1. January 12, 2016 Anne Osterman, VIVA Director
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January 12, 2016
Anne Osterman, VIVA Director

2. Cost Avoidance Update
Since VIVA began in 1994, it has provided a total cost avoidance to the state of $717 million!

3. Steering Committee Chair: Carrie Cooper, College of William and Mary
Addition for VIVA in the Governor’s Budget: $1,220,994 for FY17 and $1,282,045 for FY18
Regain funding lost in (5% of budget)
Funding for sustaining current collections
Funding for e-book collections with statewide relevance

4. Steering Committee
VIVA to participate in Virginia Model for Preservation Service (VAMPS) program proposal
Led by Bradley Daigle (UVA)
The Mellon Foundation continues to show interest
If funded, will enable a Virginia Service Hub for the DPLA and help establish corresponding preservation services

5. Outreach Committee Chair: Cy Dillon, Hampden-Sydney College
Product Announcement coming for extensive additions to STEM content – IOP, IEEE, Wiley
Onboarding documents for people new to VIVA are under development

6. Resource Sharing Committee
Chair: Rosemary Arneson, University of Mary Washington
Planning for the 18th VIVA Community Interlibrary Loan Forum is underway
Regent University has joined the Cooperative Borrowing Project
Sharon Gotkiewicz from VT is the new ILL Subcommittee Chair

7. Collections Committee
Chair: Sharon Gasser, James Madison University
IEEE: All public institutions will now share the IEEE/IET Electronic Library
This represents an upgrade for all institutions except for the few that already had this level of content.
37 additional journal titles, additional conference titles, active and selected archival IEEE standards, backfiles to 1872 (for select titles), and over 3,000,000+ full-text documents (an increase from 324,000+).

8. Collections Committee
Chair: Sharon Gasser, James Madison University
New Oxford University Press journals are:
American Journal of Clinical Pathology
Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume
Foreign Policy Analysis
International Political Sociology
International Studies Perspectives
International Studies Quarterly
International Studies Review
Journal of Consumer Research
Journal of Global Security Studies
Journal of Neuropathology and Experimental Neurology
Journal of Travel Medicine
Laboratory Medicine
Pain Medicine
Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society
Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan
Western Historical Quarterly

9. Collections Committee
Value Project: Upcoming analysis of all VIVA products
The Collections Committee plans to explore value parameters such as price per download, price per FTE, usage ratio, discount rate for VIVA members, etc. in the interest of comparing the relative value of resources to VIVA members.

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