Research Data Librarian & Institutional Repository Manager

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

The Research Data Librarian & Institutional Repository Manager will support the University’s growing research and creative activities through expert guidance in research data management and stewardship of Appalachian State’s Institutional Repository (IR), OpenAIR. This position serves as a campus-wide resource for accessing, managing, analyzing, sharing, and preserving research data, while also ensuring the visibility, discoverability, and long-term impact of App State’s scholarly and creative output.

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• Provide consultations, group instruction, and workshops for faculty, staff, and students on research data management, data ethics, and open science practices, often in partnership with liaison librarians.
• Manage and develop Appalachian State University’s Institutional Repository to support the collection, preservation, discovery, and dissemination of the University’s scholarly, creative, and research output.
• Serve as a campus expert in research data discovery, management, sharing, and reuse.
• Collaborate with the Head of Scholarly Communications, liaison librarians, and other Libraries divisions to identify IR content and conduct outreach to faculty, researchers, and rights holders.
• Assist researchers in identifying and accessing relevant datasets through library resources, disciplinary repositories, data clearinghouses, and open data sources.
• Guide researchers in selecting appropriate repositories for data storage and sharing, including the App State Institutional Repository and external disciplinary or generalist repositories.
• Maintain and enhance metadata for IR collections, ensuring consistency, quality, discoverability, accessibility, and alignment with emerging metadata standards.
• Support researcher identity management and research visibility related to authorship, affiliations, ORCIDiDs, DOIs, and citations.

To be considered for this position, candidates will have the following:

• A master’s degree in library science from an accredited institution or equivalent advanced degree;
• Demonstrated ability to teach, evidenced by teaching experience, instructional training, or facilitation of learning activities;
• Evidence of ability for research or other germane creative activity.

Successful candidates ideally have demonstrated experience or interest in the following:

• Providing research consultations, workshops, and instruction sessions to faculty, students, and researchers, preferably in an academic setting.
• Sustaining a working knowledge of institutional repositories and digital repositories.
• Supporting research data management in a library setting.
• Knowledge of trends, standards, and emerging practices in research data management, metadata, institutional repository platforms, scholarly communication, and research impact metrics.
• Familiarity with basic copyright, licensing, and publication of intellectual work, as well as repository metadata standards, and scripting and data manipulation tools.
• Scholarly publishing at institutions of higher education.
• Understanding of funder requirements for data sharing (e.g., NSF, NIH).
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
• A dynamic environment where responsibilities may shift based on organizational needs.
• Willingness to contribute to institutional mission.

Salary ranges from $65,000 - 69,134 for assistant professor and $75,000 - 90,000 for associate professor. Salary is commensurate with qualifications and experience.

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