Against the Grain - The Podcast

Audio from the 2022 Charleston Conference brand new Leadership Interview Series. In this episode, Meg White ,   Senior Consultant, Delta Think, interviews 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 Thi...

Audio 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 one of our keynote speakers for the Conference, Dr. Buhle Mbambo Thata , University Librarian, University of Lesotho. Video of the presentation available at : https://youtu.be/AIpVE5TjWMo...

Audio from the 2022 Charleston Conference brand new Leadership Interview Series. In this episode, Erin Gallagher, Chair of Acquisitions and Collections Services, University of Florida interviews Maggie Mahoney, Business Liaison Librarian, The Pennsylvania State University and Georgette Nicolosi, Communications and Business Liaison Librarian, The Pennsylvania State University. Video of the presenta...

Audio 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 Deborah Caldwell-Stone , Director, Office for Intellectual Freedom, American Library Association. Video of the presentation available at : https://youtu.be/zrtWA6wys0A Social Media : https...

In today's episode, we're talking with Dan Noyes , Senior Communications Consultant, Morressier.    Dan is interviewed by Matthew Ismail , a Conference Director and Editor in Chief of the Charleston Briefings. Dan talks with Matthew about the role of a Communications Consultant in today's scholarly communication organization and how this public relations role differs from being a "spin doctor." Da...

In today's episode, we're talking with Adam Chesler , Director of Global Sales, American Institute of Physics.    Adam is interviewed by Matthew Ismail , a Conference Director and Editor in Chief of the Charleston Briefings. Adam talks with Matthew about STEM publishing, the physics niche in publishing, and the relationship between the publisher and the customer. He says that, at some level, his j...

Audio from the 2022 Charleston Conference brand new Leadership Interview Series. In this episode, Meg White ,   Senior Consultant, Delta Think, interviews Violeta Ilik , Dean of Libraries, Adelphi University. Video of the presentation available at : https://youtu.be/eScQ2SNZYuw   Social Media : https://www.linkedin.com/in/megmorelandwhite/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/violeta-ilik-46216a53/ Twitter...

Today'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:...

In 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...

Today 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 b...

Today 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 h...

Audio 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...

Today 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 Charles...

Audio 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 M...

Audio 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...

Today 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 th...

Audio 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 Socia...

Today 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'...

Today 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....

Ijad 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 scientif...

Join 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 Unive...

Join 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...

Audio 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,...

Join 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 Man...

Join 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" resourc...