Against the Grain - The Podcast

Against 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.

ATGthePodcast 289 - A Conversation with Rice Majors, Associate University Librarian, University of California, Davis 08/25/2025

ATGthePodcast 288 - A Conversation with Ronald Snijder, CTO, Head of Research, OAPEN Foundation 08/19/2025

ATGthePodcast 287 - A Conversation with Brian Nosek, Executive Director, Center for Open Science 08/11/2025

ATGthePodcast 286 - A Conversation with Damien Pattinson, Executive Director, eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd. 07/30/2025

ATGthePodcast 285 - A Conversation with Emily McElroy; Matt Carson; Wind Cowles and Dr. Rebecca Taylor-Grant 07/21/2025

ATGthePodcast 285 - A Conversation with Emily McElroy; Matt Carson; Wind Cowles and Dr. Rebecca Taylor-Grant This episode is sponsored by Taylor & Francis, and the views, opinions, and content expressed during this sponsored episode are those of the participants, and do not necessarily reflect the views of the podcast or the Charleston Hub. Sponsorship does not imply endorsement of any products, services, or statements made during the episode. Thank you to Taylor & Francis for supporting ATG the Podcast and its mission to connect librarians, publishers, and vendors. Today’s episode features Emily McElroy, Vice President, Academic Relations, Taylor & Francis, who talks with Matt Carson, Head of the Data Management and Technology Department, Galter Health Sciences Library and Learning Center at Northwestern University; Wind Cowles, Associate Dean for Data Research and Teaching at Princeton University Library; and Dr. Rebecca Taylor-Grant, Director of Open Science Strategy & Innovation, Taylor & Francis. In this conversation, Matt and Wind, whom have both built strong data services programs and contributed to national efforts to improve them, describe the data services that their libraries provide for their campuses, how they help fill in the gaps for research support, meet researchers where they are, and their work to spread awareness of what their libraries can offer for researchers. Rebecca, who offers the perspective of a humanities and social sciences publisher who works to facilitate data sharing policies, talks about what is valuable for libraries in supporting their institutions and supporting better data sharing practices. Keywords: #Taylor&Francis #LibraryScience #DataCuration #DataSharing #DataResources #OpenData #SocialSciences #ResearcherSupport #ResearchData #OpenResearch #DataServices #HigherEducation #InstitutionalSupport #StudentSuccess #LibraryCollections #LibraryInnovation #career #partnerships #collaboration #scholcomm #FacultySupport #ScholarlyCommunication #libraries #librarianship #LibraryNeeds #LibraryLove #LibrarySpaces #UniversityLibrary #AcademicLibrary #ScholarlyPublishing #AcademicPublishing #publishing #LibrariesAndPublishers #podcasts /episode/index/show/atgthepodcast/id/37476590

ATGthePodcast 284 - A Conversation with John Willinksy, Founder, Public Knowledge Project (PKP) 07/14/2025

ATGthePodcast 283 - A Conversation with Stephen Webster, Director, Science Communication Unit, Imperial College, London 07/07/2025

ATGthePodcast 282 - A Conversation with David Worlock, Digital Strategy Advisor 06/30/2025

ATGthePodcast 281 - A Conversation with Liam Bullingham, Assistant Director of Academic and Research Services, University of Essex 06/23/2025

ATGthePodcast 280 - A Conversation with Richard Sever, Assistant Director, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press 06/17/2025

ATGthePodcast 279 - A Conversation with Richard Jefferson, Founder & CEO, Cambia, Executive Director, Lens.org 06/09/2025

ATGthePodcast 278 - Monographs and Libraries: Delivering value to users: A Conversation with Christine Haynes, David Givens, and Mitchell Scott. A Taylor & Francis sponsored episode. 05/26/2025

ATGthePodcast 278 - Monographs and Libraries: Delivering value to users: A Conversation with Christine Haynes, David Givens, and Mitchell Scott. A Taylor & Francis sponsored episode. This episode is sponsored by Taylor & Francis, and the views, opinions, and content expressed during this sponsored episode are those of the participants, and do not necessarily reflect the views of the podcast or the Charleston Hub. Sponsorship does not imply endorsement of any products, services, or statements made during the episode. Thank you to Taylor & Francis for supporting ATG the Podcast and its mission to connect librarians, publishers, and vendors. Today’s episode features Christine Haynes, Professor of History, University of North Carolina, Charlotte who talks with David Givens, Director of Resource Acquisitions at Brown University Library, and Mitchell Scott, Coordinator of Collections Strategies at the University of Kentucky Libraries. In this conversation, Christine, David and Mitchell discuss the value of monographs and the role libraries play in meeting faculty and student needs, affordability initiatives, format preferences, measuring value, and balancing student space with browsable shelves. Social Media: LinkedIn: Keywords: #Taylor&Francis #Monographs #LibraryScience #OpenAccess #Affordability #HigherEducation #StudentSuccess #LibraryCollections #career #partnerships #collaboration #scholcomm #FacultySupport #ScholarlyCommunication #libraries #librarianship #LibraryNeeds #LibraryLove Mitchell Scott Mitchell is the Coordinator of Collections Strategies at the University of Kentucky Libraries. He has implemented eBook-based affordability programs at three different institutions of varying sizes and has authored articles discussing these initiatives as collection development strategies, along with how to manage their workflows. Prior to joining UK Libraries, Mitchell worked at Indiana University Southeast, St. Norbert College, and within the University of Wisconsin System. Christine Haynes Christine Haynes is Professor of History at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte. She specializes in the history of Europe, especially France, in the long nineteenth century (1789-1918). Her first book, Lost Illusions: The Politics of Publishing in Nineteenth-Century France (Harvard University Press, 2010), examined the role of publishers and printers in constructing a literary marketplace based on literary property rights (copyright in the Anglo-American context). She has also published on the history of a variety of other topics, including authorship, military occupation, the Napoleonic Wars, war reparations, and roller coasters in early nineteenth-century Paris. She is now working on a biography of Maximien Lamarques, a military officer and liberal politician whose death provoked the riot that features in Les Misérables, by Victor Hugo. With Jennifer Ngaire Heuer at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, she is currently co-editor of the journal French Historical Studies published by Duke University Press. David Givens David Givens is currently the Director of Resource Acquisitions at Brown University Library. He has been developing collections and implementing collection strategies in academic libraries for three decades. /episode/index/show/atgthepodcast/id/36710015

ATGthePodcast 277 - A Conversation with Tosten Reimer, Dean, University Library, University of Chicago 05/19/2025

ATGthePodcast 276 - A Conversation with Lynda Kellam, Snyder-Granader Director of Research Data and Digital Scholarship at Penn Libraries, University of Pennsylvania and a Volunteer Organizer of the Data Rescue Project 05/12/2025

ATGthePodcast 275 - A Conversation with Jason Priem, Co-Founder, CEO, OurResearch 05/05/2025

ATGthePodcast 274- A Conversation with Dr. Janice Fernandes, Academic Support Manager, University of West London 04/28/2025

ATGthePodcast 273 - Heather Staines Interviews Kamran Naim, Head of Open Science, CERN 04/21/2025

ATGthePodcast 272 - Heather Staines Interviews Andrea Cayetano-Jefferson 04/14/2025

ATGthePodcast 271 - A Conversation with Nancy Kopans, Vice President, General Counsel, and Secretary, ITHAKA 03/31/2025

ATGthePodcast 270 - The Evolution of the Charleston Conference: A Conversation with Katina Strauch 03/24/2025

ATGthePodcast 269 - Heather Staines Interviews Richard Charkin 03/17/2025

ATGthePodcast 269 - Heather Staines Interviews Richard Charkin 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, the most noticeable being the rise of women in leadership roles, which is also the subject of a recent book he has written. Richard also shares his experiences working with the Oxford English Dictionary on a digitization project in the 80’s, modernizing the dictionary, integrating vast amounts of data, and making it more accessible. He also talks about global publishing, working with some high profile individuals, and also working with startups like Biomednet, the first social network for scientists in 1995. He emphasizes the importance of startups in driving innovation, as large corporations often struggle to innovate. He highlights his role in launching Crossref, which revolutionized linking references to original articles, and his current work with startups like Shimmer AI. Richard reflects on the role of libraries in his life, recalling how he frequently used public libraries during his school years, and he appreciates how libraries helped him immerse himself in his academic passions. Video of the Interview is available at: Social Media: LinkedIn: Twitter: Keywords: #Startups #Innovation #DigitalTransformation #ProfessionalDevelopment #Entrepreneurship #TechInPublishing #Academic Development #LibrarianJourney #LibraryEducation #InformationAccess #OxfordEnglishDictionary #LibraryCommunity #libraries #librarians #librarycareer, #libraryschool #librarylove #LibraryScience #PublishingPerspectives #academic #AcademicPublishing #scholcomm #ScholarlyCommunication #research #learning #learnon #information #leaders #leadership #2024ChsConf #publishing #libraryissues #libraryneeds #librarychallenges #libraryconference #podcast #LeadershipInterview /episode/index/show/atgthepodcast/id/35730750

ATGthePodcast 268 - A Conversation with Rachel Borchardt, Andrea Hebert and Camille Gamboa about Research Impact 03/10/2025

ATGthePodcast 268 - A Conversation with Rachel Borchardt, Andrea Hebert and Camille Gamboa about Research Impact 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 both the librarian perspective and the publisher perspective of how each defines and supports research impact at their institutions, how the conversation has expanded over the years, and why forward thinking is crucial to meet the challenges such as academic silos, the dominance of traditional metrics, and the lack of commitment from U.S. universities to initiatives like DORA, and to support more effective impact of research. Librarians have an important role in shaping these conversations and helping institutions move beyond traditional metrics. We also discuss Policy Maps, which is a free tool offered by Sage for individual researchers to determine their policy impact. The video of this interview can be found here: Social Media: LinkedIn: Keywords: #ResearchImpact, #ResearchMetrics, #Altmetrics, #PolicyImpact, #SocialScience, #ResearchTransformation, #ResearchTranslation,#ResearchQuality, #ResearchTools, #ResearchEthics, #OpenResearch, #ResearchInnovation, #EmergingTechnologies, #AcademicResearch, #DigitalLibrarian, #DigitalLibrary, #LibraryScience, #ResearchReliability, #ResearchIntegrity, #PublishingIntegrity, #PoweringResearch,, #ScienceTalks, #knowledge, #awareness, #efficiency, #innovation, #partnerships, #CommunityEngagement, #collaboration, #scholcomm, #ScholarlyCommunication, #libraries, #librarianship, #LibraryNeeds, #LibraryLove, #ScholarlyPublishing, #AcademicPublishing, #publishing, #LibrariesAndPublishers, #podcasts /episode/index/show/atgthepodcast/id/35603405

ATGthePodcast 267 - A Conversation with Dr. Leslie McIntosh, Founder, Ripeta, and VP, Research Integrity, Digital Science 03/03/2025

ATGthePodcast 267 - A Conversation with Dr. Leslie McIntosh, Founder, Ripeta, and VP, Research Integrity, Digital Science 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 making open, collaborative, and inclusive research a reality, partnering with academic institutions to provide pioneering AI-powered tools that enhance decision-making, foster innovation, and help shape a future where trusted, collaborative research drives progress for all. Learn more at . Today’s episode features Caroline Goldsmith, Associate Director, Charleston Hub, who talks with Dr. Leslie McIntosh, Founder, Ripeta, and VP, Research Integrity, Digital Science. Leslie talks with us about how she defines research integrity, and the major issues she sees currently facing the scholarly communication industry around research integrity. Leslie dedicates her work to improving research and investigating and reducing mis- and disinformation in science. She founded Ripeta in 2017 to improve research quality and integrity using algorithms which lead in detecting trust markers of research manuscripts. Leslie has given hundreds of talks to the US-NIH, NASA, and World Congress, and her work was the most read Retraction Watch post in 2022. She also talks about the work being done at Digital Science and the new tool, Dimensions Author Check, which supports publishers with the author verification process. The video of this interview can be found here: Social Media: LinkedIn: Keywords: #DigitalScience, #digital, #ResearchTransformation, #Research Quality, #ResearchEthics, #OpenResearch, #ResearchInnovation, #EmergingTechnologies, #AcademicResearch, #DigitalLibrarian, #DigitalLibrary, , #ResearchReliability, #ResearchIntegrity, #PublishingIntegrity, #PoweringResearch, #ScientificMisconduct, #Retractions, #AuthorVerification, #ScienceTalks, #Misinformation, #Disinformation, #knowledge, #awareness, #efficiency, #innovation, #partnerships, #CommunityEngagement, #collaboration, #scholcomm, #ScholarlyCommunication, #libraries, #librarianship, #LibraryNeeds, #LibraryLove, #ScholarlyPublishing, #AcademicPublishing, #publishing, #LibrariesAndPublishers, #podcasts /episode/index/show/atgthepodcast/id/35511290

ATGthePodcast 266 - A Conversation with Dr. Elizabeth Bik, Science Integrity Consultant and Microbiologist 02/24/2025

ATGthePodcast 265 - A Conversation with Alex Carroll, Associate Director, Science and Engineering Library, Vanderbilt University, and Josh Borycz, Librarian for STEM Research, Vanderbilt University 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 involvement with generative AI, and the workshops they conduct to educate students on the effective use of AI tools in research. They both believe AI literacy is very important, and discuss the balance between advocacy and skepticism towards these technologies, the evolving role of librarians in the digital age and their commitment to enhancing research practices through innovative tools. Alex and Josh discuss practical applications of AI in various fields, especially in humanities and social sciences, and provide recommendations for libraries on how to effectively engage with these technologies, and the need for users to understand AI limitations and to approach AI-generated information with a critical mindset. Video of this interview: Social Media: LinkedIn: Twitter: Keywords: #VanderbiltUniversity, #LibraryScience, #AI, #GenAI, #AIApplications, #AILimitations, #AITrust, AIInLibraries, #LibrariesAndAI, ChatGPT, #STEM, #InformationLiteracy, #InformationScience, #DigitalLibraries, #DigitalAge, #InformationPower, #research, #knowledge, #awareness, #efficiency, #innovation, #skills, #career, #partnerships, #collaboration, #scholcomm, #ScholarlyCommunication, #libraries, #librarianship, #LibraryNeeds, #LibraryLove, #ScholarlyPublishing, #AcademicPublishing, #publishing, #LibrariesAndPublishers, #podcasts /episode/index/show/atgthepodcast/id/35308610

ATGthePodcast 264 - Meg White Interviews Yulia Sevryugina 02/10/2025

ATGthePodcast 263 - Heather Staines Interviews Ivan Oransky 02/03/2025

ATGthePodcast 262 - Erin Gallagher Interviews Katharine Macy 01/27/2025

ATGthePodcast 261 - Erin Gallagher Interviews Elaina Norlin 01/13/2025

ATGthePodcast 260 - Navigating the Future of Libraries with Michael Levine-Clark 12/30/2024

Against the Grain - The Podcast

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