Joint RLUK/SCONUL Scholarly Communications Group
Information
Membership
| Christopher Pressler - Chair (Nottingham) Paul Ayris (UCL) John Cox (NUI Galway) Robin Green (Warwick) Tricia Heffernan (Open) Bill Hubbard (SHERPA) Tony Kidd (Glasgow) |
Debby Shorley (Imperial: CILIP) |
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Terms of reference
- To take a lead role in the fast changing area of scholarly communications* on behalf of the academic library community in the UK and Ireland in order to assist it to influence, adapt to, and develop strategies in relation to:
- the evolving role of library and information services within a changing scholarly communications landscape
- the evolving economics of scholarly communication
- building partnerships with interested parties to further the scholarly communications
- collection, retention and preservation policies
- cultural change
- To monitor the impact of scholarly communications developments inside and outside the UK and Ireland (including USA, Europe and Australia) so as to engender a more informed and proactive approach to scholarly communications issues throughout the academic and wider library and academic communities in the UK and Ireland
- To sponsor advocacy in academic communities about scholarly communication issues and to act as a principal body which interacts on, and acts as an advocate for, scholarly communications issues with relevant regional, national and international bodies
- To keep the CURL and SCONUL community, as well as the wider library and academic communities, informed about scholarly communications issues and developments on a regular basis
- To identify and promote initiatives in key areas, especially through innovative project work
- To monitor, and report on, the Group’s progress against an action plan agreed annually by the CURL and SCONUL Executive Boards
* “Scholarly Communication refers to the formal and informal processes by which the research and scholarship of academic staff, researchers, and independent scholars are created, evaluated, edited, formatted, distributed, organised, made accessible, archived, used, and transformed.” (Definition taken from SPARC Europe Create Change leaflet)
SCONUL responses
- Response
to RCUK draft statement (DOC)
- Response to EU on their report on scientific publishing (DOC)