main types of participants: colleges and universities and university presses. Penn State was one of the first universities to commit funds to participate in TOME, which was designed to support peer-reviewed, open access monographs in the humanities and social sciences. Each participating university committed $225,000 total for the five-year pilot, split out into $45,000 per academic year to support three grants of $15,000 per monograph. This number was established based on the recommendation from the Ithaka S+R Report "The Costs of Publishing Monographs."

https://doi.org/10.5860/crln.85.3.66

Archivist and Manager of Digital Collections at Clyfford Still Museum (Denver)

The successful candidate will be passionate about both physical and digital preservation and access and can organize large, complex, highly interrelated collections. The Archivist and Manager of Digital Collections will join the wider Clyfford Still Archives and Collections Team to build the profile of the Museum’s archival collections by making them more accessible through digital management in the Museum’s collection management system Qi and the implementation of a new Online Collections website.

https://tinyurl.com/5xvsaepv

"An OpenAI Spinoff Has Built an AI Model That Helps Robots Learn Tasks Like Humans"

Now three of OpenAI’s early research scientists say the startup they spun off in 2017, called Covariant, has solved that problem and unveiled a system that combines the reasoning skills of large language models with the physical dexterity of an advanced robot. . . .

This represents a leap forward, Chen told me, in robots that can adapt to their environment using training data rather than the complex, task-specific code that powered the previous generation of industrial robots. It’s also a step toward worksites where managers can issue instructions in human language without concern for the limitations of human labor. ("Pack 600 meal-prep kits for red pepper pasta using the following recipe. Take no breaks!")

https://tinyurl.com/3nek7xx2

User Experience Strategist at The University of Texas at Austin

The University of Texas Libraries User Experience Strategist is a key member of the Assessment & User Experience team, focused on integrating user needs and experiences in all aspects of the UT Libraries’ current and future online presence and services. The person in this position will act as the Product Owner of the Libraries website, providing strategy and oversight for its content and functionality.

https://tinyurl.com/5n6ncv39

"Are Price, Value, and Openness the Most Important Scholarly Communication Priorities?"

Specifically, academia has an enormous stake in imperatives like ensuring the trustworthiness of the scholarly record, providing for the platforms through which humans and machines will engage with scholarship, and addressing the atomization of the scholarly article. These topics demand collaboration by academia and research publishers. The current investments in developing AI-powered tools that support scholarly communication — and in resisting some of the challenges posed by the use of AI — makes these kinds of partnerships only more important and urgent. But how can academia and publishers build the basis for stronger collaboration when so much of the relationship in recent decades has been adversarial?

https://tinyurl.com/ppmucwn5

Affordable Learning Librarian at Georgia Tech

The Affordable Learning Librarian will work collaboratively with teaching faculty, library staff, and other campus partners to promote the adoption of open and affordable learning materials and provide students and instructors with seamless access to library collections and course readings. The Affordable Learning Librarian will be excited about the future of classroom affordability and the role libraries play in promoting equitable and fair access to course materials.

https://tinyurl.com/29bmhfyd

Paywall: "The Obscene Energy Demands of A.I."

It’s been estimated that ChatGPT is responding to something like two hundred million requests per day, and, in so doing, is consuming more than half a million kilowatt-hours of electricity. (For comparison;s sake, the average U.S. household consumes twenty-nine kilowatt-hours a day.)

https://tinyurl.com/ynrd4k4p

Systems Administrator II at Lawrence University

The System Administrator II position is responsible for critical campus servers and systems. The system administrator’s responsibilities include system installation and updates, administering both local and cloud hosted services, troubleshooting hardware, software, and networking issues, as well as ensuring that all system operations run with optimal performance and security. The position requires a professional level of service and a commitment to customer service.

https://tinyurl.com/msudbrxy

"The ‘Must Stock’ Challenge in Academic Publishing: Pricing Implications of Transformative Agreements"

While several contract designs exist, the ‘publish-and-read’ (PAR) scheme is the one that comes closest to the ideal of an entirely open access environment: Publishers are paid a fixed case-by-case rate for each publication, which includes a fee for their extensive libraries. In turn, all subscription payments are waived. I theoretically derive that this contract design benefits the included publishers regardless of whether the number of publications in these publishers’ journals grows or declines. Consequently, widespread PAR contracts are likely to raise entry barriers for new (open-access) competitors even further.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.03597

Intellectual Property (IP) Librarian at Georgia Tech

This position contributes to and supports a culture of entrepreneurship and commercialization at Georgia Tech by collaborating with stakeholders such as the VentureLab, CreateX, and the Office of Technology Licensing. This person provides IP programming and outreach for the patent, trademark, tangible property, and licensing needs of the Georgia Tech community. Individuals will plan and provide course-integrated instruction, workshops, and one-on-one consultations on intellectual property.

https://tinyurl.com/29bmhfyd