September 8, 2022
Scaling Diamond OA: Universities as Centers of Open Publishing Excellence
From the Budapest Open Access Initiative 20th anniversary recommendations to the UNESCO Recommendation for Open Science and the Harvard endorsement of Diamond OA, many recent reports on open scholarship are calling for scholarly research to be published and disseminated via open infrastructure that is community-owned and -governed. This call for open infrastructure is particularly important … Continue reading Scaling Diamond OA: Universities as Centers of Open Publishing Excellence
January 7, 2021
Making Community Spaces Safer: A Tool to Help Community Leaders Accept and Act on Values-Related Feedback
Over the course of 2020-2021, members of the Educopia staff will be contributing blog posts to the “Making Community Spaces Safer” series. Each post will explore one of our organizational values and describe our efforts to live into that value, including our successes, our failures, and the hard-won lessons that occur in between. We will announce … Continue reading Making Community Spaces Safer: A Tool to Help Community Leaders Accept and Act on Values-Related Feedback
January 13, 2015
Funding Panel: Innovative Funding Models
Science relies on funding. The models that have controlled scientific research funding for the last half century have brought us where we are today. But do they also contain the seeds of their own destruction? Despite the obvious benefits of rigorous peer review in funding cycles, excessively competitive review processes can encourage counter-productive behaviour by … Continue reading Funding Panel: Innovative Funding Models
May 23, 2011
Aligning National Approaches to Digital Preservation Conference
The Aligning National Approaches to Digital Preservation conference developed out of a series of conversations between the Educopia Institute, the U.S. Library of Congress, the University of North Texas, Auburn University, the MetaArchive Cooperative, and the National Library of Estonia about the need for a forum where preservation programs from different national contexts can share … Continue reading Aligning National Approaches to Digital Preservation Conference
March 28, 2024
Reflections in Transition: Planting the Seeds for Renewal
Educopia is 18 years old—a milestone year. At this milestone, we’re taking a moment to pause in our journey and survey our landscape and the results of the seeds we have planted, i.e., the communities, initiatives, and opportunities that we have nurtured and stewarded. We have contributed to transformational, systems-level change in the knowledge landscape … Continue reading Reflections in Transition: Planting the Seeds for Renewal
August 29, 2023
Protected: Next Generation Library Publishing: Pilot to Production
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June 27, 2023
Wintergreen Women Writers Collective Receives $150,000 Award from Mellon Foundation
The Wintergreen Women Writers Collective is pleased to announce that it has been awarded a $150,000 grant from the Mellon Foundation to support its mission of promoting the work of women writers. The grant will be administered by the Educopia Institute, the Collective’s fiscal sponsor, and supported by James Madison University Libraries.
June 14, 2023
Wintergreen Women Writers Collective: Sacred Work
Through this project, Wintergreen Women Writers Collective co-founder and JMU faculty member Dr. Joanne Gabbin and JMU Libraries Director of Digital Scholarship and Distinctive Collections Caitlin Birch will develop a viable model to sustain Wintergreen Women as a 35-year-old collective centering the encouragement and support of Black writing and culture, and document and preserve the … Continue reading Wintergreen Women Writers Collective: Sacred Work
April 23, 2023
Meet the Educopians: Nancy Adams
Nancy Adams is the Program Assistant for the Library Publishing Coalition, one of Educopia’s community cultivation partners.
April 9, 2023
Mellon Foundation Awards Educopia $2.1 Million for Organizational Capacity Building
The Educopia Institute, a non-profit organization dedicated to empowering collaborative communities to create, share, and preserve knowledge, is proud to announce it has received a $2.1 million grant from the Mellon Foundation. The grant will support the organization’s capacity building efforts from April 2023 to March 2026.
April 9, 2023
Cita Press: Scaling Small
Through this project, Founder and Design Director Juliana Castro and Editorial Director Jessi Haley will enable the expansion of the Cita Press (citapress.org) catalog (both content and functionality), pursue joint projects with Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) and other partners, and pilot and implement revenue-generating programs to sustain Cita in the long term. In direct … Continue reading Cita Press: Scaling Small
February 9, 2023
Educopia Announces 2022 and 2023 Board Appointments
Educopia is pleased to announce five board members: Bergis Jules, Lupe Solorio, Bethany Nowviskie, Sayeed Choudhury, and Adele Vrana.
February 2, 2023
Meet the Educopians: Katherine Kim
In October 2022, Educopia moved to a new collaborative leadership model. Katherine Kim took on the role of Co-Executive Director along with Racquel Asante and Jessica Meyerson. Katherine’s focus as Co-Director is on research, consulting, and project management.
February 2, 2023
Meet the Educopians: Racquel Asante
In October 2022, Educopia moved to a new collaborative leadership model. Racquel Asante took on the role of Co-Executive Director along with Katherine Kim and Jessica Meyerson. Racquel’s focus as Co-Director is on finance and people operations.
October 11, 2022
The DPSC Planning Project is Recruiting Stakeholders
The DPSC Planning Project is recruiting up to 30 individuals to serve on two stakeholder groups: the Service User Group and the Advisory Board. These stakeholders will serve as important sources of user requirements and expertise as we plan a robust service model for values-driven, community-supported distributed digital preservation. Service User Group (up to 20 … Continue reading The DPSC Planning Project is Recruiting Stakeholders
August 16, 2022
Next Generation Library Publishing project: Portable data, modular tools, and shared values
As a follow on to our Building Data Resilience through Collaborative Networks Symposium, we are publishing a blog series featuring each of our presenters. This is the third in that series. Back in 2017, Elsevier acquired the Berkeley Electronic Press (bepress), the journals and institutional repository platform of choice for a great many library publishers who … Continue reading Next Generation Library Publishing project: Portable data, modular tools, and shared values
August 4, 2022
Obstacles and Strategies in Research Data Sharing and Reuse
As a follow on to our Building Data Resilience through Collaborative Networks Symposium, we are publishing a blog series featuring each of our presenters. This is the second in that series. I’d like to start my remarks by talking about our end game: achieving the full power for the open sharing and reuse of research data, … Continue reading Obstacles and Strategies in Research Data Sharing and Reuse
August 3, 2022
DPSC Planning Project: Sustainable Community-Owned Partnerships in Digital Preservation
Educopia Institute is partnering with six members of the Digital Preservation Services Collaborative (APTrust, Chronopolis, CLOCKSS, LYRASIS, MetaArchive, and Texas Digital Library) to articulate the need for values-driven, community-supported distributed digital preservation service options and to propose a service model for collaboration that ensures the authority, sustainability, and viability of these options. This service model … Continue reading DPSC Planning Project: Sustainable Community-Owned Partnerships in Digital Preservation
July 29, 2022
Reviews in the Digital Humanities
As a follow on to our Building Data Resilience through Collaborative Networks Symposium, we are publishing a blog series featuring each of our presenters. This is the first in that series. Founded in 2019 and launched January 2020, Reviews in Digital Humanities is an open-access, peer-reviewed journal facilitating scholarly evaluation and discovery of digital scholarship. … Continue reading Reviews in the Digital Humanities
June 30, 2022
Educopia Partnering with Curtin University and OAPEN to Create a Community Governed OA Book Analytics Service for Publishers
Press Release, Educopia Institute BAD Project Ready for release, June 30, 2022 With more than AUD $1M in support from the Mellon Foundation, we at Educopia are excited to be working with collaborative partners at Curtin University and OAPEN on the Book Analytics Dashboard Project (2022-2025) to support the creation of a community-governed OA … Continue reading Educopia Partnering with Curtin University and OAPEN to Create a Community Governed OA Book Analytics Service for Publishers