From: Anthony Watkinson <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2013 10:22:52 +0100

I know nothing about this and as you know Jim there are lots of things I
know nothing about BUT my guess is that in most cases where a declaration
from a group of bodies is seen as a response it is almost always a parallel
announcement. It just takes time to get a buy-in.  I can give an example
from personal experience. If an organisation like STM makes a response which
appears to be a quick reaction to something announced by the ARL you can be
almost certain that it is parallel. Getting a group of publishers to agree
to any statement representing them as a body requires serious consultation
and I would imagine that John Vaughn will have had to do some lobbying to
get an internal consensus within his organisation - and he does not have to
worry about anti-trust!

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From: T Scott Plutchak <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2013 21:43:02 +0000

Parallel, I think, rather than in response to.

Scott

T. Scott Plutchak
Director, Lister Hill Library of the Health Sciences University of Alabama
at Birmingham [log in to unmask]


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From: Jim O'Donnell <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Sat, 8 Jun 2013 06:07:12 +0200

AAU, ARL, and APGLU together.  Article seems outside paywall.  A response to
the publishers' CHORUS proposal?

http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/universities-and-libraries-envision-a
-federated-system-for-public-access-to-research/44147

Jim O'Donnell
Georgetown