[IRTalk] FW: SANLiC ScienceDirect 2019-2020 urgent meeting request - please assist

[Lazarus Matizirofa]

Dear Colleagues
Kindly attend the online meeting for a discussion of Open Access issues today at 14h30, see link below.
Kind regards,
Lazarus

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Lazarus Matizirofa
Team Leader: Digital Curation and Content Management Services
Information Technology and Knowledge Resources
Tel: +27 12 481 4016
Email: lazarus.matizirofa at nrf.ac.za


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From: Glenn Truran [mailto:director at sanlic.org.za]
Sent: Tuesday, 25 September 2018 15:08
To: Lazarus Matizirofa
Subject: SANLiC ScienceDirect 2019-2020 urgent meeting request - please assist


Mr Lazarus Matizirofa
Team Leader: Digital Curation and Content Management Services
National Research Foundation

Dear Lazarus

SANLiC ScienceDirect 2019-2020 urgent meeting request – please assist

Thank you to those of you who answered the survey or responded by email. So far there have been twelve responses. Ten institutions accepted the offer while two institutions rejected it. In the comments and feedback, four institutions indicated they were not impressed with what Elsevier was offering or questioned Elsevier’s motivation. We realise that Elsevier’s proposal is in line with their new strategic direction of focusing on Research Data Management, but we believe that it will benefit our members overall in terms increasing awareness and acceptance of Open Access as well as increasing research visibility. So we see it as win-win.

In addition, some new information has come to light which we would like to discuss with you before responding to Elsevier. We have been advised that we should also push for further conditions:

?         That “opting in” to SARN should be the default setting for researchers and “opting out” to require action by the researcher.

?         Secondly, insist that the preprints are simultaneously pushed through to national and institutional repositories.

SANLiC needs to have a better understanding of the functionality of national and member institution’s Institutional Repositories and whether or not it will be possible to push continent through to these repositories from SARN.

It would therefore be most helpful if we could have a quick Zoom meeting<https://zoom.us/j/832992204> tomorrow at 14h30. Please invite any Institutional Repository experts at your intuition to assist us with the deliberations. If this meeting time is not possible, please suggest alternative meeting times and we will do the best we can to solicit as much feedback as possible.

Your assistance will be most appreciated!

Elsevier ScienceDirect negotiation update meeting - Join from PC, Mac, Linux, iOS or Android: https://zoom.us/j/832992204
Meeting Date: Wed 2018/09/26
Start Time: 14:30 (aiming for a 30-minute meeting)

Sincerely
Glenn Truran
SANLiC Director

SANLiC – Your smart eResource collective
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