October 11, 2022
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; and Transparency.
September 29, 2022
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), staff members Racquel Asante, Katherine Kim, and Jessica Meyerson submitted a proposal to the Board … Continue reading Introducing Our Shared Leadership Model
August 23, 2022
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 the needs for and feasibility of a collaborative community-supported digital preservation service. Together, the partners … Continue reading Announcing the DPSC Planning Project
August 4, 2022
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 end game: achieving the full power for the open sharing and reuse of research data, … Continue reading Obstacles and Strategies in Research Data Sharing and Reuse
July 29, 2022
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 Digital Humanities is an open-access, peer-reviewed journal facilitating scholarly evaluation and discovery of digital scholarship. … Continue reading Reviews in the Digital Humanities
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
Seeding a Community of FORESTers
How well do your policies and practices align with your values? And how well do your vendors’ and partners’ policies and practices align with your values? Do you know? Would it change your investment choices if you did? We believe that if there were clearer ways to evidence and assess actions against values, it could. … Continue reading Seeding a Community of FORESTers
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 8, 2022
California Digital Library: Prioritizing Community and Sustainability as an NGLP Pilot Partner
This year marks the 20th anniversary for eScholarship as a library publisher; the program is run by the California Digital Library, in collaboration with University of California campus library staff, and provides open access publishing services for the 10 UC campuses, the Lawrence Berkeley Lab; UC Agriculture and Natural Resources; and the UC Office of … Continue reading California Digital Library: Prioritizing Community and Sustainability as an NGLP Pilot Partner
July 20, 2021
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 support other organizations that are interested in hosting thought-provoking, humane events on a shoestring. Because … Continue reading Sponsorship, Streamlined: How We Shifted In-Person Benefits to a Virtual Space
July 14, 2021
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 support other organizations that are interested in hosting thought-provoking, humane events on a shoestring. Because … Continue reading Blending the Synchronous with the Asynchronous: Strategies for Planning a Successful Conference Program
July 13, 2021
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 support other organizations that are interested in hosting thought-provoking, humane events on a shoestring. Because … Continue reading Finding Connectedness, Inspiration, and Comfort at the 2021 Library Publishing Forum
May 9, 2021
Position Announcement: Project Manager for Research & Strategy
Educopia Institute is pleased to share a new job announcement! We are now hiring a Project Manager for Research & Strategy who will be responsible for supporting the extensive portfolio of research and consulting projects within Educopia’s Research & Strategy program.
March 31, 2021
Cita Press: Getting Fit
Building organizational capacity for an open-access, feminist press and library Through this project, Educopia will partner with Cita Press Founder and Art Director, Juliana Castro, to build organizational capacity and a sustainability roadmap for Cita Press (citapress.org). In direct alignment with objectives of the Mellon Foundation’s Public Knowledge Program, Cita Press celebrates the spread of … Continue reading Cita Press: Getting Fit
March 29, 2021
Community Cultivation Resource Library
Community Cultivation — A Field Guide Issued by Educopia Institute in November 2018, Community Cultivation — A Field Guide provides a powerful lens that can provide both emerging and established communities with ways to understand, evaluate, and plan their own growth, change, and maturation. The Field Guide is designed for use by directors, managers, facilitators, … Continue reading Community Cultivation Resource Library
February 4, 2021
Achieving Sovereignty for Data Curation and Preservation
Forging into 2021 marks an official full decade of work for me in the field of digital preservation, first with LOCKSS and Educopia (2010-2015), then with Grand Valley State University Libraries (2015-2019), and then back with Educopia and its MetaArchive and BitCurator communities (2019-2021). My how time flies! Reaching a decade milestone provides one with … Continue reading Achieving Sovereignty for Data Curation and Preservation
January 26, 2021
NGLP Releases “Scholarly Communication Technology Catalogue (SComCat)”
Have you ever needed to find a quick, concise description of an open source scholarly communication tool or service? Have you wished you had a way to compare and contrast scholarly communication tools and services based on features like their organization model, standards adoption, or dependencies? Welcome to our vision for the Scholarly Communication Technology … Continue reading NGLP Releases “Scholarly Communication Technology Catalogue (SComCat)”
October 21, 2020
Next Generation Library Publishing Releases “Living Our Values and Principles: Exploring Assessment Strategies for the Scholarly Communication Field”
The Next Generation Library Publishing project team is excited to announce the publication of a report, Living Our Values and Principles: Exploring Assessment Strategies for the Scholarly Communication Field by Katherine Skinner and Sarah Wipperman. This report explores “values and principles” statements, documents, proclamations, and manifestos that have been produced by scholarly communication stakeholders over … Continue reading Next Generation Library Publishing Releases “Living Our Values and Principles: Exploring Assessment Strategies for the Scholarly Communication Field”
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