Scholarly Communications Librarian

Vacancy number

14848

Job type

Non-academic staff

Hours (in fte)

0,8

External/ internal

Internal, External

Location

Leiden

Placed on

7 May 2024

Closing date

27 May 2024 20 more days to apply

**Scholarly Communications Librarian (0,8 fte)**
Leiden University Libraries, Center for Digital Scholarship is looking for a Scholarly Communications Librarian.

Would you like to work at a university that strengthens its Open Science practices to increase its impact on society? Is dissemination of scientific knowledge your passion? And do you enjoy bringing together scientists from various disciplines and giving expert advice? This position is a great challenge for an enthusiastic networker with a heart for scholarly communication and open access publishing.
What you will do

Together with colleagues from the Center for Digital Scholarship (CDS) and the Leiden Open Science program, you help Leiden University to take open access publishing to a higher level. As a Scholarly Communications Librarian, you support our academics in the process of creation, evaluation, distribution, and preservation of research work in an open way. This includes traditional publications, such as articles, book chapters, monographs, and conference proceedings. It also includes other forms of scholarly output, such as data sets, code, preprints, working papers, and blogs.

In close collaboration with the Open Access coordinator, you help implementing strategic goals in academic publishing university-wide. You do this by providing advice and support to Leiden’s researchers and contributing to the ongoing activities, such as training and workshops. You follow international developments in open access and scholarly communication closely and provide information to researchers and university administrators.

In this position you will:

- Provide training and advice to early-career researchers and senior research staff on various themes pertaining to responsible open access publishing, both domain-specific and university-wide;
- Review and update the current training materials to meet new norms in the field of academic publishing and open science;
- Handle queries and requests received by the Open Access team of CDS;
- Engage in conversation with university academics and act as a publishing steward in their journey to adopting modern key values in scholarly communication and strategic publication;
- Help raise awareness on publication policies and their practical implementations. Hereby you will contribute to opening up scholarly communication practices, shifting from traditional journals to new forms of sharing research work (preprints, collections, containers, etc.);
- Support the team in data analysis underlying publication policy advice to faculties and institutes;
- Identify new developments in publishing practices and translate those to the Leiden context by writing recommendations, reports, or guides;
- Create and edit professional information using various communication channels such as website, blog and social media;
- Foster institutional collaborations with departments such as Leiden Research Support, and engage in national and international networks related to scholarly communications.

**Where you will work**

**What you bring**

We are looking for someone who can work independently, and is a team player at the same time. Every job is different, so in the beginning we will devote attention to your onboarding. If some of the work activities are new to you, we will look together at what you need, and draw up a development plan. This position is a good fit for you if you recognize yourself in the following:

- You have an academic education and affinity with an academic work environment;
- Knowledge of open access, scholarly communications and the regulations and requirements with regard to academic publishing in the open science era;
- Excellent communication-, teaching-, and advice-giving skills, paired with community engagement experience;
- Excellent spoken and written Dutch and English;
- You are analytical, result-oriented and flexible;
- Data analysis skills are a plus.

**What we offer**
Our goal is to work together to create a transparent and inclusive work environment in which everyone feels welcome and appreciated. Our organization is always evolving and we need your ideas for improvement and innovation to take us further. We want to devote attention to your personal development.

You can count on an enjoyable and responsible job within the socially relevant world of education and research. The University's challenging and international work environment is located just steps away from Leiden’s lively city center. We also want to work with you to devote attention to your health and vitality, for example with the fun activities we organize through Healthy University.

We also offer:

- An employment contract for the duration of one year with a view to permanent employment. This contract falls under the CLA of Dutc