DigitalKoans Posts will resume on 10/15/2024. | Artificial Intelligence | | Research Data Curation and Management Works | | Digital Curation and Digital Preservation Works | | Open Access Works | | Digital Scholarship |Reporting to the University Archivist, the Digital Archivist will oversee and support the transfer of born-digital files, oversee the creation of metadata and the ingest of digital collections to ensure preservation and access, act as the resource person for OLS and CUNY campus libraries regarding best practices for managing donated digital materials and metadata management … Continue reading "Digital Archivist at CUNY (Term)"Publishing Beyond the Market argues that the move to open access should focus less on the free accessibility of research outputs and more on who controls the publications and infrastructures for scholarly communication. . . . Through critical engagement with the open access landscape, the book reveals the shortcomings of market-centric and policy-based approaches to … Continue reading "Forthcoming: Publishing Beyond the Market: Open Access, Care, and the Commons"You will support the work of the HES Archives Digital Repository, which will include assisting with the transfer, accessioning, appraisal and cataloguing of born-digital and digitised archive material to our catalogue and digital preservation infrastructure, contributing to internal digital preservation research and development, and supporting the co-ordination of external digitisation projects. https://tinyurl.com/4wp3bfya | Digital Library … Continue reading "Digital Archive Officer at Historic Environment Scotland"The average full-time equivalent (FTE) library staff is 36.2 and the median is 15.7. Doctoral universities have much higher staffing levels than all other types. Associate’s colleges and two year institutions have the highest ratio of students to staff. In 2023, total expenditures excluding fringe benefits reached an average of almost four million and the … Continue reading ""The State of U.S. Academic Libraries: Findings from the ACRL 2023 Annual Survey""The next Dean will join UMass Amherst at a transformational moment. The University has recently welcomed a new Chancellor and Provost who join the vibrant community of dreamers, innovators, creators, and scholars. New leadership inspires new strategic direction, and a new strategic plan is being developed with the release set for Fall 2024 . . … Continue reading "Dean of Libraries at University of Massachusetts Amherst"SpringerLink provides a case study in the encroachment of the broader surveillance-based data brokering economy into academic systems. Among other findings, the report documents risks related to the 200 named third parties that are allowed to collect information from users of the site (along with what appear to be additional unlisted companies found only in … Continue reading ""SPARC Releases Second Vendor Privacy Report Urging Action to Address Concerns with SpringerLink Data Privacy Practices""Lead the preservation and cataloguing of our archive using recognised professional standards and innovative digital methods to ensure it remains accessible for generations to come. Develop and implement a digital outreach strategy to engage a broad range of users, from researchers to the general public. Leverage our digital content, processes and outputs to maximise our … Continue reading "Digital Engagement Archivist at University of Westminster"The use and assignment of most persistent identifiers have an associated cost. Journals sometimes have difficulty covering this cost or transferring it to the authors of the articles, causing barriers to publishing scientific articles. This work aims to implement free persistent identifiers in a scientific journal management system. To accomplish this, software components for managing … Continue reading ""Implementing Free Persistent Identifiers in a Scientific Journal Management System Alternatively to DOI ""As a result of a successful £14.4m bid to the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), the Archaeology Data Service is expanding, and leading a consortium which is setting up a new Heritage Science Data Service (HSDS). The HSDS will provide core digital services for the Research Infrastructure for Conservation and Heritage Science (RICHeS), enabling … Continue reading "Heritage Science Data Service (7 Positions)"On Monday, September 30, the University Based Publishing Futures [UBPF] community officially launched with an open virtual meeting attended by 150 colleagues. UBPF is a new, multi-community coalition made up of the professionals who work at university presses, library publishers, and other academy-affiliated programs that support the infrastructure of scholarly publishing. The purpose of this … Continue reading ""Officially Launched! The New University-Based Publishing Futures Community Is Forming.""The Research Data Management Librarian assists researchers with data management planning, ?nding relevant datasets, data organization, curating and sharing their research data, and complying with relevant data management requirements and policies. This individual must have a strong commitment to making data as open as possible This support consists of teaching workshops, conducting individualized consultations, and … Continue reading "Research Data Management Librarian at Northwestern University"Transformative agreements between academic publishers and research institutions are ubiquitous. The ‘Efficiency and Standards for Article Charges’ (ESAC) Initiative lists more than 1,000 contracts in its database. We make use of this unique dataset by web-scraping the details of every contract to substantially expand the overview spreadsheet provided by the ESAC Initiative. Based on that … Continue reading ""Trapped in Transformative Agreements? A Multifaceted Analysis of >1,000 Contracts""EDP Sciences and SMAI (Société de Mathématiques Appliquées et Industrielles) have just published their latest transparency report for 2024, marking the fourth consecutive year of open access (OA) publication under the Subscribe to Open (S2O) model – and the fourth transparency report. . . . The 2024 report highlights several key achievements and ongoing developments: … Continue reading ""Open Access and Transparency: EDP Sciences Releases 2024 Transparency Report for Mathematics Journals""Oversee the development, management, and preservation of Centro’s digital archival holdings. Provide leadership and promote innovation in the management, access, and storage of digital archival holdings. Coordinate the archival digitization program, including overseeing selection, preparation of materials, digitization, post-processing, quality assurance, ingest, access and discovery of digital objects. Administer CENTRO’s digital collections portal, including training … Continue reading "Digital Collections Manager at Center for Puerto Rican Studies at CUNY"