June 30, 2022
Educopia Partnering with Curtin University and OAPEN to Create a Community Governed OA Book Analytics Service for Publishers
Press Release, Educopia Institute BAD Project Ready for release, June 30, 2022 With more than AUD $1M in support from the Mellon Foundation, we at Educopia are excited to be working with collaborative partners at Curtin University and OAPEN on the Book Analytics Dashboard Project (2022-2025) to support the creation of a community-governed OA … Continue reading Educopia Partnering with Curtin University and OAPEN to Create a Community Governed OA Book Analytics Service for Publishers
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
May 9, 2022
Homeward Bound
Many community initiatives we work with at Educopia are initially funded and administered as university-hosted, grant-funded efforts, i.e. “sponsored” projects. Early in such projects, when scholars and university staff are testing new ideas and approaches using external funding sources, university hosting and “sponsorship” provides efficient and effective administrative management and support. But as a collaborative … Continue reading Homeward Bound
April 26, 2022
Longleaf Services: Building Consortial Journal Publishing Models that Empower Libraries as an NGLP Pilot Partner
Established in 2006 as a division of The University of North Carolina Press, Longleaf Services has built a strong reputation as a mission-aligned collaborator for the university press community, offering a suite of services for small publishers that take advantage of the Press’ expertise and economies of scale. As an NGLP pilot partner, Longleaf Services … Continue reading Longleaf Services: Building Consortial Journal Publishing Models that Empower Libraries as an NGLP Pilot Partner
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
NGLP Releases “Growing a FOREST, Values-Aligned Approaches to Transformative Scholarly Communication”
Our newest publication, Growing a Forest: Values-Aligned Approaches to Transformative Scholarly Communication, provides a detailed account of NGLP’s second-year accomplishments, outputs, and increasing impact and describes in depth the values-based framework through which we approach our work.
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
March 16, 2022
Bringing our Code to Life: Announcing NGLP’s Pilot Launch and MVP Software Release
On Thursday, March 10th, the Next Generation Library Publishing project hosted its second Community Forum, presented by principal investigators Katherine Skinner (Educopia), Kristen Ratan (Stratos), Catherine Mitchell (CDL), and NGLP product owner and co-author of the FOREST Framework for for Values-Driven Scholarly Communication, Sarah Lippincott.
March 16, 2022
Building Data Resilience Through Collaborative Networks
What is the Role of Collaborative Networks in Supporting Digital Scholarship? Scholarship increasingly relies on “research data,” a catch-all term applied to the digital objects and collections that are now crucial foundation blocks for research across disciplines and fields. This content is notoriously ubiquitous and decentralized, and today’s research institutions regularly struggle to provide ways … Continue reading Building Data Resilience Through Collaborative Networks
February 9, 2022
NGLP Community Forum: Bringing our Work to Life
Please join the Next Generation Library Publishing (NGLP) project for our second community forum on Thursday, March 10th (9 AM PT/noon ET). This is a free event, but registration is required. The Next Generation Library Publishing (NGLP) project is developing library publishing resources that combine community-led, open source software with the convenience of turnkey publishing … Continue reading NGLP Community Forum: Bringing our Work to Life
November 15, 2021
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 accomplishments, and a profit and loss statement. The Annual Report is available for download at … Continue reading Educopia Releases 2020 Annual Report
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
November 10, 2021
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 updates through the lens of the project’s guiding questions: Can we center community at the … Continue reading Building Community through Transparent Open Source Development
October 27, 2021
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 charged with managing and stewarding these cultural, historical, and scientific records for current and future … Continue reading What are the Barriers to Teaching Digital Forensics?
October 26, 2021
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 publishing, simultaneously architecting new software tailored to the unique needs of library publishers and designing … Continue reading Next Generation Library Publishing Project Announces Partnership with Janeway
October 20, 2021
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 in better processes and stronger partnerships. To enable library publishers to build on each others’ … Continue reading Library Publishing Workflows Project Releases Journal Workflow Documentation
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