COAPI Activities: Working Groups

 

COAPI Working Groups are formed and run by representatives COAPI member organizations. Working group members join for a two-year term, which can be renewed.

Current Working Groups

Completed Working Groups

Copyright Working Group

The Copyright Working Group supports COAPI’s commitment to sharing information and resources to assist in the development and implementation of institutional open access (OA) policies by gathering questions, hosting conversations, and collecting and sharing resources for COAPI members to share with fellow members and the public. It is charged with identifying and addressing (with resources, templates, best practices, and community calls) common copyright-related questions and challenges that arise over the course of OA policy development and implementation in collaboration with the COAPI Steering Committee.

Members

Perry Collins, University of Florida, Chair
Ellen Dubinsky, University of Arizona
Yuan Li, Princeton University
Emily Kilcer, ‎University at Albany, SUNY
Mona Ramonetti, Stony Brook University

Resources

Small Colleges and “Teaching-first” Universities Working Group

COAPI strives to inspire, promote, and implement open access policies at all institutions where such policies do not exist or are not effective. In effort to fully support institutions of all sizes and status, the Small Colleges and “Teaching-first” Universities Working Group was formed to identify and support current COAPI members at smaller institutions or institutions with a teaching-first focus, as opposed to a research-first focus. This working group is charged with identifying current members that fall into this category and assessing how COAPI can better support them.

Current members

Victoria Peters, DePauw University, Chair
Jennifer Coronado, Butler University
Jessica Ryan, Smith College

Resources

Community Call Working Group

The Community Call Working Group provides a welcoming, collaborative space for interested parties to come together as a community, discuss common challenges, celebrate accomplishments, and share best practices. The Community Call Working Group (CCWG) is charged with planning, promoting, and facilitating the calls in collaboration with the COAPI Steering Committee.

Current members

Shannon Kipphut-Smith, Rice University
Ellen Dubinsky, Arizona State University
Emily Kilcer, University at Albany, SUNY

Community Calls

Modeled on SPARC’s OpenCon librarian community calls, COAPI Community Calls seek to create a supportive environment where challenges can be candidly shared and everyone present is encouraged to participate in and shape the discussion.

Resources

Policy Assessment Working Group

The COAPI Policy Assessment Working Group (2016-2017) was charged with exploring the best ways to measure and communicate OA policy success. Over the course of a year, the group conducted a survey of COAPI member institutions and produced a white paper which can be found in COAPI’s members-only toolkit.

The group encouraged COAPI members to share the criteria they use when assessing their policies in hopes that this transparency will help the community to better identify areas of need and to better articulate the often complicated and nuanced nature of OA policy “success.” To facilitate sharing, the working group drafted an assessment worksheet to use during internal assessment activities and encouraged members to share this data via a webform (shared under “Policy Assessment” under the public COAPI toolkit). The data captured on this webform is accessible to COAPI members in the private toolkit.

Members

Michael Boock, Oregon State University
Michaela Willi Hooper, Oregon State University
Kimberly Chapman, University of Arizona
Dan Lee, University of Arizona
David Dunham, Indiana University–Purdue University Fort Wayne
Shannon Kipphut-Smith (chair), Rice University

Resources

Toolkit Working Group

The Toolkit Working Group was charged with leading the development of the COAPI Toolkit, a collaborative space for COAPI members to share resources with fellow members and the public. It created documentation and resources to support COAPI members in populating the Toolkit, as well as with curating member contributions and implementing enhancements to the Toolkit from time to time. The Working Group completed its charge in 2018.

Members

Devin Soper, Florida State University
Anali Perry, Arizona State University
Vika Zafrin, Boston University
Ruth Lewis, Washington University St. Louis

Resources

Web Site Working Group

The Website Working Group reviewed, recommended, and implemented changes to the newly launched COAPI website hosted by SPARC. This review included a revamped information architecture and a more streamlined structure of content. It also included links to resources useful to the members not currently listed there (e.g. COAPI Toolbox). After the group completed the initial relaunch, the working group proposed next website-related steps for the steering committee to review. The Working Group completed its charge in 2017.

Members

Paolo Mangiafico, Duke University
Jere Odell, IUPUI

Resources

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