1. The Chicago Collaborative Pat Thibodeau John Tagler Published by the Chicago Collaborative and licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial- ShareAlike 3.0 United States License. Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available at www.chicago-collaborative.org.Chicago CollaborativeCreative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial- ShareAlike 3.0 United States Licensewww.chicago-collaborative.org

2. What/who is the collaborative Concepts behind inception History Strategies Initiatives Other challenges/issues Feedback from you Questions

3. Scholarly Communications

4. Association of Academic Health Sciences Libraries Bio-medical associations Publishers Editors

5. Founding Members Association of Academic Health Sciences Libraries Association of American Medical Colleges Council of Academic Societies Association of American Publishers Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology/DC Principles International Association of Sciences, Technical & Medical Publishers International Committee of Medical Journal Editors Society for Scholarly Publishing

6. Stakeholders in scholarly communication have the same ultimate goal –sharing and disseminating information and ensuring “users” receive relevant and appropriate information

7. April 2008 invitations May 22, 2008 1 st meeting in Chicago June 2008 AAHSL administrative support September 17, 2008 2 nd meeting April 8, 2009 3 rd meeting November 2009 future meeting

8. Strategies Broad, higher level opportunities, challenges Share ideas/interests of association represented Equal partners in dialogue Consensus driven statements Associations approve resolutions

9. Educational Initiatives Informational sessions Educating authors Libraries 101 Bio-medical publishing 101

10. Other Grand Challenges Preservation/archiving Effective STM authorship Peer review/quality assurance Dynamic content containers Branding STM content Future of the journal

11. Expected Outcomes Position papers, statements on issues Dialogues with experts, broader constituents Sustainable mechanism for conversations, actions Trusted venue for scholarly communication discussions

12. Feedback? Questions? Who is missing? Future issues? What is your role?

13. Thank you!