[BOAI] Re: Open Access Agreements and Licenses

[Jean-Claude Guédon]

This is a wonderful initiative. Best of luck!

Jean-Claude

PS If now we could create a parallel taskforce to study how to help
promote the papers in repositories beyond simple Google search, etc.,
that would be wonderful too.


Le jeudi 21 juin 2012 à 12:27 -0400, Peter Suber a écrit :

> [Forwarding from COAR, via LibLicense.  --Peter Suber.]
> 
> 
> 
> From: Anna Lunden <Anna.Lunden at kb.se>
> Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2012 05:30:51 +0000
> 
> Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR)
> http://www.coar-repositories.org/ has formed a Task Force for “Open
> Access Agreements and Licenses” with members representing both the
> repository community as well as the licensing community (see below for
> a current list of members).
> 
> The purpose of the Task Force is to improve access to research papers
> globally, and the desired outcomes are:
> 
> •  Review existing agreements and licenses
> 
> •   Assessment of efficacy and value of various licenses and
> agreements
> 
> •   Recommendations and best practices for creating and adopting OA
> agreements and licenses
> 
> •   Communication plan for distributing and promoting recommendations
> 
> We are now turning to you members of the liblicense mailing list to
> ask for your help in collecting different versions of open access
> clauses (e.g. author rights, self-archiving, parallel publication,
> compensation for Open Access material etc.) from your existing
> licenses, and also samples of agreements with gold open access
> publishers. Please send your replies to anna.lunden at kb.se.
> 
> We aim to have our preliminary results available in time for the ICOLC
> conference in Vienna in October, and look forward to having an
> opportunity to discuss them then!
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Anna Lundén on behalf of the Open Access Agreements and Licenses Task
> Force
> 
> Chair: Kathleen Shearer
>  Canadian Association of Research Libraries
> Lars Bjornshauge
>  SPARC Europe
> Saskia Franken
>  Utrecht University Library
> Kristine Hillenkötter
>  Göttingen State and University Library
> Neil Jacobs
>  Joint Information Systems Committee
> Anna Lunden, BIBSAM Consortium
>  National Library of Sweden
> Hildegaard Schaffler
>  Bayerische Staatsbibliothek in Munich
> Ralf Schimmer
>  Max Planck Digital Library
> Birgit Schmidt
>  Confederation of Open Access Repositories, OpenAire
> Yan Zhao
>  National Science Library, China
> 
> ----
> Anna Lundén
> Head of Licensing, BIBSAM Consortium
> National Cooperation, Coordination and Development Department
> National Library of Sweden
> SE-102 41 Stockholm
> Visits: Karlavägen 100, Stockholm
> E-mail: anna.lunden at kb.se
> 
> 
> 
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