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Against the Grain is your key to the latest news about libraries, publishers, book jobbers, and subscription agents. Our goal is to link publishers, vendors, and librarians by reporting on the issues, literature, and people that impact the world of books and journals.
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This episode is sponsored by Digital Science, a global leader in AI-driven technology, providing advanced software and data solutions that empower researchers, universities, and organizations across the research ecosystem. Born out of the research community itself, Digital Science was founded by researchers who sought to solve the challenges they w…
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Audio from the 2023 Charleston Conference from the session titled: Rubric Cubed: A New Method in Collections Decions-Making presented by Erin Gallagher, Chair, Acquisitions & Collections Services, University of Florida; Courtney Pyche, Public Health Liaison Librarian, University of Florida Health Science Center Library; Ariel Pomputius, Health Scie…
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Today’s episode features guest host, Michael Upshall, Community and Outreach Manager at Core, who talks with Thomas Krichel, Founder, Open Library Society. Thomas Krichel is a digital librarian and a pioneer of scholarly repositories. In this conversation, Thomas discusses the development and significance of REPEC, a digital library for economics, …
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Audio from the 2023 Charleston Conference from the session titled: Stewarding Electronic Resources During Challenging Times presented by Denise Branch, Head Electronic and Continuing Resources at Virginia Commonwealth University, Beth Bernhardt, Consortia Account Manager, Oxford University Press, and Tamar Ganor, Content Product Manager, Ex Libris,…
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Audio from the 2023 Charleston Conference from the session titled: Understanding the Impact on Print Revenues When University Press Books are Open Access presented by Erich van Rijn, Director, University of California Press; Laura Brown, Ithaka, John Sherer, University of North Carolina Press; and Miranda Bennett, Director of Shared Collections, Ca…
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Today’s episode features guest host, Michael Upshall, Community and Outreach Manager at Core, who talks with Clifford Lynch, Executive Director of the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI). In this conversation, Clifford discusses his background and the evolution of CNI. He highlights the early days of library automation and the development of …
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In today’s episode, Matthew Ismail, former editor-in-chief of the Charleston Briefings, talks with Heather Staines, Senior Consultant, Delta Think, and Doreen Bradley, Director of Learning Programs and Initiatives, University of Michigan. Heather, Doreen and Matthew discuss the recent Charleston Briefings on library privacy, the last title complete…
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Today’s episode features guest host, Michael Upshall, Community and Outreach Manager at Core, who talks with John Dove, Advisor, Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ). An ambassador for open access, John discusses his diverse career and his work in transforming the scholarly process. He shares his experience as a software architect and developer…
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Today’s episode features a guest host, Michael Upshall, Community and Outreach Manager at Core, who talks with Peter Suber, Senior Advisor on Open Access, Harvard Library and Director of the Harvard Open Access Project Peter Suber, one of the best-known figures in open access, discusses his background and involvement in the open access movement. He…
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Today we’re featuring Audio from Day Two, Part Five of the 2023 Charleston In Between. In this session, we’ll feature a series of power pitches by four different presenters on solutions for integrity in publishing. This session is presented by Neil Christensen, Morressier, Gareth Dyke, ReviewerCredits, John Willinsky, Public Knowledge Project, and …
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Today we’re featuring Audio from Day Two, Part Four of the 2023 Charleston In Between. In this session, we’ll feature a presentation on the history of research integrity concerns over time and how technology has both driven and pushed back against those concerns, while also looking at the question of can technology help with research integrity and …
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Today we’re featuring Audio from Day Two, Part Three of the 2023 Charleston In Between. In this session, we’ll feature a take on the human factor of Research Publishing Integrity, including the role of whistleblowers and sleuths, technology versus the human factor, understanding researcher motivations, culture and misconduct and more. This session …
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Audio from Day Two, Part Two of the 2023 Charleston In Between Today we’re featuring Audio from Day Two, Part Two of the 2023 Charleston In Between. In this session, we’ll feature a large publisher’s perspective on publishing integrity, including challenges and solutions, Wiley’s Research Integrity organization and strategy, and the importance of c…
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Today we’re featuring Audio from Day Two, Part One of the 2023 Charleston In Between. In this session, we’ll feature both a small publisher’s perspective and then a large publisher’s perspective on publishing integrity. This session is presented by John Chen, Director of Development, Tech Science Press, and Michael Streeter, Director of Research In…
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Audio from Day One, Part Three of the 2023 Charleston In Between Today we’re featuring Audio from Day One, Part Three of the 2023 Charleston In Between. In this session, we’ll discuss defining integrity standards in publishing. This session is presented by Nadita Quaderi, Clarivate, and was organized and moderated by Sven Fund, Managing Director, R…
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Today we’re featuring Audio from Day One, Part Two of the 2023 Charleston In Between. In this session, we’ll discuss publishing integrity from the librarian perspective, the role that institutions and libraries have in publishing integrity as well as the papermill crises and why it is happening and what is being done to fix it. This session is pres…
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Audio from Day One of the 2023 Charleston In Between Today we’re featuring Audio from Day One of the 2023 Charleston In Between. In this session, we’ll discuss why integrity in research and publishing matters, and Institutions, libraries and their roles in research integrity. Also, how to define integrity standards in publishing with integrity. Thi…
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Today’s episode features a guest host, Michael Upshall, Community and Outreach Manager at Core, who talks with Euan Adie, founder of Altmetrics and Overton. Euan is originally from Aberdeen, Scotland. He studied computer science at Edinburgh University. Euan talks about his background and early career working in the field of medical genetics and bi…
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Today’s episode features a guest host, Michael Upshall, Community and Outreach Manager at Core, who talks with Bianca Kramer, Advisor, Analyst and workshop facilitator at SesameOpenScience. Bianca shares her transition from scientist to librarian, driven by a desire for broader interests and family time. She found a balance by working in a universi…
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Audio from the 2023 Charleston Conference from the Thursday Keynote presented by James Daunt, CEO, Barnes & Noble. Today we’re featuring Audio from the 2023 Charleston Conference from the Thursday Keynote presented by James Daunt, Chief Executive Officer of Barnes & Noble, the world’s largest retail bookseller, of stationery and gift retailer Paper…
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Audio recorded at the 2023 Charleston Conference from the 14th annual "Long Arm of the Law” session. This session was presented by Kyle K. Courtney, Director of Copyright & Information Policy, Harvard University and Michelle Wu, Retired Associate Dean of Library Services, Director of Law Library, and Professor of Law, (retired) and moderated by Ann…
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In today’s episode, Matthew Ismail, a Conference Director and Editor in Chief of the Charleston Briefings, talks with Jay Patel, Head of Sales and Business Development for the Americas, Cactus Communications. Jay says he first learned how to sell in a tough environment by selling printers and copiers door to door. Then, he worked in the publishing …
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In today’s episode, Matthew Ismail, a Conference Director and Editor in Chief of the Charleston Briefings, talks with Jignesh Bhate, Founder and CEO, Molecular Connections. Matthew and Jignesh talk about his background which began in journalism and accounting and how he came to found Molecular Connections over 20 years ago. Jignesh says the mission…
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Audio from the 2023 Charleston Conference Leadership Interview Series. Meg White, Senior Consultant, Delta Think, and a Director of the Charleston Conference, interviews Steve Fallon, President, De Gruyter. Meg and Steve talk about his new role as President of De Gruyter, and what he sees as the organization’s biggest challenges but also opportunit…
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Audio from the 2023 Charleston Conference Leadership Interview Series. Meg White, Senior Consultant, Delta Think, and a Director of the Charleston Conference, interviews Judy Verses, President, Academic and Government Markets, Elsevier. Meg and Judy talk about Judy’s diverse background and how she came into the scholarly publishing industry and her…
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Audio from the 2023 Charleston Conference Leadership Interview Series. Heather Staines, Senior Strategy Consultant, Delta Think and a Director for the Charleston Conference interviews Michelle Wu, Retired Associate Dean of Library Services, Director of Law Library and Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Library. Michelle has over 25 years o…
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Audio from the 2023 Charleston Conference Leadership Interview Series. Heather Staines, Senior Strategy Consultant, Delta Think and a Director for the Charleston Conference interviews Bar Veinstein, President, Academia & Government, Clarivate. Heather and Bar talk about his background and how he came to join Clarivate in a newly created position la…
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Audio from the 2023 Charleston Conference Leadership Interview Series. Erin Gallagher, Chair, Acquisitions and Collections Services of the University of Florida Libraries, and a Director of the Charleston Conference, interviews Richard Gallagher, President, Editor-in-Chief, Annual Reviews. Erin and Richard talk about what attracted him to the scien…
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Audio from the 2023 Charleston Conference Leadership Interview Series. Erin Gallagher, Chair, Acquisitions and Collections Services of the University of Florida Libraries, and a Director of the Charleston Conference, interviews Lindsay Cronk, Dean of Libraries, Tulane University. Lindsay was the first elected president of Core and co-founder of PeM…
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Audio from the 2023 Charleston Conference Leadership Interview Series. Meg White, Senior Consultant, Delta Think, and a Director of the Charleston Conference, interviews Kyle Courtney, Director of Copyright and Information Policy, Harvard University. Kyle is both a lawyer and a librarian. He founded the Copyright First Responders which responds to …
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Audio from the 2023 Charleston Conference Leadership Interview Series. Heather Staines, Senior Strategy Consultant, Delta Think and a Director for the Charleston Conference interviews James Daunt, Chief Executive Officer of Barnes & Noble, the world’s largest retail bookseller, of stationery and gift retailer Paper Source and of Waterstones, the la…
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In today’s episode, Matthew Ismail, a Conference Director and Editor in Chief of the Charleston Briefings, talks with Zack Ellis, Founder and CEO of TheirStory. Zack initially created TheirStory, an oral history recording and presentation platform, to allow his family members to record and share their life stories. Yet, the more videos he recorded …
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In today’s episode, Matthew Ismail, a Conference Director and Editor in Chief of the Charleston Briefings, talks with Jonathan Grant, the Founding Director of Different Angles Ltd, a consultancy that focuses on the social impact of universities and research. His main interests are in biomedical and health R&D policy, research impact assessment, the…
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In today’s episode, we’re talking with Tuve Floden, Scholar, Middle Eastern Studies and Founder of the Blog “Other Things.” Tuve is interviewed by Matthew Ismail, a Conference Director and Editor in Chief of the Charleston Briefings. Tuve Floden is an independent scholar of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies with a PhD in Islamic Studies from Georg…
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In today’s episode, we’re talking with Paul Killoran, Founder and CEO, Ex Ordo. Paul is interviewed by Matthew Ismail, a Conference Director and Editor in Chief of the Charleston Briefings. In their conversation, Paul lays out his ideas on how societies can expand their opportunities and increase engagement by using data from conference and publish…
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Audio from the 2022 Charleston Conference from a Session titled "Evaluating AI Tools For Researchers: A Guide For Libraries.” This session was presented by Michael Upshall, Consultant, Former Publisher, and Igor Brbre, Information Specialist, NHS Healthcare Improvement, Scotland, and research librarian. In this session, Michael and Igor outline an …
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In today’s episode, we’re talking with David Myers, CEO at Data Licensing Alliance and DMedia Associates. David is interviewed by Matthew Ismail, a Conference Director and Editor in Chief of the Charleston Briefings. David worked for seven years at Wolters Kluwer in licensing and was deeply involved in inbound licensing of data before founding his …
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Audio from the 2022 Charleston Conference from a Session titled "Instructional Design and the Library: Joining forces to create engaging and inclusive online courses” Instructional design is an exciting field that can help create inclusive, accessible and engaging learning experiences for library patrons. While this work presents challenges, expert…
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Audio from the 2022 Charleston Conference from a Session titled "How Open Is Open?: A Conversation about Open Access Publishing, Transformative Agreements, and DEIA.” “At its core, open access (OA) publishing aims to provide equitable access to all worldwide. With diverse open access publishing models, a variety of transformative agreements, and di…
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Audio from the 2022 Charleston Conference from a Session titled "Historians and Librarians Unite: 25 years of Collaborations.” Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000 (WASM) first appeared online in December 1997. Over 25 years this online journal and database has grown to include some 200,000 pages of primary documents and inter…
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In today’s episode, we’re talking with Shaharima Parvin, Senior Assistant Librarian at East West University in Bangladesh and a CrossRef Ambassador. Shaharima is interviewed by Matthew Ismail, a Conference Director, and Editor in Chief of the Charleston Briefings. Shaharima talks with Matthew about the structure of the higher education system withi…
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In today’s episode, we’re talking with Boaz Nadev Manes, University Librarian, Lehigh University. Boaz is interviewed by Matthew Ismail, a Conference Director and Editor in Chief of the Charleston Briefings. Boaz talks with Matthew about his history with library resource sharing. The podcast focuses particularly on his current involvement with Proj…
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In today’s episode, we’re talking with Tommy Doyle, Head of Growth and Customer Success, Chassis Technologies. Tommy is interviewed by Matthew Ismail, a Conference Director and Editor in Chief of the Charleston Briefings. Tommy Doyle is a stalwart leader in the world of scholarly communication and an influential proponent for technological innovati…
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In today’s episode, we’re talking with Jonathan Adams, Chief Scientist, Institute of Scientific Information, a part of Clarivate. Jonathan is interviewed by Matthew Ismail, a Conference Director and Editor in Chief of the Charleston Briefings. Jonathan Adams is a jack of all trades in the scholarly communication field. He is a scientist who taught …
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In today’s episode, we’re talking with Viktoriya Vasilenko, Co-founder and CEO of Knowledge Gate Group, which is an independent think tank organization that focuses on eradicating uncertainty in business decisions within life science. Based in Copenhagen, but operating on a global scale, Knowledge Gate Group connects companies to leading life scien…
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Audio from the 2022 Charleston Conference from a Session titled "The Places We’ve Been: NISOs Interoperable System of Controlled Digital Lending Update.” The NISO Working Group that is developing a consensus framework in support of controlled digital lending (CDL) of book content by libraries began its work in January, 2022. The framework—to be pub…
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Audio from the 2022 Charleston Conference from a Session titled “Making Preservation Inevitable” where the question is asked “Is the scholarly record preserved for the future? Not quite yet… this is very much a work in progress, and there are additional steps each of us (and our organizations!) can take to play our role.” This session was presented…
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Audio from the 2022 Charleston Conference from a Neopolitan Session titled “Whole EBook ILL Redux.” In this session, panelists discussed results and updates on ProQuest’s, a part of Clarivate, successful Whole Ebook ILL pilot. This session was presented by Allen Jones (the New School), Whitney Murphy (ProQuest), George Machovec (Colorado Alliance o…
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In today’s episode, we’re talking with Emma Warren-Jones, Co-Founder, Scholarcy. Emma is interviewed by Matthew Ismail, a Conference Director and Editor in Chief of the Charleston Briefings. Social Media: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthew-ismail-1a6282a/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/ewarrenjones/ Twitter: Keywords: #Scholarcy, #scholcomm…
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In today’s episode, we’re talking with Ingrid Skrede, Co-Founder and CMO, Ludenso. Ingrid is interviewed by Matthew Ismail, a Conference Director and Editor in Chief of the Charleston Briefings. Social Media: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthew-ismail-1a6282a/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/ingridskrede/ Keywords: #Ludenso, #scholcomm, #scho…
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