Scholarly Communications Librarian (Medical Assistant Librarian)

"Job Description [ : ] The scholarly communications librarian will:

• Work closely with the University of Central Florida, College of Medicine (UCF-COM) librarians and faculty, students, and staff to assist in scholarly communication endeavors initiated by the library and by the College of Medicine.

• Become the in-house expert for the library in matters of open access, alternative publishing models, open educational resources, data management, and other issues related to scholarly communication.

• Serve as a statewide representative to scholarly communication and digital initiatives-related groups and ad-hoc committees as needed.

• Stay current with developments in data curation and management, open access, scholarly publishing, open educational resource initiatives, etc.

• Monitor scholarly communication trends and developments.

• Act as a library liaison for one or more College of Medicine course modules.

• Serve as personal librarian to first and second year medical students assigned to him/her.

• Participate in library assessment activities.

• Collaborate with other faculty librarians and library staff to provide effective reference, instruction, and outreach services for UCF-COM students, faculty, staff, and public patrons.

• Contribute to professional organizations and publications.

• Participate in management of UCF-COM open access publications."