[GOAL] Re: Open Access Agreements and Licenses Task Force

[Alicia López Medina]

> Dear colleagues,
>
> The Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR) is delighted to 
> announce that Birgit Schmidt (Goettingen State and University 
> Library/COAR/OpenAIRE) and Kathleen Shearer (Canadian Association of 
> Research Libraries/COAR) are the recipients of the 2012 LIBER Award 
> for Library Innovation.
>
> The prize was awarded for their paper, /Licensing Revisited: Open 
> Access Clauses in Practice. /The paper describes work being done 
> through COAR to advance open access implementation via content 
> licenses. The paper reviews the current landscape in terms of open 
> access clauses and discusses the opportunities available for expanding 
> open access via the use of licensing negotiations,
>
> The abstract for the paper is available on the LIBER conference 
> website 
> (http://www.utlib.ee/liber2012/index.php?id=programme&item=acc_papers#7_3 
> <http://www.utlib.ee/liber2012/index.php?id=programme&item=acc_papers%237_3>) 
> and the full text will be published and made available open access in 
> the coming months.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Alicia López Medina
> COAR Executive Director
> http://www.coar-repositories.org/
>
>
> Katharina Müller (Head of Office)
> Göttingen State and University Library
> Platz der Göttinger Sieben 1
> 37073 Göttingen
> Germany
> Tel.: +49 551 39-22215
> Fax: +49 551 39-5222
> E-Mail: office[at]coar-repositories[dot]org
>
>


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