I wanted to share a link to a very important brief report on a meeting
hosted this week by the Association of American Universities (AAU) and
the Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities APLU). This
follows on the recommendations of the recent joint AAU-APLU Public
Access Working Group (see
https://www.aau.edu/newsroom/press-releases/university-groups-detail-recommendations-ensuring-public-access-research),
which I discussed in a posting last November.

A good overview of this report and of the subsequent planning for the
workshop was given by Kacy Redd of APLU at the recent ARL member
meeting. You can find the powerpoint presentation at

 https://www.arl.org/storage/documents/Redd-ARL-2018-9-26.pdf .

Also of interest is the presentation on the recent National Academies
report on Open Science By Design, by Alexa McCray, chair of the
committee,  at

https://www.arl.org/storage/documents/2018.09.26_FLMM_McCray_OpenScience.pdf

I posted an announcement about the report earlier as well.

The summary of the workshop, by Mary Lee Kennedy, Executive Director of
the Association for Research Libraries, and her colleagues, can be
found at

http://policynotes.arl.org/?p=1751

Note that Mary Lee Kennedy will moderate a session reporting on the
workshop at the upcoming December 2018 Member Meeting. There will also
be sessions on some of the projects that she mentions in her summary.

Clifford Lynch
Director, CNI