Position available at The Ohio State University – University Libraries
Publishing Services Lead
Description: The Publishing Services Lead reports to the Head of the
Libraries’ Publishing and Repository Services Department and leads an
established program for Open Access publishing in the Libraries. The Lead
keeps abreast of latest trends and best practices in the publishing
environment and will contribute to the Libraries’ strategic initiatives by
providing innovative and sustainable publishing services to support the
sharing and preservation of digital scholarship. The Lead collaborates
across the Libraries (Research Commons, subject and area specialists,
Copyright Resources Center) and campus (including the OSU Press) and works
with current and potential partners, conference organizers, and journal
editors to create, disseminate, and preserve digital scholarly material.
Specific responsibilities include: Supervise production staff; design,
implement, document, and coordinate workflows for multiple concurrent
publishing projects; support and develop outreach and educational
programming; facilitate communication among project stakeholders; perform
and/or manage production tasks including layout editing and data input;
provide consultation and publishing software technical support for editors
and creators of digital content; serve as product owner for publishing
software infrastructure.
About Us: University Libraries’ Publishing and Repository Services (PRS)
engages with partners across the university to increase the amount, value,
and impact of OSU-produced digital content including, but not limited, to
conference proceedings, journals, monographs, working papers, technical
reports, student scholarship, and faculty articles. PRS offers support by
organizing, providing access, distributing, and preserving digital
scholarly material through the Knowledge Bank repository program and the
Libraries’ Open Access Publishing Program. PRS currently uses Open Journal
Systems, DSpace, and WordPress.
Required qualifications: Master’s degree in a relevant discipline or
equivalent combination of education and experience; three years of related
experience; experience with scholarly publishing editorial practices and
the editorial infrastructure of digital publishing platforms (e.g. Open
Journal Systems, WordPress); strong understanding of current academic
scholarly communication principles and requirements; excellent verbal and
written communication skills including ability to explain technical
concepts to a nontechnical audience; ability to work successfully in a
collaborative environment; ability to manage multiple, simultaneous
projects with minimal supervision and to meet deadlines; demonstrated
experience with HTML or XML.
Desired qualifications: Experience documenting relevant policies,
procedures, and local standards related to digital scholarly publishing
projects; experience with creating and delivering effective presentations
and marketing strategies for outreach and engagement; experience with
managing metadata, text, images, and other forms of digital research
content; experience with CSS or PHP; supervisory experience.
Please apply online at
http://www.jobsatosu.com/postings/79878%5Bjobsatosu.com%5D from July 8, 2017
through July 30, 2017.
For more information, please contact:
Erica C. Jonak, MA, PHR, SHRM-CP
Human Resources
University Libraries
305B Thompson Library
1858 Neil Avenue Mall, Columbus, OH 43210
Office: (614) 247-8887 / Fax: (614) 292-7859
Email: jonak.3@osu.edu Website: library.osu.edu[library.osu.edu]
