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
April 4, 2024
We have a Vision, and a Mission to lead us there
Since October 2022, Educopia has realized a Shared Leadership Model, refined an iterative organizational development practice, and introduced tactics to continuously strengthen our relational framework, i.e., our ways of working in community. Today, we’re unveiling our new Vision and Mission statements.
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
January 16, 2024
Jackson Huang
Jackson Huang is the Program Officer for Sustainable Digital Infrastructures, where they serve as the community facilitator for the MetaArchive Cooperative and support research and consulting projects around digital preservation. Their work integrates critical perspectives and social justice into technical decision-making, community governance, and operational work around technological infrastructure in libraries and archives, in order … Continue reading Jackson Huang
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: Melanie Schlosser
Melanie Schlosser is Educopia’s Senior Community Facilitator, working with the Library Publishing Coalition and other communities and projects related to scholarly communications.
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
Educopia awarded $750,000 from the Mellon Foundation for Cita Press
Educopia is thrilled to announce an award in the amount of $750,000 from the Mellon Foundation to our fiscal sponsee, Cita Press. This grant will support Scaling Small: Partnerships and organizational resilience for Cita Press, a three-year project involving the implementation of a strategic roadmap for capacity building and financial sustainability for Cita Press. The … Continue reading Educopia awarded $750,000 from the Mellon Foundation for Cita Press
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.
February 1, 2023
Meet the Educopians: Jessica Meyerson
In October 2022, Educopia moved to a new collaborative leadership model. Jessica Meyerson took on the role of Co-Executive Director along with Katherine Kim and Racquel Asante. Jessica’s focus as Co-Director is on organizational development and community cultivation.
November 1, 2022
NGLP Community Forum: Library Publishing
Please join the Next Generation Library Publishing (NGLP) project for our fourth community forum on November 29 at 12 PM Eastern / 9 AM Pacific. This is a free event, but registration is required.