Resources
May 17, 2022
FOREST Framework for Values-Driven Scholarly Communication
This FOREST Framework is intended to help scholarly communication organizations and communities to demonstrate, evaluate, and ultimately improve their alignment with key values, including: Financial and Organizational Sustainability Openness Representative Governance Equity, Accessibility, and Anti-Oppression Sharing of Knowledge Transparency These six core values have appeared in dozens of manifestos, open letters, and other statements issued … Continue reading FOREST Framework for Values-Driven Scholarly Communication
March 31, 2022
Documentation and Reflection Tools
One of the goals of the Library Publishing Workflows project team is to encourage and enable members of the library publishing community to create their own publishing workflow documentation. The documentation process can be quite daunting, and it can be difficult to determine where to start with documentation. These tools will help library publishers of … Continue reading Documentation and Reflection Tools
March 17, 2022
Growing a FOREST, Values-Aligned Approaches to Transformative Scholarly Communication
In the second year of the NGLP project (September 2020-August 2021), we delivered research findings based on extensive community engagement, produced specifications for technologies to unite and complement existing open source tools, progressed towards minimum viable products (MVPs), and initiated coordination of three pilot implementations of publishing solutions that represent different service use cases. We … Continue reading Growing a FOREST, Values-Aligned Approaches to Transformative Scholarly Communication
November 15, 2021
Educopia Institute Annual Report 2020
Letter from the Director 2020 was a traumatic year, one that brought local and global inequalities and needs into glaringly sharp focus. It forced all of us at Educopia to take a fresh look at our work and our values—personally, as a team, and within each of our affiliated communities and research projects. 2020 made … Continue reading Educopia Institute Annual Report 2020
October 19, 2021
Workflow Diagram Packet
This packet includes all 13 journal publishing workflow diagrams from our 12 partner institutions. A workflow tracks the path to publication of a single journal article or issue from the library’s perspective. Workflows are always changing, so this documentation represents a snapshot of what the publishing process looked like at the time of release in … Continue reading Workflow Diagram Packet
October 19, 2021
Wayne State University Libraries Workflow Packet
This packet documents journal publishing workflows at Wayne State University Libraries as of October 2021. A workflow tracks the path to publication of a single journal article or issue from the library’s perspective. Workflows are always changing, so this documentation represents a snapshot of what the publishing process looked like at the time of release. … Continue reading Wayne State University Libraries Workflow Packet
October 19, 2021
University Libraries at Virginia Tech Workflow Packet
This packet documents journal publishing workflows at University Libraries at Virginia Tech as of October 2021. A workflow tracks the path to publication of a single journal article or issue from the library’s perspective. Workflows are always changing, so this documentation represents a snapshot of what the publishing process looked like at the time of … Continue reading University Libraries at Virginia Tech Workflow Packet
October 19, 2021
Armacost Library (University of Redlands) Workflow Packet
This packet documents journal publishing workflows at Armacost Library as of October 2021. A workflow tracks the path to publication of a single journal article or issue from the library’s perspective. Workflows are always changing, so this documentation represents a snapshot of what the publishing process looked like at the time of release. This packet … Continue reading Armacost Library (University of Redlands) Workflow Packet
October 19, 2021
The University Library System at the University of Pittsburgh Workflow Packet
This packet documents journal publishing workflows at The University Library System as of October 2021. A workflow tracks the path to publication of a single journal article or issue from the library’s perspective. Workflows are always changing, so this documentation represents a snapshot of what the publishing process looked like at the time of release. … Continue reading The University Library System at the University of Pittsburgh Workflow Packet
October 19, 2021
Pacific University Libraries Workflow Packet
This packet documents journal publishing workflows at Pacific University Libraries as of October 2021. A workflow tracks the path to publication of a single journal article or issue from the library’s perspective. Workflows are always changing, so this documentation represents a snapshot of what the publishing process looked like at the time of release. This … Continue reading Pacific University Libraries Workflow Packet
October 19, 2021
University of Michigan Library (Michigan Publishing) Workflow Packet
This packet documents journal publishing workflows at University of Michigan Library as of October 2021. A workflow tracks the path to publication of a single journal article or issue from the library’s perspective. Workflows are always changing, so this documentation represents a snapshot of what the publishing process looked like at the time of release. … Continue reading University of Michigan Library (Michigan Publishing) Workflow Packet
October 19, 2021
Ames Library (Illinois Wesleyan University) Workflow Packet
This packet documents journal publishing workflows at Ames Library as of October 2021. A workflow tracks the path to publication of a single journal article or issue from the library’s perspective. Workflows are always changing, so this documentation represents a snapshot of what the publishing process looked like at the time of release. This packet … Continue reading Ames Library (Illinois Wesleyan University) Workflow Packet
October 19, 2021
Columbia University Libraries Workflow Packet
This packet documents journal publishing workflows at Columbia University Libraries as of October 2021. A workflow tracks the path to publication of a single journal article or issue from the library’s perspective. Workflows are always changing, so this documentation represents a snapshot of what the publishing process looked like at the time of release. This … Continue reading Columbia University Libraries Workflow Packet
October 19, 2021
Claremont Colleges Library Workflow Packet
This packet documents journal publishing workflows at Claremont Colleges Library as of October 2021. A workflow tracks the path to publication of a single journal article or issue from the library’s perspective. Workflows are always changing, so this documentation represents a snapshot of what the publishing process looked like at the time of release. This … Continue reading Claremont Colleges Library Workflow Packet
October 19, 2021
California Digital Library Workflow Packet
This packet documents journal publishing workflows at California Digital Library as of October 2021. A workflow tracks the path to publication of a single journal article or issue from the library’s perspective. Workflows are always changing, so this documentation represents a snapshot of what the publishing process looked like at the time of release. This … Continue reading California Digital Library Workflow Packet
October 18, 2021
Robert W. Woodruff Library (Atlanta University Center) Workflow Packet
This packet documents journal publishing workflows at Robert W. Woodruff Library as of October 2021. A workflow tracks the path to publication of a single journal article or issue from the library’s perspective. Workflows are always changing, so this documentation represents a snapshot of what the publishing process looked like at the time of release. … Continue reading Robert W. Woodruff Library (Atlanta University Center) Workflow Packet
October 18, 2021
University of Alberta Library Workflow Packet
This packet documents journal publishing workflows at University of Alberta Library as of October 2021. A workflow tracks the path to publication of a single journal article or issue from the library’s perspective. Workflows are always changing, so this documentation represents a snapshot of what the publishing process looked like at the time of release. … Continue reading University of Alberta Library Workflow Packet
September 3, 2021
Governance in Formation: Identifying Priorities for Action and Making Decisions
After communities establish their purpose and shared goals, the question of how the community will organize, make decisions, and set expectations for members and partners becomes central to their growth and maturation. Governance in Formation provides the tools for a community to take on this work, determine priorities, and move forward with actionable next steps toward their … Continue reading Governance in Formation: Identifying Priorities for Action and Making Decisions
June 28, 2021
Living Our Values and Principles: Annotated Bibliography
Community-based values and principles sit at the core of the Next Generation Library Publishing (NGLP) project, and members of our team have done extensive work over the past year researching and synthesizing the values and principles identified by individuals, organizations, and coalitions throughout the open knowledge community. In the course of developing the project and … Continue reading Living Our Values and Principles: Annotated Bibliography
April 3, 2021
Vision in Formation: Articulating Your Community’s Purpose
Using this guide, a facilitator (community manager, project director, or other convener) can guide the initial members of a new community or network to articulate and document the shared purpose of their collaboration. This guide may also be helpful for existing communities that are in transition and reconsidering their shared purpose. You can also access … Continue reading Vision in Formation: Articulating Your Community’s Purpose