Internship — Strozier Library, Scholar's Commons (Tallahassee)

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Internship opportunity at FSU Libraries: Scholarly Communications

The Scholarly Communication Intern focuses his/her efforts on implementing ongoing open access initiatives and improving outreach to the faculty at Florida State University regarding emerging methods of scholarly publishing. S/He will work on the continued development of FSU’s institutional repository (DigiNole Commons), identify patterns in faculty publishing habits and take part in the planning process for implementing scholarly communication initiatives on campus.

Responsibilities

  • Works with Scholarly Communications Librarian on open access projects, including developing the collection of faculty scholarship in the institutional repository. The specific projects related to these efforts will depend on the progress of each program.
  • Assists in developing a communications plan for the repository, focused both on communication with faculty authors and outreach to a wider scholarly community.
  • Gathers and processes citation information for Florida State University faculty authors. Assists with the ongoing development and management of a system to communicate with authors and record decisions, versions and rights statuses. Help evaluate changing needs and possible system developments.
  • Researches copyright issues in regard to specific journal titles and articles submitted for inclusion in DigiNole Commons.
  • Assists with ongoing development of the institutional repository web interface. This could include gathering data and analytics about how the site is accessed, used and interacted with.
  • Performs other duties as assigned

Ongoing projects:

  • Planning/coordinating Open Access Week
  • Open Access Now (OANow.org)
  • Collection development in DigiNole Commons
  • Develop support structures for open access publishing and archiving
  • Develop open access journals using DigiNole and Open Journal Systems
  • Work with APIs, OAI-PMH harvesting to ingest scholarly content (arxiv, SSRN, PMC, PhilPapers, Academia.edu, etc.)

This position could be filled by a remote student with approval by the internship coordinator and/or supervising librarian.

Qualifications

Required: Interest in academic librarianship, open access, copyright, digital repositories, altmetrics, library publishing and digital scholarship. If working as a remote intern, appropriate technology is required (personal computer, webcam, secure internet connection).

Recommended: Comfort and advanced competency with various information technologies including chat, Google docs, online research, database searching and basic metadata.

Hours

This is a part-time position with the expectation of 10-15 hours of work per week. Remote internships for academic credit will be unpaid.

Application

Review of applications will begin immediately and will continue until the position is filled. Interested students should send a resume and cover letter as one PDF document to:
Micah Vandegrift, Scholarly Communication Librarian at mvandegrift@fsu.edu

Include in your cover letter any coursework that you have taken or plan to take that involves academic librarianship.

For additional information: http://guides.lib.fsu.edu/scholarlycommunications