The Content Strategy Committee met via teleconference on September 20, 2017. The CSC discussed 2017 license renewals and various other projects.
Attendees: Todd Mundle, Gabrielle Prefontaine, Stéphanie Gagnon, Tanja Harrison, Louis Houle, Pamela Jacobs, Denise Koufogiannakis, Lisa Petrachenko, Harriet Rykse and Weijing Yuan.
Director’s Report
A written management report was shared with the committee and included an update on recent developments at CRKN. Notable items included information about: the appointment of G. Booth-Morrison as ORCID-CA Member Support Specialist, the exploration of a combination of CRKN and Canadiana, progress made on adding collections to CNDHI, an update on the national data of the Journal Usage Project (JUP), the distribution of the Journal Value Analytics (JVA) and an update on the Trusted Digital Repository Task Group’s (TDRTG) work.
2017 License Renewals – Phase I
The committee discussed the negotiation meetings as well as next steps for the following licenses:
- Elsevier ScienceDirect
- SAGE Premier All-Access
- Wiley-Blackwell Online Database
2017 License Renewals – Phase II
The committee received updates on the following license renewals:
- Canadiana ECO
- Canadian Science Publishing
- JSTOR & ARTstor
- Economist Intelligence Unit
2017 License Renewals – Phase III
The committee received updates on the status of the following license renewals:
- Gale ECCO
2016-2017 License Renewals
The committee received updates on the status of the following license renewals:
- CAIRN
- ProQuest/ASP
- Gibson CPC
IOP Release 4 e-books
An update on the IOP agreement was shared with the committee
Serials Management Sub-Committee (SMSC) – Nominations
Committee members reviewed nominations received for the SMSC and appointed C. Blais, C. Bremer, and R. Shannon to the sub-committee. P. Pang was appointed as chair.
License Transition Task Group (LTTG)
An update on the report outline, the work plan of the task group and an outline of their AGM presentation was shared with the CSC.