FLN SIPB 5 Dec 071 SIPB report last meeting: 10 October 2007 ACCU representatives: K. Freudenreich, F.-L. Navarria

FLN SIPB 5 Dec 072 Agenda Adoption of the agenda, Gigi Rolandi (CERN) - Approval of the minutes, action list review and matter arising, date of the next meeting, Gigi Rolandi (CERN) - The INSPIRE collaboration: status and vision, Travis Brooks (SLAC) - Library progress report, Jens Vigen (CERN) - CDS progress report, Jean-Yves Le Meur (CERN) - Outcome from and follow-up to the journal cancellation exercise, Anne Gentil- Beccot (CERN) - Status of SCOAP 3, Salvatore Mele (CERN)

FLN SIPB 5 Dec 073 INSPIRE/1 There are two motivations –[journals+arXiv/preprints→SPIRES(community acceptance)] + less formal knowledge → ? –add Web 2.0 features (collaborative/interactive) /new technologies - SPIRES infrastructure cannot support new features Migrate to modern OpenSource solution ( CERN CDS Invenio - powerful, fast, but not, yet, community accepted )

FLN SIPB 5 Dec 074 INSPIRE/2 Information Resource Summit in May 2007 (SPIRES, all publishers, arXiv, CERN... ) –SPIRES: functional requirements for Invenio modifications –CERN joins SLAC, DESY, Fermilab in a common effort → In(venio)spire(s) Inspire phase I started June 07 (Oct 07 ~1/6 SPIRES records exist at CERN and SLAC in Invenio instances) (test) SPIRES // Inspire for 1-2 years

FLN SIPB 5 Dec 075 Library (budget &tc.) OA budget: 220 kCHf initial 2007 allocation 1050 k (vs 1215 k in 2006) ie -165 k (in fact -385 k + journal inflation) final 2007 budget (with DG fund) 1214 k, ≈ adequate for the current year Procedures: book retailing has changed with the Internet world. Procedures for acquisition of books being redesigned accordingly Policy: Acquisition policy in general will be discussed in detail when the 2008 budget will be known

FLN SIPB 5 Dec 076 Journal cancellation exercise It has continued in 2007 for 2008 (subscriptions must be paid in advance) objections to cut IEEE Conferences (used intensively), ACM digital library, some individual titles Move to e-only all journals (even core) except magazines and annuals – to be publicized Subscriptions total 590 kCHf (+28 k IEEE POP Proceedings Order Plan, with ACM expiring in May 08, postponed)

FLN SIPB 5 Dec 077 SCOAP 3 /1 Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics - the numbers behind: ~ 5,000 articles published by ~ 20,000 physicists yearly (roughly 10 ME price tag vs 5 ME for a single important journal) Some steps –Funding partners identify country-by-country schemes to re-direct journal subscriptions to SCOAP 3. –Once funding partners pledge a sizeable fraction of the budget issue a call for tender to publishers and determine final budget; enlist remaining partners. –Formal agreement to establish SCOAP 3.

FLN SIPB 5 Dec 078 SCOAP 3 /2 Status –Many favourable signs in EU –So far 25% pledged overall & 12% on the way, working on the rest –EU countries: UK and Spain, the “big absents”, being worked on Campaign ongoing for the smaller member states –Follow positive leads in China, Japan, Canada –Raise awareness at all levels in the US Goal: have SCOAP 3 operational for the first LHC papers!