ATGthePodcast 112 – Conversation with Dr. Brian King, Psychologist, Comedian and Author of “The Art of Taking It Easy”
In today’s episode we feature audio from an interview of Dr. Brian King, psychologist, stand up comedian and author of the international bestseller The Art of Taking It Easy, How to Cope with Bears, Traffic, and the Rest of Life’s Stressors. The interview was conducted by Matthew Ismail, Director of Collection Development, University of Central Michigan.
The world’s largest digital book club, Big Library Read, recently selected Dr. King’s Book, The Art of Taking It Easy, for their program. Public libraries hope to incorporate humor to reduce stress for their readers.
Dr. King received a degree in psychology before touring the world for over a decade as a comedian and the host of humor therapy seminars about how and why we experience stress and the health benefits of humor. Dr. King tells us that the intent of what he does is to inform and entertain to help people live a happier, healthy life.
ATGthePodcast 111 – Conversation with Jeff Paul, CEO and Co-Founder, Ziotag
In today’s episode we will feature audio from an Interview of Jeff Paul, CEO and Co-Founder, Ziotag. The interview was conducted by Matthew Ismail, Director of Collection Development, University of Central Michigan.
Today’s episode features the next in a series of conversations that ATG the Podcast is pleased to have with startups in the world of scholarly communication, an interview with Jeff Paul of Ziotag. Ziotag was launched in October of 2019, and their goal is to make long format videos searchable, navigable and discoverable using AI tools.
Jeff Paul is the CEO and Cofounder of Ziotag. He is a lifelong learner and accomplished streaming media software professional with an expertise in the learning and development space. Jeff is building out the emerging market of AI Driven video platforms and helping organizations get more value and usefulness from their learning, training and educational video libraries. Jeff was a Co-founder of the industry’s first streaming media video tagging tool, Veotag, in 2009 which he successfully sold to a European based company, Kit Digital, in 2009.
ATGthePodcast 110 – Conversation with Philip Hess, Knowledge Unlatched; and Marcel Wrzesinski, Open Access Officer, Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society
In today’s episode we feature an interview of Philip Hess, Head of Publisher Relations, Knowledge Unlatched; and Marcel Wrzesinski, Open Access Officer, Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society. The interview was conducted by Matthew Ismail, Director of Collection Development, University of Central Michigan.
We’ll hear from Philip and Marcel about a German OA project that focuses on supporting small, non-APC, scholar-led journals. It’s a Knowledge Unlatched and Humboldt University project.
Philipp Hess is currently the Head of Publisher Relations at Knowledge Unlatched and is pursuing a complimentary master’s degree at the University of St. Gallen and the University of Arts Berlin in Leadership in digital Innovation. Before that he studied Engineering and Industrial Design in the Netherlands and Japan, before getting into scholarly content while working in the Management Department for Kiron, a platform that offers higher education to refugees. His goal is to make knowledge accessible to everyone, everywhere and to help shape the future dissemination of scholarly content.
Marcel Wrzesinski is an Open Access Officer at the Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society and works in the research project “Sustainable journal financing through consortial support structures in small and interdisciplinary subjects” (in cooperation with Knowledge Unlatched). Prior to this, he led Open Access activities at the International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture (Giessen) and developed transformation strategies for gender studies at Freie Universität (Berlin). He is an editor of two open access journals, headed various working groups on digital publishing, and advises research institutions on Open Access and Open Science. His interests lie in fostering and sustaining Open Access in smaller and interdisciplinary fields.
Social Media: Twitter handle is @mb_wrzesinski.
ORCID is: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2343-7905
ATGthePodcast 109 – Conversation on the University of California/Elsevier Open Access Agreement
We’re pleased to feature a conversation and interview with Jeffrey MacKie-Mason, University Librarian and economics professor at UC Berkeley, and co-chair of UC’s publisher negotiation team, and Ivy Anderson, Associate Executive Director of the California Digital Library and co-chair of UC’s publisher negotiation team about the University of California’s recent pioneering open access agreement with Elsevier. The interview is conducted by Leah Hinds, Executive Director of the Charleston Hub, and Tom Gilson, Associate Editor of Against the Grain.
Link to full press release about the agreement: https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/press-room/uc-news-uc-secures-landmark-open-access-deal-world-s-largest-scientific-publisher
ATGthePodcast 108 – Conversation with Daniel Garzon, CEO, Booklick
Conversation with Daniel Garzon, CEO, Booklick
In today’s episode we will feature audio from a conversation with Daniel Garzon, CEO of Booklick, a technology company based in Bogata, Columbia. The interview was conducted by Matthew Ismail, Director of Collection Development, University of Central Michigan.
There is an energy to a discussion around startups that is very appealing. There is a dynamism and sense of possibility about a new venture that is very different from the staid dynamic of an established organization that is simultaneously consolidating its position in the marketplace and seeking to expand even further. A startup is a hopeful venture and calculated risk of a different variety.
ATG has had some recent conversations with Tommy Doyle, who advises a variety of startups and new ventures (and with whom ATG the Podcast has chatted in the past), and Tommy brought to our attention some exciting ventures that sparked our interest. That is why ATG the Podcast is pleased to present a number of conversations with startups in the world of scholarly communication, starting with Daniel Garzon, CEO of the Columbian startup Booklick, a technology company based in Bogata, Columbia.
We hope that these conversations will spark interest in these sorts of new ventures and the possibilities for innovation they represent.”
ATGthePodcast 107 – Using the unbundling power of Unsub responsibly: unveiling its assumptions and unpacking its defaults
Audio from the 2020 Charleston Library Conference, presented by Michael Levine-Clark, Dean of Libraries, University of Denver; Jason Price, Research and Scholarly Communication Director, SCELC, and John McDonald, Director, Product Management, Analytics, EBSCO Information Services.
Faced with unexpected double-digit budget cuts and ever-increasing costs for journal packages, many academic libraries are finding it necessary and/or expedient to unbundle their big deals. Determining the relative value of these packages is not easy, since it requires an understanding of how reduced access will impact users now and into the future. Enter Unsub, a tool designed by researchers to model future library costs based on current patterns of availability and use within each package. Unsub allows librarians to make informed decisions about which titles to keep and which to cancel by identifying alternative access via backfile ownership, open access, and cost-effective use of interlibrary loan (ILL). However, without a sufficient understanding of its inner workings, librarians run the risk of making poor cancellation decisions.
In this presentation, we’ll hear the most important Unsub definitions, assumptions, and parameter defaults, highlighting scenarios designed to test their effects on cancellation recommendations across multiple institutions with varied research profiles. More specifically, we’ll delve into Unsub’s definitions of OA coverage and journal usage/value; (2) assumptions around OA availability and delayed access; and (3) default parameters for backfile coverage, current usage to ILL conversion, and aggregator access. Then we’ll end with Charleston-style provocative prognostication and a call to action. The results we’ll share will provide critical insight into the foundations of Unsub, enabling attendees to harness this powerful tool to make better decisions for the researchers they serve.
Video of the presentation available at: https://youtu.be/nIPn8n83fuk
ATGthePodcast 106 – Artificial Intelligence and Publishing With Feet Firmly on the Ground-with Michael Upshall, UNSILO
In today’s episode we will feature audio from an Interview of Michael Upshall, of UNSILO. The interview was conducted by Matthew Ismail, Director of Collection Development, University of Central Michigan.
Michael Upshall is head of sales and business development at UNSILO, the B2B part of Cactus Communications specialising in AI tools. He started in publishing compiling dictionaries, then moved to editing how-to books for Dorling Kindersley, before co-founding reference publisher Helicon Publishing. He has worked with publishers on digital creation and delivery, including The IET, CABI, and Cambridge University Press, as well as managing projects for JISC, the UK Association for Digital Solutions in UK higher education. He has written articles and books (Content Licensing, Elsevier, 2009), and writes a regular column on digital publishing.
Today Michael gives his take on AI in publishing with a focus on feet on the ground reality.
ATGthePodcast 105 – Keynote Panel-The Long Arm of the Law-Part 2
Audio from Part Two of a keynote of the 2020 Charleston Library Conference, presented by Pam Samuelson, Richard M. Sherman Distinguished Professor of Law, Berkeley Law School, in Berkeley, CA, and moderated by Ann Okerson, Senior Advisor, Center for Research Libraries.
In Part Two of the Long Arm Panel, Pam talks with us about what Controlled Digital Lending is, institutions and people who have endorsed it, the position statement and white paper that explains what the rationale behind it is, the Author’s Alliance support for CDL as a Fair Use, Internet Archive’s Open Library as an example of CDL and CDL in the context of the Publisher’s lawsuit against Internet Archive, the lawsuit status report, is it fair use or not fair use and risk mitigation strategies.
Also featured in this presentation is a tribute to the late Bill Hannay, Partner at Schiff Hardin, who was such a big part of the Long Arm Panel for many years.
Video of the presentation available at https: https://youtu.be/-cByRJJ9GM0
ATGthePodcast 104 – Keynote Panel-The Long Arm of the Law-Part 1
Audio from Part 1 of a keynote of the 2020 Charleston Library Conference, presented by Nancy Kirkpatrick, Executive Director/CEO, OhioNET, and moderated by Ann Okerson, Senior Advisor, Center for Research Libraries. The Long Arm Panel focuses each year on serious legal topics for the information industry.
This year the Long Arm Panel was titled “Revisionist History,” and Nancy talks with us about some of the legal aspects on the topic of diversity, equity, and inclusion, accessibility and anti-racism work in and out of higher ed and their implications for your work, and the cases that she feels are most critical right now.
Video of the presentation available at https: https://youtu.be/-cByRJJ9GM0
ATGthePodcast 103- Interview of Scott Garrison, Executive Director, MCLS
In today’s episode we feature audio from an Interview of Scott Garrison, Executive Director of the Midwest Collaborative for Library Services. The interview was conducted by Matthew Ismail, Director of Collection Development, University of Michigan.
The Midwest Collaborative for Library Services is a consortium that serves over 650 member libraries across the states of Indiana and Michigan. They provide services such as organizing group purchases of e-journal subscriptions, databases, and e-book packages. Scott says one of the main benefits of MCLS is that they serve many different types and sizes of libraries, thus creating a greater membership diversity. Scott will give his take on transformative agreements and how MCLS can help, especially with smaller institutions.
