The University of Alabama - Scholarly Communications Librarian

"The University of Alabama Libraries seeks a proactive, team-oriented, and innovative person to serve as Scholarly Communications Librarian. The ideal candidate's primary responsibilities will be in institutional repository development and management, as well as associated scholarly communications, copyright, publishing, and intellectual property issues. They must have a willingness for continual learning, development, and application of additional expertise in these and emerging areas through work-related experiences and professional development opportunities.

Reporting to the Director of Resource Acquisition and Discovery, this position works both independently and collaboratively to promote the use of the institutional repository (currently DSpace) for University research and publications, including electronic these and dissertations (ETDs), faculty and student works, open access ejournals, and ebooks, data sets, and emerging digital scholarship. This person will lead University Library efforts in promoting the institutional repository as an integrated tool in the scholarly communications process on campus. This position leads the efforts to raise awareness of scholarly communication issues, such as open access publishing and open educational resources...."