VIVA and Open Access initiatives University of Mary Washington OER Summit Anne Osterman, VIVA Director

VIVA’s Member Institutions 39 Public colleges and universities 32 Private/independent colleges and universities The Library of Virginia

VIVA’s Mission VIVA’s mission is to provide, in an equitable, cooperative and cost-effective manner, enhanced access to library and information resources for the Commonwealth of Virginia’s nonprofit academic libraries serving the higher education community.

Cooperative, Efficient, Decentralized Services VIVA Central Office (GMU-Fairfax) Procurement (JMU-Harrisonburg) VIVA Journal Locator (VCCS-Richmond) WorldCat Knowledge Base Partner (VMI-Lexington) Virginia Heritage Project (UVA-Charlottesville) Serials Solutions Partner (VT-Blacksburg) 34

VIVA is Cost-Effective Cost avoidance through group purchases July 1, 1994 to June 30, 2016: $730,000,000 That’s better than a 5-to-1 payoff for Virginia! 31 37

A Growing Role for VIVA – Supporting Open Access and Open Resources

SCOAP3 SCOAP3 has converted journals in the field of High- Energy Physics to Open Access at no cost to the authors. Participating libraries and consortia redirect the money they previously paid to the participating publishers into a shared fund that then pays for the publication costs. VIVA participates in SCOAP3 through our Institute of Physics journals subscription.

Article Processing Charges Some VIVA products account for Article Processing Charges, or APCs. For example: The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) provides an Open Access APC credit for each participating institution. Through title-level reconciliation, Wiley adjusted subscription prices to account for open access articles paid for by APCs.

New England Journal of Medicine VIVA is starting a new subscription with the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM). NEJM provides free access to research articles that are older than 6 months, back to 1990.

Value Metric Task Force A new VIVA task force is exploring value parameters such as cost per download, usage by institution type, discount rate for VIVA members, etc. in the interest of comparing the relative value of resources to VIVA members. Included in the discussion will be the vendors’ support of open access and open access models.

34 VIVA institutions became supporting members of the DOAJ through VIVA in 2016. 2016 DOAJ Members Bridgewater College Piedmont Virginia Community College Christopher Newport University Radford University College of William & Mary Regent University Eastern Shore Community College Shenandoah University Eastern Virginia Medical School Southside Virginia Community College George Mason University Sweet Briar College Hampden-Sydney College Tidewater Community College James Madison University University of Mary Washington Liberty University University of Richmond Longwood University University of Virginia Lynchburg College University of Virginia's College at Wise Mary Baldwin College VCCS Systems Office Marymount University Virginia Commonwealth University Norfolk State University Virginia Military Institute Northern Virginia Community College Virginia State University Old Dominion University Virginia Tech Paul D. Camp Community College Washington & Lee University

OER Commons: Virginia Project There is a new Virginia OER instance that is part of the OER Commons. https://www.oercommons.org/groups/virginia-oer-project/872/

Open Textbook Network VIVA has joined the Open Textbook Network (OTN) as a System Member.  The OTN is “An alliance of higher education institutions committed to improving access, affordability, and academic success through the use of open textbooks.” (http://open.umn.edu/)

Open Textbook Network As a System Member, VIVA will be provided with: A Campus Leader training, scheduled for Thursday, October 6, 2016 at James Madison University. The ability to send two (or maybe four) System Leaders to the OTN’s three-day summer training, scheduled for August 8-12, 2016 at the University of Minnesota. A call for nominations by Directors for Campus and System Leaders is live and closes May 15th.

Open Textbook Network The recommendation to join the OTN came from a presentation about OER made by Tara Cassidy (VCCS), Kathleen DeLaurenti (CWM), and Anita Walz (VT) to the Library Advisory Committee. VIVA Central worked with the Virginia Scholarly Communications Interest Group to develop criteria for the Campus and System Leaders and to plan for the Campus Leader workshop.

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