FW: Call for participants: "Move It Forward" OA transitions workshop for publishers
Holland, Claudia
Is anyone affiliated with OSI applying to participate in this workshop?
Claudia Holland
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Subject: Re: Call for participants: "Move It Forward" OA transitions workshop for publishers
From: Michael Wolfe <mrw...@ucdavis.edu>
Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2018 11:19:51 -0700
Dear All,
A quick update on the Move It Forward project: we have a very compelling group of prospective participants and will be closing applications on April 23. Please do encourage any looking to apply to do so soon (details are here), and we'll look forward to reporting back publicly on our outcomes after we convene this June.
All the best,
Mike
On Tue, Mar 20, 2018 at 10:45 AM, Michael Wolfe <mrw...@ucdavis.edu> wrote:
UC Davis Library, with the support of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, invites applications to participate in a "Move-It-Forward" workshop focused on exploring and vetting publisher models for transitioning existing scholarly journals to open access. Following a competitive review process, we anticipate hosting up to 25 interested representatives from publishers of scholarly journals for a one-and- a-half day workshop and discussion to take place June 21–22 in Oakland, California. Workshop participants will provide brief presentations on past, present, and theorized approaches, and the group will work to identify the most promising and transformative methods, as well as their roadblocks and prerequisites. Subsequent to the workshop, we plan to explore and, where possible, operationalize discussed plans and models.
Publishers interested in attending the event (entitled "Move-It-Forward", as a nod to its predecessor project, "Pay-It-Forward"), will:
- Presently publish (or, through a third-party vendor, have published) one or more scholarly journals;
- Have a demonstrable interest in, or be in the process of, transitioning some or all of their existing titles to open access models; and
- Be ready to discuss the merits, difficulties, and prerequisites of their approach candidly.
- Note that do not want to cabin this engagement to any one model, and are particularly interested in exploring a variety of approaches. Accordingly, we are seeking to convene a range of publishers with a diverse range of business models, subject foci, and portfolio sizes.
We anticipate publishers will benefit from the meeting in several ways, notably by gaining better insight into how peer organizations are approaching the open access transition process; by exchanging experiences and lessons learned to date; by discussing concerns and interests that have surfaced among key stakeholders; and by establishing a "community of practice" around this issue.
Limited funding is available to facilitate the participation of applicants whose attendance is contingent on support. The project team will send out preliminary invitations for all approved applications by mid-April. Please contact Michael Wolfe, Scholarly Communications Officer, at mrw...@ucdavis.edu with any questions.
Please complete your application here.
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Michael Wolfe
Scholarly Communications Officer | UC Davis Library
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