A holistic approach to values-driven publishing

About

The Next Generation Library Publishing project aims to transform the scholarly communication landscape by empowering academic libraries and their collaborators. Library publishers provide a crucial complement and potential competitive alternative to commercial publishing. But they require robust, flexible, interoperable tools, workflows, and service providers to fulfill their potential. NGLP is building these resources in ways that meet the unique needs of library publishers and concretely align with academic values.

NGLP launched in the fall of 2019 as a collaboration of Educopia, the California Digital Library (CDL), and Strategies for Open Science (Stratos). Katherine Skinner of Educopia, Catherine Mitchell of CDL, and Kristen Ratan of Stratos serve as the project’s co-PIs. The project is generously funded by Arcadia, a charitable fund of Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin. The project takes a holistic approach to creating transformative change in scholarly communication: using academic values and principles as the basis for software development, governance and business modeling, and pilot implementation of library publishing solutions.

 

Overview

Learn all about NGLP in our 6-minute introduction video, then check out our extensive documentation for a deeper dive.

 
 

Our Team

  • Portrait of Catherine Mitchell

    Catherine Mitchell

    NGLP Co-PI and Director of Publishing, Archives, and Digitization, California Digital Library

  • Portrait of Kristen Ratan

    Kristen Ratan

    NGLP CO-PI and Founder, Strategies for Open Science, Stratos

  • Portrait of Katherine Skinner

    Katherine Skinner

    NGLP Co-PI and Executive Director, Educopia Institute

  • Sarah Lippincott

    Consultant and NGLP Product Owner

  • Portrait of David Pcolar

    David Pcolar

    NGLP Technical Project Manager

  • Portrait of Kate Herman

    Kate Herman

    Consultant and NGLP Project Manager

Advisory Board

 

Sarah Beaubien
Grand Valley State University

Lisa Hinchliffe
University of Illinois

Jennifer Kemp
Crossref

Monica McCormick
Barnard College

Sarah McKee
Emory University

J.B. Poline
Montreal Neurological Institute

Oya Y. Rieger
Ithaka S+R

Charlotte Roh
CSUSM

Erich van Rijn
University of California Press

Rich Schneider
University of California – San Francisco

Nick Shockey
SPARC

Lidia Uziel
University of California – Santa Barbara

Micah Vandegrift
North Carolina State University

Sarah Wipperman
OA.Works

Acknowledgements

We gratefully acknowledge the contributions of numerous individuals and groups who have contributed time, expertise, and care to this project and have driven its success.

 

Development Partners

 

Zach Davis
Cast Iron Coding

Richard Jones
Cottage Labs

 

Pilot Leads

 

Clay Farr
Longleaf Services

Martin Eve and Andy Byers
Janeway

Catherine Mitchell
CDL

 

Project Team

 

Dave Pcolar, Justin Gonder, Lisa Schiff, Esther Verreau, Hardy Pottinger, Mahjabeen Yucekul, Brian Tingle
CDL

Paul Walk
COAR

Brandon Locke and Melanie Schlosser
Educopia

Contact us.

Connect with the NGLP team to learn more about how our software components could be your next library publishing platform, provide your thoughts on future development, or ask questions about our approach.