tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:/hub_feeds/4458/feed_itemsItems tagged with oa.educopia in Open Access Tracking Project (OATP)2023-03-30T05:48:39-04:00TagTeam social RSS aggregratortag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/73171402023-03-30T05:26:12-04:002023-03-30T05:48:39-04:00£5.8 million funding to significantly expand and accelerate COPIM open access infrastructures | Community-led Open Publication Infrastructures for Monographs (COPIM)The Community-led Open Publication Infrastructures for Monographs project (COPIM) is delighted that Arcadia and the Research England Development (RED) Fund are supporting a new initiative that will build on the pioneering work of the COPIM project.
The Open Book Futures project (OBF), led by Lancaster University, will significantly expand key infrastructures created by COPIM to achieve a step change in how community-owned Open Access (OA) book publishing is delivered.
Open Book Futures will follow the principles of ‘Scaling Small’ that guided the work of the COPIM project, further developing the infrastructures, business models, networks and resources that are needed to deliver a future for Open Access books led not by large commercial operations, but by communities of scholars, small-to-medium-sized publishers, not-for-profit infrastructure providers, and scholarly libraries.
Among its activities, OBF will deepen and accelerate the work of:
the recently launched Open Book Collective, which makes it easier for academic libraries to provide direct financial support to small- and medium-sized OA publishing initiatives;
the Thoth metadata management and dissemination platform;
the Opening the Future revenue model;
the forthcoming Experimental Publishing Compendium;
the forthcoming Thoth Archiving Network.
Open Book Futures, which will run from 1 May 2023 to 30 April 2026, will increase COPIM’s long-term impact and ensure that a wide range of voices have the opportunity to shape the future of open access book publishing. In order to amplify bibliodiverse and equitable community-led approaches to OA book publishing, OBF aims not just to strengthen existing networks in the UK and North America, but also to engage further with publishers, universities, and infrastructure providers in a diverse set of national and linguistic contexts, including Africa, Australasia, Continental Europe, and Latin America.
With that in mind, OBF will reunite many of the COPIM project partners, including Birkbeck, University of London, Coventry University, Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB), Jisc, Loughborough University, Open Book Collective (OBC), Open Book Publishers (OBP), punctum books, Thoth, and Trinity College, Cambridge University, and they will also be joined by a wide range of new partners including Continental Platform/University of Cape Town, the Curtin Open Knowledge Initiative (COKI), the Digital Preservation Coalition, the Educopia Institute, Knowledge Futures, Lyrasis, OPERAS, Public Knowledge Project (PKP), Research Libraries UK (RLUK), SciELO Books, Scottish Universities Press/SCURL, and SPARC Europe. The project is also supported by Lancaster University Library.
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tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/73171392023-03-30T05:23:59-04:002023-03-30T05:48:59-04:00£5.8 million project to deliver a more sustainable future for Open Access books | Lancaster UniversityA new project that works to increase access to valuable research is to receive more than £5.8 million in funding.
Led by Lancaster University, the Open Book Futures (OBF) project will develop and support organisations, tools and practices that enable both academics and the wider public to make more and better use of books published on an Open Access basis. Open Access books can be accessed and used online free of charge.
In particular, the project, which is also supported by Lancaster University Library, aims to achieve a step change in how community-owned Open Access book publishing is delivered.
Funded by Arcadia and the Research England Development (RED) Fund, the project marks a shift in the ambition, scope and impact of community-owned Open Access book publishing.
It will significantly increase and improve the quantity, discoverability, preservation and accessibility of academic content freely and easily available to all.
This will be done by building the infrastructures, business models, networks and resources that are needed to deliver a future for Open Access books led not by large commercial operations but by communities of scholars, small-to-medium-sized publishers, not-for-profit infrastructure providers, and scholarly libraries.
This includes expanding the work of the recently launched Open Book Collective, which makes it easier for academic libraries to provide direct financial support to Open Access publishing initiatives, as well as the Thoth metadata management platform, the Opening the Future revenue model and the forthcoming Experimental Publishing Compendium.
Open Book Futures, due to start on May 1st, builds on the pioneering work of the Community-Led Open Publication Infrastructures for Monographs (COPIM) project. COPIM, a strategic international partnership led by Coventry University, began the work of establishing the key open, community-led solutions required to address the barriers to the wider impact of Open Access books.
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tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/56515772022-10-26T12:20:42-04:002022-10-26T15:09:45-04:00Adieu to Educopia: An Interview with Katherine Skinner - The Scholarly Kitchen | OCT 26, 2022"But the thing that I am currently the most proud of has gotten very little attention so far, which is the FOREST framework that Sarah Lippincott and I published earlier this year. A lot of my thinking over the last couple of years has continued to be around how you bring about system change. People have been trying for years to compare and contrast different businesses and different models. But we’re often comparing apples to oranges, and we’re often vilifying one thing and raising something else up, and binaries are just really not helpful.
I’ve been stumbling toward the pathway to FOREST as a potential solution to this problem for years. A key moment in that was when Mike Roy and David Lewis came to me in 2018 to ask me to join their Mellon-funded project called “mapping the scholarly communication infrastructure.” That project gave us a really important opportunity to build and test a census-based, data-informed approach to understanding the system we’re in. As one part of that project, we piloted a census tool with more than 40 institutions. It was designed as a broad-based analysis of scholarly communication infrastructure providers’ business frameworks and governance designs. It was also intended to surface their financial realities, including questions about year over year changes and reserves. It let us really see, maybe for the first time, that we think of some entities as being far more sustainable than they actually are, while we think of others as far less sustainable than they actually are. Historically, we have lacked that data, and so our beliefs in and attempts at “sustainability” have been often fueled by vague perceptions at best. And now Invest in Open infrastructure is taking some of the questions that we were asking there, plus many others, and is taking this work to the next level.
The other piece of this “pathway” to the FOREST framework was my longstanding interest in values and principles. There are all of these contemporary versions of values-based frameworks — POSI, of course, being one that that right now is maybe most prominent, and also the FAIR principles, CARE principles, and so on. But what do they actually accomplish? Do they “work”? Why haven’t they yielded the change that we seem to be trying to push for with them? I looked at the more than 100 manifestos and documents — everything from the Budapest OA Declaration to the Scholar-Led Manifesto that just came out. These sorts of manifestos are everywhere; a lot of them are really really good, and they have a lot of signatories. But arguably, they haven’t been able to bring about the changes they imagine, and I think that might be because they so often lack accountability mechanisms.
As part of our Arcadia-funded “Next Generation Library Publishing” (NGLP) project, we tried to distill down the values and principles that we found in those 100+ manifestos to see whether there is a common core — and there is. So then we tried to draw out how you can know if your practices match specific values and principles, and how you can know how to improve that match over time. Not just through a sort of self-nomination by a service provider or publisher or tool developer, and not just by checking a box, because that’s very black and white. What we wanted was a way of seeing and showing a spectrum of practices that encourage better alignment between values and actions.
And that’s what the FOREST framework does, which is why, of the things that I’ve helped to do in my career thus far, I think it may be the most important. The big question now is, as I step away from Educopia, which could have been the mouthpiece to push it through, what do we do with the framework. How do we make sure it still gets considered as a potential basis for some assessment that is missing right now in the field? I trust my NGLP and Educopia colleagues, and especially the framework’s lead author, Sarah Lippincott, to help keep this moving forward...."
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/55901772022-10-13T08:53:01-04:002022-10-19T11:12:31-04:00A Cohort-Based Pilot of the FOREST Framework for Values-Driven Scholarly Communication | Educopia Institute, October 11, 2022<p>"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. It does so by defining concrete evaluation mechanisms that communities can use to assess how their policies and practices align with these values. It prompts communities to consider the values they hold and how they demonstrate and communicate their commitment to these values. It provides guidance on actions they can take to manifest their values more effectively, and it encourages communities to see themselves as part of an interconnected system (or commons) in which their actions and decisions directly affect other participants. This summer, the NGLP project brought together a cohort of scholarly communications communities, including for- and non-profit service and technology providers and library publishers, to pilot the FOREST Framework. ..."</p>tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/54497902022-09-29T12:25:49-04:002022-10-04T07:54:46-04:00Introducing Our Shared Leadership Model | Educopia Institute, September 29, 2022"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 our Shaping Change post in July, staff members Racquel Asante, Katherine Kim, and Jessica Meyerson submitted a proposal to the board for a co-director executive leadership model that outlined key organizational benefits co-director models of executive leadership including organizational resilience, fiscal responsibility, values alignment, and risk management. The proposal addressed the division of Executive Director/CEO responsibilities among co-directors, internal governance between co-directors and Board, communications and reporting structure, succession planning, decision making, assessment, the known challenges the model seeks to address, and subsequent organizational change that the model hopes to enable. The proposal came at a time when the Board was thinking deeply about its governance role and its collaborative relationship with the Educopia staff. Board president Kathleen Fitzpatrick notes that “during the course of our development work it became clear to us that the time was right to think differently about the nature of leadership for the organization, to move away from reliance on a single visionary executive director and toward a shared leadership model that could both better manifest Educopia’s values and make the organization more resilient.” In conjunction with the development of the co-director proposal to the Board, members of the Board and Staff completed a series of interviews with co-directors of organizations that are currently practicing a co-director model of executive leadership including RVC, ProInspire, Kindred Connections Society, and Change Elemental...."
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/51596062022-09-09T10:53:42-04:002022-09-09T13:48:30-04:00Scaling Diamond OA: Universities as Centers of Open Publishing Excellence | Educopia InstituteFrom the Budapest Open Access Initiative 20th anniversary recommendations to the UNESCO Recommendation for Open Science and the Harvard endorsement of Diamond OA, many recent reports on open scholarship are calling for scholarly research to be published and disseminated via open infrastructure that is community-owned and -governed. This call for open infrastructure is particularly important in light of the recent White House (OSTP) memo on equitable access to research, which is likely to result in a massive wave of open research publications.
by Kristen Ratan
There is growing recognition that open access publishing on closed infrastructure restricts how truly open research can be—by limiting opportunities for participation by mission-driven and non-profit publishers and stewards, restricting the types of collaboration that can build scale, and increasing reliance on the profit-driven, commercial publishing companies that have long controlled the scholarly communication space. To leverage the growing interest in Diamond Open Access and to fully realize the vision of equitable access to knowledge, both in its production and its dissemination, it is more crucial than ever to support interoperable open infrastructure.
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tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/51591962022-09-09T10:35:10-04:002022-09-09T10:46:33-04:00From Vision to Reality: Bringing Resilient Open Source Infrastructure to Library Publishers | Educopia Instituteby Sarah Lippincott
The Next Generation Library Publishing project is building a sustainable open source alternative to commercial publishing platforms, expanding choices for values-driven publishers of all sizes. We are on the brink of realizing our vision as we move the pilot implementations of our software stack into production-ready service offerings.
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/46396772022-07-28T13:21:24-04:002022-07-29T08:46:20-04:00 Wrapping up the Library Publishing Workflows Project | EducopiaOver the past three years, Library Publishing Workflows—an IMLS-funded (LG-36-19-0133-19) project of Educopia Institute, the Library Publishing Coalition, and twelve partner libraries—has been fostering conversation about the workflows library publishers use to publish journals, how libraries have developed their journal publishing services, and the major challenges they face in their day-to-day work. We have also released a wide range of materials—from workflows to documentation tools to reflections—to support library publishers in their work. As the project winds down, we wanted to provide a round-up of all of the major project outputs.
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/44453552022-06-30T15:11:57-04:002022-06-30T17:49:23-04:00Educopia Partnering with Curtin University and OAPEN to Create a Community Governed OA Book Analytics Service for Publishers | Educopia Institute
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 book analytics service for publishers. This service is needed to safeguard and support diversity in the voices, perspectives, geographies, topics and languages made visible through OA books. In addition to scaling workflows, infrastructure and customer support, this Demonstration Project is developing a long-term plan for housing, maintenance and funding of the analytics service as a sustainable community infrastructure.
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/43941112022-06-23T09:10:27-04:002022-06-23T11:14:55-04:00Building Data Resilience Through Collaborative Networks | Educopia Institute"The aim of this symposium is to share information and best practices on the opportunities, challenges, models, methodologies, successes, and collaborative strategies concerning data sharing for digital scholarship, science, and community formation more broadly. The broad audience addressed will include faculty, librarians, technologists, and university administrators interested in these topics...."
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/41284122022-05-19T09:06:52-04:002022-05-19T09:26:14-04:00Seeding a Community of FORESTers | Educopia Institute"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.
The Next Generation Library Publishing (NGLP) team is excited to announce the release of the FOREST Framework for Values-Driven Scholarly Communication. This framework has been created to help scholarly communication organizations and communities to demonstrate, evaluate, and improve their alignment over time with six key values:
Financial and Organizational Sustainability
Openness
Representative Governance
Equity, Accessibility, and Anti-Oppression
Sharing of Knowledge
Transparency ..."
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/34408832022-01-28T14:08:28-05:002022-06-30T09:03:34-04:00Harmon | ETDplus Toolkit [Tool Review] | Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly CommunicationAbstract: Electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) have traditionally taken the form of PDFs and ETD programs and their submission and curation procedures have been built around this format. However, graduate students are increasingly creating non-PDF files during their research, and in some cases these files are just as or more important than the PDFs that must be submitted to satisfy degree requirements. As a result, both graduate students and ETD administrators need training and resources to support the handling of a wide variety of complex digital objects. The Educopia Institute's ETDplus Toolkit provides a highly usable set of modules to address this need, openly licensed to allow for reuse and adaption to a variety of potential use cases.
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/33030162021-10-26T07:34:10-04:002022-05-19T06:27:09-04:00Next Generation Library Publishing Project Announces Partnership with Janeway | Educopia Institute
By Caitlin Perry
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 the business models, values-based assessment frameworks, and pilot implementations that bring our code to life.
The goals of Janeway’s pilot project are to:
Evaluate the role that the Janeway publishing platform can play in developing standards and solutions that allow better integration of campus systems and workflows across the lifecycle of research.
Assess and refine a potential service model that combines journals and institutional repository materials through a single display layer, supplemented by powerful reporting tools.
Collaborate with project partners to develop sustainable, community-governed, open solutions that rival current best-of-breed commercial tools and that will propel scholarly communication forward.
Martin Paul Eve, Professor of Literature, Technology and Publishing and an instigator of the Janeway project said: “We are delighted to be participating in the Next Generation Library Publishing project. It’s clear that the international library publishing community needs a set of modern tools that are up to the task of the contemporary environment and that meet the highest standards of interoperability. By working with NGLP we hope to embed community interoperability needs into our openly developed and community-centered platform.”
Janeway’s emphasis on community resonates directly with the ambitions of the NGLP project. As Katherine Skinner, Executive Director of the Educopia Institute and one of the project principals shared, “We are so excited to offer this NGLP pilot to library publishers in partnership with a terrific scholar-led, open source platform and hosted services provider. Janeway brings to the NGLP project the requisite blend of a strong technical approach and a values-aligned business model that library publishers most want in their journal publishing and repository management service providers.”
The initial pilot phase of the NGLP project will launch in the spring of 2022. Additional project pilots will be announced in the coming months.
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/32785352021-10-06T07:58:42-04:002022-05-19T06:27:09-04:00NGLP Community Forum: Sharing Our Progress and Opportunities for Involvement | Educopia Institutetag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/44888402022-07-07T09:49:19-04:002022-07-07T10:04:24-04:00NGLP - Web Delivery Platform - Discovery"The Next Generation Library Publishing infrastructure project (NGLP), funded by Arcadia, seeks to offer open source, community-led infrastructure and services that will provide an alternative to proprietary and commercial publishing platforms. As part of this work, the NGLP is commissioning the build of a web delivery and access platform that can publish and host journal content with options to integrate content or metadata from an institutional repository content. The platform would offer flexible display and discovery functionality. The access layer will initially be utilized by the service providers in the NGLP partnership, the California Digital Library, Longleaf Services, and LYRASIS and will be made available to the community for others to adopt. ..."
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/30964752021-06-29T15:23:11-04:002022-05-19T06:27:09-04:00Living Our Values and Principles: Annotated Bibliography | Educopia InstituteCommunity-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 creating resources such as the draft Values and Principles Framework & Assessment Checklist and Living Our Values and Principles: Exploring Assessment Strategies for the Scholarly Communication Field, we found and reviewed dozens of values and principles statements, manifestos, articles, and book chapters spanning the worlds of scholarly communications, open data, open science, and open source software.
In addition to informing our work on the project, we think the annotated bibliography that we’ve built along the way might be of use to others on similar journeys. To enable others to dig deeply into the articles and values statements contained within this annotated bibliography now and in the future, we are releasing it now as a formal publication. We will continue to add to this resource through the end of the NGLP project in August, 2022. If you find an article or values statement that you think would benefit this project, please reach out to Brandon Locke (brandon@educopia.org) to suggest its inclusion.
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/30103352021-05-10T15:14:05-04:002022-06-30T09:03:35-04:00Project Manager for Research & Strategy (deadline: June 01, 2021) | Educopia InstituteExempt Full-time, Remote Position*
Salary Range: $60,000-$65,000
Responsible to: Deputy Director
Job Description:
The Project Manager for Research & Strategy will be responsible for supporting the extensive portfolio of research and consulting projects within Educopia’s Research & Strategy program. The Project Manager will be highly self-directed, comfortable managing a varied portfolio of projects with competing priorities, and will support an array of collaborative work with our project teams and partners. The scope of the Project Manager position requires a dedication to responsible management of schedules and scope, stakeholder expectations, data management, templatization of tools and other project resources, and documentation of key findings. The ideal candidate is passionate about community-based research, collective action, continuous improvement, and making project findings relevant and legible to staff and partners. We expect all candidates to demonstrate empathy and intentionality in their interpersonal communication.
Responsibilities:
Assist PI and Lead Consultants with determining appropriate scope, requirements, and deliverables for research and consulting projects
Coordinate internal staff and external contractors for successful completion of projects
Track project performance on an ongoing basis using relevant project management and productivity tools, e.g., Asana
Serve as a point of contact for teams when multiple units are assigned to the same project to ensure team actions remain in synergy
Perform risk management to minimize project risks
Ensure compliance with funder and client requirements; update and maintain research and consulting workflow documentation
Stay informed and up-to-date in trends in project management, community cultivation, and information management
Works with members of the team to tie project findings and deliverables to program goals and objectives
Contribute to research and consulting projects (e.g., compiling and synthesizing data from multiple sources; editing client and funder reports; assisting with meeting facilitation)
Ensure that project outputs are building organizational capacity, including: templatization of resources for the Community Cultivation Resource Library and developing staff trainings on broader application of key findings, tools, methods developed within the Research & Strategy program
Assist the Deputy Director with planning and ongoing evaluation of Research & Strategy program goals and targets
Collaborate with the Communications team on external communications initiatives as they pertain to Community Cultivation and the Research & Strategy program
Qualifications:
Bachelor’s Degree
Minimum of two years of project management experience
Highly organized and detail oriented
Ability to work under pressure, to adjust to change, to handle multiple tasks, and to coordinate the work of extended groups of project participants
Exceptional written and oral communication skills
Commitment to the personal and professional work of acknowledging systems and modes of interaction that have caused harm, predicting potential future harms of our practices and approaches, and proactively shifting those practices and approaches in order to cultivate trust and mutual respect among staff, clients, and partners
Holds self and others accountable for measurable, high-quality, timely, and cost-effective results
High level of independent judgment, resourcefulness, creativity, and initiative
Motivated to encourage and facilitate cooperation, pride, trust; cares about fostering commitment and team spirit; works with others to achieve goals
Preferred Knowledge, Skills, and Experience:
Knowledge of the strategies, techniques, and processes used to plan, monitor, and control project scope; includes collecting requirements, defining scope, creating a work breakdown structure, validating scope, and controlling scope to ensure project deliverables meet requirements
Knowledge of the principles, methods, or tools for developing, scheduling, coordinating, and managing projects and resources, including monitoring and inspecting costs, work, and contractor performance
Knowledge of the value of collected information and the methods of sharing that information throughout an organization
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
Uses imagination to develop new insights into situations and applies innovative solutions to problems; designs new methods where established methods and procedures are inapplicable or are unavailable
Ability to develop, interpret, and apply policy, procedures, and direction to a variety of situations
Demonstrated success working in a highly collaborative work environment
Demonstrated sutag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/29516962021-04-09T12:02:22-04:002022-06-30T09:03:35-04:00ETDplus Toolkit [Tool Review]Abstract: Electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) have traditionally taken the form of PDFs and ETD programs and their submission and curation procedures have been built around this format. However, graduate students are increasingly creating non-PDF files during their research, and in some cases these files are just as or more important than the PDFs that must be submitted to satisfy degree requirements. As a result, both graduate students and ETD administrators need training and resources to support the handling of a wide variety of complex digital objects. The Educopia Institute's ETDplus Toolkit provides a highly usable set of modules to address this need, openly licensed to allow for reuse and adaption to a variety of potential use cases.
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/29464472021-04-06T12:40:56-04:002022-06-30T09:03:35-04:00Educopia awarded $245,000 from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for the Cita Press project | Educopia Institute"Educopia Institute is excited to announce an award in the amount of $245,000 from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation in support of the Cita Press: Getting Fit project.
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 the objectives of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation’s Public Knowledge Program, Cita Press celebrates the spread of culture and knowledge by publishing the writings of female authors whose works are open-licensed or in the public domain. Through its library of collaboratively designed free books, Cita honors the principles of decentralization, collective knowledge production, and equitable access to knowledge...."
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/29364152021-03-31T03:03:09-04:002022-06-30T09:03:35-04:00Educopia Releases First in Series of Community Cultivation Resources | Educopia InstituteJust in time for Spring, Educopia is releasing its first Community Cultivation guide!
Vision in Formation: Articulating Your Community’s Purpose is the first guide in our long-planned library of entirely open tools, templates, and guidance documentation to help communities navigate common challenges experienced across lifecycle stages and growth areas.
As a new community forms, its initial members need to articulate and document the shared purpose of their collaboration. Using Vision in Formation: Articulating Your Community’s Purpose, a facilitator can guide the initial members of a new community or network through this process with structured activities and templates.
About the Community Cultivation Resource Library
Empowering collaborative communities to create, share, and preserve knowledge has been central to Educopia’s mission since 2006. In our own work, we have been grateful for resources like the Community Tool Box, Blue Avocado, Collective Impact Forum, and The Good Collaboration Toolkit. These libraries have long provided free models and materials to community networks, and we believe they have had a dramatic impact across the nonprofit field.
The Community Cultivation Resource Library first launched in 2018, with the release of Community Cultivation — A Field Guide. This growing library of resources is our way to give forward to the networks and communities in our field. Each element is grounded in work undertaken with dozens of clients, partners, and affiliates to build robust, active networks that fully embody the values and principles of their members.
Additional facilitator’s guides and resources are scheduled for future release at Educopia.org/cultivation.
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/29182042021-03-17T11:18:15-04:002022-05-19T06:27:10-04:00NGLP Releases “Library Publishing Infrastructure: Assembling New Solutions” | Educopia InstituteA core principle guiding the Next Generation Library Publishing (NGLP) project is TRANSPARENCY.
In alignment with that principle, we are openly sharing all of our findings from more than a year’s worth of deep community engagement research.
Our newest publication, Library Publishing Infrastructure: Assembling New Solutions, documents the design, methods, results, and recommendations of the NGLP team’s 2019-2021 study of Library Publishing infrastructure gaps and requirements.
Based on our research interactions with more than 150 library publishing stakeholders, we heard remarkably consistent needs and desires from library publishers, including:
Ways to integrate existing platforms and tools rather than building new ones
Expanded choices that work together to avoid lock-in
Unified web delivery and discovery options that work across platforms and tools
An administrative dashboard that can provide central control and reporting options across platforms and tools
Choices among a range of hosted, turnkey solutions
Community-led modes of governance and sustainability for tools, platforms, and service providers
This report seeks to make all of our research findings available to and usable by other teams—including projects, tool developers, service providers, and communities of practice. We hope many can use this synthesis of our research to inform their understanding of the interests, needs, gaps, and opportunities in the growing library publishing field.
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/28882332021-02-25T11:15:33-05:002022-05-19T06:27:10-04:00Position Announcement: NGLP Project Manager (Contractor). Application deadline: March 08, 2021. | Educopia InstituteLibrary publishing is a burgeoning area of practice in academic libraries. This institution-based publishing model aligns with core academic values and actively seeks to broaden the open dissemination of knowledge, through traditional publications like journals and monographs and more informal and experimental forms of scholarly communication. To fully realize these goals, library publishers need: 1) better integrations of the open source tools and services upon which they rely, and 2) stronger open source tools for web delivery, content management, and reporting.
The Next Generation Library Publishing (NGLP) project, led by Educopia, California Digital Library (CDL), and Stratos, in partnership with LYRASIS, COAR, and Longleaf Services, is working to build and integrate community-led, open-source infrastructure and service solutions to provide robust support for library publishing.
Our team recently moved its project manager into a product owner role to focus on the technical deliverables of the project, and we are seeking a contractor to carry forward the project management tasks for the remainder of the project (through February 2022) with possibilities for renewal on similar projects in the future.
Description of Project Management Contractor
To assist NGLP in these projects, we seek a Project Manager who will:
support the project by applying standard project management concepts, frameworks, and methods to ensure the timely delivery of project deliverables within a highly distributed project team comprised of six partner organizations;
maintain a project work plan that indicates deliverables, responsibilities, timelines, and progress;
meet regularly with partner organizations and help organize and attend collaborative project meetings to establish near and long-term deliverables, track progress on monthly work plan goals, and realign or prioritize work as needed;
meet regularly with project PIs to discuss progress, resourcing and timeline feasibility; and create quarterly progress reports for the larger stakeholder community.
This contractor position requires approximately 20 hours/week through at least February 2022, starting as soon as possible. The position is remote; compensation dependent upon experience.
California Digital Library will oversee the work of the Project Manager, with Catherine Mitchell serving as the main point of direction for this position.
Responsibilities
25% Project Organization and Reporting
Coordinates the research, development, and implementation processes for moderately complex, international, grant-funded project involving cross-functional, distributed teams.
Assists with project reporting.
Assists with new project proposal development.
45% Work Plan Coordination:
Assembles and directs small project teams.
Organizes project activities with the goal of establishing and tracking an approved work plan to complete the project on schedule and within budget constraints.
Meets regularly with project PIs to discuss progress, resourcing, and timeline feasibility.
Manages agendas, notes, and calendar entries for internal groups.
Helps organize and attends collaborative project meetings to establish near and long-term deliverables.
30% Communication:
Provides project partners with consistent communication about timelines and deliverables for purposes of tracking and overall project management.
Utilizes multiple channels to ensure adequate communication across distributed team members.
Manages scheduling and coordination for external group meetings and workshops.
Experience
The candidate should have the following experience and skills:
Project management experience
Some knowledge of agile software development processes
Some knowledge of the scholarly communications technology landscape
Some experience with open source software projects
Experience managing projects with minimal supervision
Solid writing and oral communication skills
Proven ability to produce/execute reports and project plans
Proposal Components
Proposals should be emailed to hr@educopia.org, and should include:
a current CV or resume
a brief letter of interest
a schedule of availability
names and contact information for two referencestag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/28656902021-01-26T12:17:45-05:002023-01-31T19:23:00-05:00SComCaT: Scholarly Communication Technology Catalogue This catalogue has been developed by Antleaf for the Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR) as part of the Next Generation Libraries Publishing project and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License SComCat comprises a catalogue (knowledge base) of scholarly communication open technologies where the term "technologies" is defined to include software and some essential running services. The aim is to assist potential users in making decisions about which technologies they will adopt by providing an overview of the functionality, organizational models, dependencies, use of standards, and levels of adoption of each technology. The scan includes tools, platforms, and standards that can be locally adopted to support one or more of functions of the lifecycle of scholarly communication, which is conceptualized as including the following activities: creation, evaluation, publication, dissemination, preservation, and reuse. We envision this scan as being extensible over time in order to address the evolving needs of various communities. SComCat is built as open-source software, licensed under an MIT License.
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/28656872021-01-26T12:14:53-05:002022-05-19T06:27:10-04:00NGLP Releases “Scholarly Communication Technology Catalogue (SComCat)” | Educopia InstituteHave 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 Catalogue (SComCat)!
Created by Antleaf, COAR, and the Next Generation Library Publishing project, SComCat is a catalogue and knowledge base of scholarly communications open technologies including software and some essential running services. SComCat’s purpose is to assist potential users in making decisions about which technologies they will adopt by providing an overview of the functionality, organizational models, dependencies, use of standards, and levels of adoption of each technology.
The scan includes tools, platforms, and standards that can be locally adopted to support one or more of the functions of the lifecycle of scholarly communication, which is conceptualized as including the following activities: creation, evaluation, publication, dissemination, preservation, and reuse. The initial data has been drawn from existing sources, including the Mind The Gap report (SFU, MIT)
If you know of a technology or platform that you think should be included in this scan, please use the feedback form located on the SComCat Contribute page.
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/27980612020-10-22T14:34:08-04:002022-06-09T06:48:39-04:00Living Our Values and Principles: Exploring Assessment Strategies for the Scholarly Communication Field | Educopia Institute"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 publishing tools and workflows, our team is exploring how to create community hosting models that align explicitly and demonstratively with academic values.
Living Our Values and Principles: Exploring Assessment Strategies for the Scholarly Communication Field explores the relationship between today’s varied scholarly publishing service providers and the academic values that we believe should guide their work. We begin with a brief definition of the academic mission and then briefly probe how profit motivations have come to dominate the current scholarly publishing marketplace. We consider and analyze how academic players from a range of stakeholder backgrounds have produced a broad range of “values and principles” statements, documents, and manifestos in hopes of recalibrating the scholarly publishing landscape. We contextualize this work within the broader landscape of assessment against values and principles.
Based on our findings, we recommend that academic stakeholders more concretely define their values and principles in terms of measurable actions, so these statements can be readily assessed and audited. We propose a methodology for auditing publishing service providers to ensure adherence to agreed-upon academic values and principles, with the dual goals of helping to guide values-informed decision making by academic stakeholders and encouraging values alignment efforts by infrastructure providers. We also explore ways to structure this assessment framework both to avoid barriers to entry and to discourage the kinds of “gaming the system” activities that so often accompany audits and ranking mechanisms. We close by pointing to work we have recently undertaken: the development of the Values and Principles Framework and Assessment Checklist, which were issued for public comment in July-August, 2020 on CommonPlace (hosted by the Knowledge Futures Group). ..."