RLUK

For information about the latest news on this Task Force see CURLnews 14

Date of next meeting:   12 July 2004

Members

Paul Ayris (Chair)  UCL (University College London) 
Marie-Pierre Détraz  CURL 
Geoff Gilbert  University of Birmingham 
John MacColl  University of Edinburgh 
Stephen Pinfield  University of Nottingham 
Tracey Stanley  University of Leeds 
Jill Taylor-Roe  University of Newcastle 

Present by invitation

David Prosser
SPARC Europe
 

Remit

The remit of the CURL Scholarly Communications Task Force is to:

 Maintain a watching brief on the fast-changing issues in the Scholarly Communications debate
 Advise the CURL Board of strategic directions which the Consortium should follow in addressing scholarly communication issues
 Undertake project work to identify developments in the scholarly communications arena, as they affect research-led universities
 Act as a focus for research libraries in CURL and research-led universities in the development of scholarly communication issues at a local level
 Be a conduit for consultation and discussion on relevant issues with national and international bodies, who work in the area, such as SPARC Europe, PLoS, BioMed Central and ARL's Office of Scholarly Communication 

SMART Objectives

 To help CURL draft responses to the Office of Fair Trading and the Parliamentary Enquiry into STM publishing by the required deadlines
 To have submitted by Jan. 04 a proposal for funding to the CURL Board for a second round of CURL Advocacy events
 To monitor, via the SHERPA Management Group, the successful implementation of the SHERPA project plan
 To provide one briefing paper to the Russell Group Research PVCs by June 04, to update them on scholarly communication issues in CURL libraries
 To contribute to the writing of a bid for partnership funding with the NHS to fund developments in content delivery across the NHS/HE, to be submitted to JISC by the Content Group of the NHS/HE Forum by February 04
 To explore with the JISC Scholarly Communications Group and SCONUL's Advisory Committee for Scholarly Communications the possibility of merging the three Scholarly Communications groups into one; to submit a draft joint paper to the CURL Board at its meeting on 27 February 04 and to submit the finalised joint paper to the three organisations by Easter 04.
 By June 04 to have agreed a work plan for ISCA - the International Scholarly Communications Alliance, which is currently in draft
 To engage in exploratory discussions, and take part, as appropriate, in the scoping of a new project on digital signatures with the British Library and others, due to begin with a first meeting in May 04.

Events, Projects and Initiatives

Barriers to knowledge across NHS & HE

CURL ePrints workshop in Glasgow, 4 March 2002

Electronic Society for Social Scientists (ELSSS)

International Scholarly Communications Alliance (ISCA)

SHERPA - CURL project page and Home page

Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC)

SPARC Europe

SPARC Meeting, 21 February 2001

Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography

Scholarly Communication/Create Change sites

Budapest Open Access Initiative