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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.”
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