Table 2 Distribution of Alt-Ac positions (Top 5).

From: Emerging landscapes of “alternative-academic” careers in library and information science: Evolutionary patterns and prospects in the Chinese context

Category

High-Frequency Positions and Word Counts

Total Proportion

Collection Development and Digital Humanities

Ancient Book and Special Collections Research (61), Digital Humanities (40), Document Development (34), Ancient Book Restoration (33), Collection Curation (22)

10.30%

Research Data Management

Data Literacy (52), Data Curation (50), Data Ethics (28), Data Policy (13), Data Security (10)

8.30%

Subject Services and Research Support

Information Literacy Education (85), Subject Librarians (73), Science and Technology Novelty Search (70), Academic Evaluation (63), Subject Intelligence (43)

18.10%

Archival Management and Compilation

Archival Compilation (57), Archival Big Data (35), Project Archival Management (26), Archival Informationization (25), University History Research (25)

9.10%

Information Systems and Technical Services

Semantic Technologies (35), Engineers (34), Knowledge Service Systems (21), Systems Maintenance (17), Smart Library (15)

6.60%

Scholarly Communication and Publishing

Journal Editing (55), Institutional Repository (25), Open Publishing (13), Science Communication (12), Open-Access Transformation Agreements (9)

6.20%

Academic and Industry Research

Academic Research (96), Industry Research (65), Policy Research (42), Researchers (38), Data Research (35)

15%

Administrative Management

Research Management (72), Development Planning (36), General Management (15), E-Governance (9)

7.20%

Intelligence and Patent Analysis

Intellectual Property (91), Intelligence Analysis (84), Knowledge Management (66), Industrial Intelligence (65), Data Mining (46)

19.10%