[BOAI] IFLA Open Access Taskforce established

[Peter Suber]

[Forwarded from Subbiah Arunachalam.  Here's the online version:
http://www.ifla.org/en/news/ifla-open-access-taskforce-established

--Peter Suber.]




11 October 2011
 IFLA Open Access Taskforce established

By Lars Bjørnshauge

Following the endorsement of IFLA's Statement on Open
Access<http://www.ifla.org/en/news/just-released-ifla-statement-on-open-access>by
the Governing Board, April 18th 2011—and the subsequent approval from
the
Governing Board during the WLIC in Puerto Rico August 2011 of a number of key
initiatives <http://www.ifla.org/en/strategic-plan/key-initiatives>—IFLA's
*Open
Access Taskforce* has been established.

The taskforce will work on the following issues:

   1. Advocate for the adoption and promotion of open access policies as set
   out in IFLA's Statement on Open Access within the framework of the United
   Nations institutions (UN, UNESCO, WHO, FAO);
   2. Build Capacity within the IFLA Membership to advocate for the adoption
   of open access policies at the national level, through the development of
   case studies and best practices for open access promotion;
   3. Furthermore the taskforce will connect to the various organizations
   working for Open Access – as indicated in the statement -such as SPARC
   (US/Europe/Japan), COAR, OASPA,EIFL, Bioline International & DOAJ, among
   others.

 First things to be done is to produce a road map for the work to presented
for the IFLA Governing Board in December and as well to begin collecting
case studies and best practice related to how national library associations
can promote national policies and programs to further foster the progress of
Open Access. Please inform me <elbjoern0603 at gmail.com> if you have good
examples in relation to this.

In cooperation with the IFLA Headquarters *dedicated web pages* will be
created in order for the community to be able to follow and contribute to
the work.

The taskforce has the following members:

   - *Lars Bjørnshauge (CHAIR)*, 1st Vice-President, Swedish Library
   Association **
   - *Leslie Chan*, Associate Director, Bioline International, University of
   Toronto at Scarborough
   - *Jan Hagerlid*,  Programme Co-ordinator of OpenAccess.se, National
   Library of Sweden
   - *Iryna Kuchma*, EIFL.Net Open Access Manager, EIFL, Rome, Italy
   - *Rick Luce*, Vice Provost and Director of Libraries, Emory University,
   USA
   - *Felipe Martinez*, Director, University Center for Library Science
   Research, National Autonomous University of Mexico
   - *Bas Savenijie*, Director, National Library of the Netherlands
   - *Xuemao Wang*, Associate Vice-Provost, Emory University Libraries,
   Emory University, USA
   - *Qiang Zhu*, Director, Peking University Library, Beijing, China
   - *Ann Okerson*,  Special Advisor on Electronic Strategies, Center for
   Research Libraries New Haven, CT, United States
   - *Derek Law*, Professor, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, United
   Kingdom

 *Lars Bjørnshauge*
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