
April 23, 2023
Meet the Educopians: Melanie Schlosser
By Kelly PendergrastMelanie Schlosser is Educopia’s Senior Community Facilitator, working with the Library Publishing Coalition and other communities and projects related to scholarly communications.

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 ...
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Meet the Educopians: Nancy Adams
Nancy Adams is the Program Assistant for the Library Publishing Coalition, one of Educopia's community cultivation partners ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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A Cohort-Based Pilot of the FOREST Framework for Values-Driven Scholarly Communication
The FOREST Framework for Values-Driven Scholarly Communication helps scholarly communication organizations and communities demonstrate, evaluate, and ultimately improve their alignment with key values, including: Financial and Organizational Sustainability; Openness and Interoperability; Representative Governance; Equity, Accessibility, and Anti-Oppression; Sharing of Knowledge; ...
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Introducing Our Shared Leadership Model
The Educopia Institute is excited to announce effective October 1, 2022 Racquel Asante, Katherine Kim, and Jessica Meyerson will serve Educopia Institute as co-directors. Since publishing two blog posts on Educopia’s organizational transition in July (Embracing Change and Shaping Change), ...
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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 ...
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From Vision to Reality: Bringing Resilient Open Source Infrastructure to Library Publishers
The Next Generation Library Publishing project is building a sustainable open source alternative to commercial publishing platforms, expanding choices for values-driven publishers of all sizes. We are on the brink of realizing our vision as we move the pilot implementations ...
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Announcing the DPSC Planning Project
The Educopia Institute, partnering with six members of the Digital Preservation Services Collaborative (APTrust, Chronopolis, CLOCKSS, LYRASIS, MetaArchive, and Texas Digital Library), has been awarded a grant of $147,688 from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) to study ...
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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), ...
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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 ...
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Educopia Newsletter Now Available
We’re delighted to announce the publication of the newest Educopia Newsletter, a quarterly publication that features events, resources, updates, and announcements from our diverse portfolio of research, consulting, and community cultivation work. In this issue, you’ll find: Two new Educopia projects ...
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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 ...
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Shaping Change
“...I thought that we would spend about a year in transition, after which we’d hit some magical moment of homeostasis and hum along for awhile. Seven years later, I’m still waiting for that moment, and have come to realize that ...
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