Purpose
With a focus on collaborative digital licensing that supports emerging forms of research, teaching, and resource sharing, the OCUL Future-Ready Collections Working Group (OCUL-FRCWG) is responsible for scoping the feasibility and deliverables of a licensing for local load project that focuses on negotiating AI-ready content licensing for ingestion in Scholars Portal Journals and/or Books. A potentially related secondary project centres on developing the infrastructure and policy/ies for full e-book licensing and controlled digital lending. The working group reports to the OCUL Executive Committee.
Membership
- Co-chair: Sally Sax, Head, Collection Strategy and Partnerships (Carleton University)
- Co-chair: Caitlin Tillman, Associate Chief Librarian for Collections and Materials Management (University of Toronto)
- Iman El Gamal, Collections and Content Librarian (University of Guelph)
- Christa Foley, Assistant Director, Information Resources and Collections (OCUL)
- Lei Jin, Associate Dean of Libraries, Scholarly, Research and Creative Activities (Toronto Metropolitan University)
- Nicole Nolan, University Librarian (Brock University)
- Jacqueline Whyte Appleby, Associate Director (Scholars Portal)
This short-term working group was established in summer 2026, with an expected end date of December 2026.