OUP Project TORCH Web Survey Invitation- Oct 1 deadline

[Ann Okerson <ann.okerson@yale.edu>]

Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 15:41:13 -0400
From: October Ivins <october.ivins@mindspring.com>
Subject: OUP Project TORCH Web Survey Invitation- Oct 1 deadline

Hello Ann, Would you please post this invitation to LibLicense?  Please
let me know if you have any questions.

Best wishes,

October Ivins
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OUP Project TORCH Web Survey Invitation- Oct 1 deadline
Posted to LibLicense and ERIL

Dear Librarian,

Project TORCH (The Online Resource Collection in the Humanities) is a new
endeavor, a collaboration among university presses. TORCH will offer
discipline based collections comprised of 1,000 titles each of backfile
monographs from the last 20 years. Initial planning is funded by the
Mellon Foundation with Oxford University Press leading the initiative.  
OUP has hired an executive director, established an advisory board and is
negotiating with other university presses to include their titles.  As
consultants who are also librarians, we are helping TORCH assess market
interest in planned subject areas, features and pricing.  Your preferences
in these areas will help shape the product.

We understand that this is an especially busy time of the academic year,
but OUP needs to collect this information now to meet grant reporting
deadlines. We invite you to share this invitation with colleagues, since
one individual may not be the best person to respond to every question.

The survey will take 15 to 25 minutes, depending on how many comments you
choose to make.  You may work on the survey in several sessions as it will
save your place if you are using the same machine.

Please enter the survey here:  
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.asp?u=19262630894

Please respond by Friday, October 1, 2004.

The survey will ask for your institution's Carnegie Classification.  If you
would like to look it up before beginning, please follow this link:
http://www.carnegiefoundation.org/Classification/CIHE2000/PartIIfiles/partII
.htm

Thank you,

October Ivins, MLS
Digital Content & Access Solutions
october.ivins@mindspring.com

Judy Luther, MLS, MBA
Informed Strategies
judy.luther@informedstrategies.com