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Forwarded on behalf of our colleagues at Educopia. Please contact Katherine Skinner if you have questions.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b>From:</b> Katherine Skinner <<a href="mailto:katherine@educopia.org" target="_blank">katherine@educopia.org</a>>
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<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, September 1, 2020 12:03 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> John Herbert <<a href="mailto:John.Herbert@lyrasis.org" target="_blank">John.Herbert@lyrasis.org</a>>; Laurie Arp <<a href="mailto:laurie.arp@lyrasis.org" target="_blank">laurie.arp@lyrasis.org</a>>; Kristen Ratan <<a href="mailto:kristen@strategiesos.org" target="_blank">kristen@strategiesos.org</a>>;
Catherine Mitchell <<a href="mailto:Catherine.Mitchell@ucop.edu" target="_blank">Catherine.Mitchell@ucop.edu</a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b> NGLP “Values and Principles Framework and Assessment Checklist” Released for Public Comment<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">(apologies for cross-posting!)</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Dear colleagues,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">The Next Generation Library Publishing project (NGLP) invites community feedback on the draft release of the
</span><a href="https://doi.org/10.21428/6ffd8432.5175bab1" target="_blank"><i><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Values and Principles Framework and Assessment Checklist</span></i></a><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> tools
produced to assess and incentivize stronger alignment between publishing tools, services, and platforms and the scholarly communities and publics they ultimately serve. Pending public feedback, we plan to refine and issue this tool in 2021 for broad use.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><a href="https://doi.org/10.21428/6ffd8432.5175bab1" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">We invite feedback and engagement via the open access Commonplace Publication (hosted on the PubPub platform).
</span></b></a><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">You can access the framework and the checklist freely; you will need to set up an account with Commonplace and PubPub in order to make comments directly in the documents. You are also welcome
to contact its lead author, </span><a href="mailto:katherine@educopia.org" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Katherine Skinner</span></a><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">, by email to share comments or ideas.
The draft is open for public comment until September 30, 2020.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">About the NGLP Project</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">The
</span><a href="https://educopia.org/next-generation-library-publishing/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Next Generation Library Publishing project</span></a><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> (led by Educopia
Institute, California Digital Library, and Stratos, in close collaboration with COAR, LYRASIS, and Longleaf Services, and generously funded by
</span><a href="https://www.arcadiafund.org.uk/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Arcadia</span></a><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">), seeks to improve the publishing pathways and choices available to 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.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">More about the Values and Principles Assessment Tool</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">This
<i>Framework and Assessment Checklist</i> and its affiliated documentation have been prepared by Katherine Skinner and Sarah Lippincott and edited by Nancy Adams, Hannah Ballard, Terra Graziani, Jennifer Kemp, Brandon Locke, Catherine Mitchell, Kristen Ratan,
Oya Reiger, Kathleen Shearer, John Sherer, Nick Shockey, Eric van Rijn, and Sarah Wipperman. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">This publication is also related to the
</span><a href="https://educopia.org/principles_values_wp/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Encouraging Adherence to Values and Principles White Paper (March 2020)</span></a><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">,
which the NGLP team issued for public comment in March 2020, </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">If you have any questions about the
<i>Framework and Assessment Checklist, </i>please contact Katherine Skinner <</span><a href="mailto:katherine@educopia.org" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">katherine@educopia.org</span></a><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">>. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">With many thanks, and best wishes, </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#888888">Katherine Skinner, PhD</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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