Scholarly Communications Officer

The University of Georgia Libraries seeks a dynamic and collaborative Scholarly Communications Officer to advance outreach and support for the university’s scholarship initiatives. This position will work as a collaborative member of our Research and Computational Data Management (RCDM) team, which brings together key positions including scholarly communications, research data management, digital humanities, social sciences data, and GIS. The Scholarly Communications Officer provides expertise in open scholarship, author rights, copyright, alternative publishing models, and compliance with public-access requirements for federally funded research and is responsible for tracking trends that affect access to scholarly information.

Position Summary:

The Scholarly Communications Officer reports to the Director of Research and Computational Data Management (RCDM) and works closely with the Director of Collections and the Head of Organizational Strategy and Impact. The Scholarly Communications Officer will be responsible for supporting researchers who are navigating the scholarly publishing ecosystem, providing expert guidance related to timely topics including intellectual property law and policy, open research practices, and scholarly publishing.

The Scholarly Communications Officer will also assist researchers with digital scholarship discovery and dissemination, including repository deposit and consistent use of persistent identifiers. They will use a combination of outreach techniques including, but not limited to, targeted outreach and recruitment, consultation hours, synchronous instruction (in-person and virtual), and self-service asynchronous instruction to promote open publishing, rights retention, data storage, and repositories available at UGA.