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August 28, 2018

Head of Scholarly Communications, Copyright, and Publishing

• Dartmouth College
• Hanover, New Hampshire

The Dartmouth College Library seeks an engaged, collaborative, and forward-thinking leader for the role of Head of Scholarly Communication, Copyright and Publishing. You will have the opportunity to work in a vibrant environment to reframe the ways in which Dartmouth community members share their work with a global audience. Beyond managing the Scholarly Communication team, you will guide and participate in a variety of library publishing initiatives and serve as a vital voice in our Library Management Group and our Open Dartmouth Working Group. In addition to serving as a thought and team leader within the Dartmouth Library, you will work with scholars at various stages of the research process to provide guidance related to key copyright issues, help their scholarship reach wide audiences, and evaluate the impact of their scholarly work. In order to do this effectively, you will oversee the implementation of the necessary infrastructure and ensure that scholars across the College are aware of issues and solutions in the scholarly communication landscape. We expect a successful candidate to be our campus expert and to help shape broader developments in the communities concerned with scholarly communications, particularly within the Ivy Plus libraries confederation.

RANK AND SALARY

The position is governed by the Dartmouth College Library Classification System of Professional Ranks.  Salary is commensurate with experience and qualifications.  Full benefits package including 22 vacation days; comprehensive health care; retirement plans, including TIAA-CREF; and relocation assistance.

GENERAL INFORMATION

Founded in 1769 and located in scenic Hanover, New Hampshire, Dartmouth is a private, four-year, coeducational undergraduate college with graduate schools of business, engineering and medicine and 16 graduate programs in the arts and sciences. Dartmouth’s mission is to educate the most promising students and to prepare them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge. At the heart of Dartmouth College is one of the oldest research libraries in the United States. Nine libraries, distributed across various academic centers, house the multi-million volume collection and provide access to a rich array of digital resources supported by a technically robust networked environment.

APPLICATION:

Review of applications will begin as received and will continue as the position is filled.  Priority consideration will be given to those submitting applications by September 14; applications will be accepted until position is filled.  For the complete position description and to apply online go to: https://searchjobs.dartmouth.edu/postings/47069.

Dartmouth College is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer and has a strong commitment to diversity. Women, persons of color, persons with disabilities, and veterans are encouraged to apply.

August 16, 2018

Journals Coordinator

• University of Michigan
• Ann Arbor, MI

Job Summary

The University of Michigan Library is one of the world’s largest academic research libraries and serves a vibrant university community that is home to 19 schools and colleges, 100 top ten graduate programs, and annual research expenditures approaching $1.5 billion a year. To enable the university’s world-changing work and to serve the public good, the library collects, preserves, and shares the scholarly and cultural record in all existing and emerging forms, and leads the reinvention of the academic research library in the digital age.

Michigan Publishing provides a home to more than 30 digital open access serials, publishing peer-reviewed scholarship across the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities. We offer a non-profit, mission-driven solution to the challenges of sustainably producing open access periodicals that don’t rely on expensive article processing charges that may exclude certain author communities.

As part of a dynamic team of digital publishing specialists, the Journals Coordinator oversees Michigan Publishing’s relationships with the editors of its journals, particularly advising on indexing, editorial workflows, technical requirements, and financial concerns through regular check-ins and periodic ad hoc consultation. The Journals Coordinator manages the operations of the Journal of Electronic Publishing and also works independently with the U-M campus community to identify and develop potential new scholarly publication projects.This position reports to the Director of Publishing Services.

In our publishing program and work environment, we champion diversity, equity, and inclusion. Our work engages a broad and diverse community with wide-ranging needs and concerns, and we empower all employees to actively participate in the ongoing process of learning about and responding to these needs. We value the synergy that results from sharing and leveraging our different experiences, backgrounds, skills, talents, and interests to build an environment in which all our community members can flourish.

Responsibilities*

• Act as main point of contact and liaison to internal production staff for the editorial boards of 30+ open access journals.
• Oversee project budgets and finances and make recommendations for process improvements.
• Recommend and pursue new and improved relationships with content indexers and aggregators to help journals maximize reach.
• Identify and develop new publishing projects for approval by the Publishing Services Approval Group.
• Create and maintain internal project documentation and records.
• Write promotional copy announcing new and updated publications. Proofread for obvious structural, grammatical, or stylistic errors.
• Plan and participate in educational workshops and other outreach activities, including occasional conference presentations.

Required Qualifications*

• Bachelor’s degree in any field and 1-3 years’ experience in digital scholarly publishing or related editorial processes

• Experience managing projects, prioritizing among multiple projects, and meeting deadlines.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to collaborate in a professionally diverse environment.

• Understands and values diversity and the importance of inclusion as demonstrated through a commitment to apply and incorporate the differences, complexities, and opportunities that diversity brings to an organization.

Desired Qualifications*

• Experience with metadata and content encoding standards used in the scholarly information supply chain.
• Knowledge of current trends and issues in scholarly publishing.
• Proven written communication and presentation skills.

Additional Information

The person in this position occasionally moves through the building to attend meetings/events and access files or information and occasionally ascends/descends short flights of stairs to different floors of the building.

Application Deadline

Job openings are posted for a minimum of seven calendar days.  This job may be removed from posting boards and filled anytime after the minimum posting period has ended. Applications will be reviewed as received throughout the posting period and continue until the position is filled.

U-M EEO/AA Statement

The University of Michigan is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer.

August 13, 2018

Publication Management System Coordinator

• California Digital Library
• Oakland, CA

Position Summary

The Publishing Group at the California Digital Library provides a range of platforms and professional services to support the scholarly communication needs of researchers across the University of California’s 10-campus system. UC’s open access repository and publishing platform (eScholarship.org) is the most publicly visible of these efforts, but additional support is provided via a publication management system, including an implementation of an enterprise-level Current Research Information System (CRIS). This CRIS is currently being utilized to support UC’s Open Access policies by soliciting and collecting previously published research articles that fall under the policies for display in eScholarship.

The Publication Management System Coordinator will act as the primary product and service owner for the CRIS implementation (Symplectic Elements) and will work with stakeholders to expand the usage and value of this service by managing projects to share Elements data across various UC campus reporting and compliance systems.

The first of these projects will be to expand the implementation of UC’s OA policies to include the most recent Presidential Policy, which covers all UC staff (approximately 250,000 individuals). The Publication Management System Coordinator will also manage projects that connect the CRIS to other campus systems (e.g. researcher profiles, assessment & evaluation systems, etc.) and will identify new opportunities to build toward a networked academic information system across the UC system. The incumbent will additionally manage daily triage of user requests, monitor technical development tasks, and engage with vendors to ensure user needs are addressed in a timely fashion.

The Publication Management System Coordinator will need to blend strong outreach and project management skills as well as technical expertise in bibliometrics to be successful in the position. In-depth knowledge of scholarly communication practices and emerging trends – especially as they relate to open access and related technical platforms – is also essential.

Duties

• Responds to support tickets from organizational point people, troubleshooting issues, verifying bugs and where necessary working with the vendor to address problems and anomalies.
• Develops, coordinates, and implements outreach and communication plans for open access policy services. Consults with and assists institutional partners in assessing engagement and developing targeted outreach and engagement strategies.
• Identifies opportunities and manages projects that integrate the implementation of the CRIS with other systems, with the goal of broadening reach and reducing system & task duplication.
• Monitors future releases of vendor applications, coordinating with the Technical Project Lead on updates to both test and production systems. Develops and implements QA plans in order to evaluate new releases, filing bugs and working with the vendor as needed to address problems. Evaluates, communicates and implements, along with the Technical Project Lead, features available with new releases. Works with campus organizational partners to determine appropriate system configurations on an ongoing basis.
• Maintains regular communication with organizational partners in order to ensure that ongoing needs are met and to understand, scope and manage efforts to meet newly defined goals.
• Extracts, analyzes and presents data that demonstrate system and project value, as well as areas for improvement. Creates compelling data visualizations that make complex data easy for all stakeholders to understand.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree and at least three years’ experience with development or delivery of online information services in educational, publishing, library and/or research settings, including experience helping users with online information services and/or products, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Demonstrated knowledge of scholarly communication, academic publishing, and current issues in open access.
• Demonstrated experience with large-scale/enterprise-wide software project or product management and customer support applications.
• Demonstrated ability to work with stakeholders to identify optimal/reasonable solutions to customer needs, including the ability to prioritize and respond appropriately to stakeholder/management requests for product modifications.
• Demonstrated ability to work with vendors and other third-parties to understand the capabilities of a given application, develop and propose solutions to problems, and to advocate for customers.
• Excellent analytical abilities, particularly in using data and reports to inform recommendations for application implementation decisions and program improvements to larger product support team.
• Demonstrated effective communication and interpersonal skills. Demonstrated ability to communicate technical information to technical and non-technical personnel at various levels in the organization.
• Demonstrated community development and engagement skills, including experience with and ability to maintain effective ongoing project oriented groups.
• Strong organization, project management and self-management/time-management skills. Solid ability to multitask and prioritize within competing / demanding timeframes, including recognizing when situations require the input of a more senior staff member.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s degree in related field such as information science.

August 3, 2018

Repository Services Coordinator

• University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• Urbana-Champaign, IL

Repository Services CoordinatorAcademic Professional position, University Library
 
Position Available:  The expected start date is as soon as possible after the closing date.  This is a 100% Academic Professional appointment.
Responsibilities:  Reporting to the Head of the Scholarly Communications and Publishing, the Coordinator helps support new models for the dissemination of the results of research, scholarship, teaching, and learning.  In conjunction with the Digital Repository Management Team, the Coordinator leads the Library’s campus-wide program for repository services which includes the institutional repository (IDEALS), the Vireo ETD (electronic dissertations and theses) service, and the research data repository.  The Coordinator for Repository Services develops outreach and shapes services that promote the deposit of research output, including data, into university, disciplinary, and other repositories as a critical step in the University Library’s ongoing preservation and sharing effort for University of Illinois scholarship.  Situated within the Library’s Research program, this position will focus on supporting this growing aspect of the mission of the University of Illinois Library.
The primary focus for the Repository Services Coordinator will be aiding scholars to deposit both scholarly output and data into repositories—institutional, disciplinary, or otherwise—in order to  ensure sustained access to their work over time. The Coordinator interacts closely with other members of the Repository Management Team, the Research Data Service, and the Scholarly Communications and Publishing units on both technical development and programmatic outreach, to ensure that both user-facing and back-office functions of Library repositories support scholars’ needs and preferences.  The position also collaborates with the Scholarly Commons to provide outreach through consultations and teaching of the co-sponsored Savvy Researcher workshop series.   He or she will work closely with the Research Data Service, as well as the Scholarly Communications and Publishing program to ensure that publications are available for the long-term in appropriate repositories providing outreach and education, and other pertinent services.
 
Specific responsibilities include: 
Works closely with scholars and campus units in establishing and articulating repository deposit policy/guidelines and evaluating content for appropriateness;
Maintains collection policy, format support, and information regarding best practices for Library-supported repositories;
Partners with individual scholars, campus units, and colleges to develop an understanding of the value of depositing materials to repositories, and identifies appropriate options for deposit based on the type of scholarship;
Develops and maintains user-facing repository and deposit documentation, as well as training and instruction materials;
Develops methods to assess and evaluate the effectiveness of repository outreach and education programs, working with other areas of the Library and campus, in support of programs in the Office of Research;
Prepares periodic and on-demand reports including, but not limited to, goals, annual reports, budget proposals and requests, and grant proposals;
Mentors, motivates, supervises, and trains staff;
Monitors emerging trends and best practices in repository development and user-facing service programs in order to identify possible new services to offer.
Involvement with the development of new scholarly support services and the creation of new tools and technologies that have strong potential to enhance research and teaching activities will necessitate that the individual in this position be actively involved in campus service and in national and international professional organizations that are shaping digital scholarship, scholarly communications and e-scholarship. The Repository Services Coordinator must be aware of emerging trends and best practices in the development and access to scholarly repositories, scholarly communications and publishing, trends in data management and data curation, and digital humanities scholarship, and is expected to contribute to new research and be engaged in professional service activities in one or more of these areas.  Opportunities provided to Academic Professionals appear in the “Guideline for Investigation Time” and are negotiated with the supervisor of the position at the time of employment. Through professional research, service, and collaboration with appropriate colleagues and organizations, the Coordinator contributes to the national and international reputation of the University Library.
Environment: The University of Illinois Library at Urbana-Champaign is one of the preeminent research libraries in the world. With more than 13 million volumes and significant digital resources, it ranks second in size among academic research libraries in the United States and first among public university libraries in the world. As the intellectual heart of the campus, the Library is committed to maintaining the strongest possible collections and services and engaging in research and development activities in pursuit of the University’s mission of teaching, scholarship, and public service. The Library currently employs approximately 90 faculty and 300 academic professionals, staff, and graduate assistants. For more detailed information, please visit .  The Library consists of multiple departmental libraries located across campus, as well as an array of central public, technical, and administrative service units. The Library also encompasses a variety of virtual service points and “embedded librarian” programs.
The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is one of the original 37 public land-grant institutions created after President Abraham Lincoln signed the Morrill Act in 1862. The Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) ranks the University of Illinois as 25th in the World (2010); 4th World rank in Engineering/Technology and Computer Sciences (2010); 18th World rank in Life and Agriculture Sciences (2010); 23rd World rank in Natural Sciences and Mathematics (2010). The University has 2,548 faculty members, including 1,851 tenure/tenure track, and 697 visiting faculty and instructional staff, and 12,239 graduate and professional students (among its 44,000 total students). It consistently ranks among the top ten U.S. Universities in number of earned doctorates awarded annually in 2012, $583,754,000 was spent on research and development in science and engineering.
 
Qualifications:
Required:
Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field;
Experience with increasing responsibilities in one or more areas related to digital repositories, research data, or scholarly publishing; 
Experience with metadata schemas and encoding, as well as with open source repository software systems;
Experience planning and managing projects and project teams; 
Knowledge of current issues and trends in institutional and disciplinary repositories, scholarly publishing, open access, and data deposit and sharing; 
Excellent communication and analytical skills including the ability to articulate the value of digital repositories in teaching and research, as well as in the evolving scholarly communications environment; 
Demonstrated ability to work in a team-based setting where consultation, flexibility, collaboration and cooperation are essential. 
Preferred: 
An MLS or advanced degree in a relevant field;
Knowledge of library information technologies and practices in an academic setting;
Experience working with repository software platforms such as DSpace, Fedora, or Hydra, or other data-driven web application software;
Evidence of continuing achievement in professional development, to enhance the candidate’s value to the Library, the University, the profession, or the scholarly community;
Energetic, flexible, creative, proactive approach to service;
Teaching experience.
Salary and Rank: Salary commensurate with credentials and experience.
Terms of Appointment: Twelve-month appointment; 24 annual vacation days; 11 annual paid holidays; 12 annual sick-leave days (cumulative), plus an additional 13 sick-leave days (non-cumulative) available, if needed, each year; health insurance requiring a small co-payment is provided to employee (with the option to purchase coverage for spouse and dependents); required participation in State Universities Retirement System (SURS) (8% of annual salary is withheld and is refundable upon termination), with several options for participation in additional retirement plans; newly-hired employees are covered by the Medicare portion of Social Security and are subject to its deduction. 
Campus and Community:  The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is a comprehensive and major public land-grant university (Doctoral/Research University-Extensive) that is ranked among the best in the world. Chartered in 1867, it provides undergraduate and graduate education in more than 150 fields of study, conducts theoretical and applied research, and provides public service to the state and the nation. It employs 3,000 faculty members who serve 31,000 undergraduates and 12,000 graduate and professional students; approximately 25% of faculty receives campus-wide recognition each year for excellence in teaching. More information about the campus is available at www.illinois.edu.
The University is located in the twin cities of Champaign and Urbana, which have a combined population of 100,000 and are situated about 140 miles south of Chicago, 120 miles west of Indianapolis, and 170 northeast of St. Louis. The University and its surrounding communities offer a cultural and recreational environment ideally suited to the work of a major research institution. For more information about the community, visit: or .
To Apply:  To ensure full consideration, please complete your candidate profile at https://jobs.illinois.edu and upload a letter of interest, resume, and contact information including email addresses for three professional references. Applications not submitted through this website will not be considered. For questions, please call: 217-333-8169.
Deadline:  In order to ensure full consideration we urge candidates to submit application materials on or before October 5, 2015.