SCOAP3 discussion forum at ACRL Conference
From: Adrian Ho <adrian.ho_at_uwo.ca>
Apologies for cross-posting
If you are attending the ACRL Conference in Seattle next month,
please note that there will be a SCOAP3 discussion forum 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_at_uwo.ca
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Received on Sat Feb 28 2009 - 03:01:18 EST