Scholarly Communications Librarian - 026411 | Office of Human Resources

"The University Libraries at Appalachian State University seek a Scholarly Communications Librarian as a member of our Digital Scholarship and Initiatives team. The successful candidate will engage and partner with the Appalachian community to support new models of research and scholarship by providing and managing innovative digital tools and publishing platforms for content creation, delivery, discovery, and analysis. This position supports faculty and students in the areas of copyright and intellectual property.

The University Libraries seek to recruit and retain a talented and diverse faculty. Candidates who are members of underrepresented populations are strongly encouraged to apply.

Responsibilities:

● Develop and lead a successful scholarly communications outreach program, promote the innovative use of technologies, and incorporate best practices to support Library and University initiatives.

● Serve as a catalyst in developing campus adoption and implementation of new models of scholarly communications that include sustainable digital scholarship, open access, open data, and open educational resources.

● Lead the development and evaluation of the Libraries’ institutional repository, including possible implementation of a new platform.

● Integrate scholarly communications into library instruction and work with other librarians to expand their capacity to support scholarly communications.

● Serve as a campus resource on issues and trends relevant to: intellectual property, copyright and fair use, government and institution mandates and directives, alternative scholarly dissemination venues, repositories, author rights, public access, open access, open educational resources, open data, metrics for assessing impact, data management, reputation and identity management, grants, and tenure and promotion.

● Identify, implement and support services, systems and applications that provide and integrate platforms for scholarly publishing, digital content and data management, and other research activities.

● Develop workshops and classroom instruction for the campus and community.

● Oversee scholarly publishing services.

● Coordinate Libraries’ scholarly communications program with initiatives in the state.

● Analyze and create reports on use of services and products of digital scholarship, including their access, impact, functionality, and effectiveness."