SERU Working Group
The Shared E-Resource Understanding (SERU) Working Group was originally 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 is 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 built 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.
The working group was disbanded upon the publication of the Recommended Practice (SERU: A Shared Electronic Resource Understanding, NISO RP-7-2008); following that, a standing committee to deal with issues of maintenance and outreach was created. This group became inactive in 2009.
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."
Minutes
- Minutes, SERU WG Meeting, teleconference, March 1, 2007
- Working calls (editing document & addressing feedback received during the comment period)
- April 27, 2007
- May 1, 2007
- May 11, 2007