Against the Grain - The Podcast

Join 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 Cla...

In 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-pu...

Audio 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 St...

Audio 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 Re...

Audio 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...

Join 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...

Audio 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 Gei...

This 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...

This 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...

This 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,...

This 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 Gra...

Audio 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 Ma...

Join 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 Muni...

Join 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 work...

Join 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 I...

Join 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 prod...

In 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 creati...

Join 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 Scienc...

Join 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 t...

Today'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...

Today'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...

Join 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 st...

Audio 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 an...

Today'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 star...

Join 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 Al...