From: Anna Lunden <[log in to unmask]>
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 [log in to unmask]

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

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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: [log in to unmask]