Digital Repository Coordinator, Harvard Library (HL) Open Scholarship and Research Data Services (OSRDS), (Cambridge, MA)
Posted August 9, 2024
Harvard Library (HL) Open Scholarship and Research Data Services (OSRDS) seeks an innovative, collaborative, and motivated individual to join its team to support Harvard’s open-access, institutional repository DASH (Digital Access to Scholarship at Harvard). Managed by OSRDS, DASH contains nearly 60,000 works and sees over 5 million+ downloads per year. Reporting to the Senior Repository Manager (SRM), the Digital Repository Coordinator will perform a range of activities focused on growing the scope and reach of DASH, within both the university’s scholarly and global user communities, helping to make academic research produced at Harvard available to anyone, anywhere, for free.
The Digital Repository Coordinator serves as the front-line representative for OSRDS to help increase the awareness and visibility of DASH within and beyond the University by educating faculty; faculty assistants; graduate and undergraduate students; and library staff about DASH and its benefits through presentations, office hours, one-on-one tutorials, and printed and digital media. The Digital Repository Coordinator will assist Harvard scholars in depositing their scholarship; maintain repository communities and collections; liaise with university user groups, admins, and technical partners to maintain our repository; and continuously improve repository workflow, data quality, and reporting tools. In close partnership with the SRM, the Digital Repository Coordinator will assist with repository migration, collection, and service strategies, including electronic dissertations and theses (ETD) efforts and other repository-based collaborations within OSRDS, HL, and externally.
OSRDS offers and aids the Harvard community by providing custom support to researchers across the lifecycle of their research outputs. They support the open-access policies adopted by faculty at every Harvard school, advise on the orderly deposit and archiving of research outputs in the most appropriate repository, and promote standards in metadata schema and description practices to enhance discovery. Additionally, they investigate and implement new models for scholarly publishing, including services and infrastructure that leverage current repository work. They collaborate with peers to design forward-looking repository models to provide open access to scholarship.
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