Research and Data Services Librarian, Zucker School of Medicine

Position Title

Research and Data Services Librarian, Zucker School of Medicine

896784

Administration

School of Medicine

Full-Time

The Research and Data Services Librarian will split their time between Zucker School of Medicine and Long Island Jewish-Forest Hills (LIJ-FH) Hospital. The librarian provides expert consultation, instruction, and support in areas including advanced literature searching, research data management, and open access publishing. The librarian will foster data literacy, promote best practices in research data management, advise on publisher and NIH data/research mandates, manage access to research-related library software, and enhance the library’s efforts in open access publishing support.

The librarian collaborates closely with the Zucker School of Medicine, Northwell Library Council, Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research, and Long Island Jewish-Forest Hills Hospital. This is an administrator position with the potential for non-tenure track faculty status. The librarian will report to the Assistant Dean of Library Services at the Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell. The position requires on-site visits once per week to the Long Island Jewish-Forest Hills (LIJ-FH) Hospital’s library.

• Liaison & Reference Services:
  Provides comprehensive reference and education liaison services for Zucker School of Medicine and Long Island Jewish-Forest Hills Hospital. Services include expert literature searches, evidence-based practice support, and instructional support.
• Advanced Literature Searching:
  Conducts expert medical/clinical literature searches using biomedical databases (e.g., Pub Med, Embase, CINAHL, Scopus, Web of Science).
• Instruction:
  Designs, promotes, and delivers engaging instructional sessions, workshops, and tutorials on various topics including but not limited to literature searching, critical appraisal, conference poster creation, abstract writing, journal selection, evidence-based practice and other research related topics.
• Other:
  Contributes to planning activities and collaborating with colleagues on projects of shared interest in line with the library services and initiatives.

• Consultation:
  Plan and conduct consultations and instruction on data management, data discovery, data repositories, and government or publisher data mandates.
• Data Management Plans (DMPs):
  Assists researchers in reviewing Data Management Plans (DMPs).
• Data Search:
  Assists researchers in locating internal and/or external datasets.
• Instruction:
  Develops and delivers training sessions on foundational data literacy concepts, data discovery, data management plans, and any other data related topics, as needed.
• Research Software Management:
  Manages access to and provides support for research-related library software (e.g. Graph Pad and Biorender).
• Lib Guide Development:
  Develops Lib Guides on research or data related topics.

• Open Access Publishing:
  Provides support for open access publishing initiatives.
• Instruction:
  Educates researchers on scholarly publishing models, open access mandates, author rights, and copyright.
• Institutional Repository:
  Provides back-up support to the Scholarly Communications Librarian for the Academic Works institutional repository, ORCID implementations, and other related projects, as assigned.

• Professional Engagement:
  Participates in professional development and scholarly activities, staying current with emerging trends and best practices in medical librarianship with specific focus on data and research librarianship.
• Education:
  
  Stays current on…