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that the sources of needed funds will, in the main, be reallocations of funds now
supportive of Canadian SSH journals. The budget would encompass the following
elements:
a. Long-term support for the maintenance and development of Canadian
non-profit online SSH journals beginning at current levels of output and
responsive to growth in research output;
b. The maintenance and continued development of OJS to a level that
maintains its competitiveness with commercial alternatives;
c. The maintenance and continued development of the Synergies-developed
Canadian database and index of SSH research content complete with
secure archives to a level that maintains its competitiveness with
commercial alternatives; (All regional centres need to bring forward
system needs that they feel best able to serve. I don’t want to be seen to be
making the decisions on what is needed or not nor put words in people’s
mouths. This would cover at least, b, c, and e. )
d. A promotion and marketing program to a level that maintains its
competitiveness with commercial alternatives;
e. A program of meta-publishing initiatives designed to add value by
increasing access and use of Canadian SSH research in the scholarly and
public spheres.
As a guideline, the following allocations might serve as an initial suggestion for
consideration.
SSHRC $2.5 million
CRKN $2 million
AUCC members $1 million
Learned Societies $ 200,000
Journal print sales $ 300,000
TOTAL $6 million
NSSHRC 3 Membership and Operations
It is proposed that NSSHRC 3 be composed of an executive secretary and 12
representatives from the following organizations. It is further proposed that these
representatives assume responsibility for the following roles:
1. CFHSS and CALJ to represent the interests of journals and researchers.
Coordinating with each other as well as their members, they would each name
two representatives to NSSHRC 3 . At least one member of the four would be
drawn from the membership of the francophone journals group;
2. CARL to represent the interests of libraries with two members one of whom
would be a board member of CRKN. (Alternatively, the Exec. Dir. of CRKN
could be included as a non-voting member.);
3. A member of the board of AUCC or a designate, whose institution was involved
in hosting journals in conjunction with Synergies to represent the interests of
universities;
4. A member of the executive of CAUT as a representative of the educative
function of scholars and researchers;
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