The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) USA, in cooperation with the Association of American Universities (AAU) and the Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities (APLU), offered a proposed solution called the Shared Access Research Ecosystem (SHARE), as a network of cross-institutional digital repositories based in research universities as the digital home for both the finished papers and the underlying data sets resulting from research produced with federal funds. The Association of American Publishers (AAP) has proposed another solution called "CHORUS", stakes its claim on publishers’ expertise and existing platforms for paper delivery, SHARE is the alternative bases the universities’ claim on their own ownership of key pieces of the existing infrastructure, such as digital institutional repositories etc. Interesting to read how Libraries are looked at in near future, as a key stakeholder of publishing, archiving and sharing their institutional outputs, and how this will threat Publisher's business.... http://lj.libraryjournal.com/2013/06/oa/arl-launches-library-led-solution-to... ----- Dr. J. K. VIJAYAKUMAR, http://libinfospace.blogspot.com/ -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.