[cla-oa] SCOAP3 discussion at ACRL Conference
- From: Adrian Ho <adrian.ho@xxxxxx>
- To: REPOS-L@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, cla-oa@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 13:00:47 -0500
Apologies for cross-posting
If you are attending the ACRL Conference in Seattle next month, please
note that there will be a discussion forum of SCOAP3 which aims to
address concerns and achieve greater understanding. A description of
the event is as follows:
The organizers of the Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing
in Particle Physics (SCOAP3) [ http://scoap3.org ] effort to facilitate
open access publishing invite you to attend a discussion forum in
conjunction with the ACRL National Conference in Seattle, WA, on
Saturday, March 14, 2009, noon-2pm. in the Sheraton Hotel, 1400 Sixth
Avenue, Issaquah room. Light refreshments will be served. No
registration is necessary to attend this event.
The SCOAP3 meeting in Berkeley one year ago
[http://scoap3.org/focalmeeting.html ] and the SCOAP3 information
session in Denver at the ALA Midwinter Meeting
[http://scoap3.org/files/20090124_denver_mele.pdf ] started the
conversation between SCOAP3 and a larger community of U.S. librarians.
This forum in Seattle will present an overview of the SCOAP3 Open Access
initiative and provide an opportunity to delve even more deeply into the
process of committing to the consortium, establishing its governing
board, and the project’s conditions for the call for tender.
Recognizing that the U.S. environment presents unique challenges, Dr.
Salvatore Mele, Open Access Project Leader at CERN [ http://www.cern.ch
]and Interim Project Manager for SCOAP3, comes to Seattle to offer more
opportunity for in depth, first hand explanations.
The Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL), the
Association of Research Libraries (ARL), and SPARC (the Scholarly
Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) encourage librarians from
all types of institutions to seriously consider supporting SCOAP3.
Libraries and library consortia in many nations, including the United
States, have already signed an Expression of Interest
[http://tinyurl.com/scoap3us ] pledging a total of 7.2 Million $/year to
the project: 60% of its worldwide budget envelope. In the U.S., pledges
for over 2 Million $/year have been received with about 1.5 Million
$/year still outstanding. The project cannot go forward to the next
stage of planning and decisions without significantly more participation
by the U.S. libraries.
For background reading on why libraries should support SCOAP3, see:
• 'Tendering Requirements' on pp. 25-29 of the 2007 report, Towards Open
Access Publishing in High Energy Physics. See:
[http://scoap3.org/files/Scoap3WPReport.pdf ].
• “The Audacity of SCOAP3,” an essay by Ivy Anderson, Director of
Collections, California Digital Library, and “Taking Action on SCOAP3,”
an article by Julia Blixrud, both in ARL: A Bimonthly Report, no. 257
(April 2008).
• ACRL letter to the organizers of SCOAP3 expressing support and
encouraging ACRL members to consider joining the SCOAP3 effort when
appropriate, June 2008.
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Adrian K. Ho
Scholarly Communication Librarian
The University of Western Ontario
(519) 661-2111 x87832 | adrian.ho@xxxxxx
http://www.lib.uwo.ca/
http://ir.lib.uwo.ca/
https://www.lib.uwo.ca/blogs/digitalscholarly/
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