Meeting Updates

Elaine Westbrooks, Vice Provost Libraries, UNC Chapel Hill joined this online meeting. She gave an overview of activities at UNC Chapel Hill since her start date of August 2017.

Meetings were held with UNC undergrads, graduate students, faculty, the fundraising board, faculty board members, and campus… Continue

The group reviewed a draft document of UMD principles for scholarly publishing based on those of MIT. Discussion centered on the need for clarity regarding copyright and authors having discretion over where their work is deposited versus automatic deposit in, for example, … Continue

Scholarly publishing model alternatives and UMD Libraries’ related services

UMD Libraries’ Digital Scholarship Librarian, Terry Owen gave a comprehensive overview of the open access movement: history, OA (Open Access) development trends… Continue

Matthew Salter, Publisher, American Physical Society (APS) attended this online meeting to help PACT further explore issues from scholarly societies’ perspectives. … Continue

PACT members continued their discussions about MIT’s licensing principles and they reviewed Harvard’s policies. The debate centered around the merits of stating that UMD supports the MIT and Harvard principles versus writing a UMD-specific… Continue

PACT members continued the discussion about UMD's licensing practices and status of "big deals" and transformative agreements, namely ….:

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UMD Libraries' licensing practices

Collections Strategies and Services associate dean, Dan Mack, provided an overview of the current UMD position, ‘big-deals”, and factors to be considered when negotiating contracts. 

UMD is a… Continue

The inaugural meeting of UMD PACT (Publishing Access Contract Terms) began with members introducing themselves and sharing their experiences in scholarly publishing and open access. Members include several campus faculty members in addition to library faculty with knowledge of, and expertise in, this area. 

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