December 9, 2021
Collective Stewardship of Open Infrastructure for Library Publishing: A Framework for Cooperation
By Sarah LippincottThe Next Generation Library Publishing project (NGLP) is committed to empowering library publishers through a combination of technical solutions and values-driven infrastructure. We believe that new software alone can’t create large-scale and lasting change. In order to make our open source software (OSS) accessible to libraries at all scales, and to ensure it aligns over the long term with academic values, we also need values-based approaches to stewardship and deployment. To this end, NGLP has convened a working group that assembles software developers, potential service providers, and library publishing advocates to strategize collaborative maintenance of NGLP’s software components and build sustainable services around them. (more…)
Collective Stewardship of Open Infrastructure for Library Publishing: A Framework for Cooperation
The Next Generation Library Publishing project (NGLP) is committed to empowering library publishers through a combination of technical solutions and values-driven infrastructure. We believe that new software alone can’t create large-scale and lasting change. In order to make our open ...
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Educopia Releases 2020 Annual Report
Educopia is delighted to announce that our 2020 Annual Report is now available for download. The Annual Report includes a letter from Educopia's Executive Director, a comprehensive listing of our research partners and affiliated community members, a recap of our ...
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Building Community through Transparent Open Source Development
In October, the Next Generation Library Publishing project hosted its first Community Forum, presented by principal investigators Katherine Skinner (Educopia), Kristen Ratan (Stratos), and Catherine Mitchell (CDL). The forum introduced NGLP’s holistic approach to empowering library publishers and provided progress ...
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What are the Barriers to Teaching Digital Forensics?
To state the obvious, today’s creation and dissemination of knowledge is overwhelmingly digital. Most library, museum, and archives acquisitions now include (and some are even dominated by) digital content in a wide variety of containers and formats. Information managers are ...
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Next Generation Library Publishing Project Announces Partnership with Janeway
Janeway will join the California Digital Library and Longleaf to pilot three different service models for the software components developed through the Next Generation Library Publishing project. The Next Generation Library Publishing (NGLP) project takes a holistic approach to reenvisioning ...
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Library Publishing Workflows Project Releases Journal Workflow Documentation
There is no single correct way for a library to publish journals; it’s a process that often grows organically in response to local needs. However, having models to draw from when creating or updating a journal publishing workflow can result ...
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NGLP Community Forum: Sharing Our Progress and Opportunities for Involvement
Please join the Next Generation Library Publishing (NGLP) project for our first community forum on Thursday, October 28th (9 AM PT/noon ET). This is a free event, but registration is required. Over the past two years, our team has been ...
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Educopia Newsletter Now Available
We’re delighted to announce the publication of the latest Educopia Newsletter, a quarterly publication that features events, resources, updates, and announcements from our diverse portfolio of research, consulting, and community cultivation work ...
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Educopia Releases “Governance in Formation: Identifying Priorities for Action and Making Decisions”
Earlier this year, in an effort to empower collaborative communities to grow and share knowledge, Educopia published the first guide in a series of entirely open tools, templates, and guidance documentation to help communities navigate common challenges encountered as they ...
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Making Community Spaces Safer: On Being “Inclusive”
This post was adapted from The PPPDiaries "Is everyone else nodding?" Educopia is a fully remote organization, so video calls were old hat even before the pandemic. We get to meet up occasionally, but for the most part we communicate ...
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Virtual Conferencing on a Shoestring: Thoughts on the Budget
About this series: The 2021 Virtual Library Publishing Forum was a huge success, combining excellent content with smooth facilitation and a liberal dose of whimsy and care. We decided to pull back the curtain on how it was run to ...
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Sponsorship, Streamlined: How We Shifted In-Person Benefits to a Virtual Space
About this series: The 2021 Virtual Library Publishing Forum was a huge success, combining excellent content with smooth facilitation and a liberal dose of whimsy and care. We decided to pull back the curtain on how it was run to ...
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Pets, Plants, and New Partnerships: Creating Space for Social Activities at LPForum21
About this series: The 2021 Virtual Library Publishing Forum was a huge success, combining excellent content with smooth facilitation and a liberal dose of whimsy and care. We decided to pull back the curtain on how it was run to ...
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You Always Need More People Than You Think: Staffing a Virtual Conference
About this series: The 2021 Virtual Library Publishing Forum was a huge success, combining excellent content with smooth facilitation and a liberal dose of whimsy and care. We decided to pull back the curtain on how it was run to ...
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Stick-With-What-You-Have and Add Slowly: Configuring Technology for a Virtual Conference
About this series: The 2021 Virtual Library Publishing Forum was a huge success, combining excellent content with smooth facilitation and a liberal dose of whimsy and care. We decided to pull back the curtain on how it was run to ...
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Blending the Synchronous with the Asynchronous: Strategies for Planning a Successful Conference Program
About this series: The 2021 Virtual Library Publishing Forum was a huge success, combining excellent content with smooth facilitation and a liberal dose of whimsy and care. We decided to pull back the curtain on how it was run to ...
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Finding Connectedness, Inspiration, and Comfort at the 2021 Library Publishing Forum
About this series: The 2021 Virtual Library Publishing Forum was a huge success, combining excellent content with smooth facilitation and a liberal dose of whimsy and care. We decided to pull back the curtain on how it was run to ...
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A Strengths-Based Approach to Evaluation and Transformational Change in Publishing
When Katherine Skinner and I published the Values and Principles Framework and Checklist last year, we introduced them as mechanisms to hold actors in the scholarly communication system accountable to their stakeholders and demonstrate their commitment to openness in concrete ...
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Educopia Releases Q2 Newsletter
We're delighted to announce the publication of the Q2 2021 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: MetaArchive Cooperative's ...
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Alexandra Chassanoff and Colin Post Receive SAA Preservation Publication Award for “OSSArcFlow Guide”
Alexandra Chassanoff, assistant professor at the School of Library and Information Sciences at North Carolina Central University, and Colin Post, assistant professor in Library and Information Science at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, are the 2021 recipients of ...
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