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

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

3. 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.

4. 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

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

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

7. 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.

8. 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.

9. 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.

10. 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.

11. 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

12. OER Commons: Virginia Project
There is a new Virginia OER instance that is part of the OER Commons.

13. 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.” (

14. 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.

15. 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.

16. Questions?