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Minutes for the Core Team conference call on Jan. 26, 2005 by Andy Scudder

Open Access

Need to work on basic infrastructure

Essential to
- Recruiting
- Keeping the group together
Abhay is our core team member in charge of Open Access
Open access is an issue that can cause real change and be ongoing, more than just our previous one-shot campaigns and contests
- Has been a big draw in the past, for example at NYU people responded to learning more about open access
- Answers the question of what we're doing about IP issues
Peter from Public Knowledge has some helpful links for Open Access
We want to 'sell' university libraries on the cost and research benefits of carrying Open Access journals

The Alliance for Taxpayer Access
- Universitys joining with this org and open access journals can help NIH fulfill their mission
NIH - wanted to open up Medical research immediately after publication, but is being pushed back constantly
- This is inexcusable, because medical research changes so quickly

Read Peter's links
- talk to him about our position/plan for Universities
Find out the policies on your campus, update the core/wiki (section coming soon) on what the situation's like at your university
- Develop stratiegies in response