Hello colleagues,
A friendly reminder that Educopia Institute recently started a quarterly
newsletter that features resources, updates, and announcements from our
diverse portfolio of research, consulting, and community cultivation work.
We invite you to read the second issue below and, if you like what you
see, consider
subscribing to our newsletter list <https://educopia.org/subscribe/>. The
newsletter is a handy way to stay up-to-date on the many scholarly
communication and digital curation initiatives underway at Educopia. Happy
reading!
With many thanks, and very best wishes,
Hannah
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Educopia Newsletter, June 2021
*The Educopia Institute Newsletter is a quarterly publication that features
events, resources, and updates from our diverse portfolio of work that
spans sponsored research, consulting, and community cultivation. If you
would like to receive future newsletters, subscribe here
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*MetaArchive Cooperative Announces New Membership Levels and Terms*
The MetaArchive Cooperative is pleased to announce that we are now
welcoming new and returning members under our new membership levels and
terms
<https://educopia.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=299460903c5acd28e01011bfe&id=7e27148e5c&e=995623ab41>.
The Cooperative has a longstanding reputation as a community-driven digital
preservation network, so it comes as no surprise that these new levels were
developed and approved by MetaArchive's members. Under the new terms, there
are: (1) simplified membership options that empower more members to vote
and serve in leadership positions, (2) reduced storage costs, and (3) an
Individual Membership option.
These new Individual Memberships allow practitioners to join the
Cooperative for free, where they can attend meetings, serve on committees,
and engage with other members in peer mentoring programs. This opens the
door not only to former members to re-join as individuals, but also to any
practitioners without a MetaArchive affiliation who are interested in
learning about distributed digital preservation and engaging with the
community.
Learn more about the new membership levels on the MetaArchive blog
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*NGLP Project Releases "Living Our Values and Principles: Annotated
Bibliography"*
Community-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
<https://educopia.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=299460903c5acd28e01011bfe&id=32f6cf8b13&e=995623ab41>
& Assessment Checklist
<https://educopia.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=299460903c5acd28e01011bfe&id=af270ddadd&e=995623ab41>
and
Living Our Values and Principles: Exploring Assessment Strategies for the
Scholarly Communication Field
<https://educopia.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=299460903c5acd28e01011bfe&id=3e4b4fc6d6&e=995623ab41>,
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 information our work on the project, we think the annotated
bibliography
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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 ([log in to unmask]) to
suggest its inclusion.
*About Next Generation Library Publishing Project*
*The Next Generation Library Publishing project
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is
led by Educopia Institute, California Digital Library (CDL), and Strategies
for Open Science (Stratos), in close partnership with Confederation of Open
Access Repositories (COAR), and Longleaf Services. **The project is
generously funded by Arcadia
<https://educopia.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=299460903c5acd28e01011bfe&id=fb67ed9bfc&e=995623ab41>,
a charitable fund of Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin
<https://educopia.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=299460903c5acd28e01011bfe&id=f57395f7bf&e=995623ab41>.
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. *
*OA eBook Usage Data Trust Releases Data Ecosystem and Use Case
Documentation*
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for Curtin University, University of Michigan library, Educopia, Book
Industry Study Group, and University of North Texas.]Publishers, libraries,
and a diverse array of scholarly communications platforms and services
generate information about how OA books are accessed online. Since its
launch in 2015, the OA eBook Usage Data Trust
<https://educopia.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=299460903c5acd28e01011bfe&id=45221bf0ce&e=995623ab41>
(@OAEBU_project) effort has brought together these thought leaders to
document
<https://educopia.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=299460903c5acd28e01011bfe&id=020245eea8&e=995623ab41>
the barriers facing OA eBook usage analytics. To start addressing these
challenges and to understand the role of a usage data trust, the effort has
spent the last year studying and documenting the usage data ecosystem.
Interview-based research led to the documentation of the OA book data
supply chain
<https://educopia.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=299460903c5acd28e01011bfe&id=8d88f1da64&e=995623ab41>,
which maps
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related metadata and usage data standards and workflows. Dozens worldwide
have engaged
<https://educopia.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=299460903c5acd28e01011bfe&id=34ee1fc143&e=995623ab41>
in human-centered design workshops and communities of practice that went
virtual during 2020. Together these communities revealed how OA book
publishers, platforms, and libraries are looking beyond their need to
provide usage and impact reports. Workshop findings are now documented
within use-cases that list the queries and activities where usage data
analytics can help scholars and organizations to be more effective and
strategic. Public comment is invited for the OA eBook Usage Data Analytics
and Reporting Use Cases Report
<https://educopia.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=299460903c5acd28e01011bfe&id=5bd63237d7&e=995623ab41>
through July 10, 2021.
*About Developing a Pilot Data Trust for Open Access Ebook Usage*
*This two-year project
<https://educopia.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=299460903c5acd28e01011bfe&id=9aa1c863ec&e=995623ab41>
funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation acts upon the recommendations
from five years of planning, as documented within the "Exploring Open
Access EBook Usage
<https://educopia.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=299460903c5acd28e01011bfe&id=cb016fd06c&e=995623ab41>"
white paper published by the Book Industry Study Group in 2019. Through
December 2021, this pilot project will develop and test infrastructure,
policy, and governance models to support a diverse, global data trust for
usage data on open access monographs. As an international cooperative
managed by the community of stakeholders in scholarly communications and
operating a secure data repository and member dashboards, this data trust
will be designed to align with the priorities of authors and institutions
while respecting emerging ethical norms in the use of metrics. *
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*Save the Date: BitCuratorEdu Educators' Summit*
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#BitCuratorEdu. Picture of USB cords.]
The BitcuratorEdu
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team in collaboration with the BitCurator Consortium is excited to announce
a virtual symposium following the 2021 BitCurator Users Forum
<https://educopia.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=299460903c5acd28e01011bfe&id=7c5a2b97b1&e=995623ab41>
!
The BitCuratorEdu Educators' Summit will bring together digital curation
practitioners, peer trainers, and graduate students with library and
information science instructors from both academic programs and continuing
education efforts to explore the latest topics, research, and developments
in digital curation education. Save the date for Friday, October 15, 2021.
Information on the program and how to register will be available in August!
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work, we encourage knowledge sharing and network building across
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cultivation and administrative backbone support services for collaborative
communities. Educopia also develops and manages applied research projects
that benefit our affiliated communities and the broader information fields
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