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Meeting of the CARL Committee on Scholarly Communication
Present: Lynn Copeland (Chair); Charles Bérubé; Pam Bjornson; Richard Dumont; Gwendolyn
Ebbett; Joyce Garnett; Margaret Grove; Margaret Haines; Thomas Hickerson; George Maslany;
Carole Moore; Marnie Swanson; Kathleen Shearer; Diego Argáez (Secretary)
Thursday November 12, 2009, 8:30 am – 11:45 am
Lord Elgin Hotel, Ottawa
Room: Boardroom 200
Regrets: Michael Ridley; Janine Schmidt
1. Welcome and introductions
The minutes from the May 26, 2009, meeting were approved.
2. Business Arising
2.1 BOAI
The Chair mentioned that it would be a good idea to re-affirm CARL endorsement for the BOAI.
Moved, and passed at the committee meeting. [Editorial note: The motion was brought to the Fall
General Meeting, and passed.
2.2 PubMed Central Canada update (Pam Bjornson)
Pam Bjornson reported that there was a soft launch during International Open Access Week (Oct
19-23) for PubMed Central Canada. PMC Canada has been getting 3000-4000 hits/day. There
are 1.4 million articles in the database; deposits are done via publisher agreements and author
submissions. The contents are Indexed and crawled by Google, and OAI functionality for
metadata harvesting has also been built in. CIHR is doing the press coverage for PMC Canada
The quality assurance process (including peer-review) for PMC Canada is very strong. The
National Library of Medicine negotiated deposit agreements/processes with publishers. Many
Canadian health researchers can’t archive post-prints to PMC because they don’t have NIH
funding. It will support CIHR and it’s OA policy as well. Dual submission article manuscript
deposit is possible – PMC Canada, and then to an IR.
2.3 SCOAP3
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The Committee held extensive discussions two meetings ago on this proposed business model.
The Board asked CRKN to negotiate. More institutions have signed on in the U.S. in particular.
SPARC suggests an endorsement in principle for SCOAP3 from CARL would be valuable. It’s
based from the scholarly community, and it is important for CARL to support the principle involved
– support for broad public access (free) to research outputs.
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