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 very best wishes,

Hannah, on behalf of the NGLP team

-- 
Hannah Ballard <https://educopia.org/staff/hannah-ballard>
Director of Communications
Educopia Institute <https://educopia.org/>
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