From: Ivy Anderson <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2019 21:27:22 +0000

LibLicense readers,

The University of California (UC) will be hosting an Open Access Tipping
Point Public Forum in Washington, DC on August 29th.This free, interactive
public event is intended to advance understanding of the value and
opportunities associated with negotiating, participating in, and
supporting transformative
open access agreements
<https://osc.universityofcalifornia.edu/open-access-at-uc/publisher-negotiations/negotiating-with-scholarly-journal-publishers-a-toolkit/an-introductory-guide-to-the-uc-model-transformative-agreement/>
for
all stakeholders in the scholarly publishing community – including
publishers, societies, funders, libraries, and academic authors. We hope
you’ll join us!

A detailed invitation and event description follow below.

Space is limited for the public forum, and RSVP’s are required. *Please
fill out this form
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc5mFt5pbYXHi6wIRRdvGSYOof8q0isuK69cnhCPMWXNjTLTg/viewform>
to
reserve your spot*. With any questions, e-mail: [log in to unmask]

Best,

*The OATIP Public Forum Planning Commi**ttee*

   - Ivy Anderson, Associate Executive Director and Director of Collection
   Development and Management, California Digital Library
   - Rachael Samberg, Scholarly Communication Officer, University of
   California, Berkeley
   - Danielle Watters Westbrook, Systemwide Library Planning Analyst,
   California Digital Library

****** Invitation When:

August 29, 2019
2:00 p.m. –  4:30 p.m. EDT
Where:

University of California Washington Center (UCDC)
1608 Rhode Island Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20036
What:

The Open Access Tipping Point Public Forum is designed for a broad audience
of scholarly publishing stakeholders, to illuminate the scope of what can
be achieved through transformative open access agreements
<https://osc.universityofcalifornia.edu/open-access-at-uc/publisher-negotiations/negotiating-with-scholarly-journal-publishers-a-toolkit/an-introductory-guide-to-the-uc-model-transformative-agreement/>.
While transformative agreements potentially include offsetting or “read and
publish” agreements, we mean “transformative agreements” broadly here — to
encompass any negotiated agreements between institutions or consortia and
publishers that transform the publishing business model from toll or
subscription access to open access.

The public forum follows the Open Access (OA) Tipping Point Workshop
<https://osc.universityofcalifornia.edu/2019/06/announcing-the-open-access-tipping-point-workshop/>,
an invitational event designed for North American academic institutions
motivated to refactor their current journal publisher agreements to support
a sustainable open access transformation. OA Tipping Point Workshop
participants will automatically receive an invitation to the public forum.

The interactive public forum will be built around a storytelling meeting
structure
<http://www.liberatingstructures.com/18-users-experience-fishbowl/>, so
that experts directly engaged in the field can respond to and expand upon
each other’s experiences. Audience members will then have the opportunity
to ask the storytellers anything they want about pursuing or implementing
transformative agreements. This liberating meeting structure
<http://www.liberatingstructures.com/> can help “foster understanding,
spark creativity, and facilitate adoption of new practices among members of
a larger community.” We successfully implemented
<https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9190j56c> a storytelling meeting format
at the Choosing Pathways to OA <https://cp2oa18.com/> working forum, with
participants commenting that it inspired them to action; indeed, some
Choosing Pathways to OA participants have already incorporated the
storytelling format into localized versions of OA decision-making events.

The storytellers at the OA Tipping Point public forum are scholarly
publishing experts representing publishers, societies, libraries, academic
authors, and funders. More storytellers will be announced soon, but the
esteemed group already includes:

   - Richard Schneider <https://profiles.ucsf.edu/richard.schneider>
(University
   of California, San Francisco) (Faculty)
   - Keith Webster
<https://www.library.cmu.edu/about/people/keith-webster> (Carnegie
   Mellon University) (Library)
   - Kamran Naim <https://www.linkedin.com/in/kamran-naim-20605012/> (Annual
   Reviews) (Publisher)
   - [To be named] (Cambridge University Press) (Publisher)
   - Judy Verses <https://www.linkedin.com/in/judy-verses-18433946/> (Wiley
   & Sons) (Publisher)
   - Scott Delman <https://www.linkedin.com/in/scottdelman/> (Association
   for Computing Machinery) (Society)

Who:

The intended audience for the OA Tipping Point public forum is scholarly
publishers, societies, funders, academic authors, and academic
libraries–all of whom may have varying familiarity or experience with the
theoretical and pragmatic aspects of transformative agreements. The public
session will satisfy two distinct audience needs, providing: (1) an
overview of the strengths, opportunities, and challenges of transformative
agreements and, (2) opportunities to interact with transformative agreement
issues that bear upon audience members’ respective circumstances.)
RSVP Required:

Space is limited for the public forum, and RSVP’s are required. *Please
fill out this form
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc5mFt5pbYXHi6wIRRdvGSYOof8q0isuK69cnhCPMWXNjTLTg/viewform>
to
reserve your spot*. With any questions, e-mail: [log in to unmask]

Best,

Ivy Anderson
California Digital Library