Facilitated by Jisc
The adoption of equity indicators as part of negotiations for open access agreements will support a transition from volume/article-based models towards more financially sustainable and equitable scholarly communication arrangements.
The group will define the equity indicators and how they are applied and implemented, including learning from/sharing experiences with international peer organisations. Group members will also scrutinise publisher proposals for non-volume/article-based models.
Through this activity the group will refine proposals, identify best in class exemplar agreements and monitor publishers unable to commit to a non-volume/article-based model immediately.
Members
- Nick Woolley, director of library services, Sheffield Hallam University (co-chair)
- Sandra Bracegirdle, associate director: collection strategies, University of Manchester
- Yvonne Budden, head of scholarly communications, University of Warwick
- John Dalling, head of collections, University of Wales, Trinity St David
- Stephen Grace, deputy head of LLR (Library and Learning Resources): Library systems and content discovery, London South Bank University
- Beth Montague-Hellen, head of Library and Information Services, The Francis Crick Institute
- Josh Sendall, deputy university librarian, University of Leeds
- Sarah Thompson, head of collections services, University of York
- Benjamin Veasey, university librarian, University of Derby
- Dr Steven Vidovic, open research development manager, University of Southampton
- Hannah Whaley, university librarian and director of library, academic and cultural services
Membership information
The combined membership of the group will be representative of all UK universities and the diversity of size, income, approaches, ambitions, strategies, students, researchers and staff etc contained within those institutions. The membership should have wide geographical coverage.
Memberships of other Jisc groups will be taken into account when selecting institutions to reasonably avoid duplication of individuals and institutions. Exceptions to this approach include where chairs of the expert level groups should sit on the linked strategy group and members providing a link between expert level groups.
There will be up to 13 representative members from HE institutions. Members will be library directors, associate library directors and senior leads with expertise in collections and/or open research.
This number will include the role of chair or co-chairs.
The combined membership of the group will be representative of all UK universities and the diversity of size, income, approaches, ambitions, strategies, students, researchers and staff etc contained within those institutions. The membership should have wide geographical coverage.
Memberships of other Jisc groups will be taken into account when selecting institutions to reasonably avoid duplication of individuals and institutions. Exceptions to this approach include where chairs of the expert level groups should sit on the linked strategy group and members providing a link between expert level groups.
There will be up to 13 representative members from HE institutions. Members will be library directors, associate library directors and senior leads with expertise in collections and/or open research.
This number will include the role of chair or co-chairs.