Archive:2005-01-26

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

Overall Organization

Need to work on basic infrastructure

• Essential to
  • Recruiting
  • Keeping the group together
• Let's use Basecamp and work at meeting due dates again

Open Access

• 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

Important Organizations

• 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

Action

• 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 strategies in response

Fliers

• For editing (require changes to use on campus, layers)
  • GIMP, Photoshop
• For non-editing (ready to use, no layers needed)
  • PDF for printing
• For browser viewing
  • PNG
• Provide fliers in both formats whenever possible, so that you can "plug and play" general fliers, or customize for your needs
  • Fliers will be converted to new formats by next Wednesday, Feb. 2

Text Documents

• Just text
  • RTF
  • ASCII
• With Images
  • Open Office, Word

Merchandise

On the back burner at the moment...