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>! > > She/Her > Working from Oyster Bay, NY > > > > > ------------------------------ > > to manage your DLF-ANNOUNCE subscription, visit diglib.org/announce > -- Mike Furlough Executive Director HathiTrust Digital Library ######################################################################## to manage your DLF-ANNOUNCE subscription, visit diglib.org/announce