Serials Interest Group for Academic Libraries in Oklahoma (SIGALO)
And Oklahoma Union List of Serials (OKULS)
Joint Spring 2004 Meeting
Oklahoma Christian University, Judd Theater
May 14, 2004

Michael Kim, the Program Committee chair, called the meeting to order at 10:55, and there were round-table introductions.

The minutes of the Nov. 7, 2003 meeting were approved without correction.

Michael submitted a report on the Fall 2003 meeting to Oklahoma Librarian, which will be published in the Nov./Dec. issue. He also mentioned that he spoke at the OLA Interlibrary Cooperation Committee meeting about SIGALO.

We will meet next at Rogers State University at Claremore (15 minutes outside of Tulsa).

Michael outlined the 3 options for holding the workshop:

1-day (inexpensive but over quickly). We are lucky to have one of our members, Adriana Edwards-Johnson, as an LC trainer in-state. She could conduct a 1-day workshop alone.

2-day workshop with 2 instructors, Adri and one other, who would be from out of state

2-day workshop (meeting 1 day this fall and another day next spring).

Option C was decided on by the members because it gives 2 days to cover the material, but doesn’t require a second instructor.

LDR updating

Contract negotiations for e-journals

CONSER guidelines update

Catalog records purchased from vendors, such as EBSCO, Serials Solutions, Gold Rush, etc., and how they have affected catalogs

Dana mentioned that she keeps a membership list for SIGALO, so the Program Committee can get the mailing ist from her. The flyers for this meeting were sent out by Trans-Amigo Express.

Listserv

The SIGALO listserv will be dissolved, as it is not being used. The Program Committee will send a letter of thanks to OKU for hosting the listserv.

Archives

Judy Wilkerson suggested that we need a new home for the SIGALO archives, but the issue was not resolved.

Program Committee

Nancy Jurney, Michael Kim, and Beverly Dowdy are retiring from the Program Committee, with SIGALO’s thanks. Louisa Payne and Michele Seikel will remain, and incoming members are Doug and Adriana Edwards-Johnson and Elaine Bradshaw. Louisa Payne will be the new Program Chair.

Statewide Databases – Carol Fox, ODL

The consortium sharing the statewide databases in Digital Prairie includes 1500 Oklahoma libraries, and the only requirement is Internet access. A committee selects the databases. Committee membership is determined by OCALD and ODL, and ODL appoints the chair. Carol Fox currently coordinates the selection process. She said that our statewide licensing is very desirable to vendors, so it’s a competitive process. The databases include general periodicals, Kid’s Edition, and Electric Library for children. Currently EBSCO has the contract for periodicals and OCLC for the union catalog, which allows ODL to offer WorldCat. But the FirstSearch package is no longer available, so each member must negotiate separately for it. The EBSCO package will be good for 5 years, but the children’s titles go to bid in 2004. ODL has lost many positions to retirement recently. ODL wants to conduct more training, though, and plans EBSCO training with academic libraries in the state. She asked members to contact her with their training needs. ODL hopes to have a product that indexes Books in Print in place by September, but Books in Print will be available through the summer, until Sept. 30, 2004.

Open Access- Judy Wilkerson, OU Health Sciences Center

Judy Wilkerson discussed the rising difficulties with the cost model of academic publishing, and the differences with the open access concept. Authors have to pay by the page to publish in commercially published journals, and still don’t own their own copyrights. Then, their university libraries have to pay again for access to information which was generated on their own campuses. But in the open access model, authors can copyright their own works and retain their rights. Journal subscriptions are not for profit and so can cost much less. A third option would be creative commons licensing, which allows others to copy, distribute, etc., with attribution to the author. Fair use would not be affected.

The major plays in open access:

Public Library of Science

BioMed Central

PubMed Central

University of Lund

The movement has sprung up very rapidly in response to the heavy profiteering of Elsevier and Kluwer, which are dictating subscription terms that are increasingly prohibitive to research libraries. Librarians should promote open access and prepare for the advent of digital archives.

Respectfully submitted by Michele Seikel, OSU Libraries

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