Science Team Minutes

12 November 1997

1. Time of meeting adjusted to 8:15 - 10:00. Schedule of meetings continues as second Wed. of each month, however a special meeting has been scheduled for Dec. 3 to review proposals for database acquisition.

2. Fundraising priorities Team members encouraged to submit priorities for fund development to Ross and Vally. Possible criteria for selecting subject areas were discussed, including: newly emerging areas which will require extra collection building into the future, core areas with no current endowment and/or particulary expensive or prolific publishing, collection areas of special strength or importance, and/or topics with special appeal to donors which also meet other substantive need criteria.

3. CPCR Reminder that we will conduct final review of CPCR's at December 10 meeting (tho we should be prepared to discuss Dec. 3 as we may be able to cancel Dec. 10 meeting if agenda does not warrant it). John will notify team members of procedures for accessing FileMaker Pro database to add/adjust values as necessary.

4. PEAK Team members will contact Ross individually with any observations about the PEAK system.

5. International Thompson license agreement proposal. The International Thompson e-journals proposal to NERL, forwarded to the team by Ross yesterday, was briefly discussed. ON the surface it looks good. Team members will review the proposal and title list and let me know by Friday if they are interested and the level of interest. I will attempt to summarize team interst for Ross and get it to him before his NERL meeting (next Monday I believe).

6. Database selection A set of 31 files identified as being of interest to various groupings of science libraries was reviewed. Jen had gathered price and availability data on each. The list was whittled down to 10 high priority files. [Some of those withdrawn are not of high interest, others are now avaialble free on the Web, others are no longer active files, and still others are full text and will be considered in a separate process]. We discussed possible algorithms for sharing the cost of these files. Sam and Jen will secure quotes from vendors and present them for consideration, along with some specific proposals for cost-sharing, at the Dec. 3 meeting.

7. Approval plan funding At a future meeting we will review the pros and cons of the current method of funding the science Yankee approval plan and consider alternatives.

Minutes recorded by Sam Demas.

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