The Content Strategy Committee met in person in Ottawa on November 23, 2017. The CSC discussed 2017 license renewals and various other projects.
Attendees: Todd Mundle, Gabrielle Prefontaine, Stéphanie Gagnon, Tanja Harrison, Louis Houle, Pamela Jacobs, Denise Koufogiannakis, Lisa Petrachenko, Jennifer Richard, Harriet Rykse and Weijing Yuan.
Management Report
A written management report was shared with the committee and included an update on recent developments at CRKN. Notable items included information about: update on the RDA Summit and work accomplished to date on the DMP Assistant tool and the Federated Research Data Repository (FRDR) and an update on the CARL meeting, the committee was briefed on the on CC-Plus, updated on the NHDS, on CNDHI and work completed to date with translation of collections, creation of best practices documents and addition of Indigenous content and on the Collection Analysis Community of Practice.
Canadiana Update
The committee was updated on progress related to the CRKN-Canadiana combination.
2017 License Renewals – Phase I
The committee discussed the negotiation meetings as well as next steps for the following licenses:
- Elsevier
- SAGE Premier All-Access
- Wiley-Blackwell Online Database
2017 License Renewals – Phase II
The committee received updates on the following license renewals:
- Canadiana ECO
- Canadian Science Publishing – results were shared
- JSTOR & ARTstor
- Economist Intelligence Unit
2017 License Renewals – Phase III
The committee received updates on the status of the following license renewals:
- Gale ECCO
- ProQuest Globe & Mail
2016-2017 License Renewals
The committee received updates on the status of the following license renewals:
- CAIRN
- ProQuest/ ASP – results were shared
Érudit
An update on the partnership was shared with the committee
IOP eBooks Release 4
An update on the offer distribution was shared
DMTI Can Map
An update on the offer distribution was shared
IEEE
The committee was provided information on a possible negotiation with IEEE
Member Education
There was discussion around the possibility of providing member education sessions and ideas for possible sessions were shared by and to the committee.
Serials Management Sub-Committee (SMSC) – Nominations
Committee members reviewed nominations received for the SMSC and considered current and missing expertise on the sub-committee.
License Transition Task Group (LTTG)
An update on the report outline, the work plan of the task group and an outline of their AGM presentation was shared with the CSC.
ORCID-CA
The committee was updated on the work completed to date with ORCID-CA.
Journal Usage Project – National Data
The committee was presented with high-level findings of the data from the JUP and given the opportunity to make comments.
IM Toolkit
The committee was updated on the progress of the relaunched toolkit.