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Monthly Archives: July 2014
Director of Collections, Copyright and Scholarly Communication; Princeton Theological Seminary – NJ | SLA New Jersey Chapter
“Princeton Theological Seminary Library invites applications for the position of Director of Collections, Copyright and Scholarly Communication.
Reporting to the James Lenox Librarian, the Director will provide vision, leadership, planning and strategic direction for collections, copyright management and scholarly communication in support of teaching, learning, research and scholarship.
Responsibilities:
- Leads and manages the Office of Collections, Copyright and Scholarly Communication.
- Manages development of and access to print and digital collections through content selection and shelf-ready processes.
- Works with others to coordinate preservation activities and to develop and maintain preservation policy and procedures.
- Serves as the Library’s primary resource on copyright and fair use and works to design, implement and manage an ongoing Copyright and Scholarly Communication Program.
Qualifications:
- Master’s degree in Library or Information Science or equivalent education and experience.
- Graduate work in religion or theology required.
- Experience building and preserving collections.
- Demonstrated knowledge of scholarly publishing landscape including familiarity with United States Copyright Law, authors rights and publication models including open access.
- Experience developing and delivering a program of policy, information, education and training regarding copyright, fair use, rights management, publication models and open access.
- Experience with digital initiatives, digital reformatting, file transfer and file management preferred.
To apply:
Please submit your resume by: (1) email – apply@ptsem.edu; or (2) fax – (609) 924-2973; or (3) mail –
Princeton Theological Seminary Human Resources Office P.O. Box 821 64 Mercer Street Princeton, NJ 08542-0803
University Librarian reflects on a transformative era
From an interview with Tom Leonard, University Librarian at UC Berkeley.
“[Q:] I take it your concerns around intellectual property and fair use led to your recent involvement in the Authors Alliance.
[A:] Yes. I’m concerned with what happens to published work that is “orphaned” — left in the stacks with no chance of being fully digitized because of our creaky copyright laws. With three other Berkeley faculty I helped start Authors Alliance, which represents writers who know how helpful it is to stand on the shoulders of other scholars by having access to their work. We are encouraging those who share our passion for moving work that has outlived its commercial life into the public domain. The Library spends more than $5 million a year to license materials, so that students, faculty and staff can see all of this material from their home. But I also try to keep in mind the independent scholar who doesn’t have an affiliation with a research university. That researcher is a second-class citizen when it comes to information. Libraries should work to end that….”
Dan Morgan debuts as DOT’s first chief data officer
“Morgan specialized in open data initiatives prior to taking the CDO position, serving as associate director for PhaseOne Consulting Group, which supported the chief information officer at the Transportation Department. While at PhaseOne, Morgan worked with the Open Forum Foundation to author the book “The 20 Basics of Open Government.”…”
High Energy Physics Jfactor
“Jfactor is an alternative to Thomson Reuters impact factor in the field of high energy physics. The need for a different way of assessing the quality of scientific research has become increasingly pressing over the years. Jfactor has been conceived as a first step to address this need in a new and transparent way. Differently from Thomson Reuters impact factor, Jfactor is a non-commercial project and its source data are fully open access….”
Statement on Digital Data Management | U.S. DOE Office of Science (SC)
“The Office of Science mission is to deliver the scientific discoveries and major scientific tools that transform our understanding of nature and advance the energy, economic, and national security of the United States. The Office of Science Statement on Digital Data Management has been developed with input from a variety of stakeholders in this mission1.
Here, data management involves all stages of the digital data life cycle including capture, analysis, sharing, and preservation. The focus of this statement is sharing and preservation of digital research data …”
The harm caused by myths about open access
“For a vivid sense of the harm caused by common misunderstandings of OA, read the comments in this survey carried out at the University of Saskatchewan in November 2012 and released this month.
http://ecommons.usask.ca/bitstream/handle/10388/6290/Report%20-%20USask%20OA%20Faculty%20Survey%20Results.pdf?sequence=1
It’s depressing how many respondents who like the idea of OA in theory turn away from it in practice because they believe one of three particular falsehoods about it:
1. All OA is gold OA (through journals).
The truth: Green OA (through repositories) is an alternative to gold OA, and even more plentiful than gold OA.
2. All or most peer-reviewed OA journals charge publication fees.
The truth: Most (67%) charge no fees at all. In fact, the majority (75%) of non-OA journals charge author-side fees and only a minority of OA journals do so.
3. All or most fees at fee-based OA journals are paid by authors out of pocket.
The truth: Most fees (88%) at fee-based OA journals are paid by the authors’ funder or employer. In fact 96% of authors who make their peer-reviewed articles OA pay no fee at all, because they make their work green OA rather than gold, because they publish in a no-fee OA journal, or because their fee at a fee-based journal was paid by their funder or employer….”
Tezos: A Self-Amending Crypto-Ledger Position Paper
“The popularization of Bitcoin, a decentralized, trustless, crypto-currency has inspired the production of several alternative, or \alt”, currencies. Ethereum, CryptoNote, and Zerocash all represent unique contributions to the crypto-currency space. Although most alt currencies harbor their own source of innovation, they have no means of adopting the innovations of other currencies which may succeed them. We aim to remedy the po- tential for atrophied evolution in the crypto-currency space by presenting Tezos, a generic and self-amending crypto-ledger. Tezos can instanciate any blockchain based protocol. Its seed protocol speci es a procedure for stakeholders to approve amendments to the proto- col, including amendments to the amendment procedure itself. Upgrades to Tezos are staged through a testing environment to allow stakeholders to recall potentially problematic amendments. The philosophy of Tezos is inspired by Peter Suber’s Nomic[1], a game built around a fully introspective set of rules. In this paper, we hope to elucidate the potential bene ts of Tezos, our choice to implement as a proof-of-stake system, and our choice to write it in OCaml.”
Science jobs from Macmillan Science and Education
“Macmillan Science and Education is seeking a Marketing Manager who will be for the planning and implementation of marketing to support a number of open access titles from the Nature Publishing Group and Palgrave Macmillan portfolio, including but not limited to Scientific Reports, Palgrave Communications, OA marketing for monographs, as well as wider support the companies open access initiatives.”
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Call on Elsevier to withdraw its Text and Data Mining policy (TDM)
July 14, 2014 UKB, LIBER and many other research and library organisations across Europe called on Elsevier to withdraw its current policy on text and data mining (TDM) and to change its license conditions. By complying to this, they would set a positive example for other publishers.
The number of signatories to the letter has now surpassed 40. They include 33 professional groups plus individual researchers, professors and librarians in a total of 18 countries. All signatories are listed in an updated version of the letter.
Call on Elsevier to withdraw its Text and Data Mining policy (TDM)
July 14, 2014 UKB, LIBER and many other research and library organisations across Europe called on Elsevier to withdraw its current policy on text and data mining (TDM) and to change its license conditions. By complying to this, they would set a positive example for other publishers.
The number of signatories to the letter has now surpassed 40. They include 33 professional groups plus individual researchers, professors and librarians in a total of 18 countries. All signatories are listed in an updated version of the letter.
Social-media sites focusing on open access
“+Nicole Contaxis just updated the major social-media lists at the Open Access Directory:
Blogs about OA
http://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/Blogs_about_OA
Twitter feeds about OA
http://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/Social_media_sites_about_OA#Twitter
Google+ sites about OA
http://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/Social_media_sites_about_OA#Google.2B
Thanks, Nicole!
If you have a social-media site focusing on OA, and the Open Access Directory doesn’t already list it, please add it. The Open Access Directory <oad.simmons.edu> is a wiki and depends on the OA community to keep it current and comprehensive. To limit spam, editing is limited to registered users, but registration is free and easy.”
Wiley and the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) launch Geo!
Wiley and the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) are thrilled to announce the launch this week of Geo: Geography and Environment. The journal will be the Society’s first fully open access journal, and positions the RGS-IBG and Wiley as world leaders in the publication of geographical research.
Geo is one of the first journals of its kind, publishing high-quality, original articles from across the spectrum of geographical and environmental enquiry. It has an interdisciplinary approach that spans the sciences, social sciences and humanities. The journal will focus on work of international significance, and welcomes submissions that bring new understanding to geographical research agendas, foster methodological development, and address contemporary geographical issues.
‘We are extremely pleased to partner with Wiley to offer a journal that will be at the forefront of many of the exciting developments within geographical and environmental research’ said Dr Catherine Souch, Head of Research and Higher Education at the RGS-IBG. ‘By offering an open access journal, the RGS-IBG is strengthening its commitment to publish and disseminate high-quality research reaching the widest possible audience’.
Geo is edited by Professor Gail Davies, of the University of Exeter, and Professor Anson Mackay, of University College London. ‘Growing imperatives for openness in science present both exciting opportunities and significant challenges for research’, said Professor Davies, ‘Openness has many meanings and the ethos of open access is still at issue. The RGS-IBG is actively shaping these debates and I am delighted to be editing Geo.’
Geo will publish articles under a choice of Creative Commons licenses, allowing authors to be fully compliant with open access requirements of funding organisations where they apply. For more information, and to find out how to submit an article, please visit the website here.
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