The Head of Open and Digital Scholarship Services (ODSS) leads the ODSS Team in support of evolving campus research needs in the areas of open access, copyright, repositories, open educational resources, and digital scholarship. The team lead’s UT Libraries’ digital scholarship center, the Scholars Lab, which provides researchers with infrastructure, access to subject librarian and domain-situated expertise, and opportunities for learning, collaboration, and presentation. Within the Scholars Lab, the ODSS Team supports campus research and digital scholarship needs and collaborates with other teams to provide related services around open scholarship, research data, the digital humanities, and other evolving aspects of research support. The Head of ODSS provides strategic direction for the Scholars Lab, develops service profiles, and contributes their own domain expertise to supporting researchers.
UT Libraries welcomes applicants for this position who have experience with scholarly communication services and/or digital scholarship services. Specific duties for consultation and teaching support will be assigned based on the skills and experience of the successful candidate. Candidates with expertise in scholarly communication may have experience with open access, copyright, digital publishing, and/or repositories. UT Libraries defines digital scholarship broadly to encompass research needs across the disciplines including the digital humanities, emerging technology, and collections as data.
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