Scholarly Communications Librarian (The William H. Welch Medical Library)

Johns Hopkins, founded in 1876, is America's first research university and home to nine world-class academic divisions working together as one university.

We are seeking a Scholarly Communications Librarian at the Welch Medical Library demonstrates a superior level of knowledge and expertise in scholarly publishing, and will work as an information expert alongside faculty, staff, and students in the Schools of Medicine, Public Health, Nursing, and the Johns Hopkins Health System.

The position develops effective plans, workflows, or processes to provide services that support the university’s mission and program objectives, and partners primarily with the user communities engaged in clinical and academic medicine, nursing, and public health research, and develops new services and curricula to meet evolving users' needs. The position supports strategic integration of scholarly communication services with collections development in the Welch Medical Library. The individual also works with colleagues across the Johns Hopkins Libraries to shape scholarly communications services and support university-wide open access initiatives.

Specific Duties & Responsibilities

• Work with Welch Library team, particularly the Information's team, as well as faculty departments and campus partners to lend expertise, analyze issues and/or needs, develop and implement university-wide open access policies, and choose new publishing models to sustain dissemination of university scholarship.
• Foster increased awareness of publishing options and author rights, including journal selection, Creative Commons licensing, and types of Open Access agreements. Help students and researchers on the health sciences campus build knowledge of publishing options and how each choice will affect distribution and rights to their work.
• Provide support for complying with funder publishing mandates (i.e. NIH Public Access Policy and other federal agencies), including analysis of funder and publisher policies.
• Collaborate with collections development to: a) assess Open Access publisher offers, b) analyze author metrics and trends related to Open Access offers, c) develop guidelines and policies for evaluating successful Open Access partnerships, and d) assess Open Access partnerships to inform future planning.
• Promote Open Access partnerships to Johns Hopkins and manage questions on criteria and author processes for each specific arrangement. Where appropriate, manage approvals for open access requests.
• Monitor the scholarly communications landscape, including related legislative, funding, and publishing trends and metrics. Assess trends and communicate implications across JHU library teams and where appropriate, incorporate into policies and documentation.
• Disseminate information on broader Open Access research and practices in Open Science and Open Data to the Johns Hopkins community.
• Document and analyze JHU author metrics, trends and feedback related to each Open Access partnership.
• Be the subject matter expert (SME) for scholarly publishing for the Welch Medical Library and support outreach, instructional, and consultative services.
• Lend expertise to JH Libraries and other collaborative groups and efforts, including resolution of issues based on knowledge and experience.
• Represent the Welch Medical Library in public forums, including meetings, conferences, and collaborative initiatives.
• Serve on library or institution-wide committees or working groups.
• Establish strong working relationships and communication workflows with a wide variety of internal and external stakeholders.

Minimum Qualifications

• Master’s Degree in Library Science or related field.
• Five years of related experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Demonstrated subject matter expertise related to scholarly publishing.
• Conversant in publishing trends and competencies in undergraduate and graduate medical, public health, and nursing education.
• Demonstrated interest or background in librarian involvement with scholarly publishing trends, equity in scholarly publishing, copyright, SPARC initiatives and other open access policy initiatives.
• Awareness of policies and practices relating to research data, copyright, Open Educational Resources (OER) and scholarly publishing that impact the academic research landscape.