From: Walsh, Maureen <[log in to unmask]> Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2013 09:07:48 -0500 Date: Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 2:09 PM **Please excuse cross-postings** ALCTS Scholarly Communications Interest Group ALA Midwinter 2013 Saturday, January 26th from 1:00 to 2:30 pm Renaissance Seattle Hotel, Compass North Add this event to your Midwinter schedule: http://alamw13.ala.org/node/9037 Please join us for the ALCTS Scholarly Communications Interest Group Program at the 2013 ALA Midwinter Meeting in Seattle, Washington. We will be featuring two presentations: eScholarship PLUS: Sustaining Open Access Scholarly Publishing Efforts through POD and eBook sales at the University of California Justin Gonder, eScholarship Operations Coordinator, California Digital Library For over ten years, UC faculty and students have increased the exposure of their scholarly output with the eScholarship Open Access publishing platform and repository tools. With our new eScholarship PLUS program, editors of UC-affiliated journals and book series can add print-on-demand and eBook services with full retail and global distribution support to their scholarly publishing toolkit. eScholarship PLUS provides journals and publishing units with an opportunity to recover some of the costs associated with traditional open access publishing, while simultaneously removing the upfront costs and logistical challenges of managing large print runs. Most importantly, editors can now focus on content (rather than distribution) and can enable readers to access that content in whichever format they prefer. This brief presentation will describe the eScholarship PLUS program in more detail, including: business models, vendor partnerships and cross-platform technical integration. Sample finished products (both digital and print) will also be available for review. SCOAP3 Ann Okerson, Senior Advisor on Electronic Strategies, Center for Research Libraries Tom Sanville, Director of Licensing and Strategic Partnerships, LYRASIS The global SCOAP3 project, which aims to convert peer reviewed High Energy Physics journals to an open access model, achieved a number of milestones in the past year. Beginning in late 2012, libraries that had previously submitted Expressions of Interest were asked to re-commit to the project, and - in order to meet the US Goal of $3.5M (based on proportion of HEP published papers in peer reviewed journals) - SCOAP3 also reached out to a number of potential new library participants. Once libraries signal their intent to participate, there are several "next steps," which include identifying the exact HEP journals to which they subscribe, by whatever means (individual subscription all the way to consortial "big deal"), working with SCOAP3 to perform the "re-direct" calculations, and formally agreeing to be part of the project. These steps are on a short timeline, given the "go-live" date of 1 January 2014. CERN (Switzerland) hosts and manages this project for the benefit of SCOAP3. An international Steering Committee has been working with CERN leadership over the past 1.5 years to realize this initiative. And journal publishers are a key part of the project, having submitted their proposals to the 2012 Invitation to Tender. SCOAP3 also engages libraries and funders worldwide, through a "National Contacts" program. In the US, LYRASIS was selected to be the National Contact Organization; the main National Contact individual for this part of the process is Ann Okerson, working with LYRASIS's Tom Sanville. This session will provide a brief overview of SCOAP3, key dates and deliverables, structures, progress to date, and future prospects. The presentations will be followed by a brief business meeting. Melanie Feltner-Reichert Chair, ALCTS Scholarly Communications Interest Group Assistant Professor and Digital Initiatives Metadata Librarian University of Tennessee, Knoxville [log in to unmask] Maureen P. Walsh Vice-Chair, ALCTS Scholarly Communications Interest Group Associate Professor / Institutional Repository Services Librarian The Ohio State University Libraries [log in to unmask]