Scholarly Publishing Technician

Boston University Libraries seeks a Scholarly Publishing Technician to join the Scholarly Publishing and Open Access division of BU Libraries. Scholarly Publishing and Open Accesssupports sharing and making scholarly research articles theses and dissertations preprints and grey literature widely available. OpenBU is Boston Universitys institutional repository enabling the BU researchers to share disseminate and preserve their scholarship and makes their research more accessible.

The Scholarly Publishing Technician willprovide operational support and collaborate across BU Libraries to support the theses and dissertation submission cycle; support faculty staff students and alumni depositing to OpenBU; and help organize and maintain metadata and files within the institutional repository.

Essential Functions:

The Scholarly Publishing Technician willprovide institutional repository support by uploading organizing tracking and maintaining content in OpenBU; reviewing metadata; conducting quality assurance checks; and assisting with copyright and open access review.

The Scholarly Publishing Technician will provide theses and dissertations support by reviewing electronic theses and dissertation submissions for accurate metadata processing approved submissions for deposit in OpenBU and helping maintain documentation that supports the ETD workflow.

The Scholarly Publishing Technician will provide outreach and coordination preparing tracking information and reports assisting with promotional and instructional materials for open scholarship services contributing to library initiatives and policy implementation and participating in meetings committees and task forces.

The Scholarly Publishing Technician will provide other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Bachelors degree.
• One to three years of relevant experience.

For consideration please submit a cover letter CV and list of professional references. The position will remain open until filled.

Working at Boston University Libraries

Boston University Libraries is a learning organization that supports BU librarians archivists and information and subject specialists seeking and sharing knowledge practices and perspectives that advance library collections services and their own professional a collaborative supportive and engaging work environment BU Libraries expert staff assist multidisciplinary research and exploration build distinctive collections and archives of enduring research value and empower users to thrive amid an ever-changing information environment.

Located in the heart of Boston the BU Libraries are embedded in numerous vibrant regional and national library and information specialist networks. The BU Libraries are active members within the Boston Library Consortium (BLC) the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) the Northeast Research Libraries Consortium (NERL) HathiTrust and the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) and library staff at BU serve as engaged thought-leaders on a wide breadth of library management and service areas across diverse communities.

Boston University a member of the Association of American Universities (AAU) is one of the leading private research and teaching institutions in the world with three primary campuses in the heart of Boston and programs around the globe. Chartered in 1869 the University is home to more than 33000 students from more than 130 countries 375000 living alumni 10000 faculty and staff and 17 schools and colleges.

We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color natural or protective hairstyle religion sex age national origin physical or mental disability sexual orientation gender identity genetic information military service pregnancy or pregnancy-related condition or because of marital parental or veteran status. We are a VEVRAA Federal Contractor.

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