Publishers are increasingly offering options for purchasing (digital) content, particularly e-books. You will help us find the right purchase regarding price and restrictions on e-books, which will be used by students and teachers in education and research. You will also actively help ordering the media for the University Library. A small part of your time will be spend on taking care of the financial processing of the orders. 

The digitisation of society has a major impact on education and research. With the development towards Open Science and Open Education, it is becoming increasingly important to make information, research data, sources, and collections accessible, retrievable and (re)usable in a sustainable way. UM aims to be completely FAIR by 2023. Information must be retrievable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable. This will have its consequences for the field of metadata. How can we, as a University Library, contribute? A huge challenge for us. The metadata of (digital) content is undergoing many changes. For example, there is an increase in technologies and standards that link digital content and systems, and an increase in ways in which content can be found.

Terms such as: Linked Open Data (LOD), semantic web & ontology, Schema.org., Open Archive Initiative, NL-LOM, Clarin, AI, but also identifiers such as uri, isni, Orcid are becoming more frequent. Does it appeal to you to find out which standards, formats and systems are important for us as a University Library and to discover how to apply them? How they contribute to the FAIR principle and how this influences the work area of ​​the University Library? You are able to give advice, to apply and implement. You will do this together with the collection team. You will also participate in projects related to linked open data. For example, projects related to our special collections.

You and your immediate colleagues will look into the various e-book acquisition possibilities. Regarding the subject of metadata 2.0, you will study the new developments in metadata with linked open data. On both subjects, you will monitor new developments, inform your colleagues and participate in finding efficient ways of making the University Library collections accessible in the University Library systems, for example using linked open data. You will be actively participating and executing, which includes part of the financial settlement of the orders.

• You do not have to be technically skilled, but you do have to be able to work within certain systems and you have to be able to make the connection between systems, formats, and standards. Analytical thinking is, therefore, a requirement
• You are able to, and you have affinity for, delving into complex matters
• You know the ins and outs of academic education and research
• You are familiar with the student world and you know how they work, study and search for information
• You have a HBO degree; relevant work experience is to your advantage
• You have good communication and presentation skills in both Dutch (C1) and English (B2 Cambridge level)
• You are a real team-worker
• You like to work things out, you are a quick thinker and, together with your colleagues, you can take decisive action. You are also creative and not afraid to try new things. Furthermore, you keep up with the relevant literature and you share your knowledge whenever it is needed.

Fixed-term contract: 1 year, with prospect of a permanent employment.

The terms of employment of Maastricht University are set out in the Collective Labour Agreement of Dutch Universities (CAO). Furthermore, local UM provisions also apply. For more information look at the website www.maastrichtuniversity.nl > About UM > Working at UM.

The position is classified in the UFO profile Specialist Scientific Information (level 4, salary scale 8 (max. € 3,606) of Appendix A CAO NU, depending on experience, including fringe benefits and local UM facilities with room for personal development.

Start of work: as soon as possible.

You are part of the Library Locations and Services (LL&S) department.

Work location: You work alternately in the Inner City Library and the Randwyck Library. Where necessary, we work 'hybrid' and facilities will be provided for this.

Maastricht University

Maastricht University is renowned for its unique, innovative, problem-based learning system, which is characterized by a small-scale and student-oriented approach. Research at UM is characterized by a multidisciplinary and thematic approach, and is concentrated in research institutes and schools. Maastricht University has around 20,000 students and 4,700 employees. Reflecting the university's strong international profile, a fair amount of both students and staff are from abroad. The university hosts 6 faculties: Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences, Faculty of Law, School of Business and Economics, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience.

The University Library (UB)

The University Library (UB) is a partner in research and education at Maastricht University (UM) and supports knowledge development and dissemination within the UM community.

The main target groups of the UB are researchers, lecturers, and students of the UM. We also work for the UM campuses, MUMC+, UM contract partners, the city of Maastricht, and regional and euregional educational partners.

If you want to know more about working at the University Library, look at the highlights from 2020 and our annual agenda for 2021. The University Library is responsible for acquiring and making accessible scientific information sources (to a large extent digital) (journals, e-books, data files, DVDs, streaming videos), the digital and physical learning environment of UM, information skills training and e-learning advice, research data management (RDM), and other research support. The University Library often manages the underlying (group) information systems. The culture at the UB is open, collegial, and customer-oriented.