Open access monographs

[Sigi Jöttkandt <sigij AT openhumanitiespress.org>]

Thanks, everyone, for your helpful suggestions, comments etc. on the 
call which I think we can just about send out - I was simply wondering 
if anyone here from the library community would like to be named as a 
contact person along with me and John?

Then, I'm delighted to say that we've added a few more people from the 
library community to the discussion in the meantime: warm welcome to 
Lynn Copeland who is Dean of Library Services and University Librarian 
at SFU and current chair of the Scholarly Communications Committee of 
the Canadiian Association of Research Libraries (CARL), and, as I 
understand, also a member of PKP.

Warm welcome also to Shana Kimball and Maria Bonn both from the 
Scholarly Publishing Office at UMichigan - Shana is the Publications 
Manager at SPO where she manages the Journal of Electronic Publishing 
and the new collaborative imprint with UMichigan press, 
digitalculturebooks http://www.digitalculture.org/ - this seems like 
exactly the kinds of innovative collaborative relationships we would 
like to learn more about and imitate. Maria is Head of the Library's 
scholarly publishing effort where she is responsible for both the 
production of electronic books and journals and for developing Library 
strategy in scholarly communication.

Needless to say, it's fantastic to have all of you here and to have the 
opportunity to learn from your experiences. I know we have lots of 
questions to ask them.

Sigi

Guédon Jean-Claude wrote:
> For ACLS, Pauline Yu, the President, would be the person to write to. She 
> knows me slightly. She is a French lit scholar, by the way (among other 
> specialties). I think she would be interested even though OA is not her 
> highest priority.
>
> Best,
>
> Jean-Claude
>
>
> -----Mensagem original-----
> De: ohp-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org em nome de Brunner, Marta
> Enviada: ter 22/7/2008 19:36
> Para: ohp AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Assunto: Re: [OA-monographs] OHP/PKP call for library participants
>  
> Sigi,
>  
> I'll have a read through the draft soon, but in response to your question about dissemination, I have a few suggestions off the top of my head:
> 1. the Council on Library and Information Resources (www.clir.org <http://www.clir.org> ) -- they would want to be aware of this kind of initiative and may be able to publicize it. 
> 2. SPARC--Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (www.arl.org/sparc <http://www.arl.org/sparc> ) -- this is an arm of the Association of Research Libraries.  
> 3. the Association of College and Research Libraries (www.ala.org/acrl/) -- this is a division of the American Library Association.
> 4. the American Council of Learned Societies -- this is not a library 
> organization, of course, but they do get involved in library initiatives 
> (they've worked closely with CLIR) and they have the ACLS Humanities E-Book 
> project, which someone may have mentioned on this list already 
> (http://www.humanitiesebook.org/).  That project seems to have involved 
> librarians.
>  
> Unfortunately, I don't know specific contact persons to suggest (though I could readily come up with someone from CLIR since I am meeting with its president this week).  Perhaps others on this list could suggest appropriate contact people or listservs to target.
>  
> Marta
>  
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> From: ohp-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org on behalf of Sigi Jöttkandt
> Sent: Tue 7/22/2008 4:03 AM
> To: ohp AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Subject: [OA-monographs] OHP/PKP call for library participants
>
>
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> I'm enclosing a draft of a call for library participants in a joint
> OHP/PKP OA monograph publishing grant. I'd be very glad of your comments
> before we send it out more widely. (I'd also be grateful for suggestions
> for people and places we might send it to, especially internationally.)
>
> I'll also take this moment do another quick round of introductions since
> we've added a few more people onto the list in the meantime: warm
> welcome to Janet Carter, one of Marta's colleagues at UCLA, Jim
> Galbraith, Head of Collection Development at UCI library, and Drew
> Davidson, Director of a new OA monograph press from the Carnegie Mellon
> Entertainment Technology Center (ETC-press) that recently launched in
> BETA. It's fantastic to have the opportunity to get your input.
>
> All best,
> Sigi
>
>
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