From: ARL Communications <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 3:33 PM

Higher Ed Associations Form Joint Steering Group to Build Federated
System for Publicly Funded Research

by ARL, AAU, and APLU | [log in to unmask] | on August 29, 2013

The Association of Research Libraries (ARL), the Association of
American Universities (AAU), and the Association of Public and
Land-grant Universities (APLU) today announced the formation of a
joint steering group to advance a proposed network of digital
repositories at universities, libraries, and other research
institutions across the US that will provide long-term public access
to federally funded research articles and data.

The steering group will oversee a feasibility study, guide policy, and
explore governance structures necessary for prototyping and
implementing the network. This repository network, the SHared Access
Research Ecosystem (SHARE), is being developed as one response to a
White House directive instructing federal funding agencies to make the
results of research they fund available to the public.

The SHARE Steering Group will be chaired by Rick Luce, associate vice
president for research and dean of university libraries at University
of Oklahoma, and Tyler Walters, dean of university libraries at
Virginia Tech. Other members of the steering group include: Richard
McCarty, provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs, Vanderbilt
University; MacKenzie Smith, university librarian, University of
California, Davis; Brad Wheeler, vice president for information
technology and CIO, Indiana University; and Caroline Whitacre, vice
president for research, Ohio State University. Additionally, Joyce
Backus, associate director for library operations at the National
Library of Medicine where PubMed Central resides, will serve as a
National Institutes of Health liaison to the SHARE Steering Group.

For more information on SHARE, please see http://www.arl.org/share.
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Vaughn, AAU executive vice president, [log in to unmask]; or R.
Michael Tanner, APLU chief academic officer and vice president,
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The Association of American Universities (AAU) is a nonprofit
association of 60 US and two Canadian preeminent public and private
research universities. Founded in 1900, AAU focuses on national and
institutional issues that are important to research-intensive
universities, including funding for research, research and education
policy, and graduate and undergraduate education. AAU is on the web at
http://www.aau.edu/.

The Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU) is a
research, policy, and advocacy organization representing 218 public
research universities, land-grant institutions, state university
systems, and related organizations. Founded in 1887, APLU is the
nation's oldest higher education association with member institutions
in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and four US territories.
Annually, member campuses enroll more than 3.8 million undergraduates
and 1.2 million graduate students, award over 1 million degrees,
employ nearly 1 million faculty and staff, and conduct more than $37
billion in university-based research. APLU is on the web at
http://www.aplu.org/.

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