Location: | London, Hybrid |
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Salary: | £43,309 to £52,318 per annum |
Hours: | Full Time |
Contract Type: | Permanent |
Placed On: | 22nd April 2024 |
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Closes: | 7th May 2024 |
Job Ref: | ACA00289 |
Location: This is a hybrid role, with a minimum 40% of working time onsite at South Kensington Campus
Job Summary
As the Copyright and Scholarly Communications Librarian you will proactively lead copyright literacy advice, teaching and training aimed at academic, teaching and research staff, and for students at all levels.
Understanding individual rights in academic work, encouraging the creation of open access publications and educational resources, and promoting open research practice are all critical and emerging areas in scholarly communications, and you will provide expertise and advice across all these. This will include raising awareness of rights retention strategies, and the role of copyright and licensing in the ethical use of information sources in academic work.
There will be opportunity to develop and expand on existing and new areas of advice and guidance, such as:
Duties and responsibilities
You will be responsible for the delivery and advocacy of the Library Services copyright and scholarly licensing service, implementing strategies to promote copyright literacy across the university. You will want to actively address inequities in scholarly communications and access to learning and research material.
You will:
Essential requirements
You will have knowledge of UK copyright legislation, and of licensing and rights issues connected to the creation of and access to digital content and for teaching resource preparation and understand copyright licensing schemes such as Creative Commons.
You will be able to analyse complex problems and communicate appropriate solutions to a range of audiences. You should have good advocacy and influencing skills.
Your experience should include:
Further Information
This is a full-time, open-ended post.
Further information about salary, terms & conditions and contract type/duration can be found on our web pages.
Should you require any further details on the role please contact: Ruth Harrison – r.e.harrison@imperial.ac.uk
Closes: 7th May 2024
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