The Journals working group guides our NESLi2 activities, provides advice
on priorities for e-resource licensing and helps us to develop tools that
support collection management by libraries. Chaired by Hazel Woodward, the group meets three times a year.
The group is currently re-defining its terms of reference, but currently its core remit is to:
- continue to support national negotiations designed to lower the cost of access to online journals
- facilitate debate and, where appropriate, action to help implement possible long term solutions to the spiraling costs of scholarly communication
- promote the wider adoption of e–print archives and other models of the dissemination of scholarly information in the UK
The group has also commissioned a number of reports. Further details can be found in our Reports section.
Membership
- CHAIR: Dr Hazel Woodward, University Librarian, Cranfield
University
- Paul Ayris, Director
of Library Services, UCL
- David Ball, University Librarian, (Head of Academic Development
Services), Bournemouth University
- Graham Bulpitt, Director of Library Services,
Kingston University
- Sarah Collier, Information Services Manager, Scottish Crop
Research
- Ruth Cooper, Information Resources Development Team Leader,
Imperial College London
- Fred Friend, Director of Scholarly Communications, UCL
- Claire Honeybourne, National Core Content Manager, NHS
England
- Tony Kidd, Assistant Director, Glasgow University Library,
University of Glasgow
- Sarah Pearson, E-Resources & Serials Coordinator,
University of Birmingham
- David Prosser, Director, SPARC The Scholarly Publishing and
Academic Resources Coalition,
- Liz Stevenson, E-Resources Manager, University of Edinburgh
- Marion Tattersall, eCollections Librarian, University of
Sheffield
