Working Group
SERU Working Group Charge
The Shared E-Resource Understanding (SERU) Working Group is charged with developing Recommended Practices to be used to support a new mechanism for publishers to sell e-resources without licenses if they feel their perception of risk has been adequately addressed by current law and developing norms of behavior.
The document will be an expression of a set of shared understandings of publisher and library expectations regarding the sale of an electronic resource subscription. Negotiation between publisher perspectives and library perspectives will be needed to develop a useful set of practices.
The working group will build on considerable work to identify key elements of a best practices document already begun during a one-day meeting sponsored by ARL, ALPSP, SSP, and SPARC. All of the participants in that scoping meeting expressed a strong desire to continue to work on this project and form the proposed working group to develop best practices.
Working Group Members
- Cochairs
- Karla Hahn, Association of Research Libraries
- Judy Luther, Informed Strategies
- Members
- Ivy Anderson, California Digital Library
- Linda Beebe, American Psychological Association
- Fiona Bennett, Oxford University Press
- Clinton Chamberlain, University of Texas Libraries
- Deborah Gerhardt, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill Libraries
- Karla Hahn, Association of Research Libraries (Co-Chair)
- Heather Joseph, Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition
- Selden Lamoureux, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill Libraries
- Judy Luther, Informed Strategies (Co-Chair)
- Christine Martire, PALINET
- Robert Oakley, Georgetown University Law Center
- Oliver Pesch, EBSCO Information Services
- Zachary Rolnik, Now Publishers, Inc.
- Kimberly Steinle, Duke University Press
Working Documents
- Trial Use Document:
SERU version 0.9
- FAQ on the SERU
Framework
Redrafted 6.20.07 to correspond to Working Group Draft Recommended Practice for Trial Use (SERU version 0.9) entitled, "SERU: A Shared Electronic Resource Understanding."
Also available as PDF
Previous Versions
- SERU Framework --
Version 0.3
- FAQ on the SERU
Framework
Drafted 3.12.07 to correspond to Public Draft Version 0.3 of the framework document entitled, "The SERU Approach to E-Resource Subscriptions."
Please direct comments and suggestions to Judy Luther (judy.luther@informedstrategies.com) or Karla Hahn (karla@arl.org), the working group co-chairs, or any other member of the working group.
Minutes- Minutes, SERU WG Meeting, teleconference, March 1, 2007
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Working calls (editing document & addressing feedback received during
the comment period)
- April 27, 2007
- May 1, 2007
- May 11, 2007