Nicky Agate is the assistant director of scholarly communication and digital projects at Columbia University, where she works alongside a talented team of scholars, thinkers, and doers in the libraries. Before that, she was head of digital initiatives at the MLA, responsible for Humanities Commons, MLA Commons, and CORE. Agate is a member of the HuMetricsHSS team, which is seeking to establish a framework for values-based assessment and evaluation in the humanities and social sciences; a founding editor of The Idealis, an overlay journal that promotes quality open-access scholarship about scholarly communications issues; and a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication.
