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Consortia

UA LIBRARY MEMBERSHIPS:

Center for Research Libraries

AULC (Arizona Universities Library Consortium)

AULC Collection Development Subcommittee on Electronic Resource Sharing  (original charge from 1996)

Greater Western Library Alliance (formerly Big 12 Plus)

SPARC - Scholarly Publishing & Academic Resources Coalition


OTHER CONSORTIA/COALITIONS RELATED TO INFORMATION RESOURCES AND ACCESS:

Coalition for Networked Information - "an organization dedicated to supporting the transformative promise of networked information technology for the advancement of scholarly communication and the enrichment of intellectual productivity." Sponsored by ARL and Educause.

Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC) - Libraries

FIGARO - European Academic Digital Publishing Initiative backed by the European Union 
(The name FIGARO is an acronym for the Federated Initiative of GAP (German Academic Publishing), and Roquade , two independent e-publishing initiatives in Germany and the Netherlands respectively.)

ICOLC (International Coalition of Library Consortia)

Internal Documents  (for the password to this web site, see F:\teams\IRC\IRC SHARED\ICOLC\ICOLCpassword.doc)

Information Access Alliance - a coalition of ALA, ACRL, ARL, SPARC, MLA & AALL formed to examine the impact of mergers among scholarly and legal publishers, this group calls for a new standard of antitrust review of merger transactions in the serials publishing industry by antitrust enforcement agencies.


CONSORTIAL LICENSING GUIDELINES FOR ELECTRONIC RESOURCES:


California State University - PRINCIPLES FOR CSU ACQUISITION OF ELECTRONIC INFORMATION RESOURCES

NERL (NorthEast Research Libraries) Principles for Electronic Journal Licenses