COAPI Report on Recent Activities and Ongoing Projects, July 2017- June 2019

"COAPI Activities, 2017-2019 ● Surpassed the 100-member milestone, with 109 member institutions as of June 2019 ○ Also created documentation and workflows for onboarding new members ● Successful and ongoing engagement with SPARC, including conversations about effective collaboration with Nick Shockey ● Monthly COAPI Steering Committee meetings (8-member leadership group) ● Monthly reports from the SPARC liaison to the SPARC OA Working Group (Jere Odell for 2017-), following Ada Emmett ● COAPI Steering Committee chair representing COAPI on the SPARC International OA Week Advisory Committee (Laura Bowering Mullen 2017-2018, Devin Soper 2018-2019) ● Added new resources to the COAPI Toolkit, including a bibliography of relevant studies and publications ● Completed various updates to the COAPI website, including redesigning and creating new content for the “About” and “Resources” pages ● Migrated legacy steering committee documentation from Dropbox to Google Drive ● Introduced annual virtual meetings to supplement biennial in-person meetings (see agendas from April 2018 and April 2019) ● Organized panel presentation and biennial in-person meeting at ALA Annual 2018 in New Orleans ○ Decided to hold biennial meeting at a library conference because the biennial SPARC meeting (our previous venue) was discontinued ○ Created COAPI Backgrounder and swag items (stickers, buttons) to give away at events ○ Panel presentation: “The Care and Feeding of an Open Access Policy: Adoption, Implementation, and Assessment,” with Anne Langley, Jamie Wittenberg, and Jere Odell ○ In-person meeting agenda ● Updated COAPI Process and Procedure Document, notably to remove the Community Member category, which was unused and redundant relative to the Affiliate Member category ● Launched series of COAPI Community Calls to facilitate more discussion and engagement both within and beyond the COAPI membership ○ Aug. 14, 2018 - Outreach Strategies ○ Oct. 16, 2018 - Copyright & Rights-retention Policies ○ Dec. 18, 2018 - COAPI Toolkit ○ Feb. 18, 2019 - Implementation Models ○ June 12, 2019 - Policy Assessment ● Launched new COAPI Twitter account, @coapioa, thus far used to advertise Community Calls and tweet out conversation during the events (using the hashtag #coapicomm) ● Published blog post for Open Access Week 2017, 2018 ● Formed three new COAPI working groups: ○ Community Call WG ○ Copyright WG ○ Small College & University WG ● Updated and consolidated existing COAPI membership lists ● Signed letters of support for federal bills and regulations, including ○ H.R. 6501, The Well-Informed, Scientific, and Efficient (WISE) Government Act ○ S. 1701, the Fair Access to Science and Technology Research (FASTR) Act ○ H.R. 3427, the Fair Access to Science and Technology Research (FASTR) Act ○ AB 2192, the extension and expansion of the California Taxpayer Access to Publicly Funded Research Act"