Open Access Fellow, Harvard Office for Scholarly Communication, Cambridge, MA
Posted December 4, 2015
Wage/Salary: 13.35
Job Description:
The Open Access Fellow’s primary purpose is to facilitate deposits through the DASH workflow. Digital Access to Scholarship at Harvard (DASH) is Harvard’s open access repository for scholarly articles written by Harvard faculty and scholars, and is managed by the Office of Scholarly Communication (OSC) within Harvard Library. DASH contains 25,000 works (and counting) that are freely available to the world. The Open Access Fellows program assists faculty and scholars with depositing their articles in DASH. Although much of the work can be done independently, each Fellow is required to spend two hours each week (at a regularly scheduled time) working in the OSC office under the supervision of the Repository Manager. Open Access Fellows gain valuable experience in the world of open access and help the OSC bring Harvard scholarship to readers the world over.
Primary duties include:
- Conduct bibliographic research
- Troubleshoot DASH records
- Contacting publishers and DASH authors
- Facilitate deposits through the DASH workflows
- Describe works in the repository by consistently providing thorough and accurate data entry.
- Participate in office hours, trainings, and meetings.
- Conduct bibliographic research
- Troubleshoot DASH records
- Contacting publishers and DASH authors
- Facilitate deposits through the DASH workflows
- Describe works in the repository by consistently providing thorough and accurate data entry.
- Participate in office hours, trainings, and meetings.
Qualifications:
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Attention to detail
- Ability to stay focused and work efficiently at mundane tasks
- Must commit to at least 8 hours of work a week (2 hours in office, the rest working independently)
Send resume and brief cover letter to:
Colin B Lukens
Repository Manager
Office for Scholarly Communication
Harvard Library