[Rdap] Position Announcement: Scholarly Communications Librarian

[Minor, David]

I'm excited to pass along the announcement of a *new* position in the UC San Diego Library: Scholarly Communications Librarian. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to work strategically with Library, campus, UC *and* national initiatives. 

A brief description is below. Full details and application instructions can be found here: https://apol-recruit.ucsd.edu/apply/JPF01302

David.



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Scholarly Communications Librarian
 
The University of California San Diego Library seeks applications from highly motivated, innovative, collaborative, and service-oriented professionals to join the Library as our Scholarly Communications Librarian (Assistant, Associate, or Full Librarian).
 
Responsibilities of the Position:
The Scholarly Communications Librarian provides leadership and develops strategies for the effective promulgation of information about scholarly communications and open access publishing issues to campus user communities.
 
Responsibilities will include:
- Providing faculty and graduate student support for the UC Open Access (OA) Policies (Faculty and Presidential)
- Leading UC San Diego Library outreach efforts to faculty, graduate students, and other campus constituencies in support of scholarly communication innovations. Serving as a resource on the UC Open Access policies, copyright compliance, federal public access policies and open data funding mandates.
- Convening and directing the work of the Library Scholarly Communications Working Group, which supports subject liaison librarians in facilitating effective communications regarding scholarly publishing, UC Open Access Policies, and related topics with their academic communities.
- Actively engaging in outreach and sustaining strong, consistent, and effective communication channels between the Library and campus user groups. Promoting widespread awareness and use of OA resources and of OA publishing avenues/options for authors, researchers, and grad students.
- Initiating and supporting ongoing scholarly communication education via workshops, information sessions, events, and resources in a range of formats.
- Advising faculty, researchers and students on copyright, author rights, and publishing agreements.
- Serving on UC-wide scholarly communication and related groups and ad hoc committees as needed.
- Staying current with developments in scholarly communication, open access, academic publishing, copyright, research data curation, and related areas.
- Monitoring scholarly communication trends, developments and services as one of the campus liaisons to national or international efforts in this area, such as SPARC, HathiTrust, or Force11. Advising and keeping Library administration and academic liaisons apprised of emerging issues.
 
Closing Date: Consideration begins January, 23, 2017 and will continue until the position is filled.
 
For more Information:  http://libraries.ucsd.edu/jobs/index.html
 
To Apply:  https://apol-recruit.ucsd.edu/apply/JPF01302
 
AA-EOE: UCSD is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer with a strong institutional commitment to excellence through diversity.