Library Research Guides: Part-time Temporary Employment for Graduate Students in IU Libraries: Scholarly Communication & Open Educational Resources

Scholarly Communication and Open Educational Resources

POSITION CLOSED FOR FALL 2025 AND SPRING 2026

Name of work area: Scholarly communication
Experience with: R or Python
Creating data visualization, statistical models, and or general quantitative research methods.
Duties:
- Assist with deposits on our data repository: DataCORE (https://datacore.iu.edu)
- Help with data and research consultations
- Collaborate on research projects (academic papers and conference presentations)
- Creating research guides and tutorials
- Assist with creating and teaching workshops on data and research methods.
Applicable Library Settings: Academic
Transferable skills: research methods, consulting, project management
Send resume to Ethan Fridmanski ejfridma@iu.edu
For more information about this department: https://libraries.indiana.edu/scholarly-communication

POSITION FILLED FOR FALL 2024/ SPRING 2025

Name of work area: Scholarly Communication
Experience with: Assist the Research Impact & Open Scholarship Librarian with continuing to develop the Land, Wealth, Liberation Digital Resource and provide faculty support in using and adding to the resource
Applicable library settings: Academic
Transferable skills: Experience with content management systems, knowledge of web archiving, experience with citation management systems, experience with podcasting software, experience with digital pedagogy, experience with open pedagogy
Additional occasional work: Potential to work closely with Institute of Digital Arts & Humanities, Potential to support faculty member in class sessions, exhibit creation
Send resume to: Willa Tavernier wtavern@iu.edu
For more information about this library/department: https://openscholarship.indiana.edu

POSITION FILLED FOR FALL 2024/ SPRING 2025

Name of work area: Scholarly Communication
- Assist the Scholarly Communication department with processing research output for IU Bloomington faculty including faculty-authored articles subject to Indiana University Bloomington's Open Access Policy.
- Perform significant data entry, data analysis projects, and provide input in product development to meet the needs of the Scholarly Communication Department's core constituencies.
- Learn and use a Scholarly Communication Department application to enhance metadata for article records.
- Learn and use data analysis methodology to report on faculty research output.
- Collaborate with staff and other students to improve and edit existing documentation related to the Open Access Policy and research impact procedures.
- Assist the Research Impact and Open Scholarship librarian in data retrieval, organization and visualization for faculty research impact reports
Applicable Library Settings: Academic
Transferable Skills: Knowledge of data retrieval, organization, and visualization, use of APIs
Send resume to Willa Tavernier wtavern@iu.edu
For more information about this library/department: https://openscholarship.indiana.edu/

Name of work area: Scholarly Communication
Experience with: open education, scholarly communication, instruction, assessment, program development/ administration
Applicable library settings: mostly academic
Transferable skills: writing, editing, instruction, outreach, some technical skills (Pressbooks), project management, grant work as appropriate
Additional occasional work: could be opportunities to co-publish/ present, develop their own workshop, etc.
Send resume to: iusw@iu.edu
For more information about this library/department: https://libraries.indiana.edu/scholarly-communication

POSITION FILLED FOR FALL 2025-SPRING 2026

Name of work area: Scholarly Communication
- This position supports the Scholarly Communication department with tasks related to the institutional repository, focusing on data entry, and maintaining accurate and complete records.
  - Depositing IU-authored scholarly output into the institutional repository
  - Using a web-based application to enhance metadata for article records
  - Reviewing and interpreting publishing agreements for scholarly journal articles and books
  - Securing copyright permissions from authors and publishers
  - Communicating with faculty about making their work open access
  - Collaborating with Scholarly Communication staff to maintain documentation related to the role
Applicable Library Settings: Academic, Digital Asset Management
Transferable Skills: Metadata Creation; Digital Asset Management; Knowledge of scholarly publishing, open access, copyright, etc.
Send resume to: Rivkah Cooke racooke@iu.edu
For more information about this library/department: https://openscholarship.indiana.edu/

Part-time Temporary Employment for Graduate Students in IU Libraries