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Download or read book Canadian Scholarly Publishing Working Group written by and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born-Digital Scholarly Forms • Increase the capacity of research libraries and interested publishers to support digital scholarship projects, including the critical issue of long-term preservation; • Sharing of expertise across institutions and projects to improve support for digital scholarship projects; • Increased connection of researchers with the storage and preservation infrastructure of the [...] JULY 2017 2 Introduction The Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL) convened the multi- stakeholder Canadian Scholarly Publishing Working Group (CSPWG) in July 2016 to establish a shared vision, principles and goals that will act as a framework for advanced, robust, sustainable, collaborative models for the Canadian dissemination of the scholarly record. [...] Strengths of the Current System • A variety of strong players including established publishers, libraries, funders, and supporting societies • The will to collaborate and experiment with new models, as evidenced by the CRKN-Érudit partnership, the CRKN-ACUP monograph purchasing model, the 4 Ibid CANADIAN SCHOLARLY PUBLISHING WORKING GROUP. [...] The importance of a full-cost accounting approach, and the value of supporting the viability of a hybrid market-based/publicly-funded scholarly publishing infrastructure have also been raised in the working group discussions. [...] The goals were to establish an OA (open access) support fund for journals already in open access; to reallocate the subscription funds of commercialized journals to support their publishing activities during the transition to OA; lower the moving-wall from 24 to 12 months in 2017, in accordance with Tri-Agency policy on open access; and to further develop the model and find ways to sustainably con.