From: "Maureen P. Walsh" <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2017 12:45:27 -0400
(1) Job Posting: Publishing Services Lead, Ohio State University Libraries
Position available at The Ohio State University – University Libraries
Publishing Services Lead
Description: The Publishing Services Lead reports to the Head of the
Libraries’ Publishing and Repository Services Department and leads an
established program for Open Access publishing in the Libraries. The
Lead keeps abreast of latest trends and best practices in the
publishing environment and will contribute to the Libraries’ strategic
initiatives by providing innovative and sustainable publishing
services to support the sharing and preservation of digital
scholarship. The Lead collaborates across the Libraries (Research
Commons, subject and area specialists, Copyright Resources Center) and
campus (including the OSU Press) and works with current and potential
partners, conference organizers, and journal editors to create,
disseminate, and preserve digital scholarly material. Specific
responsibilities include: Supervise production staff; design,
implement, document, and coordinate workflows for multiple concurrent
publishing projects; support and develop outreach and educational
programming; facilitate communication among project stakeholders;
perform and/or manage production tasks including layout editing and
data input; provide consultation and publishing software technical
support for editors and creators of digital content; serve as product
owner for publishing software infrastructure.
About Us: University Libraries’ Publishing and Repository Services
(PRS) engages with partners across the university to increase the
amount, value, and impact of OSU-produced digital content including,
but not limited, to conference proceedings, journals, monographs,
working papers, technical reports, student scholarship, and faculty
articles. PRS offers support by organizing, providing access,
distributing, and preserving digital scholarly material through the
Knowledge Bank repository program and the Libraries’ Open Access
Publishing Program. PRS currently uses Open Journal Systems, DSpace,
and WordPress.
Required qualifications: Master’s degree in a relevant discipline or
equivalent combination of education and experience; three years of
related experience; experience with scholarly publishing editorial
practices and the editorial infrastructure of digital publishing
platforms (e.g. Open Journal Systems, WordPress); strong understanding
of current academic scholarly communication principles and
requirements; excellent verbal and written communication skills
including ability to explain technical concepts to a nontechnical
audience; ability to work successfully in a collaborative environment;
ability to manage multiple, simultaneous projects with minimal
supervision and to meet deadlines; demonstrated experience with HTML
or XML.
Desired qualifications: Experience documenting relevant policies,
procedures, and local standards related to digital scholarly
publishing projects; experience with creating and delivering effective
presentations and marketing strategies for outreach and engagement;
experience with managing metadata, text, images, and other forms of
digital research content; experience with CSS or PHP; supervisory
experience.
Please apply online at http://www.jobsatosu.com/postings/79878 from
July 8, 2017 through July 30, 2017.
(2) Production Assistant for Publishing Services
Description: The Production Assistant reports to the Publishing
Services Lead and performs production work for publishing services
across multiple software platforms (e.g. DSpace, Open Journal Systems,
WordPress), on multiple simultaneous projects. Production work
includes: submitting content, creating metadata, layout editing,
author proofing workflows, DOI registration, designing and documenting
workflows, monitoring and ensuring the quality of data input, tracking
projects in project database, and scheduling and supervising the
production work of student assistants. The Production Assistant works
collaboratively with the Head of the Department and other departmental
staff. The position requires attention to detail, sound judgment and
decision making, and knowledge of related and applicable software
programs.
About Us: University Libraries’ Publishing and Repository Services
(PRS) engages with partners across the university to increase the
amount, value, and impact of OSU-produced digital content including,
but not limited, to conference proceedings, journals, monographs,
working papers, technical reports, student scholarship, and faculty
articles. PRS offers support by organizing, providing access,
distributing, and preserving digital scholarly material through the
Knowledge Bank repository program and the Libraries’ Open Access
Publishing Program. PRS currently uses Open Journal Systems, DSpace,
and WordPress.
Required qualifications: Bachelor’s degree in Information Science,
Communications, or Art/Humanities or other appropriate field, or an
equivalent combination of education and experience; familiarity with
the scholarly publishing process; familiarity with metadata standards;
excellent organizational skills and ability to work with detail;
ability to assist with projects under minimal supervision and to meet
deadlines; excellent oral and written communication skills;
demonstrated experience with Excel; familiarity with HTML or XML.
Desired qualifications: Experience with workflow development;
creativity and flexibility in using technology to solve problems.
Please apply online at http://www.jobsatosu.com/postings/79877 from
July 8, 2017 through July 23, 2017.
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