1. OA-IM Open Access Argentine and Brazil Academic Monograph

2. Rapid expansion of open access e-books Quality of the oa scholarly monographs is excellent Would normally fit within profile of many Latin American research collections Includes many types fo publishers: University Presses Non-profit organizations Government entities

3. 1.The URL is unstable a)Changes in the website b)New government policy c)Budget cuts do not support URL d)There is no long term policy 2.Agreements necessary to provide stewardship a)Dealing with bureaucratic organizations to secure the permissions b)Changes in policies c)Longterm negociation 3.Dispersion a)Isolating and selecting pdf’s via disperate web pages b)The sheer mass of content requires prioritization and selectivity c)The focus will be on monographs 4.Discoverability a)The pdf is buried in googlesearch and deserves better b)The content is not exposed in catalogs and other discovery systems

4. Ingest pdf’s onto a platform that meets industry standards optimal scalability, naviation, usability and discovery (initially this platform will need to be the Garcia Cambeiro platform licensed from ebrary with a goal to move the content to HathiTrust) Ownership Secure permissions from the publisher to grant LC, Garcia Cambeiro, and Hathitrust archiving rights and participating libraries perpetual access rights Apropiate Content Select high-quality scholarly monographs, from the thousands available. Discovery Experience Unify pdf standard - Unify Discovery, using the libary OPAC (MARC RDA Records) E-preffered Integrate Print and E-versions for interested client libraries

5. Gather 1000 Argentine Open Access scholarly monographs Secure the necessary Permissions from the publisher Ingest the selected pdf’s and establish a long term URL. (the ideal one is HathiTrust) Unify pdf standard, navigation, usability and discovery Unify Discovery, using the library OPAC (MARC RDA Records)

6. The budget varies depending on the quantity of libraries that participate.

7. 1000 high quality scholarly monographs. Selected By García Cambeiro qualified staff and identified Advisory Group of Librarians Certainty that the existing OA monogragph is provided with long term URL Libraries working together for the benefit of the whole community Epreferred if the library wants MARC (RDA) records for each title

8. RELATIONSHIP WITH SCHOLARY PUBLISHERS A.LONGSTANDING RELATIONSHIP WITH SCHOLARY PUBLISHERS. PERMISSION B.GET THE PERMISSION FOR EVENTUAL DEPOSIT WITH HATHITRUST. C. PRESERVATION OF THE PDF C. PRESERVATION OF THE PDF an ability to address preservation concerns through an LC dark archive by leveraging a well-established relationship with the Library of Congress D. PROVIDES OPTIMAL SCALABILITY, NAVIGATION, USABILITY AND DISCOVERY D. PROVIDES OPTIMAL SCALABILITY, NAVIGATION, USABILITY AND DISCOVERY. Initially this platform will need to be the García Cambeiro platform licensed from ebrary with a goal to move the content to HathiTrust. E. PROVIDES MARC RECORDS USING STABLE URL. F. ESTABLISHING A SUSTAINABLE BUSINESS MODEL F. ESTABLISHING A SUSTAINABLE BUSINESS MODEL THAT ENCOURAGES CONTINUED SELECTION AND STEWARDSHIP, BY SHARING THE COST AMONG THE INTERESTED LIBRARIES.

9. Experience Since the 60’s helping academic libraries with Latin American research centers to enable access to comprehensive collections from Latin America. Capacity Branches in Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay, With more than 30 employees 62 academic approval plans, Argentina/Brazil, Imprint/Electronic Since 2008 with the Shelf Ready proyect with the LOC. 1000 RDA records already produced in the last year. Sustainability Because they want to accept the challenge of taking the vendor services to the next level in a 2.0 environment.

10. To gather the participants. To make an agreement with HathiTrust. It is very important for Garcia Cambeiro to be able to prepare for eventual delivery of the monographs to Hathitrust as part of the permissions process. To generate a Library Advisory Board to review the Quality of the Selections Expand the offer to more titles in Ibero- American countries