Agenda

1st Meeting of Southern European Libraries' Consortia October 14, 2001 University of Macedonia Thessaloniki, Greece

10:00 - 12:30 Informal country reports
12:30 - 13:00 Define possible areas for cooperation
13:00 - 13:30 Discussion for adoption of a version of the statement of the Consortium of Academic Libraries of Catalonia "Why some libraries and consortia pay too much for e-information"
13:30 - 15:00 Lunch break (click here for a picture)
15:00 - 15:30 Examine possibilities for common negotiations/common action on VAT for e-sources
15:30 - 16:00 Examine possibilities for cooperation on technical issues/archiving
16:30 - 17:00 Electronic only: can we adopt a common strategy?
17:00 - 17:30 Next steps--Future meetings--Communication Set up a site for our initiative? Publicize?

 

The following represents the action decisions made at our first SELL meeting.
 
Decisions

  • The Statement document will be considered by all and comments sent to Nuria who will then revise and send to Claudine for posting on SELL web site; consortia will then endorse in principle as they choose

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  • Claudine will arrange to have a SELL web site constructed

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  • Malta, France and Turkey will be invited to the next SELL meeting

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  • SELL meetings will be held twice a year; once at European ICOLC (a dinner meeting) and a full one day meeting in a member country in May a. Next meeting will be in Barcelona in May; Nuria will arrange and establish a date

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  • Tommaso will gather information on the VAT for electronic materials and circulate to SELL members; ultimately it may be sent to the appropriate EU authorities

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  • Future issues:

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    • Development of portals

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    • Preservation/encouragement of locally produced academic products (e.g. journals in national languages) that do not have wide international markets

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    • Developing a possible SELL contract for netLibrary e-books; Nuria will take the lead in exploring the possibilities of a SELL contract i. (Note: netLibrary has recently run out of money, is near bankruptcy and has put itself up for sale)

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    • Developing a solution for permanent archiving of e-materials

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    • Elsevier bookkeeping and billing competence needs to be improved

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    • Elsevier title change problems need to be addressed

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    • The issue of cover to cover content in e-journals

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    • The issue of missing content (issues) in e-journals

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    • The issue of the price model being based on use (more you use the more you pay is a problem)

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    • Contract should specify that litigation takes place in the country of the purchaser

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