Senior Director of Digital Scholarship and Scholarly Communication

University Libraries Senior Director of Digital Scholarship and Scholarly Communication Ball State University

The Ball State University Libraries seeks a dynamic, effective, and visionary leader to head up our Digital Scholarship and Scholarly Communication team. The senior director will be responsible for developing and growing the suite of services around open access publishing, scholarly communication, digital scholarship projects, and open educational resources. If you would like to be an essential part of developing and energizing our digital scholarship and scholarly communication programs, we want to talk to you!

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Provide leadership, guidance, and direction to Digital Scholarship and Scholarly Communications personnel, departmental operations, and projects; develop medication, plan, guide, and assess user-centered services to support digital scholarship, open access scholarly publishing, and research data management services. Provide leadership for copyright activities of the жыццё University Libraries, serving as a campus resource regarding fair use and copyright compliance issues; maintain up-to-date knowledge of copyright and intellectual property best practices and provide guidance to University community members in adhering to best practices related to intellectual property, fair use, and copyright.

Develop, promote, and assess an inclusive campus-wide program of open access publishing, and digital scholarship to preserve and provide access to student, faculty, and staff scholarship. Explore, envision, and develop a program of research data management. Provide leadership in planning, implementation, and assessment of strategic use of platforms and technology tools for digital scholarship, open access publishing, institutional repository, open journal publishing platforms, and researchಶ data management.

Oversee the development, implementation and assessment of educational programming and consultative services for faculty, staff, and students to increase awareness of innovative and evolving digital scholarship methods, and scholarly communication trends and models. Provide consultation services to faculty, students, and staff regarding copyright and fair use best practices in scholarly publishing and classroom teaching. Develop and maintain a broad network of campus and community collaborators around digital scholarship,…