Common use of CONSORTIA Clause in Contracts

CONSORTIA. OhioLINK consists of 117 member libraries from eighty-eight different universities and colleges in the state of Ohio. It includes a print borrowing network, shared catalog, and a state depository network. OhioLINK also manages licenses for and access to academic and scholarly content on behalf of the membership.15 In 2019, OhioLINK had no read and publish agreements, although it was piloting a consortial open access fund with Wiley.16 The BTAA is comprised of fifteen member institutions, the majority of which are also large public flagship land grant institutions; all members have very high research output. Under the Library Initiatives unit, the consortium supports members in aligning print borrowing and lending, targeted collections purchasing, licensing scholarly content, and investments in digitization and data.17 In 2019, the BTAA had no collective open access agreements. University Libraries launched new strategic directions in 2018 that aligned with the teaching, research, and engagement priorities set out in the university’s strategic plan.18 One of the focus areas within the Empower Knowledge Creators strategic direction was “New Models for Scholarly Communication.” As part of the launch of the strategic directions, University Libraries established a proposal and approval process for strategic initiatives to support the new focus areas. University Libraries has a long history of supporting open access archiving and scholarly publishing. The institutional repository program dates to 2002 and the University Libraries diamond open access journal publishing program to 2007. Although Ohio State does not have an open access mandate, in 2012 University Libraries adopted an open access resolution for University Libraries faculty. In 2014 and 2015, both University Libraries and the Health Sciences Library supported an open access fund pilot for fully open access journals. University Libraries locally launched TOME (▇▇▇▇▇://▇▇▇.▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇.▇▇▇/) in 2017, an open access scholarly monograph initiative of the Association of American Universities, Association of Research Libraries, and Association of University Presses. We were also funding supporters and participants in the shared governance of scholarly archiving and publishing infrastructures such as arXiv, DSpace, and Fedora. To advance our work in this area, the collections strategist, scholarly sharing strategist, and electronic resources officer looked to emerging business models and our peers as we navigated a rapidly changing landscape and developed a proposal to support the Empower Knowledge Creators strategic direction and the New Models for Scholarly Communication focus area.