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COAPI Community Call: HELIOS Update

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“The Higher Education Leadership Initiative for Open Scholarship (HELIOS) is a network of 96 colleges and universities committed to collective action to advance open scholarship across their campuses. HELIOS currently has four active working groups, each addressing complementary aspects of the open scholarship landscape. Collectively, we are working to make open scholarship easier for individual researchers and the institutions that support them; to align incentive structures like hiring and promotion and tenure to properly reward open activities; to stimulate durable, scalable infrastructure that supports open scholarship; and to coordinate with like-minded activities in the governmental, philanthropic, and professional society sectors to ensure that we are moving in the same direction to promote a more transparent, inclusive, and trustworthy research ecosystem.

Caitlin Carter, HELIOS Program Manager, will join us for her second COAPI Community Call and update us on the work HELIOS has done since July 2022.”

COAPI Virtual Coffee Klatsch: OSTP Memo

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“Join fellow COAPI members for our first Virtual Coffee Klatsch at 1:00 EST on Tuesday, August 15. Grab your favorite beverage and join us for informal community building and conversation about how libraries are responding to the 2022 OSTP Public Access Memo (Nelson Memo).

While there is no formal structure to the call, we do encourage participants to think about and be ready to share: – Library outreach and education programs – Collaboration with other campus offices or within library – Resources to share/repurpose – If/how your institution has responded to the draft bill to block implementation of the OSTP memo.”

COAPI: Rights-retention and Open Access Policies

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“Please join us for the next COAPI Community Call on Monday, July 17, at 2:00 pm EST.

Peter Suber, Senior Advisor on Open Access (based in Harvard Library) and Director of the Harvard Open Access Project (based in the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society), will join us for a discussion on author rights and open access policies. Call participants are encouraged to read Peter’s handout “Harvard-style rights-retention open-access policies,” ahead of the session and bring questions for an extended discussion and Q&A. The format of the COAPI Community Calls is modeled on SPARC’s OpenCon librarian community calls, which seek to create a supportive environment where challenges can be candidly shared and everyone present is encouraged to participate in and shape the discussion.”

COAPI Community Call

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“Please join us for the next COAPI Community Call on Tuesday, April 25, at 2:00 pm EST.

Kathleen Shearer from COAR and Tina Baich from the U.S. Repository Network will join us to share how they are working together to support the role out of recent funder public access developments and initiatives such as the OSTP Year of Open Science. The format of the COAPI Community Calls is modeled on SPARC’s OpenCon librarian community calls, which seek to create a supportive environment where challenges can be candidly shared and everyone present is encouraged to participate in and shape the discussion.”

COAPI Community Call

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“Please join us for the next COAPI Community Call on Tuesday, April 25, at 2:00 pm EST.

Kathleen Shearer from COAR and Tina Baich from the U.S. Repository Network will join us to share how they are working together to support the role out of recent funder public access developments and initiatives such as the OSTP Year of Open Science. The format of the COAPI Community Calls is modeled on SPARC’s OpenCon librarian community calls, which seek to create a supportive environment where challenges can be candidly shared and everyone present is encouraged to participate in and shape the discussion.”

COAPI Community Call: HELIOS – SPARC

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“The Higher Education Leadership Initiative for Open Scholarship (HELIOS) is a network of 78 colleges and universities committed to collective action to advance open scholarship across their campuses. HELIOS takes place within the larger context of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine’s Roundtable on Aligning Incentives for Open Science, which brings together key interested parties — including senior leadership at universities, federal agencies, philanthropies, international bodies, and other strategic organizations — to better incentivize openness, in service of a more transparent, inclusive, and trustworthy research ecosystem. Ultimately, HELIOS and the NASEM Roundtable aim to ensure that as many students, faculty, practitioners, policy makers, and community members as possible have access to, and a voice in, research and scholarship.”

COAPI Community Call: Catalyzing a US Repository Network – Jan 20, 2022 – SPARC

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“The US Repository Network project is a partnership between the Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR) and Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC) led by Visiting Program Officer Tina Baich. An outgrowth of COAR’s work in the repository space, the project seeks to assist in breaking down institutional silos and developing a more cohesive approach and greater collaboration around repositories in the US.

The first step was to convene an expert group of both Library Deans/Directors and IR managers from academic institutions to develop a strategic vision for repositories in the United States. The next step is to solicit broader input from the library/repository community to refine and finalize that vision. During this community call, Tina will join us to share the results of the convening and to hear from the COAPI community.”

Transformative Agreements and Institutional Open Access Policies, Principles, and Strategies

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“In March 2021 the University of California announced a four-year transformative agreement with Elsevier covering reading access and open-access publishing for UC authors. While there continues to be significant discussion over the merits of UC’s approach, one aspect of this agreement that has not been widely discussed is how it relates to UC’s open access policies for research articles written by anyone employed by UC.

Given the great interest in UC’s agreement and policies, this event will focus on helping attendees understand the mechanics of UC’s approach to furthering open access to scholarship. Ellen Finnie, Open Access Publisher Agreements Manager for the UC Office of Scholarly Communication, will provide a brief presentation on the interaction of the transformative agreement and UC’s OA policies, principles, and strategies, followed by plenty of time for discussion.

This event is co-sponsored by the OA2020 US Working Group and Community of Practice and the Coalition of Open Access Policy Institutions (COAPI). All are welcome to attend.”

COAPI Community Call: Funding Open During Challenging Budget Times – Oct 26, 2020 – SPARC

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“During this call, you will hear about the SPARC Journal Negotiation Community of Practice, including a brief overview of programs and discussion groups developed for libraries in support of their current negotiations and subscription decision-making. The call will then focus in on one of these programs, the Journal Cancellation Reinvestment Working Group. Co-leads, Kathleen DeLaurenti (Johns Hopkins University) and Curtis Brundy (Iowa State University) will describe their efforts leading a community of librarian volunteers developing resources to support libraries prioritizing Open investments.”

COAPI response to 2020 RFI – Public Access to Scholarly Information – SPARC

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“The COAPI Steering Committee encourages the Federal Government to implement a strong national policy that provides immediate, barrier-free access to the full results of taxpayer-funded research. Such a policy would align with efforts at our member institutions. We would welcome Federal policy that has the following characteristics:

Immediate access to published articles without embargoes
Articles should be openly licensed and made available in open and machine-readable formats that fully enable productive reuse including text/data mining and computational analysis
Data (and code, software, etc.) needed to validate/replicate the conclusions of articles should be made immediately available
Other appropriate data should be FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable)
Free public access to and long-term preservation of these research outputs should be provided via either a digital repository maintained by the funding agency or in an appropriate institutional or disciplinary repository….”

COAPI Community Call on Tailoring Transformative Agreements to Support Green Open Access – Apr 7, 2020 – SPARC

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“Convincing authors to deposit their scholarly articles in institutional repositories (a practice known as “green open access”) has proven to be very difficult, leading some to question the feasibility of this strategy for making scholarship more openly available. However, the growing popularity of transformative agreements between libraries and publishers presents an opportunity to explore other strategies for facilitating green open access – strategies that depend on cooperation between libraries and publishers, and that may not require any intervention on the part of authors. For example, both the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Framework for Publisher Contracts and the University of California’s  Declaration of Principles to Transform Scholarly Communication demand that publishers work with libraries to facilitate the immediate deposit of scholarly articles in institutional repositories. 

How promising is this new direction in principle? What challenges does it pose in practice? What can we learn from institutions that have already had success in this area? Are there barriers that prevent smaller institutions from following suit? What resources and strategies can we employ as a community to reduce these potential inequities? …”

COAPI Letter to the White House in Response to Zero-Embargo OA Policy – Google Docs

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“The Coalition of Open Access Policy Institutions (COAPI), a group of colleges, universities, and research institutions committed to making the results of their researchers accessible to the world, supports providing American taxpayers immediate, free access to the results of scientific research that is publicly funded and supported by Federal agencies. We strongly endorse updating existing U.S. policy to eliminate the current 12-month embargo period on articles that report on publicly funded research, as instituted by the Obama administration, and to ensure that they are made immediately available to the public….”

[Open letter to Donald Trump]

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“On behalf of the undersigned national and regional library, research, publishing, and advocacy organizations, we are writing to express our commitment to ensuring that American taxpayers are guaranteed immediate, free, and unfettered access to the results of scientific research that their tax dollars support, and to encourage the Administration to support continued progress towards this shared goal. We strongly endorse updating existing U.S. policy to eliminate the current 12-month embargo period on articles reporting on publicly funded research, and to ensure that they are made immediately available under terms and conditions that allow their full reuse. To unlock the full value of our collective investment in science, the underlying data needed to validate an article’s conclusions, along with any corresponding software or code, should also be made immediately available….”

January COAPI Community Call – Jan 22, 2020 – SPARC

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“While maintaining an institutional repository (IR) is now an established university library service, both the origin stories and purposes of our repositories vary greatly. Is it time to re-evaluate the IR and its purpose?

 

Given the staff, time, and technical resources needed to support an IR, are we getting sufficient return on our investment? How do we even analyze our IRs to determine ROI? Do we need to redefine the purpose of our IRs? How will our IRs change over the next decade, whether or not we redefine the purpose? How will ETD and OA policies or the collections as data movement influence those changes?

 

Please join us on Wednesday, January 22nd, at 1:00 PM ET for a COAPI Community Call to investigate the big questions around our IRs. Setting the stage will be Ellen Dubinsky, Scholarly Communications Librarian, University of Arizona, and Kathleen Shearer, Executive Director, Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR)….”