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On Wed, Oct 21, 2020 at 1:19 PM Caitlin Perry <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Dear Colleagues,
>
> The Next Generation Library Publishing
> <https://educopia.org/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*
> <https://educopia.org/living-our-values-and-principles/> 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 the last 25 years. It highlights the gap
> between *naming* vs. *living* *by* values and principles, and it provides
> examples of how a variety of fields and sectors have built audit and
> assessment frameworks to measure adherence to values and principles
> documentation
>
> The report closes by recommending that academic stakeholders more
> concretely define their values and principles in terms of measurable
> actions, so these statements can be readily assessed and audited. The
> authors 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.
>
> An early version <https://educopia.org/principles_values_wp/> of this
> work was issued for public comment in March 2020; many thanks to all who
> provided feedback and suggestions this spring! This report is also closely
> related to the Values and Principles Framework
> <https://doi.org/10.21428/6ffd8432.5175bab1> and Assessment Checklist
> <https://doi.org/10.21428/6ffd8432.5175bab1/00710d8a> developed by
> Katherine Skinner and Sarah Lippincott and released for public review in
> July 2020.
>
> About the Next Generation Library Publishing Project
>
> The Next Generation Library Publishing project is led by  Educopia
> Institute <https://educopia.org/>, California Digital Library (CDL)
> <https://www.cdlib.org/>, and Strategies for Open Science (Stratos)
> <https://strategiesos.org/>, in close partnership with LYRASIS
> <http://lyrasis.org/>, Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR)
> <https://www.coar-repositories.org/>, and Longleaf Services
> <http://www.longleafservices.org/>. The project is generously funded by
> Arcadia <https://www.arcadiafund.org.uk/>, a charitable fund of Lisbet
> Rausing and Peter Baldwin. Its purpose is to improve publishing pathways
> and choices for authors, editors, and readers through strengthening,
> integrating, and scaling up scholarly publishing infrastructure to support
> library publishers. In addition to developing interoperable publishing
> tools and workflows, our team is exploring how to create community hosting
> models that align explicitly and demonstratively with academic values.
>
> With best wishes,
>
> Caitlin Perry, on behalf of the NGLP Team
> Caitlin Perry
> Communications and Administrative Coordinator
> Educopia Institute <https://educopia.org/>
> Follow us on Twitter <https://twitter.com/Educopia>!
>
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> Working from Oyster Bay, NY
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