Join the Digital Scholarship team at Atkins Library! The Digital Scholarship team supports research and publishing on campus by offering services for publishing open access journals, e-books, and conference proceedings as well as maintaining the university’s repository of scholarly works, Niner Commons.

This UPIP position will specifically help implement a new outreach initiative to get open access research in UNC Charlotte's repository of scholarly works, Niner Commons. Responsibilities include:

• Run data pulls on Web of Science to identify open access research not yet in Niner Commons, reaching out to faculty with information on how to deposit.
• Support data cleaning and data remediation for Niner Commons.
• Ingest items into Niner Commons, to include single item deposits and batch ingest projects.
• Identify classes that can use open access books published by the library.
• Register new users wishing to submit manuscripts to journals published by Atkins Library.
• Other publishing support and digital scholarship projects as needed.

Hours are 10/hours per week, with shifts occurring during weekday hours (Monday through Friday, 9am-5pm). Feel free to reach out with any questions – Savannah Lake, Digital Scholarship Librarian, savannah.lake@uncc.edu 

Learning Experience: This job will help develop your data cleaning, outreach, and research skills, as well as give you experience with various software applications (OpenRefine, Islandora). If of interest, there is opportunity for informational interviews and shadowing with people throughout the library.

Plus – there’s a huge benefit! Library student workers are eligible to apply for the Shirley Derting Grubbs Student Employee Scholarship, which awards $10,000 to a library student worker. Join our team for the opportunity to apply for this scholarship.