Scholarly Publishing Technician

Category

Charles River Campus -->
Professional

Job Location

Boston, MA, United States

Tracking Code

Posted Date

10/5/2026

Salary Grade

Grade 25

Expected Hiring Range Minimum

$24.00

Expected Hiring Range Maximum

$26.00

The salary of the finalist selected for this role will be set based on a variety of factors, including but not limited to departmental budgets, qualifications, experience, education, licenses, specialty, training and internal pay comparison. The above hiring range represents the University's good faith and reasonable estimate of the range of possible compensation at the time of posting.

Position Type

Full-Time/Regular

Boston University Libraries seeks a Scholarly Publishing Technician to join the Scholarly Publishing and Open Access division of BU Libraries. Scholarly Publishing and Open Access supports sharing and making scholarly research – articles, theses and dissertations, preprints, and grey literature – widely available. OpenBU is Boston University’s institutional repository, enabling the BU researchers to share, disseminate, and preserve their scholarship, and makes their research more accessible.

The Scholarly Publishing Technician will provide operational support and collaborate across BU Libraries to support the theses and dissertation submission cycle; support faculty, staff, students, and alumni depositing to OpenBU; and help organize and maintain metadata and files within the institutional repository.

The Scholarly Publishing Technician will provide institutional repository support by uploading, organizing, tracking, and maintaining content in OpenBU; reviewing metadata; conducting quality assurance checks; and assisting with copyright and open access review.

The Scholarly Publishing Technician will provide theses and dissertations support by reviewing electronic theses and dissertation submissions for accurate metadata, processing approved submissions for deposit in OpenBU and helping maintain documentation that supports the ETD workflow.

The Scholarly Publishing Technician will provide outreach and coordination preparing tracking information and reports, assisting with promotional and instructional materials for open scholarship services, contributing to library initiatives and policy implementation, and participating in meetings, committees, and task forces.

The Scholarly Publishing Technician will provide other duties as assigned.

• Bachelor’s degree.
• One to three years of relevant experience.

Boston University Libraries is a learning organization that supports BU librarians, archivists, and information and subject specialists seeking and sharing knowledge, practices, and perspectives that advance library collections services, and their own professional development. In a collaborative, supportive, and engaging work environment, BU Libraries expert staff assist multidisciplinary research and exploration, build distinctive collections and archives of enduring research value, and empower users to thrive amid an ever-changing information environment.

Located in the heart of Boston, the BU Libraries are embedded in numerous vibrant regional and national library and information specialist networks. The BU Libraries are active members within the Boston Library Consortium (BLC), the Association of Research Libraries (ARL), the Northeast Research Libraries Consortium (NERL), Hathi Trust, and the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI), and library staff at BU serve as engaged thought-leaders on a wide breadth of library management and service areas across diverse communities.

Boston University, a member of the Association of American Universities (AAU), is one of the leading private research and teaching…