Re: Update from Multi-Science Publishing

["\"FrederickFriend\"" <ucylfjf@ucl.ac.uk>]

Just to clarify, "Knowledge Exchange is a co-operative effort 
that intends to support the use and development of ICT 
infrastructure for higher education and research" (see 
http://www.knowledge-exchange.info/ ). As do each of the four 
national member organisations - DEFF, DFG, JISC and SURF - in 
support of their own mission, Knowledge Exchange undertakes a 
variety of initatives in support of the collective mission. Again 
like its member organisations, Knowledge Exchange supports both 
open access and fair licensing arrangements for access to 
academic content.

To take another example, both SURF and JISC have their own 
copyright initiatives but they collaborate through Knowledge 
Exchange on developments - like the use of a licence to publish 
as an alternative to copyright assignment - when the interests of 
higher education and research can be served best through such 
collaboration. So the important cross-border licensing initiative 
discussed on liblicense needs to be seen in the context of the 
full work of KE. For more background on the cross-border 
licensing initiative and how national initiatives can relate to 
international collaboration please listen to the podcast at 
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/news/stories/2008/06/podcast44knowledgeexchange.aspx

Fred Friend

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From: "Pippa Smart" <pippa.smart@googlemail.com>
To: <liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2008 10:45 PM
Subject: Re: Update from Multi-Science Publishing

> The Knowledge-Exchange is a very interesting and innovative
> consortial arrangement - but I must stress that it is NOT Open
> Access. It is traditional subscriber-pays access - but in this
> case the subscriber is not an individual library or institution,
> but a larger group of institutions and libraries. Becoming part
> of KE does not make any publishers' content free to
> individuals/institutions outside the consortia.
>
> At any institution, individual access is free at point of use if
> the institution has paid for access - the same is true with KE.
>
> Pippa Smart
> Research Communication and Publishing Consultant
> PSP Consulting - www.pspconsulting.org
> Skype: pippasmart
> pippa.smart@gmail.com