“The Associate University Librarian for Scholarly Communication reports to the Dean of Libraries, contributes to the overall strategic direction and operation of the Libraries as a member of the University Libraries Dean’s Council, and will provide leadership to the Director for Scholarly Communication and multiple Libraries’ departments….”

“The University of Strathclyde has a commitment to boldness and innovation as part of its core institutional values, and we believe that our engagement with Open Access and Repository development is a significant example of this commitment. Therefore, in furtherance of these values, the Library and Information Resources of the University is now seeking to appoint an Institutional Repository Support Assistant to work on materials and records deposited in the Institutional Repository. 

The role will include the use of both PURE (the University’s research information system) and Strathprints (the Library’s Open Access Institutional Repository). The work involves validating metadata, including correcting, generating and approving metadata, which describes a wide variety of scholarly outputs. You will need to be able to understand and interpret research funder Open Access deposit policies, have some knowledge of copyright matters, liaise with academic departmental administrators and authors, and be able to manipulate digital files. An attention to detail and the ability to work with colleagues across the department are key requirements for the post. You will have a good general education to SCE Higher or equivalent. A recognised qualification in information management would be an advantage. Some experience of working with research data or publications, including online record creation and amendment to a high level of accuracy, would also be an advantage.”

“Rutgers University passed an open access policy by a near unanimous vote of the University Senate in October 2012….The policy goes into effect September 1, 2015….The Rutgers Open Access Policy is for all Rutgers faculty and scholars, including doctoral students and postdoctoral scholars. The policy applies mainly to scholarly articles (as the publisher allows), accommodates disciplinary differences, and focuses on public access for readers and researchers. The policy will be prospective, and opt-outs and embargoes can be accommodated for any article. Implementation planning is currently underway….”

“Marta Brunner, head of collections, research and instructional services in the Charles E. Young Research Library at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), has been named the new college librarian at Skidmore College….Outside of UCLA, Brunner has continued to be actively engaged with CLIR’s postdoctoral fellowship program. She has been invited to speak on a variety of library topics at conferences in the United States and Canada. In addition, she has been active in open-access and scholarly communication initiatives, and is a strategic advisor for the Open Humanities Press…..”

“We present http://dissem.in/ , an open source web platform built to help universities and researchers to upload their articles to repositories. First, we explain the context of scientific publishing and the Open Access movement, motivating the need for such an open source platform. Then, we explain what the platform actually does, and finally the technical challenges behind it …”

“When Doc Searls and I published our New Clues, we put it into the public domain. Even two months later, it feels good. In fact, seeing it reprinted in its entirety on someone else’s site fills me with an irrational exuberance….

So why does putting it into the public domain make me happier? I get as close to smiling as my stony visage permits when I see a site that’s copied and pasted the whole thing. It makes it feel that what Doc and I wrote was really about what it says and less about what the writing says about Doc and me. The focus is where it should be.”

“Please join Columbia University Libraries/Information Services’ Center for Digital Research and Scholarship’s Scholarly Communication Program and the Copyright Advisory Office for “Research Without Borders: Fair Use, Appropriation Art and Photography”, the third event of the academic year in our Research Without Borders panel discussion series. This event will take place from 2-4pm on Monday, February 23, 2015 in Garden Room 2 on the 1st Floor of Columbia’s Faculty House. It is free and open to the public. If you plan to attend, please RSVP to lwilliams@columbia.edu.”

“In every field of science, scientists are increasingly using electronic tools, from collecting their data to publishing their results. With the increase in computational tools comes the advantage of reproducibility at an extent not previously possible. Unfortunately, reproducibility of results is actually becoming increasingly more difficult, owing to the variety of ways of approaching analysis and incapability of data structures and file types. This is a guide to make scientific research more easily communicated and performed by using tools that promote reproducibility.

While technology increasingly evolves, so do best practices in using these technologies. If you have already written something that you believe fits well here, consider submitting to part of a section or creating entirely new section for your work. Contribution to the guide is highly encouraged by collaboration through Github….”