On January 12 and 13, the Boston Library Consortium hosted “Sloan Summit II: Open Access – Mission and Mandate,” at Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston, Massachusetts.  The Summit program provided an opportunity for University administrators and Boston Library Consortium (BLC) members to explore open access issues and determine appropriate activities for their institutions.

Mary Y. Lee provided an example of a successful, active and multi-faceted open access approach from Tufts; Diane Harley, Director of Higher Education in the Digital Age project, Center for Studies in Higher Education, UC Berkeley, spoke on challenges and opportunities in moving to new models of scholarly communication within the context of our individual and collective academic values; James G. Neal, Vice President for Information Services and University Librarian, Columbia University, focused on the importance of open access as a core element of meeting our educational and research mission and highlighted a variety of options for BLC institutions in addressing the goal of open access; and Heather Joseph, Executive Director of the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resource Coalition (SPARC) reacted to the other three presentations within the context of the open access movement.  She also described SPARC members' campus activities; the local, national and international advocacy in which SPARC is engaged; and the new initiatives and venues for scholarly publishing it is investigating.

To view the videos of the Sloan Summit, visit the BLC’s Vimeo page at http://vimeo.com/user10227428

Videos of the complete Day 1 and Day 2 programs as well as videos of the individual talks and Day 2 table discussions are available.

To access the videos in no particular order, click on the blue “Videos" button at the top of the page.

For viewers who wish to see the talks in the precise order the occurred in the program, the videos are organized into albums (Day 1 and Day 2). To access the albums, click on the gold “Albums” button at the top of the page.

Also available are recordings from the May 24, 2011 symposium, “Will there be Interlibrary Loan in a world of EBOOKS?”

A button linking to the BLC’s Vimeo page will remain permanently on the main page of the BLC’s website.