Against the Grain - The Podcast

Today's episode features guest host, Michael Upshall , Community and Outreach Manager at Core, who talks with Jason Priem , Co-Founder, CEO, OurResearch. After a career as a middle school teacher with a degree in history, Jason became interested in technology and online communities. He decided to go back to school in the information science program at UNC Chapel Hill. Now, Jason is an academic res...

Today's episode features guest host, Michael Upshall , Community and Outreach Manager at Core, who talks with Dr. Janice Fernandes , Academic Support Manager, University of West London. Janice is trailblazer in AI literacy and academic support in UK higher education. She has had a long career in librarianship- spanning over 35 years. Janice was the first in her family to attend university, and she...

Audio from the 2024 Charleston Conference Leadership Interview Series. Heather Staines , Senior Strategy Consultant, Delta Think interviews Kamran Naim , the Head of Open Science at CERN (Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire). CERN was founded in 1954 as a project not only to advance our fundamental understanding of basic scientific questions about who we are and where we come from but als...

Audio from the 2024 Charleston Conference Leadership Interview Series. Heather Staines , Senior Strategy Consultant, Delta Think interviews Andrea Cayetano-Jefferson , a sixth-generation Gullah Geechee sweetgrass basket sewer from Mount Pleasant, South Carolina. We had the pleasure of having Andrea speak with us at this year's Charleston Library Conference and got to experience her beautiful sweet...

Audio from the 2024 Charleston Conference Leadership Interview Series. Meg White , Senior Consultant, Delta Think interviews Nancy Kopans, Vice President, General Counsel, and Secretary, ITHAKA. Nancy joined JSTOR (now part of ITHAKA) 25 years ago, after a legal career focusing on internet law, and has witnessed the transformation of digital scholarship over the years. In this conversation, Nancy...

Audio from the 2024 Charleston Conference Leadership Interview Series. Meg White , Senior Consultant, Delta Think interviews Katina Strauch, Founder of the Charleston Conference and Editor Emerita of Against the Grain . Katina is a leading figure in the scholarly communication industry, having founded the Charleston Conference over four decades ago when she couldn't afford to attend ALA. Katina re...

Audio from the 2024 Charleston Conference Leadership Interview Series. Heather Staines , Senior Strategy Consultant, Delta Think interviews Richard Charkin , Founder, Mensch Publishing. Richard is a veteran of the publishing industry. In this conversation, Heather and Richard discuss his early years in publishing, and the changes he has witnessed throughout his 50 years working in the industry,  ...

Today's episode features a roundtable discussion on Research Impact. Caroline Goldsmith , Associate Director, Charleston Hub, talks with Rachel Borchardt , Scholarly Communication Librarian and University Library Faculty, American University; Andrea Hebert , Research Impact Librarian, Louisiana State University; and Camille Gamboa , AVP, Corporate Communications, Sage. This conversation features b...

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 were facing. Now Digital Science is dedicated to m...

Today's episode features guest host, Michael Upshall ,   Community and Outreach Manager at Core, who talks with Dr. Elizabeth Bik , Microbiologist and Science Integrity Consultant. Elisabeth is a prominent microbiologist and renowned investigator into scientific misconduct, particularly the manipulation and falsification of research data. She has uncovered issues in over 7,000 scientific papers, r...

Today's episode features guest host, Michael Upshall , Community and Outreach Manager at Core, who talks with Alex Carroll , Associate Director, Science and Engineering Library, Vanderbilt University, and Josh Borycz , Librarian for STEM Research, Vanderbilt University.  In this conversation, librarians Alex Carroll and Josh Borycz discuss their unique journeys into library science, their involvem...

Audio from the 2024 Charleston Conference Leadership Interview Series. Meg White , Senior Consultant, Delta Think interviews Yulia Sevryugina , Senior Associate Librarian, University of Michigan. Yulia is an active researcher and an author. She transitioned into a career in librarianship specializing in scholarly communications to achieve a better work life balance.    She says part of the researc...

Audio from the 2024 Charleston Conference Leadership Interview Series. Heather Staines , Senior Strategy Consultant, Delta Think interviews Ivan Oransky , Co-Founder, Retraction Watch. Heather and Ivan discuss the founding of Retraction Watch, a nonprofit that publishes daily reports on scientific fraud and misconduct, acting as a watchdog for scientific integrity, and also maintains a retractions...

Audio from the 2024 Charleston Conference Leadership Interview Series. In this episode, Erin Gallagher , Chair of Acquisitions and Collections Services, University of Florida interviews Katharine Macy, Interim Associate Dean of Scholarly Communication and Content Strategies at Indiana University, Indianapolis and Project Director for the O'Neill Project. In this conversation, Katharine discusses h...

Audio from the 2024 Charleston Conference Leadership Interview Series. In this episode, Erin Gallagher , Chair of Acquisitions and Collections Services, University of Florida interviews Elaina Norlin , Professional Development, Leadership/Organizational Change Trainer and Consultant, Association for Southeastern Research Libraries. Elaina is an editorial committee member for Katina Magazine focusi...

In this episode, guest host Michael Upshall talks with Michael Levine-Clark , Dean of the University of Denver Library. He discusses his academic background, the evolution of libraries, and the changing role of librarianship in the digital age. He emphasizes the importance of library staff, current issues in library metrics, and the impact of open research and AI on library services. Levine-Clark...

Today Caroline Goldsmith , Associate Director of the Charleston Hub welcomes back Dr. Mark Hannell , who's the Vice President of Open Research at Digital Science and Founder of FigShare, along with Graham Smith , the Open Data Program Manager at Springer Nature.  In this episode, Dr. Mark Hannell and Graham Smith discuss the collaboration between Digital Science, FigShare, and Springer Nature on t...

Today's episode features guest host, Michael Upshall , Community and Outreach Manager at Core, who talks with Alicia Wise , Executive Director, CLOCKSS, and Lorraine Estelle , Director, COUNTER. Lorraine Estelle and Alicia Wise are two well-known figures in the scholarly landscape, having been involved with the industry for over 25 years. They both worked with JISC, as well as heading not-for-prof...

Audio from the new Charleston Conference Leadership Interview Series. Meg White , Senior Consultant, Delta Think, and a Director of the Charleston Conference, interviews Roy Kaufman , Managing Director of Business Development and Government Relations, Copyright Clearance Center . In the interview, Roy talks about his professional history as an attorney working in copyright law. He recounts his tim...

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 were facing. Now Digital Science is dedicated to m...

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 Sciences Liaison Librarian, University of Florida L...

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, which he founded in 1997. He explains the role o...

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, a Clarivate Company.   Libraries rely heavily...

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, California Digital Library.   In February 2022,...

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 online catalogs. He explains that CNI was founde...