Scholarly Communication
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
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
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
March 16, 2021
Library Publishing Infrastructure: Assembling New Solutions
This report documents the design, methods, results, and recommendations of the Next Generation Library Publishing (NGLP) project team’s 2019-2021 study of library publishing infrastructure gaps and requirements. This research was designed to accomplish two related goals: to reveal and chronicle library publishing stakeholders’ current needs, interests, and desires regarding the tools and environments that support … Continue reading Library Publishing Infrastructure: Assembling New Solutions
October 21, 2020
Living Our Values and Principles: Exploring Assessment Strategies for the Scholarly Communication Field
Through the Next Generation Library Publishing project (2019-2022), Educopia Institute, California Digital Library, and Stratos, in close collaboration with COAR, LYRASIS, and Longleaf Services, seek to improve the publishing pathways and choices available to authors, editors, and readers through strengthening, integrating, and scaling up scholarly publishing infrastructures to support library publishers. In addition to building … Continue reading Living Our Values and Principles: Exploring Assessment Strategies for the Scholarly Communication Field
August 24, 2020
2019 Census – Case Studies
These published case studies feature a few of the programs and entities that participated in the “2019 Census of Scholarly Communication Infrastructure Providers,” a Census produced by the “Mapping the Scholarly Communication Infrastructure” project team (Andrew W. Mellon Foundation; Middlebury College, 2018-20). The Census was created to document key components comprising the organizational, business, and … Continue reading 2019 Census – Case Studies