Against the Grain - The Podcast
243 episodes - English - Latest episode: 9 days ago - ★★★★ - 3 ratingsAgainst 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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ATGthePodcast 192 - Derek Law Interview with Erin Gallagher
March 06, 2023 04:30 - 30 minutes - 28.3 MBToday's episode contains audio from the 2022 Charleston Conference brand new Leadership Interview Series. In this episode, Erin Gallagher, Chair, Acquisitions and Collections Services at University of Florida, interviews Derek Law, Professor Emeritus, University of Strathclyde, and retired librarian. Video of the presentation available at: https://youtu.be/C7zZp23kV7g Social Media: https://www.linkedin.com/in/erin-gallagher-39a2b211/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/derek-law-21869...
ATGthePodcast 191 - A Conversation with Sven Fund, Managing Director, ReviewerCredits, and Senior Director, Knowledge Unlatched
February 27, 2023 04:30 - 36 minutes - 33 MBIn today’s episode, we’re talking with Sven Fund, Managing Director, ReviewerCredits and Senior Director, Knowledge Unlatched. Sven is interviewed by Matthew Ismail, a Conference Director and Editor in Chief of the Charleston Briefings. Matthew talks with Sven about his ownership and recent sale of Knowledge Unlatched, a company which Sven says fills the gap between libraries willing to spend money on open access to fund it and publishers who could make content open if funding were ava...
ATGthePodcast 190 - A Conversation with John Hammersley, Co-Founder, Overleaf
February 20, 2023 05:30 - 49 minutes - 45.4 MBToday we’re featuring a fascinating conversation with John Hammersley, Co-Founder of Overleaf. John is interviewed by Matthew Ismail, a Conference Director and Editor in Chief of the Charleston Briefings. Overleaf is a collaborative writing and publishing platform which has recently grown to 11 million users worldwide. Today, Matthew and John talk about ChatGPT, the AI-enabled chatbot that has been a viral sensation on the internet, and ask what it could mean for scholarly communications...
ATGthePodcast 189 - A Conversation with Ivy Cavendish, Founder, TooWrite and Eugenie Regan, Vice President, Research Solutions, Springer-Nature
February 14, 2023 05:30 - 34 minutes - 31.7 MBToday we are featuring a conversation with Ivy Cavendish, the Founder of TooWrite, a tool designed to help scientists write up the results of their research (recently acquired by Springer-Nature), and Eugenie Regan, Vice President Research Solutions at Springer Nature. Ivy was a PhD student in Literature when she founded TooWrite in response to the struggles of her co-founder as he was writing his dissertation in computational biology. Ivy believed that the process of science writing was mu...
ATGthePodcast 188 - Jay Flynn Interview with Heather Staines
February 06, 2023 04:30 - 35 minutes - 32.8 MBAudio from the 2022 Charleston Conference brand new Leadership Interview Series. In this episode, Heather Staines, Senior Strategy Consultant, Delta Think and a Director for the Charleston Conference interviews Jay Flynn, Executive Vice President and General Manager, Research at Wiley. Video of the presentation available at: https://youtu.be/XZPeleIQ2dI Social Media: https://www.linkedin.com/in/heatherstaines/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/jayflynn/ Twitter: @heatherstaines, @Jay_Fly...
ATGthePodcast 187 - A Conversation with Kent Anderson, Founder, Caldera Publishing Solutions
January 30, 2023 04:30 - 47 minutes - 43.7 MBToday we’re featuring a fascinating conversation with Kent Anderson, founder of Caldera Publishing Solutions, which provides strategic and business consulting for scientific and scholarly publishers. Kent also writes and edits the Geyser, a paid subscription e-newsletter covering scholarly and scientific publishing and more. Kent is interviewed by Matthew Ismail, editor in chief of the Charleston Briefings and a Conference Director. Social Media: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.co...
ATGthePodcast 186 - Gary Price Interview with Heather Staines
January 24, 2023 03:00 - 39 minutes - 36.6 MBAudio from the 2022 Charleston Conference brand new Leadership Interview Series. In this episode, Heather Staines, Senior Strategy Consultant, Delta Think and a Director for the Charleston Conference interviews Gary Price, co-Founder, InfoDJ, and Editor, InfoDOCKET. Gary is also a librarian, consultant and researcher. Video of the presentation available at: https://youtu.be/n7Icb9DlXpw Social Media: https://www.linkedin.com/in/heatherstaines/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/gdp100/ Tw...
ATGthePodcast 185 - Data-Driven DEI Perspectives; Know Where You Are, so You Know Where You Need to Go
January 16, 2023 04:30 - 1 hour - 82.5 MBAudio from the 2022 Charleston Library Conference from the session titled “Data-Driven DEI Perspectives; Know Where You Are, so You Know Where You Need to Go.” This session was presented by Heather Staines, Senior Consultant, Delta Think; Gwen Evans, VP of Global Library Relations, Elsevier; Beth Blanton, Director of Collections, University of Virginia Libraries; Robyn Price, Bibliometrics Manager, Imperial College, London; and Lori Carlin, Chief Commercial Officer, Delta Think. Video of ...
ATGthePodcast 184 - A Conversation with Elliott Lumb, Founder and CEO, PeerRef
January 10, 2023 23:44 - 34 minutes - 31.4 MBToday we’re featuring a fascinating conversation with Elliott Lumb, Founder and CEO of PeerRef, which is described as “a journal-independent open peer review platform.” Elliott says that he had initially hoped to disrupt the traditional publishing process with PeerRef by assisting authors to post their work online as a preprint, organize and publish the peer review for their work, and to give them all the pieces they need to satisfy funders and institutions. However, Elliott realized that o...
ATGthePodcast 182 - "Afternoon Plenary: Values and Issues that Unite Us: The imperative for publishers, libraries and research institutions to join forces”
December 12, 2022 04:13 - 42 minutes - 58 MBAudio from the 2022 Charleston Library Conference from the Plenary Session titled: “Values and Issues that Unite Us: The imperative for publishers, libraries and research institutions to join forces” presented by Dr. Caroline Sutton, CEO, The International Association for Scientific, Medical and Technical Publishers (STM). Video of the presentation available at: https://youtu.be/yV7Cb3Ln9V8 Social Media: https://www.linkedin.com/in/caroline-sutton-90a0941/ Twitter: @CarolineSutton ...
ATGthePodcast 181 - A Conversation with Todd Carpenter, Executive Director of the National Information Standards Organization (NISO)
December 05, 2022 04:30 - 44 minutes - 61.5 MBToday we’re featuring a fascinating conversation with Todd Carpenter, the Executive Director of the National Information Standards Organization (NISO). Todd contributed an important essay to the recent Charleston Briefing called Artificial Intelligence in Libraries and Publishing, edited by Ruth Pickering and Matthew Ismail. Matthew wanted to know why Todd (and NISO) are interested in AI. Todd’s answers to this general direction of questioning are both enlightening and compelling. Please en...
ATGthePodcast 180 - A Conversation with Thafeer Atta, Co-Founder at Avicenna-Research
November 28, 2022 04:30 - 49 minutes - 67.4 MBToday we’re featuring a fascinating conversation with Thafeer Atta, Co-Founder of Avicenna Research, a newly formed company based in the United Arab Emirates with the purpose of enhancing and disseminating research from the Arab World. Thafeer is joined today on ATG the Podcast by Matthew Ismail, Editor in Chief of the Charleston Briefings and a conference director at the Charleston Conference. Social Media: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthew-ismail-1a6282a/ https://www....
ATGthePodcast 179 - A Conversation with Ijad Madisch, CEO, Co-Founder, ResearchGate
October 28, 2022 03:30 - 55 minutes - 76.2 MBIjad Madisch is described in Wikipedia as “a German virologist, founder and CEO of the research network ResearchGate and member of the Digital Council of the Cabinet of Germany.” As a scientist and entrepreneur, Ijad and his partners founded ResearchGate in 2008 with a handful of members and a “clear goal: to connect the world of science.” Since then, RG has become a giant presence in the scientific community, with 24 million members and a growing relationship with the major science publishe...
ATGthePodcast 178 - A Conversation with Boaz Nadav Manes, University Librarian, Lehigh University Library
October 17, 2022 03:30 - 49 minutes - 68.5 MBJoin us for our latest podcast episode featuring a conversation between Boaz Nadav Manes, University Librarian, Lehigh University Library, and Matthew Ismail, Editor in Chief of the Charleston Briefings and a Conference Director at the Charleston Conference. Boaz is the University Librarian at Lehigh University. He previously worked in collection development and technical services at Brown University and Cornell University, as well as a stint with OCLC. Matthew and Boaz will discuss a new ...
ATGthePodcast 177 - A Conversation with Simon Linacre, Digital Science
October 10, 2022 03:57 - 57 minutes - 79.2 MBJoin us for our latest podcast episode featuring a conversation between Simon Linacre, Head of Content, Brand & Press at Digital Science, and Matthew Ismail, Editor in Chief of the Charleston Briefings and a Conference Director at the Charleston Conference. Simon is a native of Northern England who worked as a journalist in London before beginning a new career in academic publishing with Emerald 20 years ago. In 2018 Simon began working with Cabell’s International, which is where his inter...
ATGthePodcast 176 - State of The Academic Library: Library Leaders Share What Makes Institutions Thrive
October 03, 2022 03:30 - 1 hour - 83.4 MBAudio from the 2021 Charleston Library Conference from a session titled “State of The Academic Library: Library Leaders Share What Makes Institutions Thrive” presented by Elijah Scott, Executive Director, Library Services, Florida Virtual Campus; Kathleen Bauer, Director, Collections, Discovery and Access Services, Trinity College; Kate McCready, Interim AUL for Collections & Content Strategy, University of Minnesota Libraries; Alison Roth, Marketing Communications Manager, ProQuest, Part of...
ATGthePodcast 175 - Experimenting and Implementing Evidence-Based Selection Options For eBook Investments
September 26, 2022 03:30 - 1 hour - 55.5 MBJoin us for our latest podcast episode featuring audio from a webcast titled “Experimenting and Implementing Evidence-Based Selection Options For eBook Investments” presented by Andrée Rathemacher, Head, Acquisitions in the University Libraries, University of Rhode Island; Liz Mengel, Associate Dean Collections and Academic Services, Johns Hopkins University; Melissa Milazzo, Senior Product Manager, Elsevier; and Robert Tiessen, Collections Librarian, University of Calgary Library The las...
ATGthePodcast 174 - The Art of Open Web Curation: Tools All Librarians Can use
September 19, 2022 03:30 - 59 minutes - 54.7 MBJoin us for our latest podcast episode featuring audio from a webcast titled “The Art of Open Web Curation: Tools All Librarians Can Use” presented by Gary Price, Co-Founder and Editor, Library Journal’s infoDOCKET, Information Industry Analyst and Librarian; and Curtis Michelson, Founder and Principal, Minds Alert, LLC. In this webcast, Gary and Curtis share a variety of new “open web” resources as well as updates on some of the resources they shared in previous editions of this Charlest...
ATGthePodcast 173 - A Conversation with Nandita Quaderi the Web of Science
September 12, 2022 03:30 - 51 minutes - 47.6 MBJoin us for our latest podcast episode featuring a conversation between Nandita Quaderi, the Web of Science, and Matthew Ismail, Editor in Chief of the Charleston Briefings, and a Conference Director at the Charleston Conference. Nandita Quaderi is Editor-in-Chief and Editorial VP, the Web of Science. In this podcast, Nandita and Matthew discuss Web of Science and the upcoming changes to how Clarivate will assign journal impact factors for scholarly publications. Nandita provides some help...
ATGthePodcast 172 - A Conversation with Simon Holt, Elsevier
August 29, 2022 03:30 - 46 minutes - 42.5 MBIn today's episode we feature a conversation between Simon Holt, Elsevier, and Matthew Ismail, Editor in Chief of the Charleston Briefings and a Conference Director at the Charleston Conference. Simon Holt is Disability Confidence Manager at Elsevier and he is deeply involved with the issue of accessibility in scholarly communication. In this podcast, Simon and Matthew discuss how making post-publication accommodations for disabled readers can be succeeded in the scholarly publishing world...
ATGthePodcast 171 - 2016 Long Arm of the Law Presentation
August 22, 2022 03:30 - 28 minutes - 26 MBAudio from a session at the 2016 Charleston Library Conference titled “Long Arm of the Law.” This session was presented by the late Bill Hannay, Attorney at Law, and long-time presenter at the Charleston Conference. In this “Long Arm'' presentation, Bill gives an update on the Right to Be Forgotten, the right to access for individuals with disabilities and MOOC’s at UC- Berkeley, the Georgia State e-Reserve Case and the Delhi University Copyright Case. At the end, Bill performs one of h...
ATGthePodcast 170 - 2017 Long Arm of the Law Presentation
August 15, 2022 03:30 - 28 minutes - 25.8 MBAudio from a session at the 2017 Charleston Library Conference titled “Long Arm of the Law.” This session was presented by the late Bill Hannay, Attorney at Law, and long time presenter at the Charleston Conference. In this “Long Arm” presentation, Bill talks about some lawsuits involving Google, the decision of the European Court of Justice regarding libraries and the lending of ebooks, the ReDigi case along with other copyright issues from that year. Video of the presentation is avai...
ATGthePodcast 169: 2018 Long Arm of the Law Presentation
August 08, 2022 03:30 - 22 minutes - 20.5 MBAudio from a session at the 2018 Charleston Library Conference titled “Long Arm of the Law.” This session was presented by the late Bill Hannay, Attorney at Law, and longtime presenter at the Charleston Conference. In today’s episode, we’re revisiting the “2018 Long Arm of the Law” session presented by the late Bill Hannay, Attorney at Law. In this Long Arm presentation which Bill titled “As My Whimsy Takes Me”, he talks about the more whimsical aspects of several high-profile lawsuits f...
ATGthePodcast 168 - A Conversation with Heather Staines, Delta Think
August 01, 2022 04:30 - 53 minutes - 49.4 MBJoin us for our latest podcast episode featuring a conversation between Heather Staines, Delta Think, and Matthew Ismail, Editor in Chief of the Charleston Briefings and a Conference Director at the Charleston Conference. Heather is a Senior Strategy Consultant with Delta Think, a consultancy firm that works with publishers and technology companies on strategy and research projects. She is also the Director of Community Engagement for the Open Access Data and Analytics tool. Heather is al...
ATGthePodcast 167 - Progress Through Partnership: The Dolly Parton Rule for Transformative Agreements
July 25, 2022 03:30 - 42 minutes - 38.5 MBAudio from the 2021 Charleston Library Conference from a session titled “Progress Through Partnership: The Dolly Parton Rule for Transformative Agreements” presented by Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe, Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Sara Rouhi, Director Strategic Partnerships, PLOS; Mathew Willmott, Open Access Collection Strategist, California Digital Library; and Sybille Geisenheyner, Director of Open Science Strategy & Licensing, ACS. “If you don't like the road you're...
ATGthePodcast 166 - 2019 Long Arm of the Law Presentation
July 18, 2022 03:30 - 33 minutes - 30.9 MBThis week's episode features the audio from a session at the 2019 Charleston Library Conference titled “Long Arm of the Law.” This session was presented by the late Bill Hannay, Attorney at Law, and moderated by Ann Okerson, Senior Advisor, Center for Research Libraries. Bill was such an integral part of the Conference with this popular session that he led every year before his untimely passing in the Fall of 2020. In this presentation, he talks about“The right to be forgotten,” privacy ...
ATGthePodcast 165 - Roundtable: Library Discovery and Access in the Post COVID Hybrid World
July 11, 2022 03:30 - 59 minutes - 54.8 MBThis week's podcast contains audio from a webcast titled “Roundtable: Library Discovery and Access in the Post COVID Hybrid World” with a panel including Tony Zanders, CEO, Skilltype; Erin Gallagher, Chair, Acquisitions & Collections Services, University of Florida; Matt Hayes, Managing Director of Lean Library; Talia Richards, Marketing Director, Springshare; and Matthijs van Otegem, Library Director, Erasmus University Rotterdam. A recent report on the future of the library-patron relati...
ATGthePodcast 164 - In The News: Ukraine
July 04, 2022 03:30 - 2 hours - 112 MBThis week's episode features audio from the 2022 Charleston In Between virtual conference from a session titled "In the News: Ukraine” moderated by Ann Okerson, Senior Advisor, Center for Research Libraries, and featuring Arik Burakovsky, Assistant Director, Russia and Eurasia Program, The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University; Quinn Dombrowski, Academic Technology Specialist, Division of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages, and the Library, Stanford University; Gwen Evans...
ATGthePodcast 163 - SUCHO: Saving Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Online
June 27, 2022 03:30 - 34 minutes - 31.9 MBThis week’s episode features an interview with Anna Kijas, Head of Lilly Music Library at Tufts University, and Quinn Dombrowski, Academic Technology Specialist in the Division of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages, and in the Library at Stanford University. The interview was conducted by Leah Hinds, Executive Director of the Charleston Hub and Tom Gilson, Associate Editor of Against the Grain. Anna and Quinn are two of the three co-founders of the SUCHO initiative: Saving Ukrainian Cult...
ATGthePodcast 162 - The Mergers & Acquisitions Landscape in Scholarly Publishing
June 20, 2022 03:30 - 34 minutes - 31.9 MBAudio from the 2022 Charleston In Between virtual conference from a session titled "The Mergers & Acquisitions Landscape in Scholarly Publishing” moderated by by Roger Schonfeld, Director, Libraries & Scholarly Communication & Museums, Ithaka S+R and featuring Christopher Burghardt, Senior Vice President, Academia and Government, Clarivate, and Ofer Mosseri, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Ex Libris. Roger, Christopher and Ofer discuss the Clarivate/ProQuest Acquisition, and giv...
ATGthePodcast 161 - A Conversation with Colleen Campbell, Max Planck Digital Library
June 06, 2022 06:00 - 59 minutes - 54.2 MBJoin us for our latest podcast episode featuring a conversation between Colleen Campbell, Max Planck Digital Library, and Matthew Ismail, Editor in Chief of the Charleston Briefings and Conference Director. Colleen lives near Florence, Italy, and after many years working for Casalini Libri and ITHAKA in Europe, she currently works with the Max Planck Digital Library (MDPL) which is based in Munich, Germany. She leads external engagement in the open access transition, and advises on stakehol...
ATGthePodcast 160 - A Conversation with Anita Schjøll Brede, CEO & Co-Founder at Iris.ai
May 31, 2022 03:30 - 44 minutes - 40.4 MBJoin us for our latest podcast episode featuring a conversation between Anita Schjøll Brede, CEO & Co-Founder at Iris.ai, and Matthew Ismail, Editor in Chief of the Charleston Briefings and Conference Director. Anita currently lives in Denmark and is the CEO and Co-Founder of Iris.ai, which is an AI company handling published scientific research founded in 2015. She also gives lectures and workshops on AI, innovation, and the future of technology. Anita is a faculty member at Singularity ...
ATGthePodcast 159 - A Conversation with Arne Almquist, Library Administrator and Technologist
May 23, 2022 03:30 - 39 minutes - 36 MBJoin us for our latest podcast episode featuring a conversation between Arne Almquist, Library Administrator and Technologist, and Matthew Ismail, Editor in Chief of the Charleston Briefings and Conference Director. Arne is a University administrator and technologist with a wide range of experience in IT and mid-sized and research-level academic libraries. Arne obtained his Masters and PhD in Information Science and has served at three different libraries since 1983, most recently as Vice P...
ATGthePodcast 158 - A Conversation with Kent Anderson, Founder, Caldera Publishing Solutions
May 09, 2022 03:30 - 57 minutes - 52.6 MBJoin us for our latest podcast episode featuring a conversation between Kent Anderson, Founder, Caldera Publishing Solutions and Matthew Ismail, Editor in Chief of the Charleston Briefings and Conference Director. Kent has a background in art and journalism, and a long history of working at the top of the publishing industry. He’s currently an active consultant, peer reviewer and author who produces a daily newsletter called The Geyser. Kent and Matthew discuss how he came to be involved...
ATGthePodcast 157 - From Ideals of Equity to Equity in Practice for Open Access
May 02, 2022 03:30 - 48 minutes - 44.3 MBIn this episode, we feature audio from the 2021 Charleston Library Conference from a session titled "From Ideals of Equity to Equity in Practice for Open Access” presented by Emily Farrell, Director of Open Research, Americas, at Taylor & Francis Group, and Greg Eow, President, Center for Research Libraries. Libraries and mission-driven publishers exist at an influential nexus between the creation and consumption of scholarly knowledge. Both sides navigate the spaces between supporting the...
ATGthePodcast 156 - A Conversation with Trongthi Nguyen, Collection Development Librarian, RMIT University Library, Vietnam
April 25, 2022 03:30 - 42 minutes - 38.9 MBJoin us for our latest podcast episode featuring a conversation between Trongthi Nguyen, Collection Development Librarian, RMIT University Library, Vietnam, and Matthew Ismail, Editor in Chief of the Charleston Briefings and Conference Director. Trongthi Nguyenwas born in Central Vietnam and moved to Ho Chi Minh City (AKA, Saigon) as a child to attend school. He obtained his MS in Library Science and decided to become a librarian upon graduation. Thi said many people in Vietnam have seen ...
ATGthePodcast 155 - A Conversation with Tony Zanders, Founder and CEO, Skilltype
April 19, 2022 03:30 - 52 minutes - 47.8 MBJoin us for our latest podcast episode featuring a conversation between Tony Zanders, Founder and CEO, Skilltype, and Matthew Ismail, Editor in Chief of the Charleston Briefings and Conference Director. Tony and Matthew discuss the start of Tony’s professional career in the entrepreneurial world of Silicon Valley, his customer-centered work at ExLibris from 2009 to 2014, and his move back home to New Orleans, where he became a part of the startup/entrepreneurship community. A few months late...
ATGthePodcast 154 - A Conversation with Stephen Rhind-Tutt, President, Coherent Digital, LLC
April 11, 2022 03:30 - 47 minutes - 43.5 MBToday's episode features a conversation between Stephen Rhind-Tutt, President, Coherent Digital, LLC and Matthew Ismail, Editor in Chief of the Charleston Briefings and Conference Director. Stephen has worked in Electronic Publishing for 33 years, starting with the small CD-Rom publisher, APT books, which released some of the first CD-Roms, and then at Silver Platter. He worked briefly at Gale, and then he ran Chadwick Healy, US, before co-founding Alexander Street Press in 2000. After se...
ATGthePodcast 153 - Whole Ebook ILL: On the Road Toward a Scalable Solution
April 04, 2022 03:30 - 59 minutes - 54.3 MBToday's episode is from the 2021 Charleston Library Conference from a session titled "Whole Ebook ILL: On the Road Toward a Scalable Solution” presented by Whitney Murphy, Sr. Product Manager, Clarivate; Allen Jones, Director, Digital Library and Technical Services, The New School; George Machovec, Executive Director, Colorado Alliance; Sylvia Bonadio, Sales Director, Americas, Brill; and Lisa Nachtigall, Director, Global Institutional Resellers and Channel Strategy, Oxford University Press. ...
ATGthePodcast 152 - A Conversation with Lindsay Wertman, President, IGI Global
March 28, 2022 03:30 - 39 minutes - 36.5 MBJoin us for our latest podcast episode featuring a conversation between Lindsay Wertman, President, IGI Global; Leah Hinds, Executive Director of the Charleston Hub; and Matthew Ismail, Editor in Chief of the Charleston Briefings and Conference Director. Lindsay is the newly appointed President of IGI Global, a smaller, independent academic publisher located in Hershey, Pennsylvania. Lindsay started out as an editorial assistant at IGI Global 15 years ago, working with authors and editors an...
ATGthePodcast 151 - Using Data to Drive Decisions: Libraries, Publishers and the New Open
March 21, 2022 03:30 - 42 minutes - 39.3 MBAudio from the 2021 Charleston Library Conference from the session titled "Using Data to Drive Decisions: Libraries, Publishers and the New Open” presented by Adam Der, License Manager, Max Planck Digital Library; Matthew Willmott, Open Access Collection Strategist, California Digital Library; Melissa Junior, Senior Director Journals, ASM; and Heather Staines, Senior Consultant, Delta Think and moderated by Meg White, Senior Director, Delta Think. Utilizing and disseminating open content...
ATGthePodcast 150 - A conversation with Joyce Backus of the National Library of Medicine
March 14, 2022 03:30 - 42 minutes - 38.9 MBToday's episode features a conversation with Joyce Backus of the National Library of Medicine. The interview was conducted by Matthew Ismail, Editor in Chief of the Charleston Briefings and a Conference Director at the Charleston Conference. Joyce retired two years ago as Associate Director for Library Operations of the National Library of Medicine where she had spent her entire career. She started at the NLM as a library school student who wanted to get into biomedical and biological lib...
ATGthePodcast 149 - A Conversation with Jason Priem, Co-Founder, OurResearch
March 07, 2022 04:30 - 46 minutes - 42.5 MBJoin us for our latest podcast episode featuring a conversation between Jason Priem, Co-Founder of OurResearch, Leah Hinds, Executive Director of the Charleston Hub, and Matthew Ismail, Editor in Chief of the Charleston Briefings. As a PhD student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Jason led the creation of the field of altmetrics--coining the term, authoring the influential Altmetrics Manifesto, and leading the first altmetrics workshops. Jason also co-founded Impactstory (...
ATGthePodcast 148 - A conversation with Emily Poznanski, Director of the Central European University Press
February 28, 2022 04:45 - 41 minutes - 38.3 MBToday's episode features a conversation with Emily Poznanski, Director of the Central European University Press. The interview was conducted by Matthew Ismail, Editor in Chief of the Charleston Briefings and Conference Director at the Charleston Conference. Emily is currently based out of Vienna. Prior to her current position at the Central European University Press, she worked at a fully open access publisher in Warsaw, then served as Director of Strategy at De Gruyter in Berlin. Emily a...
ATGthePodcast 147 - On the Open Access Road Again: Is the value of the big deal declining?
February 22, 2022 04:30 - 48 minutes - 44.8 MBAudio from the 2021 Charleston Library Conference from the session titled “On the Open Access Road Again: Is the value of the big deal declining?” presented by Michael Levine-Clark, Dean of Libraries, University of Denver; John McDonald, Director of Product Management, Assessment & Analytics, EBSCO Information Services; and Jason Price, Research & Scholarly Communication Director, SCELC Library Consortium, and moderated by Heather Staines, Senior Consultant, Delta Think. Faced with declini...
ATGthePodcast 146 - A Conversation with Jim O’Donnell, University Librarian, Arizona State University
February 14, 2022 22:30 - 49 minutes - 45.4 MBToday's episode features a conversation with Jim O’Donnell, University Librarian, Arizona State University. The interview was conducted by Matthew Ismail, Editor in Chief of the Charleston Briefings and Conference Director at the Charleston Conference. Jim O’Donnell was a longstanding academic and professor of classics before becoming University Librarian at Arizona State University in 2015. Jim and Matthew, both Charleston Conference veterans, will discuss libraries and the internet befo...
ATGthePodcast 145 - 2021 Charleston Conference Long Arm of the Law
February 07, 2022 04:45 - 1 hour - 56.8 MBThis week's episode has audio from the 2021 Charleston Library Conference from the “Long Arm of the Law” session, presented by Kevin Smith, Dean of Libraries and Director of the University Press, University of Kansas and Lila Bailey, Policy Council for the Internet Archive, and moderated by Ann Okerson, Senior Advisor, CRL. The Long Arm Panel focuses each year on serious legal topics for the information industry. Once again, the Long Arm of the Law session lights the Charleston Conference ...
ATGthePodcast 144 - 2021 Charleston Conference Wednesday Keynote Address
January 31, 2022 04:30 - 49 minutes - 45.5 MBThis episode is the Keynote Address from the 2021 Charleston Library Conference, titled "How to Think Like a Civilization" Presented by Paul Saffo, Consulting Associate Professor, Stanford University, and moderated by Michael Keller, Vice Provost, Academic Council, Stanford University Library. Paul says we live in a moment when the institutions most needed to tackle our global problems are dissolving into uncertainty. That uncertainty tempts us into focusing on what is lost - but we know bet...
ATGthePodcast 143 - 2021 Charleston Conference Thursday Keynote Address
January 24, 2022 04:30 - 47 minutes - 43.2 MBToday's audio is from a Keynote Address from the 2021 Charleston Library Conference, titled "Think Different" Presented by Joy Connolly, President, American Council of Learned Societies, and moderated by Jim O’Donnell, University Librarian, Arizona State University. Today, thanks to the gradual democratization of the university and the explosion of digital technology, knowledge (or at least information) has never been more accessible. Meanwhile, academic scholarship has grown ever more highl...
ATGthePodcast 142 - Wiley Acquires Knowledge Unlatched: Interview with Jay Flynn and Sven Fund
January 17, 2022 21:47 - 46 minutes - 42.6 MBIn this episode, Leah Hinds, Executive Director of the Charleston Hub, and Tom Gilson, Associate Editor of Against the Grain, enjoy a conversation with Jay Flynn, Executive Vice President and General Manager, Research, at Wiley and Sven Fund, Managing Director at Knowledge Unlatched. Their talk includes topics surrounding the recent acquisition of KU by Wiley: their shared dedication to open access, how KU will fit operationally into the existing structure at Wiley, opportunities and challen...