Dear colleagues,

A core principle guiding the Next Generation Library Publishing
<https://educopia.org/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 <https://educopia.org/nglp-lib-pub-infrastructure/>, 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:

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   Ways to integrate existing platforms and tools rather than building new
   ones
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   Expanded choices that work together to avoid lock-in
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   Unified web delivery and discovery options that work across platforms
   and tools
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   An administrative dashboard that can provide central control and
   reporting options across platforms and tools
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   Choices among a range of hosted, turnkey solutions
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   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.

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 many thanks,

Hannah (on behalf of the NGLP team)

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