Research, Open Scholarship

7 months ago


Johannesburg, South Africa University of the Witwatersrand Full time

**Qualifications and Required Skills**:

**Desirable Requirements**:

- Master’s degree in Library and Information Science

**Knowledge and skills**:

- Strong expertise with bibliometric, Almetric Explorer, and Dimensions software (e.g. InCites, SciVal, citations, Google Scholar Metrics, etc.)
- Solid experience of basic and derivative bibliometrics (publication counts, citation counts, h-index, journal or discipline normalized metrics, and other index metrics)
- Excellent expertise related to researcher identification and experience using researcher profiling systems (e.g. ORCID, Google Scholar, Researcher ID, etc.)
- Understanding of the issues related to responsible research evaluation via bibliometric data; conversant with issues related to the quantification of research impact.
- Training and evaluation skills
- Information analyzing, evaluating, and organising skills

**Advanced knowledge**:

- Developing, advancing, implementing, and supporting a range of services around scholarly output, research impact, and bibliometrics across the university
- Excellent collaboration with the Research Office, Student Development Office; Writing Centres, colleagues within the libraries, and other collaborators to develop and support services around the measurement of research impact for the faculties and the University, with a focus on bibliometrics and altimetric.
- Solid ability to work with multiple stakeholders, including senior leadership, to establish and negotiate work priorities and deadlines based on institutional priorities.
- Knowledge of Higher education policies and processes
- Legal requirements with regard to information distribution and information media
- Knowledge of copyright law.

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**Recommendation**:

**Responsibilities**:

- Promote the use of Altmetrics and bibliographic management software (Citation and research impact Tools).
Develop a range of publishing opportunities using platforms like WiredSpace, OMP, OJS, and data institutional data repository.
Assist researchers and postgraduate students with their Researcher Profiles (i.e.ORCID, Google Scholar Citation Profile, etc.)
Develops and manages relationships to support academics and researchers in their research assessment and rating.
Build awareness of good academic conduct by providing advocacy and support on
bibliographic management software (Citation Tools), i.e. Zotero, Endnote, RefWorks, and Mendeley.
Develop and present curriculum-based information literacy training with Research Librarians.
Provide library orientation, and information literacy training (capture training sessions on the library online training calendar).
Responsible for the production of Lib Guides website content in liaison with the Faculty Library Managers and Research Librarians.

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