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! -----Original Message----- 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] -----Original Message----- 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