From a January 6 press release by the Society for Scholarly Publishing:
The Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP), along with other important players in the STM world, is participating in the Chicago Collaborative (CC). The CC, established in May 2008, is a Working Group of representatives from key science, technology, and medicine (STM) publisher organizations, editorial associations, and an academic health sciences library organization. The name reflects the founding meeting location and emphasizes the spirit of the initial meeting: the importance of collaboration in addressing the major challenges and opportunities associated with scholarly scientific communication. The CC’s constituency includes academic health center personnel (administrators, faculty, researchers, clinicians, and students).
The CC believes that collaboration is essential to successful scholarly scientific communication. Goals include:
1. Develop a shared understanding of scholarly scientific communication issues;
2. Create effective strategies to address common understandings; and,
3. Enhance trust and dialog among CC members.
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Expected outcomes include a sustainable mechanism for ongoing conversations and actions among publisher, editor, and librarian communities which does not follow the traditional buyer/seller model found in other forums and a trusted venue to discuss broad scholarly scientific communication opportunities and challenges.
More information is available in the full press release.
Posted by stemp003 at January 9, 2009 3:46 PM