JOB: Preservation and Digitization Strategist, The Ohio State University

From the announcement (.pdf): The Ohio State University Libraries is seeking a successful leader with an orientation to systems thinking and strong skills in analysis, innovation, and collaboration to care for the rich and expansive collections its users rely on for teaching, learning, discovery, and the creation of new knowledge and art. The Preservation and ...

JOB: Open Educational Technology Specialists, CUNY (2 positions)

From the announcement: The Open Educational Technology Specialists will work closely together, with one reporting to the Director of the Teaching and Learning Center and one reporting to the Director of the Graduate Center’s Digital Initiatives. These positions are funded for two years. Duties include but are not limited to: Runs workshops and provides consultations ...

POST: Digital Library Federation Names Three New “DLF Futures Fellows”

Digital Library Federation (DLF) named three distinguished fellows for its new DLF Futures fellowship program, which “offers financial support and a communications platform for mid-career digital library practitioners whose projects and areas of research open up new, perhaps unexpected possibilities and future directions for the field.” From the post: DLF’s 2018-19 Futures Fellows are Ana Ndumu ...

RESOURCE: Making It Easier to Find Datasets

Natasha Noy, Research Scientist at Google, announced the launch of Google’s Dataset Search. The tool is intended to enable researchers to find millions of datasets through online repositories, including those published by local and national governments from around the world. In order to ensure consistent and wide accessibility to datasets, Google has developed “guidelines for dataset ...

CFP: Association for Computers and the Humanities 2019

The Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH) has released a call for submissions for the 2019 ACH meeting, to take place July 23-26, 2019, in Pittsburgh, PA. From the call: ACH is the United States-based constituent organization in the Alliance for Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO). The ACH 2019 conference, in partnership with Keystone DH, ...

JOB: Assistant/Associate Librarian, Scholarly Communication, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi

From the announcement: Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi invites applications for the position of Scholarly Communication Librarian. The Scholarly Communication Librarian provides leadership and support in the growth and maintenance of scholarly communication services at Bell Library. The librarian cultivates partnerships within the library and across campus to promote these services and provide outreach and education ...

JOB: Curator, Digital Publications, British Library

From the announcement: Joining our Contemporary British Publications team, this role is an exciting opportunity to help the Library develop its ability to collect, manage and make available complex digital publications. The Library’s ‘Emerging Formats’ project is focused on UK publications created for the mobile web, as interactive narratives or in database format. This role ...

JOB: Judaica Digital Humanities Coordinator, University of Pennsylvania

From the announcement: Reporting to the Director for Digital Scholarship, the Judaica Digital Humanities Project Coordinator will join a collaborative team of colleagues in the Digital Scholarship Department at the Penn Libraries, and will work closely with the Judaica Bibliographer and colleagues in the Kislak Center for Special Collections. The incumbent will serve as project ...

POST: Redesigning WOAH: Women of Ancient History

Sarah Bond (University of Iowa) has written a blog post reflecting on “the ways in which digital humanities projects can be used to amplify, to visualize, and to give agency to underrepresented groups.” Bond asks “How can digital humanities contribute to social justice?,” and goes on to provide examples of DH projects that explicitly seek ...

RESOURCE: Will open access increase journal CiteScores? An empirical investigation over multiple disciplines

Yang Li, Chaojiang Wu, Erjia Yan, and Kai Li (all Drexel University) have published an article in PLOS One entitled “Will open access increase journal CiteScores? An empirical investigation over multiple disciplines.” From the abstract: This paper empirically studies the effect of Open Access on journal CiteScores. We have found that the general effect is positive but ...

RESOURCE: Towards Open Access Self Archiving Policies: A Case Study of COAR

Bijan Kumar Roy (University of Burdwan), Subal Chandra Biswas (University of Burdwan), and Parthasarathi Mukhopadhyay (University of Kalyani) have published “Towards Open Access Self Archiving Policies: A Case Study of COAR” in LIBER Quarterly. From the abstract: This paper examines Open Access (OA) self archiving policies of different Open Access Repositories (OARs) affiliated to COAR (Confederation of Open ...