Scholarly Communication Librarian

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The Cushing/Whitney Medical Library seeks a Scholarly Communication Librarian to support students, faculty, staff, and clinicians at the Yale Schools of Medicine, Nursing, and Public Health, as well as the Yale New Haven Health System (YNHHS). The librarian serves as the primary point of contact for scholarly communication and provides consultations, instruction, and outreach on topics including scholarly publishing, compliance with funder public access mandates, publishing ethics, research impact assessment, and emerging trends in scholarly communication.

The librarian collaborates with colleagues across the Medical Library and the Yale Library system to advance shared scholarly communication initiatives. The position reports to the Program Director for Collection Strategy and Scholarly Communication. This position will be assigned a rank of Librarian 3 based on a combination of professional experience and accomplishments. Librarian ranking information can be found at: (Use the "Apply for this Job" box below)./YULRanks

Promotions. The budgeted range for this position is $70-82K.

• Excellent oral, written, and interpersonal communication skills.
• Demonstrated ability to work both independently or collaboratively in a diverse team environment, and to effectively build partnerships and promote the library.
• An understanding of current trends, challenges, and best practices in the scholarly communication ecosystem.
• Experience providing instruction, consultations, or outreach services in an academic or health sciences setting.
• Familiarity with bibliometrics, citation analysis, altmetrics, and tools used to assess and demonstrate scholarly impact.

• Provides consultations, instruction, and outreach on a wide range of scholarly communication topics to Yale medical campus affiliates.
• Guides researchers in journal selection; open access publishing options (including green, gold, and diamond models); the use of Yale-supported publishing agreements and repositories (e.g., APC waivers and Eli Scholar); and compliance with public access requirements from major funders, including the NIH and NSF.
• Assists researchers in evaluating journals and conferences, identifying predatory or deceptive publishing practices, and interpreting indicators of editorial quality and integrity.
• Promotes the adoption of persistent identifiers and advises on scholarly identity management, including ORCID and researcher profiles like Google Scholar.
• Provides support and guidance on the responsible use of bibliometrics, citation metrics, and alternative metrics to demonstrate research impact for promotion, funding, and reporting purposes.
• Collaborates with the Scholarly Communication and Collection Strategy team on Yale Library-wide scholarly communication initiatives by participating in committees, working groups, and collaborative projects.
• Collaborates with CWML librarians whose work intersects with scholarly communication, including partnering to create and maintain web content and supporting data sharing, transparency, and reproducibility practices; collaborate with other librarians to deliver integrated research and instructional support.
• Participates in the Medical Library’s Scholarly Communications and Open Access Special Interest Group.
• Under the direction of the Program Director for Collection Strategy and Scholarly Communication, assesses medical campus…