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September 28, 2019
Katherine Kim
Katherine Kim is Co-Executive Director at Educopia Institute, where she is responsible for research, consulting, and project management. Along with Co-Executive Directors Racquel Asante and Jessica Meyerson, she supports Educopia’s commitment to empower collaborative communities to create, share, and preserve knowledge. She was previously the Assistant Director of the Digital Library Federation, where she supported … Continue reading Katherine Kim
September 27, 2019
Sustaining Digital Curation and Preservation Training in the U.S.: Compiled Project Reports
This report serves as a compilation of two reports produced in a one-year project, “Sustaining Digital Curation and Preservation Training,” which was conducted from July 2018 to June 2019, through the generous funding of the Institute for Museum and Library Services. In this compilation, we document a critical problem area we have been researching – … Continue reading Sustaining Digital Curation and Preservation Training in the U.S.: Compiled Project Reports
September 25, 2019
Brandon Locke
As Program Officer for Community Cultivation, Brandon provides facilitation support for the Library Publishing Coalition and works across other Educopia affiliated communities and fiscally sponsored initiatives. Brandon’s community cultivation work includes backbone coordination support, streamlining processes, and identifying areas where fiscal sponsees can build additional capacity. Brandon is passionate about right-sizing infrastructures for groups in … Continue reading Brandon Locke
September 23, 2019
Eric Martin
As the Administrative Coordinator for Operations for Educopia Institute, Eric provides personnel support across Educopia’s affiliated communities and research projects. Prior to joining Educopia, Eric served as the Business Service Coordinator at the University of North Carolina Wilmington’s University Learning Center and as an Assistant Branch Manager in the Florence County Public Library system. He … Continue reading Eric Martin
September 15, 2019
Jessica Meyerson
Jessica Meyerson is Co-Director at Educopia Institute, where she is responsible for organizational development and the fiscal sponsorship portfolio. Along with Co-Directors Racquel Asante and Katherine Kim, she supports Educopia’s commitment to empower collaborative communities to create, share, and preserve knowledge. Jessica connects intentionality in daily practice to system-level change, and cares about co-creating cultures … Continue reading Jessica Meyerson
September 9, 2019
Next Generation Library Publishing
In this project, Educopia, California Digital Library (CDL), and Strategies for Open Science (Stratos), in close partnership with Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR), Longleaf Services, and Janeway are working to advance and integrate open source publishing infrastructure to provide robust support for library publishing. Our project goals include: Creating a more balanced, effective academic publishing … Continue reading Next Generation Library Publishing
August 28, 2019
Next Generation Library Publishing partnership awarded $2.2M from Arcadia to improve scholarly publishing infrastructures
Educopia Institute is pleased to announce an award in the amount of $2,200,000 from Arcadia—a charitable fund of Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin—in support of the “Next Generation Library Publishing” project. Through this project, Educopia and its partner institutions—California Digital Library (CDL), Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR), Longleaf Services, LYRASIS, and Strategies for Open … Continue reading Next Generation Library Publishing partnership awarded $2.2M from Arcadia to improve scholarly publishing infrastructures
August 25, 2019
Melanie Schlosser
Melanie Schlosser is the Senior Community Facilitator, working with the Library Publishing Coalition and other communities and projects related to scholarly communications. Before coming to Educopia, Melanie spent almost ten years as a faculty member at the Ohio State University Libraries, working with digital publishing, the institutional repository, and a variety of other scholarly communications-related … Continue reading Melanie Schlosser
August 9, 2019
Library Publishing Workflows
Quick Links to Project Deliverables Library Publishing Workflows blog posts (all) Library Publishing Workflows Pain Points blog series Library Publishing Workflows Preliminary Findings (Poster & Video) “Modeling library editorial workflows to promote open publication of scholarly journals: The American Library Publishing Workflows project.” (English language preprint) Libraries and the importance of infrastructure (Recording) Working through … Continue reading Library Publishing Workflows
July 23, 2019
Why Are So Many Scholarly Communication Infrastructure Providers Running a Red Queen’s Race?
A few weeks ago, we at Educopia published the first project deliverable for the “Mapping Scholarly Communication Infrastructure” project, which we’re working on with Middlebury College and TrueBearing Consulting. The deliverable is a report and a set of data visualizations based on our deep dive into the organizational and technical infrastructures of “Scholarly Communication Resources,” … Continue reading Why Are So Many Scholarly Communication Infrastructure Providers Running a Red Queen’s Race?
July 2, 2019
Educopia and LPC awarded IMLS Grant to study journal publishing workflows
We are very excited to report that Educopia Institute, the Library Publishing Coalition, and twelve partner libraries (Atlanta University Center, California Digital Library, Claremont Colleges, Columbia University, Illinois Wesleyan University, Pacific University, University of Alberta, University of Michigan, University of Pittsburgh, University of Redlands, Virginia Tech, and Wayne State University) have received an Institute of … Continue reading Educopia and LPC awarded IMLS Grant to study journal publishing workflows
June 20, 2019
Educopia Releases “Mapping the Scholarly Communication Landscape – 2019 Census” Report and Data Visualizations
We are pleased to announce a new report released by Educopia Publications: “Mapping the Scholarly Communication Landscape – 2019 Census.” The paper, authored by Katherine Skinner (Educopia) and edited by David Lewis, Mike Roy, and Melanie Schlosser, is the product of an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation-funded project, “Mapping the Scholarly Communication Infrastructure,” led by Middlebury … Continue reading Educopia Releases “Mapping the Scholarly Communication Landscape – 2019 Census” Report and Data Visualizations
June 20, 2019
Mapping the Scholarly Communication Landscape – 2019 Census
This report documents the design, methods, results, and recommendations of the 2019 Census of Scholarly Communication Infrastructure Providers (SCIP), a Census produced by the “Mapping the Scholarly Communication Infrastructure” project team (Andrew W. Mellon Foundation; Middlebury College, 2018-19). The SCIP Census was created to document key components comprising the organizational, business, and technical apparatuses of … Continue reading Mapping the Scholarly Communication Landscape – 2019 Census
May 13, 2019
Census of Scholarly Communication Resources
This census assesses factors influencing the sustainability and “fit-for-purpose” of Scholarly Communication Resources (SCRs) – tools, services, and systems. It is intended to help to guide development of and investments in scholarly communication infrastructures. We welcome responses from any Scholarly Communication Resource active in the world today. Census Instrument Link: Census for Scholarly Communication Infrastructure (live and … Continue reading Census of Scholarly Communication Resources
May 3, 2019
PEGI Project National Forum Summary and Report
This report provides a synopsis of the Preservation of Electronic Government Information (PEGI) National Forum, hosted in December 2018, in Washington, D.C. with generous funding by the Institute of Museum and Library Services. This facilitated meeting was designed to enable librarians, archivists, and researchers to explore and address targeted concerns regarding long-term access to historically … Continue reading PEGI Project National Forum Summary and Report
April 15, 2019
Collaboratively Maintaining Scholarship: Addressing Socio-Technical Scholarly Communications Challenges
In this talk, I plan to encourage you all to think and plan rigorously for the formation of the Michigan Digital Preservation Network by learning from the experiences of the many, many other communities that have formed both within and beyond the library, archives, and museum communities. I’ll provide all of you with a new … Continue reading Collaboratively Maintaining Scholarship: Addressing Socio-Technical Scholarly Communications Challenges
April 8, 2019
Towards Coherence through Collective Action: Laying the Foundation for Sustainable, Open Infrastructure
Three coordinated initiatives to talk about: Invest In Open Infrastructure (IOI) Open Platform Initiative Mapping Scholarly Infrastructure Census Outline for the conversation: Framing: Mission and Vision Overview of the Initiatives The Niche For Action Open Questions, and Conversation Direction and Next Steps
March 15, 2019
Community Transition
Digital preservation is, by definition, a long-term commitment. Libraries, archives, and museums engaging in this crucial work must actively plan to maintain digital assets through decades, centuries, and millennia. As such, these organizations must both anticipate and welcome change. When the Educopia Institute helped MetaArchive Cooperative to formalize as a membership community and service in … Continue reading Community Transition
February 11, 2019
Community Acceleration
The question of when to tackle formal strategic planning is a tricky one for any community. Strategic plans can be powerful instruments for communities that are ready for them, but at some stages of community development, a labor-intensive planning process may sap energy needed elsewhere or stymie playful innovation. We’ve found that strategic planning is … Continue reading Community Acceleration
February 8, 2019
Making Community Spaces Safer…
We deserve a better organization. We deserve a better profession. What happened to me and what happens to so many others cannot be allowed to continue. – April Hathcock “ALAMW: What Happened, and What Should Happen Next” All of us at Educopia have been actively grappling with the recently reported ALA Midwinter 2019 Code of … Continue reading Making Community Spaces Safer…