SERU Presentations
Interested in having someone speak on SERU at your meeting? Please contact the working group chairs.
April 7-9, 2008
UKSG Annual Conference and Exhibition
Torquay, England
Licensing or Partnerships - Exploring Evolving Provider Models and Relationships in E-Resources
Judy Luther, Informed Strategies (Co-Chair, SERU) and David Parkes, Head of Learning Support, Stafforshire University
The current process of licensing does not scale well for many smaller web based products and new models are emerging. For example, the National Information Standards Organization (NISO) has supported development of a new initiative, the Shared E-Resources Understanding (SERU) http://www.niso.org/workrooms/seru/ which offers both the publisher and the library the option of by passing the written contract when both feel comfortable without the need for a signed license. How does it affect publishers? What does it mean for libraries? Could this work in the UK? When and how might this approach be applied? Participants will be asked to adopt librarian, publisher and end user roles to think this through from each other's perspective
November 7-10, 2007
Charleston Conference 2007
Charleston, SC
NISO's Shared E-Resource Understanding (SERU) Project
The first draft of NISO's SERU was released in March 2007. The framework offers publishers and libraries a solution to licensing. Todd Carpenter, a publisher, and a librarian will discuss SERU together in this concurrent session.
June 24, 2007 (ALA Annual)
Serials Standards Update Forum (ALCTS)
10:30 a.m.-12 noon, JW Marriott, Salon II
- Judy Luther and Karla Hahn: NISO's Shared Resource Understanding (SERU)
- Oliver Pesch: NISO's Standardized Usage Statistics Harvesting Initiative (SUSHI)
- Nathan Robertson: NISO's License Expression Working Group
June 15, 2007
Making Sense of the Standards Menu: Sushi, Counter,
and SERU
Bibliographical Center for Research (BCR) Free Friday Forum
Friday, June 8, 2007
Society
for Scholarly Publishing 29th Annual Meeting
San Francisco, CA
10:45 a.m. to 12:15 p.m.
The New Next Things: A Round-up of Industry Initiatives
Karla Hahn, ARL
Come and hear the latest about several projects and initiatives that will impact different aspects of scholarly publishing and may affect you directly. Shibboleth. TRANSFER. Stix Fonts. "Best Practices" Licensing fore-Resources. New registries for institutional and author identifiers. This fast-paced panel is designed to bring you up to speed quickly. Each speaker addresses three questions: What is it? What's the status? Why does it matter to you? Presentations will be brief and to the point, so you have plenty of time for questions and discussion.
Sunday, June 3, 2007
NASIG 22nd Annual Conference
Louisville, KY
11:15 a.m.-12:00 p.m., Tactics Sessions, Group B
Alternatives to Licensing of E-Resources
Zachary Rolnik, Now Publishers
While license agreements are appropriate for consortia or expensive products, they can be impractical for the long tail of scholarly publishing where the growing number of transactions is burdensome for libraries and expensive for smaller publishers. The question becomes how to enable the sale of electronic content without requiring a signed license agreement? There was consensus that in many cases a best practice alternative could be useful. The goal for librarians and publishers is to have a publicly available option that allows them to place purchase orders for electronic resources without the burden of processing license agreements.