Yesterday a number of us joined in the CAUL webinar “Transition to Open: Jeff MacKie-Mason on Shared Goals, Stakeholder Communication and Collaboration in Publisher Negotiations.”  This was a very interesting, thought-provoking and meaty presentation from Jeff MacKie-Mason (University Librarian and Professor of Economics and Information at UC Berkeley).  A few of us thought it would be good to replay the session recording and allow time for us to discuss it as a group at UC.

Jeff’s presentation was just under 1 hour but I have set up two one hour Zoom sessions (will be recorded) as follows.  This will allow us time to pause yesterday’s recording periodically and have a group discussion as well as spend sometime reviewing the Q&A.  To see the questions that were asked visit Sli.do and use the event code 26899.

Session 1: Wednesday August 5th 9:30-10:30 – Link to Zoom session
Session 2: Wednesday August 19th 9:30-10:30 – Link to Zoom session

Blurb for the session yesterday:

With a transformative agreement just signed with Springer Nature, plus existing agreements with Cambridge University Press, ACM, JMIR and PLOS, Jeff MacKie-Mason (University Librarian and Professor of Economics and Information at UC Berkeley) has been instrumental in driving change for Open Access.  Jeff will share his experience on optimising partnerships and advocacy to strategic levels while gaining broad support across the academic community. 

Topics to be covered during the Webinar include:

• Arriving at shared goals
• Communications (with faculty and students, administrators, the public via media)
• Role of data analytics
• Alternative access planning