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

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
• Claudine will arrange to have a SELL web site constructed
• Malta, France and Turkey will be invited to the next SELL meeting
• 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
• 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
• Future issues:
• Development of portals
• Preservation/encouragement of locally produced academic products (e.g. journals in national languages) that do not have wide international markets
• 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)
• Developing a solution for permanent archiving of e-materials
• Elsevier bookkeeping and billing competence needs to be improved
• Elsevier title change problems need to be addressed
• The issue of cover to cover content in e-journals
• The issue of missing content (issues) in e-journals
• The issue of the price model being based on use (more you use the more you pay is a problem)
• Contract should specify that litigation takes place in the country of the purchaser

The following represents the action decisions made at our 2nd SELL meeting.Minutes

• Anglada statement: Last year’s SELL decision to endorse CBUC’s statement “Why Some Libraries and Consortia Are Paying too Much for E-Information” was reaffirmed and it will be mounted on the SELL website. The official version will be provided in English along with the SELL consortial endorsements as they are received by Dervos. (Please send endorsements to Claudine at: dervou@ physics.auth.gr) Translations of the statement into each SELL native language will also be mounted. (These too should be sent to Claudine)

• VAT: The discussion of VAT on electronic products was actively discussed. The group decided to pursue three initiatives regarding VAT:
  • Statement: Dervos and Gargiulo agreed to draft a statement on behalf of SELL generally addressing the following issues: VAT on academic electronic products should not be more than on academic print materials (for most SELL counties VAT on electronic products is 4-5 times that on print products); academic electronic products are substantially different from entertainment electronic products; an attempt should be made to harmonize the SELL statement with the VAT statement of the Frankfurt group to increase impact. A draft will be sent to SELL delegates for their review and comment; any “no response” by the indicated deadline will be treated as agreement.
  • Liaison with Publishers: There was a general feeling that academic publishers would make good allies in bringing the VAT on electronic products into line with that on print products. The statement will be framed to remain open to this possibility and SELL members will generally explore this possibility as opportunity allows.
  • Lobbying/Political Action: There was a general feeling that SELL should not confine itself to only a statement, but also explore routes to possible action. Karasozen will investigate involvement of faculty, particularly math and science faculty; Santos will explore action at the ministry level; and all SELL members will, as opportunity allows, seek to identify their country EU representatives and bring the statement to their attention once it is drafted and agreed upon.

• EU Copyright Directive: Marandola alerted the SELL delegates to the upcoming country ratification of the EU copyright law. He pointed out that the critical issue was the list of 9 exceptions which provided important modifications to the law for such institutions as libraries and schools. These important exceptions are not automatically included in the copyright law being ratified in each country so consortia will want to check on the status of these exceptions for their individual countries. Marco will send out an email to the SELL members with the basic EU copyright directive (or the link to the directive) and has agreed to serve as informal consultant to any SELL delegate who have questions concerning the directive.

• Southern European Academic Content: There was general interest and discussion of how to make southern European academic materials, e.g. nationally published journals, theses and dissertations in national languages, more widely available. Anglada provided a demonstration of Spain’s involvement in the NLDTD (www.tdcat.cbuc.es) project and encouraged other consortia to consider participation. Dervos raised the idea of providing the associated metadata in English to facilitate cross language searching. Providing wider access to nationally produced journals is more complicated but will remain a SELL topic of future interest and discussion.

• Oxford Reference Online (Oxford U. Press): Dervos made a presentation of the ORO product in place of Susan Lob who encountered travel difficulties and could not attend the SELL meeting. Claudine pointed out that ORO is a good general product with wide international appeal, including a wide range of content and language databases. She will distribute a password which SELL delegates (only) may use in June to investigate the ORO product. If a specific consortium is interested in wider review and investigation, the SELL delegate should contact Claudine and she will make the necessary arrangements. Delegates generally felt that this broader local review would probably make more sense after students and faculty return to school in the fall.
  The licensing arrangement would include unlimited access and its cost would be price sensitive, i.e. the bigger the contracting group the better the deal price-wise. The group agreed that Claudine would be the single negotiator with the active advice of a SELL advisory committee. This would consist of: Azucena, Karasozen, Gargiulo, Alvarez, and Lemos.
  Since no real multi-national deals have yet been done, there was some feeling that if an attractive deal could be put on the table, it would be very nice for SELL to be the first to announce a multi-national deal.

• Math/Sci Net: Karasozen brought to the group’s attention that Math/Sci Net might also be a product of general interest. He agreed to be the single negotiator for this product and will have the same advisory committee as Claudine.

• eICOLC Report: Dervos reviewed the agenda for the upcoming eICOLC meeting in Thessalonica, October 3-5 and encouraged all SELL delegates to attend. Since many SELL delegates will likely attend, there are plans to once again have an informal SELL meeting at the conference, perhaps a lunch or dinner. Further information will be sent out as conference plans are finalized.

• Next SELL Meeting: Karasozen invited SELL delegates to hold their next meeting in Ankara, Turkey. The invitation was universally and enthusiastically accepted. The meeting will be held on June 8 (Sunday) with an invitation to a tour of Cappadocia on the preceding day (Saturday) for those SELL delegates so interested. The sense of the group was that for the present, membership would be limited to the countries represented at Barcelona. More information will be forthcoming; check the SELL website.
  The meeting adjourned at 5:30pm with general complements to Lluis and Nuria for arranging a well-organized and productive meeting in a truly beautiful location.

Participants

• Greece:
  Claudine Dervos (HEAL-Link)
• Italy:
  Eduardo Lasser Alvarez (CIBER)
  Paola Gargiulo (CASPUR)
  R. Marco Marandola (licensing expert)
• Portugal:
  Rosario Costa (OCT)
  Laura Lemos (Universidade de Aveiro)
  Rui Santos (OCT)
• Spain:
  Azucena Blanco (Madrono)
  Miguel Duarte (CBUA)
  Victoria Millor (CBUG)
  Felix de Moya (CBUA)
  Lluis Anglada (CBUC)
  Nuria Comellas (CBUC)
• Turkey:
  Bulent Karasozen (ANKOS)
• ICOLC:
  David Kohl (Ohio Link)

Agenda

3rd Meeting of Southern European Libraries’ Consortia June 8, 2003 Cappadocia, Turkey

The following outlines the discussions held during the 3rd SELL meeting.

Minutes

• • • Country reports were presented by participants at the beginning of the meeting.
    • MathSciNet Consortium for SELL Countries: There was a general feeling that consortial pricing should be according to mathematical activity. There is no competitor for MSN. Countries could cooperate in negotiating with MSN. Each participant is going to talk with his/her own university and consortiumabout joining a SELL MSN consortium. There is an MSN consortium in Italy, and Paola suggested that we negotiate for the same conditions for all SELL members but not try to make a single contract. We should think about trying to get some support from the EU for a SELL MSN consortium.
    • ALPSP: The ALPSP Learned Journals Collection was presented by Sitki Aktas of Swets Blackwell. The ALPSP, The Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (www.alpsp.org), that represents not-for-profit publishers, has several hundred members. These are small publishers with few titles, who are not included in the “Big Deals”, and especially those publishing in languages other than English. The Association runs seminars and training programmes for members. It tries to minimise the squeeze factor by creating a cross-publisher collection among ALPSP members and making content available through a single channel. Swets Blackwell signed a Memorandum of Understanding with ALPSP in April. The role of Swets Blackwell is to develop the collection by signing up publishers, representing participating publishers in negotiating sales to consortia and libraries. Also, Swets Blackwell will collect fees and process orders from clients. It’s like a one-stop shop for both ALPSP and libraries. Swets Blackwell’s agreement with ALPSP is for three years. Swets Blackwell’s intention is to have a final list of publishers participating and their titles by 31 July 2003. Depending on levels of participation, two subject packages, Medical and Life Sciences and Science and Technology, are contemplated. Their aim is to present the packages and pricing at this year’s ICOLC and E-ICOLC meetings. There was a general feeling that the ALPSP deal will be very useful for libraries since it is difficult for libraries to handle large numbers of individual subscriptions.
    • Decisions and Next SELL Meeting: There was general interest in the question of how to put all databases and institutions on the SELL web site. It was thought that we should prepare a matrix that shows them. We should also prepare a report about activities of the members and differences between them. A decision needs to be made on the structure for such a report, and it was suggested that Tommaso Giordano from Italy be requested to write an article about SELL activities. The next SELL meeting will be held in Italy. More information will be forthcoming so members are requested to check the SELL website.

Participants

• • Greece:
    Claudine Dervos (HEAL-Link)
  • Italy:
    Paola Gargiulo (CASPUR)
  • Portugal:
    António Bob Santos (Presidency of Council of Ministers – Innovation & Knowledge Society Unit)
    Alexandra Vilela (Presidency of Council of Ministers – Innovation & Knowledge Society Unit)
  • Spain:
    Lluis Anglada (CBUC)
  • Turkey:
    Phyllis Erdogan (ANKOS)
    Bulent Karasozen (ANKOS)

Agenda

4th Meeting of Southern European Libraries’ Consortia, May 14, 2004 Universita di Napoli Parthenope, Villa Doria D’Angri, Via Petrarca 80, Naples, Italy

The following outlines the discussions held during the 4th SELL meeting.

Minutes

• • • The meeting began, as usual, with country reports of consortial developments. Overall, consortia in the southern European Mediterranean area continue to progress and are undertaking a wide range of new initiatives. Particular issues mentioned, include:
      1. Frustration in dealing with Elsevier’s attempts at imposing new charges on consortia during renewal contract negotiations (Greece)
      2. Difficulty in adopting DSpace software to respond to Spanish diacritics (Spain)
      3. Continuing concerns with VAT and its strong negative impact on consortial ability to move to all digital resources (all countries)
      4. Complications in coordinating regional consortia to move toward a national agenda such as national contract negotiations and negotiating principles (Italy, Spain)
      5. Attempts to develop national repositories for national language materials (Italy, Spain, Greece, Turkey)
    • Discussion of Open Access: Karasozen made an informative and balanced presentation on the subject and a lively discussion ensued. Basically, Karasozen reported that there is a lot of experimentation going on in terms of business and distribution models but that so far no clear and convincing model has yet emerged. As a related supplemental report, Kohl reported that at the spring ICOLC 2004, the American Physical Society announced that they had decided to pass on the cost savings to libraries of a favorable printing contract in the form of a 5% reduction in subscription prices, that the American Medical Association announced that they would be experimenting with making their lead journal, the Journal of the American Medical Society, into an open access journal, and that BioOne (a SPARC initiative of biological society journals) announced that they would reluctantly be imposing a 9% increase in subscription costs this year.A spirited and lengthy discussion ensued with, among other, the following points emerging:
      1. commercial publishers need competition to keep their prices in line
      2. individual faculty and scholarly societies are only providing ambivalent and uncertain support for OA and in some cases are actively on record as opposing it
      3. an interesting group of tools is emerging which support OA, including DSpace and Google searches of the deep web (academic repository holdings)
      4. concern about library/university ability and commitment to manage support of scholarly communication in a cost effective and long term manner
      5. different academic disciplines have different needs and concerns for scholarly communication and its mechanisms
      6. the OA business models should be so designed as to not exclude developing countries from submitting research

      There was general agreement that OA developments should continue to be monitored by all present.

    • Open discussion: Due to the shortness of time, a number of the agenda items were telescoped into the OA discussion.
    • Fall ICOLC: Anglada reported on preparations and the agenda for the Barcelona ICOLC this fall. General comments and observations were made, but in general, things seemed well in hand. The registration web site is now up and ready for business.
    • Elsevier Presentation: The Elsevier representative (Luca Carpi de Resmini) presented the new pricing model and comments on Open Access. Vigorous discussion followed. Great concerns were expressed about new charges, particularly those for perpetual access if a contract were discontinued as well as those proposed charges for titles which consortial members had not traditionally subscribed to in the past. Concern was also expressed about what appeared to be arbitrary banding of universities by size. The responses by the representative were not considered satisfactory. The presentation of OA issues (as viewed by Elsevier) was likewise considered unsatisfactory and not particularly enlightening or helpful.
    • Concluding discussion: A number of action items were agreed on:
      1. All country reports would be sent to Dervou for mounting on the SELL website
      2. The site of the next SELL meeting will be determined by Fernandes and Dervou and announced to the group in a month or two. Portugal will host the next meeting if, after internal discussion, they feel they are ready to do so, otherwise the next SELL meeting will he held in Greece
      3. A letter of concern about the new Elsevier pricing model will be drafted by Karasozen and reviewed by Dervou, after which it will be submitted to the group for their consideration and comments. Upon general approval it will be sent to the appropriate Elsevier representatives.
      4. The group will experiment with an occasional newsletter to allow SELL members and their libraries to keep up to date on useful developments of consortial interest between meetings. News items, information on useful resources, publications, etc…should be sent to Dervou who will organize them and distribute them as an e-newsletter to SELL members.
      5. The group approved the idea of experimenting with an annual SELL workshop on issues of importance to the group. It will draw on SELL members (as well as outside experts) for presentations and expertise. There will also be an attempt to have publishers and vendors provide scholarships for as many of the attendees as possible. If so desired, it may be possible and useful to repeat successful workshops as well in specific countries as the most cost-effective way to make useful information and skills available beyond the annual presentation of the workshop. Dervou will undertake to arrange the first such SELL workshop for spring, 2005 and will call upon SELL members for help with presentations as necessary.

Participants

• • • Greece:
      Claudine Dervos (HEAL-Link)
    • Italy:
      Paola Gargiulo
      Antonio Fantoni (Coordinator of CIBER)
      Eduardo Lasser
      Rosa Maiello (Universita di Napoli Parthenope)
      Marta Plebani (CILEA)
      Eleonora Rodi (CILEA)
    • Spain:
      Lluis Anglada (CBUC)
    • Turkey:
      Bulent Karasozen (ANKOS)
    • Portugal:
      Jose Fernandes (Presidency of Council of Ministers – Innovation & Knowledge Society Unit)
    • USA:
      David Kohl (Ohio Link)

Agenda

5th Meeting of Southern European Libraries’ Consortia, June 17, 2005 at FCCN, Avenida do Brasil n.101, Lisboa, Portugal

The following outlines the discussions held during the 5th SELL meeting.
Minutes

• • • Country reports were presented and will be mounted on the SELL website
    • ICOLC report
      Fernandes, Moreira and Kohl gave a brief report on key ICOLC issues. There was difficulty in remembering the report from Japan on the size and extent of their consortial deals. Checking the records that information is as follows: Japan does national deals which presently total $300 million (to foreign publishers alone) and involve some 1,000 colleges and universities, including some 200 research universities. For this amount of money they receive the equivalent of between 100,000-350,000 journals (counting electronic duplicates).
    • E-books
      • Paola raised the question of e-book use and usability in SELL consortia
      • There seemed to be some use in Italy and Portugal of medical texts; a small experiment in Greece seemed to indicate little use of e-books
      • Spain has contracts with 4 publishers (about 4,000 books) but thinks that the problem with low e-book use is the financial model, but that their usage is still worth it
      • There seems to be a problem with not enough e-books in translations (particularly in languages spoken by few people, e.g. Greece, Portugal with a small potential market)
      • The popularity of e-books may improve when they are more searchable
      • Most e-books presently have to be used while connected to a library site; little use of downloading is made or even available
    • Administrivia
      Paola talked about what CIBER is doing to have better communication between the consortia and the libraries; mostly online site which librarians go to; plans for a newsletter and ultimately a plan to push digital material to members.
      The CIBER site allows member libraries to update IP ranges, find out about contracted publisher holdings, potential costs of new resources, threaded discussion of topics, automated deadline prompts, etc.
    • Institutional Repositories/Open Access
      • Spirited discussion of the role of librarians in this still developing but important area
      • General sentiments were expressed about the importance of providing a library mechanism for publication of scholarly research (articles, theses/dissertations, etc…),i.e. digital repositories
      • General sentiments were also expressed that digital repositories need to be more than publishers of faculty articles, e.g. support of digital resources for teaching, for research, digitization of local collections, etc…; areas where librarians have more possibility for control than the scholarly publishing environment
      • Italy made a brief presentation of PLEIADI as an example of a digital repository (“a portal solution to scholarly literature”) (this presentation will be mounted on SELL website)
    • Content Complete presentation by Paul Harwood
      A most interesting presentation was made. Contents Complete clearly represents a useful option for smaller consortia with no professional staff to undertake the complex and time consuming operation of negotiating contracts. The presentation will be mounted on the SELL website
    • Misc
      • Adding Israel to the consortium
      • The issue was discussed in some depth but ultimately the consensus was to hold off on inviting them to join SELL. Instead, Italy will partner with them on specific projects.
      • Petition regarding cartel concerns to Brussels
      • This issue was discussed and it was felt to be premature at this time.
      • Encouragement for Italy to volunteer for ICOLC in 2006
      • Italy will take this under consideration.
      • Increasing SELL meeting to a day and a halfThere was considerable discussion of this topic as time was running out and various individuals began to leave. There was strong consensus that it would be a good idea but equal concern that it should not require more time away from the office than present. Since most of the people have to come in the day before anyway, there was some thought that the country reports could be handled in a brief afternoon or evening meeting the day before the full day session.
      • Scheduling the next SELL meeting (Greece) on an island
        Claudine said she would investigate possibilities
      • Paola will draft a statement on usage based pricing scheme which some publishers are proposing. The statement will cover Sell’s critical stand on the issue: usage based pricing does not facilitate the maximum circulation of information that is a main goal of library consortia, furthermore it is difficult to handle within a consortia.Usage based data is a useful parameter for consortia when taking decisions, usage based pricing is not acceptable as a contract model. It seemed to me that we agreed on it when were in Lisbon. I will work on the draft in the next few weeks.
    • Adjournment for dinner hosted by Paul Harwood
      A wonderful and colorful dinner in a local restaurant was arranged; many follow-up discussions were conducted among members; and a good time was had by all. Our deepest thanks to our host Paul Harwood and Contents Complete.

Participants

• • Greece
    Claudine Xenidou-Dervos  ( HEAL-link )
  • Italy
    Marta Plebani ( CILEA )
    Silvia Corbetta ( CILEA )
    Paola Gargiulo ( Caspur/Ciber )
    Antonio Fantoni ( Ciber )
  • Spain
    Luís Anglada ( CBUC )
  • Portugal
    Manuela Prates ( UNL/B-on Medicine School )
    Clara Macedo ( UP/B-on )
    Laura Lemos ( UA/B-on )
    Otília Lage ( IPP/B-on )
    Alfredo Ramalho ( BAD/B-on )
    Prof. José Fernandes ( B-on )
    Clara Costa Rosa ( B-on )
    João Moreira ( B-on )
    Rui Francisco ( B-on )
    Joana Pena ( B-on )
  • UK
    Paul Harwood ( Content Complete Limited )
  • USA
    Dr. David Kohl ( ICOLC )

Agenda

6th Meeting of Southern European Libraries’ Consortia, May 5-6, 2006 at Makedonia Palace Hotel, 2 M. Alexandrou Avenue, GR 54 640, Thessaloniki, Greece

Preliminary program:

The following outline the discussions held during the 6th SELL meeting.

• SELL minutes
• Comments of the SELL members on “Study on the Economic and Technical evaluation of the Scientific publication markets in Europe”
• Photographs 1, 2

Participants

• Greece
  Claudine Dervou ( HEAL-Link )
  Anna Fragkou ( HEAL-Link )
  Lia Ollandezou ( HEAL-Link )
  Popi Florou ( HEAL-Link )
  Leonidas Pispiriggas ( HEAL-Link )
• Italy
  Marta Plebani ( CILEA )
  Silvia Corbetta ( CILEA )
  Paola Gargiulo ( Caspur/Ciber )
  Antonio Fantoni ( Ciber )
  Eduardo Lasser Alvarez ( Caspur/Ciber )
• Turkey
  Bulent Karasozen (ANKOS)
• Portugal
  Prof. José Fernandes ( B-on )
• Spain
  Llus Anglada ( CBUC )
• USA
  Dr. David Kohl ( ICOLC )

Agenda

7th Meeting of Southern European Libraries’ Consortia (SELL), March 16-17, 2007 at Residencia de Estudiantes, Madrid

Organized by: CSIC and CBUC
Sponsored by: OCLC and Van de Bilt Sales & Marketing

Preliminary program:

The following outline the discussions held during the 7th SELL meeting.

• SELL Minutes
  
• Photographs
  • SELL Meeting 1, 2, 3 , 4, 5, 6
  • Restaurante La Favorita 1, 2, 3, 4
  • Restaurante Korea 1, 2
  • Old Madrid, guided tour in English 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

Participants

• Greece
  Claudine Xenidou-Dervou (HEAL-Link)
  Anna Fragkou (HEAL-Link)
• Spain
  Lluis Anglada (CBUC)
  Nuria Comellas (CBUC)
  Agnes Ponsanti (CSIC)
  Xose Regos Varela (BUGalicia)
  Barbara Gonzalez (BUGalicia)
  Cristina de la Pena (Consortio Madrono)
• Portugal
  Joao Moreira  (FCCN)
  Pedro Ferreira (UMIC-Knowledge Society Agency)
• Italy
  Marta Plebani (CILEA)
  Silvana Mangiaracina (NILDE Document Delivery)
• France
  Pierre Carbone (Couperin)
  Catherine Etienne (Couperin)
• USA
  David Kohl (ICOLC)

Agenda

• 8th Meeting of Southern European Libraries’ Consortia (SELL), May 30-31, 2008 at Sala Atti della Facolta’ di Scienze Politiche – Facolta di Scienze Politiche, University of Trieste – Italy
• Organized by: CILEA
• Sponsored by: Accucoms, Casalini and Swets

Preliminary program:

FRIDAY, May 30th

SATURDAY, May 31st

The following outline the discussions held during the 8th SELL meeting.

• SELL Minutes
  

Participants

• France
  Gregory Colcanap (Couperin)
  Catherine Etienne (Couperin)
• Greece
  Claudine Xenidou-Dervou (HEAL-Link)
  Anna Fragkou (HEAL-Link)
  Popi Florou (HEAL-Link)
• Italy
  Silvana Mangiaracina (NILDE Document Delivery)
  Mary Joan Crowley (Caspur/Ciber)
  Paola Gargiulo (Caspur/Ciber)
  Maurizio Florio (Caspur/Ciber)
  Antonio Balducci (CILEA)
  Manuela Sofia (CILEA)
  Agnese Perrone (CILEA)
• Portugal
  Teresa Costa  (FCCN)
• Spain
  Lluis Anglada (CBUC)
  Nuria Comellas (CBUC)
  Agnes Ponsati (CSIC)
• Turkey
  Ertugrul Cimen (ANKOS)
  Gultekin Gurdal (ANKOS)
• USA
  David Kohl (ICOLC)

Agenda

• 9th Meeting of Southern European Libraries’ Consortia (SELL), May 18-21, 2009 at Izmir Institute of Technology Library, Izmir, Turkey
• Organized by: ANKOS
• Sponsored by: Accucoms, ResearchSoftware.com and Springer

Preliminary program:

MONDAY, May 18th

TUESDAY, May 19th

The following outline the discussions held during the 9th SELL meeting.

• SELL Minutes
  

Participants

• France
  • Gregory Colcanap (Couperin)
  • Catherine Etienne (Couperin)
  • Emilie Barthet (Couperin)
  • Christine Weil-Miko (INIST)

  Greece

  • Claudine Xenidou-Dervou (HEAL-Link)
• Italy
  • Paola Gargiulo (Caspur/Ciber)
  • Domenico Delli Santi (CILEA)
• Portugal
  • Joao Moreira  (FCCN)
• Spain
  • Lluis Anglada (CBUC)
  • Nuria Comellas (CBUC)
  • Agnes Ponsati (CSIC)
• Turkey
  • Gultekin Gurdal (ANKOS)
  • Selma Aslan (ANKOS)
  • Cevat Guven (ANKOS)
  • Emre Hasan Akbayrak (ANKOS)
  • Burcu keten (ANKOS)
  • Mustafa Kemal Celebi (ANKOS)
  • Burcu Umut Zan (ANKOS)
  • Gonul Kafali (ANKOS)
  • Sami Cukadar (ANKOS)
  • Zeki Celikbas (ANKOS)
• USA
  • David Kohl (ICOLC)

Agenda

• 10th Meeting of Southern European Libraries’ Consortia (SELL), June 11-13, 2010 at Bordeaux, France
• Organized by: COUPERIN
• Sponsored by: CAIRN, Persée and revues.org

Preliminary program:

Friday, June 11th

Saturday, June 12th

Sunday, June 13th

Participants

• France
  • Gregory Colcanap (Couperin)
  • Catherine Etienne (Couperin)
  • Emilie Barthet (Couperin)
  • Christine Weil-Miko (INIST)
• Greece
  Claudine Xenidou-Dervou (HEAL-Link)
• Italy
  • Paola Gargiulo (Caspur/Ciber)
  • Domenico Delli Santi (CILEA)
• Portugal
  Joao Moreira  (FCCN)
• Spain
  • Lluis Anglada (CBUC)
  • Nuria Comellas (CBUC)
  • Agnes Ponsati (CSIC)
• Turkey
  • Gultekin Gurdal (ANKOS)
  • Selma Aslan (ANKOS)
  • Cevat Guven (ANKOS)
  • Emre Hasan Akbayrak (ANKOS)
  • Burcu keten (ANKOS)
  • Mustafa Kemal Celebi (ANKOS)
  • Burcu Umut Zan (ANKOS)
  • Gonul Kafali (ANKOS)
  • Sami Cukadar (ANKOS)
  • Zeki Celikbas (ANKOS)
• USA
  David Kohl (ICOLC

Agenda

• 11th Meeting of Southern European Libraries’ Consortia (SELL), June 3-5, 2011 at Oporto, Portugal
• Organized by: FCCN 
• Sponsored by ProQuestt

Final program:

The following outline the discussions held during the 9th SELL meeting.

• SELL Minutes

Participants

• France
  • Catherine Fournier (INIST)
  • Jerome Kalfon (Couperin)
  • Catherine Etienne (Couperin)
• Greece
  Claudine Xenidou-Dervou (HEAL-Link)
• Italy
  Paola Gargiulo (Caspur/Ciber)
• Portugal
  • João Gomes (FCCN)
  • Joao Moreira  (FCCN)
  • Teresa Costa (FCCN)
  • Paulo Lopes (FCCN)
  • Pedro Oliveira (FCCN)
  • Ligia Ribeiro (Uporto)
  • Daniela Castro (UMinho)
  • Maria Amante (ISCTE)
  • Clara Macedo (Uporto)
• Spain
  • Lluis Anglada (CBUC)
  • Agnes Ponsati (CSIC)
• Turkey
  • Gultekin Gurdal (ANKOS)
  • Ertugrul Cimen (ANKOS)

Agenda

• 12th Meeting of Southern European Libraries’ Consortia (SELL), June 15-16, 2012 at Thessaloniki, Greece
• Organized by: HEAL-Link

Preliminary program:

Participants

• France
  • André Dazy (Couperin)
  • Sandrine Malotaux (Couperin)
• Greece
  • Claudine Xenidou-Dervou (HEAL-Link)
  • Anna Fragkou (HEAL-Link)
  • Mersini Moreleli-Kakouri (HEAL-Link)
  • Panos Georgiou (HEAL-Link)
  • Maria Ntaountaki (HEAL-Link)
  • Lia Ollandezou (HEAL-Link)
  • Popi Florou (HEAL-Link)
  • Leonidas Pispiringas (HEAL-Link)
  • Asimakis Boutlas (HEAL-Link)
  • Prodromos Tsiavos (HEAL-Link)
• Italy
  • Paola Gargiulo (Caspur/Ciber)
  • Silvana Mangiaracina (CNR)
  • Domenico Dellisanti (CILEA)
• Portugal
  • João Moreira (FCCN)
• Spain
  • Lluis Anglada (CBUC)
  • Nuria Comellas (CBUC)
  • Agnes Ponsati (CSIC)
• Turkey
  • Sami Çukadar (ANKOS)
  • Ertugrul Çimen (ANKOS)
• USA
  • David Kohl (ICOLC)

Agenda

• 13th Meeting of Southern European Libraries’ Consortia (SELL), May 31st – June 1st, 2013 at Barcelona, Spain
• Organized by: CBUC

Final program:

Agenda

• 14th Meeting of Southern European Libraries Link Consortia (SELL), May 22nd – May 23rd, 2014 at Florence, Italy
• Organized by: European University Institute, Badia Fiesolana – Via dei Roccettini 9, 50014 San Domenico di Fiesole (Florence)

Final program:

Participants

• France
  • Sandrine Malotaux Couperin
• Greece
  • Claudine Xenidou Dervou HEAL-Link
  • Lia Ollandezou HEAL-Link
  • Popi Florou HEAL-Link
  • Panos Georgiou HEAL-Link
• Italy
  • Paola Gargiulo CINECA
  • Domenico Dellisanti (CINECA)
  • Serge Noiret EUI
  • Guido Badalamenti CARE
• Portugal
  • Joao Moreira FCCN/B-ON
• Spain
  • Agnes Ponsati CSIC
  • Barbara Gonzales BUGALICIA
  • Carmen Balsa BUGALICIA
  • Lluis Anglada CBUC/CSUC – Catalunya
  • Nuria Comellas CBUC/CSUC – Catalunya
• Turkey
  • Çimen Ertugrul ANKOS
  • Sami Çukadar ANKOS
• USA
  • David Kohl ICOLC

Agenda

• 15th Meeting of Southern European Libraries Link Consortia (SELL), June 1-2, 2015 at Istanbul, Turkey
• Organized by: ANKOS, Koc University Rumeli Feneri Yolu, Sariyer 34450, Istanbul

Final program:

Participants

• France
  • Sandrine Malotaux Couperin (Remote participation)
  • Andre Dazy Couperin
• Greece
  • Lia Ollandezou HEAL-Link
• Italy
  • Guido Badalamenti CARE
• Portugal
  • Teresa Costa FCCN/B-ON
• Spain
  • Nuria Comellas CBUC/CSUC – Catalunya
• Turkey
  • Tuba Akbayturk  ANKOS
  • Deniz Baltaci   ANKOS
  • Ertugrul Cimen  ANKOS
  • Sami Cukadar  ANKOS
  • Gultekin Gurdal ANKOS
  • Ilkay Holt  ANKOS
  • Derya Soguksu  ANKOS
  • Kamil Yesiltas  ANKOS
  • Burcu Muratoglu  ANKOS
  • Mirat Satoglu, Director of the National Academic Network and Information Center

Agenda

Thursday, May 19^th

9h30 – Welcome

10h-12h30: Consortia negotiation activity, year 2015, First session

10h-11h00: State/consortia report  Portugal,  Price distribution model, Teresa Costa

Coffee break

11h15- 12h15: State/consortia report Italy, Guido Badalamenti

Lunch break

Bistrot-restaurant “chez Yannick” – Adresse : 3, rue Eugène Delacroix, Toulouse

http://www.chez-yannick.fr/index.php?sujet=carte

14h – 17h30: Consortia negotiation activity, year 2015, Second session

14h- 15h15 : State/consortia report Spain, Agnes Ponsati, Ianko Lopez

15h15-16h15: State/consortia report Greece, Lia Ollandezou

Coffee break

16h30-17h30: State/consortia report Turkey, Sami Cukadar

Diner au restaurant “Les copains d’abord” http://www.lescopains.fr/

Friday, May 20^th

9h30-12h15: Consortia negotiation activity, Last session

9h30-10h30: State/consortia report France, Sandrine Malotaux

Coffee break

11h-12h15: Consortia-publishers relationship and tools potentially used by the participating consortia.

Open discussion.

Lunch Break: Bistrot-restaurant “Chez Yannick” – Adresse : 3, rue Eugène Delacroix, Toulouse

http://www.chez-yannick.fr/index.php?sujet=carte

13h45-15h00: Open access

• Portugal
• Turkey
• Greece

Coffee Break

15h15-16h00: Presentation by Sigal Lahav Scher, MALMAD (Israël), videoconferencing session

16h00-17h15: Request made by two countries about joining SELL: discussion

List of attendees :

Agenda

Wednesday, May 31^st

20h00 – Social Dinner at Tertúlia Algarvia

Thursday, Jun 1^st

9h00 – Bus departs from Hotel Stay to University of Algarve

9h30-09h45 – Welcome/Announcements

9h45-10h45 – Moderator: João Mendes Moreira

Open access / flipping session #1: learn and exchange

• Open Access International / Portuguese report – Inês Fonseca
• Short introduction on Berlin 2020 and on flipping – Colleen Campbell
• Offsetting examples (MPG?) – Colleen Campbell

10h45-11h30 – Moderator: Agnes Ponsati

Open access / Flipping session #2a: Prepare discussions: Flipping

• Flipping economic potential impact (MPG Figures)
• Arguments/Questions Berlin2020
• Arguments/Questions Springer

11h30-12h00 – Coffee break

12h00-12h30 – Moderator: Luis Anglada

Open access / Flipping session #2b: Prepare discussions: Common position

12h30-13h00 – Moderator: Teresa Costa

Country reports #1

• Italy

13h00-14h30 – Lunch break

14h30-16h00 – Moderator: Ertugrul Cimen

Country reports #2

• France
• Greece (remote)
• Turkey

16h00-16h30 – Coffee Break

16h30-18h00 – Moderator: Tuba Akbayturk

Country reports #3

• Israel (remote)
• Serbia (remote)
• Portugal

18h00 – Adjourn

18h30 – Bus departs from Hotel Stay to University of Algarve

20h00 – Social Dinner at Hotel Faro

Friday, June 2^nd

9h00 – Bus departs from Hotel Stay to University of Algarve

9h30-11h00 – Moderator: Sandrine Malotaux

Open access / Flipping session #3: Berlin 2020 – Ralf Schimmer

• Berlin2020@SELL countries (impact analysis)
• Discussion
• NCP for OA2020- Possible coordination at SELL level?

11h00-11h30 – Coffee break

11h30-12h30 – Moderator: Vasco Vaz

Open access / Flipping #4: Sponsor session: Springer

• Springer Compact
• Springer Compact@SELL (impact analysis)
• Questions
• Discussions

12h30-14h00 – Lunch break

14h00-14h45 – Moderator: Miguel Andrade

Open access #5: Alternative mechanisms to foster Open Access

• Eloy Rodrigues
• Luis Anglada ???

14h45-15h30 – Moderator: Luis Anglada

Open Access #6: SELL OA common position

15h30-16h00 – Coffee break

16h00-16h30 – Moderator: Teresa Costa

Country reports #4

• Spain

16h30-17h30 – Moderator: Guido Badalamenti

Interesting projects and services

• National Curricula Vitae Platform (Beta version) JMM
• ERM solutions: Consortia Manager and other sw – Guido

17h30 – Adjourn

List of attendees :

Useful information

Agenda

Sunday, May 6^th

20h00 – Welcome Dinner at “Christofer” restaurant

Monday, May 7^th

9h15-09h30 – Welcome/Announcements

9h30-11h30 – Moderator: Lia Ollandezou

Country reports #1

• Spain
• Italy
• Portugal

11h30-12h00 – Coffee break

12h00-13h00 – Moderator: Teresa Costa

Country reports #2

• France

13h00-14h30 – Lunch break

14h30-15h45 – Moderator: Francesca Rossi

Open Access / Policies and actions #1

• SELL countries – transformation deals
  • OA in Spain
  • France, Portugal, Israel

15h45-16h45 – Moderator: Lluis Anglada

Open Access / Flipping Session #1 – Country Cases

• Springer in France
• Elsevier in Italy
• RSC in Netherlands

16h45-17h30 – Moderator: Sigal Lahav Scher

Country reports #3

• Greece

Open Access / Policies and actions #2

• SELL countries – transformation deals
  • Greece, Italy

17h30 – Adjourn

18h30 – Bus departs from Aristotle University to Hotel Stay

20h00 – Social Dinner at “Inohoos” restaurant

Tuesday, May 8^th

9h15-10h30 – Moderator: Giannis Tsakonas

Fostering Open access 

• Negotiating Open access – Matthijs van Otegem, LIBER
• EUA (Big Deals survey report)
• OPENAire

10h30-11h45 – Moderator: Sandrine Malotaux

Open Access / Flipping Session #2 

• SELL common position on OA, Pay-to-publish policies

11h45-12h015 – Coffee break

12h15-13h00 – Moderator: Arturo Dueñas Herrero

Country reports #4

• Israel

13h00-14h30 – Lunch break

14h30-16h30 – Moderator: Franco Bungaro

Interesting Projects and Services

• Research data infrastructure for members of HEAL-Link
• Research data management: draft plans for Portugal (João Mendes Moreira – Remotely)
• Research data management at the University of Porto: Our practical experience and results (João Rocha da Silva – Remotely)

Long Time Preservation (Dark archiving)

• HEAL-Link’s Unified Search Engine

16h30 – Adjourn (ICOLC & SELL, next SELL Meeting)

Comments :

1. Country Reports: Besides the general report, the reports should focus on activities related to Open Science. Presentations should take no more than 30 minutes (including questions).
2. For the session “Open Access / Policies – actions #1 and #2” please prepare a brief presentation and description of any transformative agreements (even under negotiation) for your country.
3. No vendor session was proposed this year.

List of participants :

Accomodation:

See detailed map at: https://goo.gl/zTRMCJ

Agenda

Sunday, May 26^th

20h00 – Welcome: MEETING POINT “Praza do Obradoiro”

20h30 – Dinner – “Restaurante Altamira”, Rúa das Ameas 9

Monday, May 27^th

9h15-09h30 – Welcome

9h30-11h30 – Moderator: Lia Ollandezou

Country Reports#1: Open Science / OA Policies and actions : transformation deals and methodology for negotiations

• Italy (20 min)
• Portugal (20 min)
• France (20min)
• Israel (20 min)
• Turkey (20 min)

11h30-12h00 – Coffee Break – “Fonseca”

12h00-13h30 – Moderator: Ianko López

• Approach APCs monitoring and management workflows (Teresa Costa)
• Methodologies for transformation deal negotiations: (BUGalicia) Estimating OA APC publication costs (CBUG)

13h00-13h30 – Moderator: Lluis Anglada

• Renewal of the French National License with Elsevier ( Jérôme Kalfon – Consortium Couperin)

13h30-15h00 – Lunch break

15h00-16h45 – Moderator: Bárbara González

• Wiley Flipping model

17h00 – Hotel and visit – “Pórtico de la Gloria” at 18:00 (45 minutes)

• http://www.santiagoturismo.com/percorrido/portico-da-gloria 

20h30 – Social Dinner – “Hotel San Miguel: Solleiros espacio gastronómico”

Praza de San Miguel dos Agros, 9
(Sponsored by Wiley)

Tuesday, May 28^th

9h30-10h30 – Moderator: Ramón Ros

Country Reports#2: Open Science / OA Policies and actions : transformation deals and methodology for negotiations

• Cyprus (20 min)
• Greece (20 min)
• Spain (20min)

10h30-11h30 – Moderator: Lluis Anglada

Plan S

• Basics and the effects on libraries (Agnès Ponsati)
• Transformative agreements and libraries (Lluís Anglada)
• Plan S & transformative agreements: a short trip by SELL countries
  • Portugal

11h30-12h00 – Coffee break

12h00-12h30 – Moderator: Teresa Costa

• Predatory open-access publishing (Gussun Gunes)

12h30-13h30 – Moderator: Agnes Ponsati

Diamond Initiatives:

• LIBRARIA -Open Access Cooperative-Project  (Alberto Corsín Jiménez) http://libraria.cc/why/how

13h00-13h30 – Moderator: Agnes Ponsati

• SCOAP3 Ianko López (Madroño)

13h30-15h30 – Lunch break

15h30-17h30 – Moderator: Francesca Rossi

• Open Session
• Next SELL Meeting

17h30 – Adjourn

Comments :

1. Besides the general information, like last year, the reports should focus on activities related to: Open Science / OA Policies and actions: transformation deals (even under negotiation). Presentations should take no more than 20 minutes (including questions).

List of participants :

Licensing and Open Access in the Post-COVID-19 World: A Quick Trip Through the SELL Countries

Agenda

Wednesday, July 15^th

15h00-15h10 – Welcome and Announcements

15h10-15h30 – Moderator: João Mendes Moreira, B-ON

• Assessing Scenarios for A Future Publishing System: Results From An EUA Sponsored Study – Lennart Stoy, Project Manager ,The European University Association (EUA)

15h30-18h00 – Moderator: Asst. Prof Güssün GÜNEŞ, ANKOS President

Country Reports#1: Budgets, Renovations, Transformative Agreements

15h30-16h10 (Session 1)

• Italy (10 min) Francesca Rossi CRUI – Italian Conference of University Rectors
• Portugal (10 min) Joana Novais,B-ON
• France (10min) Françoise Rousseau-Hans, COUPERIN
• Israel (10 min) – Sigal Lahav Scher IUCC-MALMAD

16h10-16h20 – Coffee Break

16h20-17h00 (Session 2)

• Turkey (10 min) Muhammet Kızıl – ANKOS
• Greece (10min) Lia Ollandezou – HEAL-Link
• Spain (10 min) Agnes Ponsati – CSIC

17h00-17h40 – Open Session

17h40 – Virtual Gala Dinner

Thursday, July 16^th

15h00-18h00 – Moderator: Emre Hasan AKBAYRAK, ANKOS Academy&Atılım University

Country Reports#2: APCs, Open Access

15h00-15h40 (Session 3)

• Italy (10 min) – Prof. Nino Grizzuti, CRUI-CARE Group
• Portugal (10 min) – Joana Novais, B-on
• France (10min) – Andre Dazy, COUPERIN
• Israel (10 min) Sigal Lahav Scher IUCC – MALMAD

15h40-16h00 – Coffee Break

16h00-16h40 (Session 4)

• Turkey (10 min) – Güssün Güneş – ANKOS
• Greece (10min) – Lia Ollandezou – HEAL-Link
• Spain (10 min) – Lluis Anglada – CSUC

16h40-17h40 – Open Session

• Giannis Tsakonas, HEAL-Link – SCOSS

17h40-18h00 – Next SELL meeting

18h00 – Adjourn

List of participants:

September 20 and 21, 2021

15h00 – 18h00 CET 

Agenda

Monday, September 20^th

15h00-15h15 – Welcome

15h10-15h45 – Speaker: Hannah Wang

• Preservation, archive and dissemination for academic libraries. MetaArchive Cooperative: Sustainable digital preservation through community collaboration

  Hannah Wang works at the Educopia Institute as the Community Facilitator for the MetaArchive Cooperative and the Project Manager for the BitCuratorEdu Project. Prior to joining Educopia, she was the Electronic Records & Digital Preservation Archivist at the Wisconsin Historical Society, where she managed the acquisition of state electronic records, coordinated born-digital processing workflows, and developed the digital preservation program. Hannah has also taught graduate-level courses as an Associate Lecturer at the University of Wisconsin-Madison iSchool. She received her MSIS from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.

15h45-16h15 – Speaker: Grégory Colcanap (https://www.istex.fr/)

16h15-16h45 – Speaker: Joana Novais Gestora, Biblioteca do Conhecimento Online, b-on Manager, Online Knowledge Library, b-on.

16h45-17h15 – Speaker: Lluis Anglada

17h15 – Country reports 1/2

• We suggest that country reports should arrive in advance. So the little time (in relation to a face-to-face meeting) can be devoted to exchanges, after very short introductions of the main topic.

Thursday, September 21^th

15h00-16h00 – Speakers: Thomas Porquet, Couperin and Patrick Peiffer consortium.lu

16h00-16h30 – Speaker: Joana Novais, Manager, Online Knowledge Library. Biblioteca do Conhecimento Online, b-on

16h30-17h00 – Debate: 

We ask members to prepare responses to the following questions:

• Policy and vision: do you have an explicit document, or an implicit policy?
• Are they consortia agreements or national agreements?
• Constant prices or increase? (budget neutrality)
• Steering and workflow
• Evaluation (positive, negative, neutral) corrections to be made in the future

17h00-17h30 – Debate:

17h50 – Next meeting

Agenda (indicated times are CET)

17^th of November

14h30 Welcome remarks (João Moreira)

14h40 Country reports

• France (TBC)
• Greece (Lia Ollandezou)
• Israel (Sigal Lahav Scher)
• Portugal (Joana Novais)
• Spain (Agnes Ponsati)

15h40 Break (10 mins)

15h50 R&P/TAs management, articles caps, workflows: hands-on experience and challenges

• Introduction (Ramon Ros)
• Round table discussion (ALL)

16h30 Future landscape of R&P agreements and Rights Retention Strategy

• Introduction (Miguel Andrade)
• Costs in OA vs Subscription costs: Evolution 2018-2021 (Marta Dalmau)
• Round table discussion (ALL)

17h10 Short discussion on the future of SELL and governance

• Sharing of survey results (proposed questions below) (Simone Zacarias)
• Round table discussion (ALL)

17h30 Close

Confirmed Attendees:

Survey for the topic “Future of SELL and governance”:

• Country/Consortium: (optional)
• Do you consider that SELL maintains its relevance and should continue to exist?
  • Yes / No / No opinion
• If you have answered YES:
  • Should SELL continue to meet annually?
    • Yes / No / No opinion
    • If you have answered NO, what should the frequency of the SELL meetings be: (please indicate)
  • What should the SELL meetings format be from now on:
    • Remote / Hybrid / In person / Alternated format (please specify)
  • Would your country be willing to host the next SELL meeting?
    • Yes / No / Maybe

VENUE: Morum Chania City Hotel, Crete, Greece

The meeting will take place at the hotel premises.

AGENDA

Participants: