I can't help with any specifics, as it's outside of my experience, but if you're looking for what sort of aspects you might want to consider offering (and thus what sort of tasks the position might do), then you might want to take a look at Priam and Hemminger's Decoupling the Scholarly Journal, which breaks down the different journal tasks: https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/computational-neuroscience/articles/10.3389/fncom.2012.00019/full
Priem was also one of the authors of the Altmetrics Manifesto, about finding other ways to measure the reach of journal articles, and that might be important to help justify the position long term: https://web.archive.org/web/20240118194910/http://altmetrics.org/manifesto/
(original website is throwing an error)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altmetrics ;
https://altmetric.figshare.com/articles/online_resource/The_State_of_Altmetrics_A_tenth_anniversary_celebration/13010000?file=24977783
-Joe
> On Aug 18, 2026, at 3:13 PM, Shedd, Julie <JShedd_at_library.msstate.edu> wrote:
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> Crossposted.
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> Good afternoon -
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> Does your organization have a person dedicated to working with the journals you host? I'm not thinking the usual scholarly communication librarian, but someone whose whole job is working with hosted journals.
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> I manage our institutional repository, including its hosted journals. As costs associated with building and managing and publishing in journals continue to rise, our journal hosting service is becoming more and more popular. I have a lot of other duties (as do we all!) and am nearly at critical mass. Also, I'd love to offer more services to our hosted journals - currently we only offer the platform (Digital Commons) and some help with indexing and DOIs, but I'd love to offer some formatting/editing services, maybe even some peer reviewer management services. This won't really be possible without help.
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> I would like to propose to my library admin that we create a position to liaise with our journal hosting clients, from initial contact to ongoing maintenance. If you have such a position, I'd love to see the job description so I can get a good idea what to ask for.
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> Thank you!
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> Julie D. Shedd<https://www.library.msstate.edu/directory/julie-shedd-jed31>, MA/MLIS
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> Assistant Professor of Practice
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> Director of Open Scholarship Initiatives, MSU Libraries
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> https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7508-9033
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> (662) 325-0300 | jshedd_at_library.msstate.edu<mailto:jshedd_at_library.msstate.edu>
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Received on Wed Aug 19 2026 - 07:54:45 EDT