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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:red'>URGENT REQUEST<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Dear Rangelands Partners:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>As was discussed at the Annual Meeting last month in Alaska, the Arizona team, along with the SRM Outreach, Communications, and Website Committee, and the SRM International Affairs Committee, is in negotiation with the SRM Board and Allen Press regarding a new Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) with the University of Arizona Libraries (UA) for updating the backfiles and continuing to add new content with a 5-year rolling window to the SRM journals open access archive at the UA Libraries. Since the early years of the Rangelands West initiative, the SRM full-text journal articles have been a significant resource offered through our websites. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Unfortunately, at this time, the Board has declined to renew our MOA because of concerns about possible lost revenue from allowing free access to any additional full-text articles from the backfiles of the SRM journals.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Leonard Jolly, a new SRM Board member this year, has been working hard to advocate for us. There has been a great deal of data provided from both sides in support of arguments both for and against. Leonard feels that the most compelling case can be made through brief testimonials from stakeholders describing the need for maintaining ongoing open access to the backfiles. There is concern that limiting this access will unfairly impact people who lack financial means and/or affiliations with large organizations. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>The SRM Board is meeting face-to-face in Denver on August 11-13, 2013 and will be discussing this issue again at that time. If you or anyone you work with (ranchers or other users), in the U.S. or elsewhere, could provide a brief testimonial, <span style='color:red'>please send it ASAP (or by August 1<sup>st</sup>) </span>so we can compile them for Leonard to present to the Board. Also, if you have connections through SRM with any other Board members, we would appreciate your contacting them to let them know more of the background about this issue. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Thank you for your assistance! Your help is most appreciated.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Sincerely,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Jeanne Pfander (UA Libraries), Lovina Roselle (UIdaho), and Barb Hutchinson (UA CALS)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>