August 28, 2020
Position Announcement: NGLP Technical Product Manager (Contractor)
The Next Generation Library Publishing project seeks a Technical Product Manager to manage the build of several technical components to assist in web delivery and discoverability, content collection management, and administrative functions for managing and reporting on publication activities across multiple platforms. The Technical Product Manager will gather and document requirements from key stakeholders and … Continue reading Position Announcement: NGLP Technical Product Manager (Contractor)
May 18, 2020
A Bibliographic Scan of Digital Scholarly Communication Infrastructure
This Bibliographic Scan by David W. Lewis provides an extensive literature review and overview of today’s digital scholarly communications ecosystem, including information about 206 tools, services, and systems that are instrumental to the publishing and distribution of the scholarly record. The Bibliographic Scan includes 67 commercial and 139 non-profit scholarly communication organizations, programs, and projects … Continue reading A Bibliographic Scan of Digital Scholarly Communication Infrastructure
September 23, 2019
Eric Martin
As the Administrative Coordinator for Operations for Educopia Institute, Eric provides personnel support across Educopia’s affiliated communities and research projects. Prior to joining Educopia, Eric served as the Business Service Coordinator at the University of North Carolina Wilmington’s University Learning Center and as an Assistant Branch Manager in the Florence County Public Library system. He … Continue reading Eric Martin
July 23, 2019
Why Are So Many Scholarly Communication Infrastructure Providers Running a Red Queen’s Race?
A few weeks ago, we at Educopia published the first project deliverable for the “Mapping Scholarly Communication Infrastructure” project, which we’re working on with Middlebury College and TrueBearing Consulting. The deliverable is a report and a set of data visualizations based on our deep dive into the organizational and technical infrastructures of “Scholarly Communication Resources,” … Continue reading Why Are So Many Scholarly Communication Infrastructure Providers Running a Red Queen’s Race?
June 20, 2019
Educopia Releases “Mapping the Scholarly Communication Landscape – 2019 Census” Report and Data Visualizations
We are pleased to announce a new report released by Educopia Publications: “Mapping the Scholarly Communication Landscape – 2019 Census.” The paper, authored by Katherine Skinner (Educopia) and edited by David Lewis, Mike Roy, and Melanie Schlosser, is the product of an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation-funded project, “Mapping the Scholarly Communication Infrastructure,” led by Middlebury … Continue reading Educopia Releases “Mapping the Scholarly Communication Landscape – 2019 Census” Report and Data Visualizations
November 7, 2018
Community Cultivation, Revisited
I actually tried to stand in the way of Educopia’s founding! I’m the first to admit it. A dozen years ago, I was the naysayer. I really didn’t think we could sustain a nonprofit organization centered on the science of community and collaboration. I didn’t lack conviction that our field needed a more rigorous, structured … Continue reading Community Cultivation, Revisited
April 15, 2017
Leading Across Boundaries: Bridging Professions for System-Wide Change
The Nexus LAB project assembled a broad range of leadership program facilitators and participants to develop resources to meet the diversity of leadership training needs across archives, libraries, and museums. The project aims to build a community for the experts providing museums, archives, and libraries leadership training. Together, project partners significantly increased trainer capacity through … Continue reading Leading Across Boundaries: Bridging Professions for System-Wide Change
January 10, 2014
Chrysalis: Opportunities for New Types of Research Alliances (subcontract)
The Chrysalis project explored the design and implementation of vertically integrated research alliances (VIRAs) comprising scholars, libraries, and scholarly presses. VIRAs could constitute a chrysalis of sorts for innovative digital research publications. To better understand this model, Educopia Research and the University of North Texas investigated potential revenue streams and sustainability models, including possible redistribution … Continue reading Chrysalis: Opportunities for New Types of Research Alliances (subcontract)
May 23, 2011
Aligning National Approaches to Digital Preservation Conference
The Aligning National Approaches to Digital Preservation conference developed out of a series of conversations between the Educopia Institute, the U.S. Library of Congress, the University of North Texas, Auburn University, the MetaArchive Cooperative, and the National Library of Estonia about the need for a forum where preservation programs from different national contexts can share … Continue reading Aligning National Approaches to Digital Preservation Conference
September 1, 2009
Nexus
There have been many efforts over the last two decades to train library leaders through workshops, seminars, institutes, and fellows programs. The outcomes of these training efforts have varied. Studies conducted by CLIR and InfoPeople show that while some of these efforts may be working, they do not yet meet the breadth and depth of … Continue reading Nexus
July 24, 2009
MetaArchive III
This NDIIPP project provided a two-year support infrastructure for the MetaArchive Cooperative’s transition from a hosted environment at Emory University into an administrative home at the Educopia Institute. This project included the technical transition of the network’s administrative nucleus from Emory University’s server environment into an Educopia-hosted cloud-based server. It also included the movement of … Continue reading MetaArchive III
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
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
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
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
February 20, 2020
Developing a Pilot Data Trust for Open Access Ebook Usage
This two-year project acted upon the recommendations documented within the “Exploring Open Access Ebook Usage” white paper published by the Book Industry Study Group in 2019. The international project team and its advisors developed and tested open infrastructure, policy and governance models to support a diverse, global data trust for usage data on open access … Continue reading Developing a Pilot Data Trust for Open Access Ebook Usage
June 20, 2019
Mapping the Scholarly Communication Landscape – 2019 Census
This report documents the design, methods, results, and recommendations of the 2019 Census of Scholarly Communication Infrastructure Providers (SCIP), a Census produced by the “Mapping the Scholarly Communication Infrastructure” project team (Andrew W. Mellon Foundation; Middlebury College, 2018-19). The SCIP Census was created to document key components comprising the organizational, business, and technical apparatuses of … Continue reading Mapping the Scholarly Communication Landscape – 2019 Census
December 19, 2018
The Maintainers (subcontract)
Many groups and individuals today celebrate “innovation.” The notion is influential not only in engineering and business, but also in the social sciences, arts, and humanities. For example, “innovation” has become a staple of analysis in popular histories – such as Walter Isaacson’s recent book, The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks … Continue reading The Maintainers (subcontract)
December 19, 2018
Mapping the Scholarly Communication Infrastructure
Mapping Scholarly Communication Infrastructure is an effort to study the current state of digital scholarship infrastructure in the U.S. and to help envision a more modernized and sustainable system that would enhance scholarly communication at colleges, universities, and research libraries across the country. With a grant from The Andrew Mellon Foundation (see press release) from … Continue reading Mapping the Scholarly Communication Infrastructure
November 3, 2018
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, governance bodies, officers, and staff members. … Continue reading Community Cultivation — A Field Guide