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Minutes of the CARL Scholarly Communications Committee held by teleconference, Monday March 15,
2010, at 1:00 pm Eastern time
Present: Lynn Copeland (Chair), Pam Bjornson, Richard Dumont, Margaret Haines, Thomas Hickerson,
Diane Koen, Carole Moore, George Maslany, Marnie Swanson, Brent Roe, Kathleen Shearer, Diego
Argáez (Secretary)
Regrets: Sylvie Delorme, Ernie Ingles, John Teskey
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The Chair welcomed the committee members to the meeting, and added two items to the agenda, the
matter of appointing a new Chair for the Committee and a recommendation she recently made to the board.
Scholarly Journals Stakeholder Meeting (March 24, Ottawa)
The Canadian Association of Learned Journals(CALJ) is sponsoring this meeting to which members of the
research community, libraries and granting agencies have been invited. A draft Synergies report prepared
by Rowland Lorrimer (SFU) is available. SCOM suggestions for further input are welcome; Lynn will
distribute the report to the SCC listserv. [Done]
Recommendation to the Board, possible CARL proposal to CRKN
The Chair had recently recommended to the Board a possible proposal CARL could make to CRKN, similar
to SCOAP3, for Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities journals. A committee could be struck to
undertake and oversee the project. It would be important to establish, early on, that participating libraries
must not be disadvantaged with journal price increases. The money currently spent on SS and H journals
that receives public money, would go to financing an aggregate OA business model for those journals.
The Chair asked whether there is SCC support for such an undertaking. The Committee was of the
opinion that this is a good proposal. It was noted that both Board and Committee support could help
give CARL participants at the upcoming Scholarly Journal Stakeholder meeting in Ottawa some additional
direction in terms of their input. An OA transformation should not translate into an increase in library
expenditures. With respects to publicly funded research , we need to think holistically about a library and
granting agency spending; there needs to be a holistic deal – decoupled from CRKN. It was noted that
many CALJ journals are not so easily transferred to OA - so it could be a question of targeting a particular
subset of those journals for an OA conversion.
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