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 ---- 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]