1. VIVA Open Initiatives & the Open Textbook Network
James Madison University
Virginia Scholarly Communication Interest Group
Genya O’Gara, VIVA Associate 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. Delivering Value

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

6. For every $1 spent VIVA provides $5 worth of materials
VIVA is Cost Effective
Cost avoidance through group purchases
July 1, to June 30, 2016:
$730,000,000
For every $1 spent VIVA provides $5 worth of materials 31 37

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

8. 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 journal subscription.

9. Article Publication Charges
Some VIVA products account for Article Publication 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.

10. New England Journal of Medicine
VIVA has started a 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.

11. 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.

12. 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

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

14. 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.”

15. Open Textbook Network In a nutshell the Open Textbook Network:
Trains and educates librarians & faculty in the adoption of open textbooks
Gathers and reports adoption numbers & student savings as a measure of impact
Supports faculty in the creation and review of high quality, open resources

16. Open Textbook Network Background
In the summer of 2015 the Resource Sharing Committee tasked a small group with investigating what VIVA member libraries were doing with OER & VIVA-licensed resources for teaching and learning.
84% of those surveyed thought libraries should play a roll in OER at their campuses, 16% thought maybe, and none thought no.

17. Open Textbook Network Background
Next a presentation was made to the Library Advisory Committee (LAC) about the state of OER in Virginia, as well as opportunities for collaborative efforts.
This presentation was led by Tara Cassidy (VCCS), Kathleen DeLaurenti (CWM), and Anita Walz (VT).
One of the top recommendations was that the consortium join the Open Textbook Network.
The LAC handed this recommendation to the VIVA Steering Committee, which approved funding & implementing this program

18. Open Textbook Network Background Thank you subgroup!!!!
VIVA reached out to the Virginia Scholarly Communication Interest Group for assistance in determining what appropriate criteria would be for system and campus leaders.
A subgroup was formed consisting of:
Hillary Miller (VCU), Yasmeen Shorish (JMU), Lucretia McCulley (UofR), Anita Walz (VT), Mike Ours (Lynchburg), Claudia Holland (GMU), and Olivia Reinauer (Tidewater CC).
Thank you subgroup!!!!

19. Open Textbook Network Background
Nomination criteria for Steering Committee to consider:
Leader (or demonstrated interest) in one or more scholarly communication topics (e.g., IR, OER, copyright, or Open Access). 
Strong interest in open education initiatives.
Demonstrated ability to organize and implement outreach to faculty.
Experience organizing and presenting training workshops.
Demonstrated leadership/aptitude in organizing and collaborating regionally and/or nationally.
An effort to ensure that selected leaders represent a wide distribution of VIVA institution types 

20. Open Textbook Network As a System Member, VIVA will be provided with:
A Campus Leader training, scheduled for Thursday, October 6, at James Madison University.
The ability to send three System Leaders to the OTN’s intensive summer training, scheduled for August 8-12, 2016 at the University of Minnesota.
Directors’ nominations for Campus and System Leaders were finalized and announced on June 10th.

21. Open Textbook Network
System and Campus Leaders!

22. Open Textbook Network Outcomes!
By promoting the use and creation of high quality educational materials that are free for students to use, this initiative will:
increase affordability in higher education
promote student success
empower VA faculty to contribute to open course materials
give VIVA members an opportunity to strategically support open education and open access initiatives as a state

23. Questions?