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Happy #OpenAccessWeek! 🔓🧡 We want to thank all our authors, reviewers & #DataLibs readers who continually support our library published, open-access, free-to-publish, journal. 🔓 Learn more about #JeSLIB: publishing.escholarship.umassmed.edu/jeslib/site/...

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PLOS

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It’s #OpenAccessWeek and the theme is “The cost of knowledge.” We have always believed knowledge should be accessible to everyone without barriers. PLOS is proud to have been part of the movement to #OpenAccess, but is it time to move beyond the article? Find out more in our report: plos.io/4hTTf0X

Published: Volume 15 Issue 2 📕 This issue celebrates the journal’s evolution, highlights new research, tools, services & challenges shaping data librarianship, and honors our outgoing Editor-in-Chief Regina Raboin. #DataLibs publishing.escholarship.umassmed.edu/jeslib/issue...

New Editorial! 🦋 A Journey with JeSLIB: Open Access, Data Librarianship, and Butterflies by Regina Raboin "JeSLIB has always been a butterfly—beautiful, ever-evolving, journeying to find new and important ways to promote librarians work" #DataLibs #ScholarlyPublishing doi.org/10.7191/jesl...

New Full-Length Paper! 🇳🇬 "Librarian Roles in Supporting Open Science and Data Stewardship: A Case Study of LIS Lecturers in Federal Universities in North-Central Nigeria" by Hussaini Musa & Suleiman Lawal Attahiru #DataLibs #LIS #OpenScience #DataStewardship doi.org/10.7191/jesl...

12 Aug

New Full-Length Article! 📄 "Evolving Standards: An Analysis of Data-Sharing and Citation Policies in Scholarly Journals" by Chris Wiley #DataLibs #JournalPolicies #DataSharing #ScholarlyPublishing doi.org/10.7191/jesl...

12 Aug

New Full-Length Paper! 📊 "Analysis of R2 Data Services within the LIDS Dataset" by Chad Kahl and Joshua Newport #DataLibs #DataServices #CarnegieClassification doi.org/10.7191/jesl...

7 Aug

New Article! 📒 We are excited to publish a 3-part series on LaTeX education. Read part 1 now, featuring OU, Princeton, KAUST & UCBerkeley. LaTeX Instruction in Academic Libraries: Section 1 by Cay del Junco et al. #LaTeX #Overleaf #DataLibs doi.org/10.7191/jesl...

16 July

Our next Curatorial Connections Column with Data Curation Network has been published! 📰 🍎 Apples to Apples? Analog and Digital Data in Curation by Sandi Caldrone #DCN #DataLibs #DataCuration #LegacyData doi.org/10.7191/jesl...

9 July

🔔 Reminder! Submissions for our Special Issue with RDAP are due next week. 📨 If you have questions, please reach out to Associate Editor Sally Gore: bit.ly/jeslib-contact

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📣 Call for Submissions: RDAP 2026 Special Issue All #RDAP26 Summit presenters and attendees are encouraged to submit their work and/or commentaries to the JeSLIB RDAP 2026 Special Issue. Submission Deadline: July 17, 2026 More info on our LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

Happy summer #DataLibs! Explore our stats from the first half of the year and catch up on our latest publications. 📊 2026 Stats: 26,725 article views and 8,257 downloads! 🗺️ Readership Map: datastudio.google.com/s/nAt-VpaWtDk 📕 Current issue: publishing.escholarship.umassmed.edu/jeslib/issue...

4️⃣ Top Viewed Article of the Year: Academic Library Pricing Dataset for SciFinder Scholar, Web of Science, and Scopus: 2018-2024 by Curtis Brundy and Joel B. Thornton doi.org/10.7191/jesl...

5️⃣ Top Viewed Article of the Year: Responsible AI at the Vanderbilt Television News Archive: A Case Study by Clifford B. Anderson and Jim Duran doi.org/10.7191/jesl...

2️⃣ Top Viewed Article of the Year: The Repository of Last Resort? Exploring the Role of Institutional Repositories in the Data Repository Ecosystem through Researcher Perspectives by Cara Key, Diana E. Park, Jane Nichols, Clara Llebot, and L.K. Borland doi.org/10.7191/jesl...

3️⃣ Top Viewed Article of the Year: Evolving the 3-2-1 backup rule for more resilient data by Deb McCaffrey, Erin D. Foster, Lev Gorenstein, Tobin Magle, and Venice Bayrd doi.org/10.7191/jesl...

1️⃣ Top Viewed Article of the Year: Why Can’t I Just Use Dropbox? A Comparison of Cloud File Storage Platforms Used for Research by Tobin Magle and Deb McCafferey doi.org/10.7191/jesl...

7 May

We have officially entered the chat on data papers! 🎉 Our #RDAP26 panel shared how we support data librarian authors. We can't wait to work with you! 📊📄 Check out our slides: "Forging New Roles for Data Librarians in Open Access Publishing" publishing.escholarship.umassmed.edu/jeslib/news/...

4 May

16 Apr

Erin Foster & Associate Editor Sally Gore highlighting JeSLIB at #RDAP26! 🎉 We love supporting this community every year through our Summit Special Issue. We rely on you all to support this free open access publishing. So thank you & we welcome your contributions! 💬 bit.ly/jeslib-contact

14 Apr

Happy RDAP Summit to all who celebrate! 🎉 #RDAP26 All RDAP Summit presenters & attendees are encouraged to submit proposals for our special issue. More information will be shared after the summit. For now, enjoy the summit & start thinking about the amazing work you will share! #DataLibs 👏🏼👏🏽👏🏿👏🏻👏

9 Apr

We are gearing up for #RDAP26! Hope to see you online at our panel presentation on "Forging New Roles for Data Librarians in Open Access Publishing" Thursday, April 16. We'll have some exciting new things to share 🦋 rdapassociation.org/summit/sched...

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Kristin Briney

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1 Apr

Thanks so much Allie and @jeslibjournal.bsky.social for such a lovely review of my book!

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New Book Review! 📘 "Review of The Data Management Workbook by Kristin Briney" by Allie Tatarian #DataLibs #DataManagement #BookReview doi.org/10.7191/jesl...

7 Apr

We have published a Book Review of @kbriney.bsky.social's book "The Data Management Workbook" written by our very own Data Editor Allie Tatarian 📘 Check it out #DataLibs! doi.org/10.7191/jesl...

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Congrats @kbriney.bsky.social! 👏🏼👏🏽👏🏾 Awesome to see your workbook published! 📘 You can read about the development and creation of Kristin's book in her recent JeSLIB article: doi.org/10.7191/jesl...

1 Apr

New Book Review! 📘 "Review of The Data Management Workbook by Kristin Briney" by Allie Tatarian #DataLibs #DataManagement #BookReview doi.org/10.7191/jesl...

1 Apr

Read more about @kbriney.bsky.social and her book in this @pelagic.bsky.social interview 💬 pelagicpublishing.com/blogs/news/t...

Published: Volume 15 Issue 1 📕 Our 8th Special Issue for RDAP highlights works related to #RDAP25 Summit. These 12 articles showcase how data librarians continue to adapt to changing circumstances and expectations. Look back at #RDAP25! publishing.escholarship.umassmed.edu/jeslib/news/32

New Commentary! 🧰 Forging Resilience and Building Capacity: Professional Development in Early-Career Research Data Services by Samantha Harmon doi.org/10.7191/jesl...

New Commentary! 🗣️ Send It Away, or Put It On Display? How librarians and research computing staff can collaborate across language barriers by Venice Bayrd, Erin D. Foster, Lev Gorenstein, Tobin Magle, and Deb McCaffrey doi.org/10.7191/jesl...

New eScience in Action! 📂 Building Open Qualitative Science with Open Curriculum by Nathaniel D. Porter and Sebastian Karcher doi.org/10.7191/jesl...

New Commentary! 💬 Resilient by Design: Assessment Strategies for Data Services from RDAP 2025 by Rose Fredrick doi.org/10.7191/jesl...

New Full-Length Paper! 📊 The Repository of Last Resort? Exploring the Role of Institutional Repositories in the Data Repository Ecosystem through Researcher Perspectives by Cara Key, Diana E. Park, Jane Nichols, Clara Llebot, and L.K. Borland doi.org/10.7191/jesl...

New eScience in Action! 🔐 Identifying Restricted Data Repositories Supporting Mediated Access via Data Usage Agreements by Mary K. Oberlies and Megan Potterbusch doi.org/10.7191/jesl...

New Full-Length Paper! 📝 Strengthening Data Management Systems: Insights from the Machine Actionable Plans (MAP) Project's Institutional Pilots by Matthew Murray, Briana Wham, Matthew Harp, Matthew B. Carson, and Sara Gonzales doi.org/10.7191/jesl...

New Full-Length Paper! 🗄️ Evolving the 3-2-1 backup rule for more resilient data by Deb McCaffrey, Erin D. Foster, Lev Gorenstein, Tobin Magle, and Venice Bayrd doi.org/10.7191/jesl...

New Full-Length Paper! 🔎 The hunt for research data: Development of an open-source workflow for tracking institutionally-affiliated research data publications by Bryan M. Gee doi.org/10.7191/jesl...

New Full-Length Paper! 🏗️ Investigating Graduate Mentor Perspectives on Data Information Literacy and Stewardship in Undergraduate Engineering Research Projects by Joreen Arigye, Wei Zakharov, Carla B. Zoltowski, Sarah Sewell, and Senay Purzer doi.org/10.7191/jesl...

New Full-Length Paper! 🧑‍🏫 Investigating and Addressing the Needs of Research Support Staff by Alissa Link Cilfone and Jen Ferguson doi.org/10.7191/jesl...

New Full-Length Paper! 📇 Building a Lightweight Dataset Catalog in Digital Commons by Claire Warner, Amy Reese, and Marla Hertz doi.org/10.7191/jesl...

New Editorial! 🗞️ Editorial for Special Issue: 2025 Research Data Access and Preservation (RDAP) Summit by Jennifer Chaput, Yijing Angel Tang, Wei Zakharov, and Heather Charlotte Owen doi.org/10.7191/jesl...

Announcing our #RDAP25 Special Issue with RDAP 🔥 New Editorial! 🗞️ Editorial for Special Issue: 2025 Research Data Access and Preservation (RDAP) Summit by Jennifer Chaput, Yijing Angel Tang, Wei Zakharov, and Heather Charlotte Owen doi.org/10.7191/jesl... #DataLibs #ResearchData #RDAPSummit

23 Dec 2025

Happy Holidays and New Year from the entire #JeSLIB Editorial Team! Sending you peace this festive season. Please find time to take a break, relax, and rejuvenate. Whether that's reading a good book or JeSLIB articles! 📕 See you in 2026! 🎉

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Tobin

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doi.orgWhy Can’t I Just Use Dropbox? A Comparison of Cloud File Storage Platforms Used for ResearchObjective: Many researchers use cloud file storage platforms such as Box and Google Drive as the sole data management platform for all of their research data throughout the course of their projects. R...

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🏆 November Top Viewed Article 5️⃣ Why Can’t I Just Use Dropbox? A Comparison of Cloud File Storage Platforms Used for Research by @tobinmagle.bsky.social & Deb McCafferey #DataLibs #DataStorage #CloudFileStorage doi.org/10.7191/jesl...

Happy Holidays #DataLibs! ☃️ Explore our November stats & catch up on our latest publications. 📊 Stats: 37,043 article HTML views and 480,967 article & materials downloads! 🗺️ Readership Map: lookerstudio.google.com/s/rwQ49NIRAao 📕 Current issue: publishing.escholarship.umassmed.edu/jeslib/issue...

doi.orgBuilding a Trustworthy Data Repository: CoreTrustSeal Certification as a Lens for Service ImprovementsObjective: The university library aims to provide university researchers with a trustworthy institutional repository for sharing data. The library sought CoreTrustSeal certification in order to measur...

🏆 November Top Viewed Article 4️⃣ Building a Trustworthy Data Repository: CoreTrustSeal Certification as a Lens for Service Improvements by Cara Key, Clara Llebot & Michael Boock #DataLibs #DataRepositories #CoreTrustSeal doi.org/10.7191/jesl...

doi.orgResponsible AI at the Vanderbilt Television News Archive: A Case StudyWe provide an overview of the use of machine-learning and artificial intelligence at the Vanderbilt Television News Archive (VTNA). After surveying our major initiatives to date, which include the ful...

🏆 November Top Viewed Article 2️⃣ Responsible AI at the Vanderbilt Television News Archive: A Case Study by Clifford B. Anderson and Jim Duran @vanderbilt.edu #DataLibs #ArtificialIntelligence #AI #IMLS doi.org/10.7191/jesl...

doi.orgAcademic Library Pricing Dataset for SciFinder Scholar, Web of Science, and Scopus: 2018-2024This dataset contains database pricing and agreements received through public records requests made to members of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) and a few non-ARL research libraries. Pric...

🏆 November Top Viewed Article 3️⃣ Academic Library Pricing Dataset for SciFinder Scholar, Web of Science, and Scopus: 2018-2024 by Curtis Brundy and Joel B. Thornton #OpenAccess #DataLibs doi.org/10.7191/jesl...