Assistant Director, Open Publishing Initiatives and Scholarly Communications
Temple University Job Location: Pennsylvania Apply By: Open until filled Date Created: 04-27-2022
- Supervises the Library Publishing and Scholarly Communications staff.
- Serves as the Editor-in-Chief of North Broad Press, a joint Press/Libraries imprint for open educational resources, and oversees all North Broad Press activities, including acquisitions, editorial, production, and marketing.
- Consults with Temple University Press on openly available digital publishing projects, advises Press staff and scholarly authors on the development and implementation of the same.
- Manages the Libraries’ open access journal publishing service, working closely with faculty, student journal managers and editors. Actively seeks out new journals from the Temple community.
- Oversees ongoing development and expansion of the Libraries’ institutional repository, TUScholarShare, in order to help make Temple scholarship freely available online to a global audience.
- Leads outreach efforts on behalf of the Libraries to faculty in support of scholarly publication innovations and reforms. Acts as a campus resource on open access publishing, and collaborates across campus to further open access initiatives. Strategically plans scholarly programming and events around these topics, in collaboration with other groups such as the Office of Research, the Center for the Advancement of Teaching (CAT), and the Center for the Humanities at Temple (CHAT).
- Participates in local, regional, and national initiatives related to library publishing, scholarly communications, and open access, in order to support the success of the Libraries’ open publishing services.
- Performs related duties as assigned.
- Demonstrated expertise in scholarly communications.
- Demonstrated knowledge of scholarly publishing initiatives within research libraries, including technology platforms for publishing, staffing options, and business models.
- Strong project management and leadership skills.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills.
- Excellent interpersonal skills, along with the ability to effectively interact with a diverse group of internal and external constituents.
- Demonstrated technical skills in areas related to digital publishing.
- Ability to quickly learn new tools and technologies.
- Demonstrated understanding of open source digital publishing platforms and open source repository software.
- Commitment to supporting and working in a multicultural and diverse environment.
- Ability to conduct outreach and develop new services in a research library setting.
- Record of progressively more supervisory and administrative duties.
- Successful acquisition of grant funding for projects or initiatives.
- Experience with the publishing platforms Open Journal Systems, Manifold, and Scalar.
- Experience with the repository software DSpace.