OCUL Information Resources Committee (OCUL IR)

OCUL-IR advances OCUL’s strategic plan by acting as a catalyst for information resources initiatives which generate ideas and implement both one-time projects and ongoing strategies.

Mandate

  1. Support the development and management of information resources at the consortia and local institutional level. Activities include the following:
    1. Initiate, assess and select online information resources, which provide excellent financial value for members.
    2. Collaborate to share staff expertise and leverage collective resources in negotiating and licensing electronic resources.
    3. Analyze the impact and value of IR collections on faculty and students’ teaching and research.
    4. Collaborate with Scholars Portal staff to establish tools, best practices and policies to support the licensing, local loading, and use of electronic resources.
    5. Serve as an information forum to share, promote and act on:
    • issues in digital publishing
    • best practices for licensing electronic resources
    • managing print and electronic collections at both the consortium and institutional levels
    • incorporating electronic resources into an integrated virtual research environment
  2. Engage colleagues within OCUL, and with external partners and vendors, on issues relating to academic collections and scholarly communication.
  3. Provide a forum for discussion on broad collection-related issues in academic and scholarly publishing.
  4. Generate ideas for new initiatives for the consideration of the OCUL Planning and Assessment Committee.

Membership

One official member from each OCUL member institution, with no fixed term.

  • Nicole Nolan (Brock University) - Chair
  • Lei Jin (Toronto Metropolitan University, formerly Ryerson University) - on leave - replaced by Reece Steinberg
  • Lisl Schoner-Saunders (Algoma University)
  • Mandy Deans Kassies (Brock University)
  • Sally Sax (Carleton University)
  • Paul St. Pierre (University of Guelph)
  • Evelyn Feldman (Lakehead University)
  • Alain Lamothe (Laurentian University)
  • Janice Adlington (McMaster University)  
  • Rebecca Kasperavicius (Nipissing University)
  • Tony White (OCAD University)
  • Emily Tufts (Ontario Tech University)
  • Monica Ward (University of Ottawa)
  • Ian Robson (Queen's University)
  • Lisa Bechard (Royal Military College of Canada)
  • Coralee Leroux (Trent University)
  • Weijing Yuan (University of Toronto)
  • David Gall (University of Waterloo)
  • Lauren R Byl (University of Waterloo)
  • Elizabeth Mantz (Western University)
  • Charlotte Innerd (Wilfrid Laurier University)
  • Roger Reka (University of Windsor)
  • Aaron Lupton (York University)
  • Leigh E. Jackson (York University)

Ex officio:

Amber Lannon (Carleton University) - OCUL Chair
Gohar Ashoughian (Wilfrid Laurier University) - OCUL Treasurer
Amy Greenberg - OCUL Executive Director
Christa Foley - OCUL Assistant Director, Information Resources and Collections

Established 1999

 

Subcommittees

Previous Subcommittees

 

Download the full Terms of Reference

In here you will find information about membership terms, the appointment process, subcommittees and task groups, reporting and decision making, communications, work plans and administrative and financial support for the committee.