The report ‘Sustainability of Open Access Services - Phase 3: The Collective Provision of Open Ac... more The report ‘Sustainability of Open Access Services - Phase 3: The Collective Provision of Open Access Resources’ discusses the economic and institutional issues faced by those sustaining free infrastructure services. It also identifies strategies to coordinate the collective provision of infrastructure services. These considerations are valuable input for the phases 4 and 5 of the project ‘Sustainability of Open Access Services’. This body of work will lead to practical recommendations for funders and project planners to consider when initiating an infrastructure service. The report was written by Raym Crow and funded by SPARC. Several key messages from the report are of interest. Providing infrastructure services as a public good imposes specific requirements on the design of the sustainability model. The challenge is to get enough institutions to reveal their demand for the service and support this. Arguments for an institution to support can be altruism or reciprocity or there be...
Campus-based publishing partnerships: A guide to critical issues Campus-based publishing partners... more Campus-based publishing partnerships: A guide to critical issues Campus-based publishing partnerships offer the academy greater control over the intellectual products that it helps create. To fully realize this potential, such partnerships will need to evolve from informal working alliances to long-term, programmatic collaborations. SPARC's Campus-based Publishing Partnerships: A Guide to Critical Issues addresses issues relevant to building sound and balanced partnerships, including: Establishing governance and administrative structures; Identifying funding models that accommodate the objectives of both libraries and presses; Defining a partnership's objectives to align the missions of the library and the press; Determining what services to provide; and Demonstrating the value of the collaboration.
• OA business models must be sustainable over the long term, and article processing charge paymen... more • OA business models must be sustainable over the long term, and article processing charge payments do not work for all; Subscribe to Open (S2O) is proposed, and being tested, as an alternative model. • The S2O model motivates subscribers to participate through economic self-interest, without reliance on institutional altruism or collective behaviour. • The S2O offer targets current subscribers, uses existing subscription systems, and recurs annually, allowing publishers to control risk and revert to conventional subscriptions if necessary. • An Annual Reviews pilot is currently testing the S2O model with five journals.
Institutional repositoriesdigital collections that capture and preserve the intellectual output ... more Institutional repositoriesdigital collections that capture and preserve the intellectual output of university communitiesrespond to two strategic issues facing academic institutions: 1) they provide a central component in reforming scholarly communication by stimulating ...
Abstract: Cornell's Internet First University Press (IFUP) seeks to explore the practical via... more Abstract: Cornell's Internet First University Press (IFUP) seeks to explore the practical viability of direct institutional funding for serial and monographic publication of an institution? s faculty research. To effect fundamental change, such an institutional funding model must ...
Over the past five years, libraries have begun to expand their role in the scholarly publishing v... more Over the past five years, libraries have begun to expand their role in the scholarly publishing value chain by offering a greater range of pre-publication and editorial support services. Given the rapid evolution of these services, there is a clear community need for practical guidance concerning the challenges and opportunities facing library-based publishing programs.Recognizing that library publishing services represent one part of a complex ecology of scholarly communication, Purdue University Libraries, in collaboration with the Libraries of Georgia Institute of Technology and the University of Utah, secured an IMLS National Leadership Grant under the title “Library Publishing Services: Strategies for Success.” The project, conducted between October 2010 and September 2011, seeks to advance the professionalism of library-based publishing by identifying successful library publishing strategies and services, highlighting best practices, and recommending priorities for building ca...
* Two responses received from these institutions. The responses were, however, incomplete so the ... more * Two responses received from these institutions. The responses were, however, incomplete so the effect on the analysis is minimal. Project Participants The case studies in this document are based, in part, on interviews and discussions with library and press managers and project staff at each of the participating institutions. The author of this report gratefully acknowledges their contributions of time, information, and insight.
Publishing cooperatives: An alternative for non-profit publishers
First Monday, 2006
Abstract Publishing cooperatives—owned, controlled, and benefiting non–profit publishers—would pr... more Abstract Publishing cooperatives—owned, controlled, and benefiting non–profit publishers—would provide an organizational and financial structure well suited to balancing society publishers' twin imperatives of financial sustainability and mission fulfillment. Market ...
The report ‘Sustainability of Open Access Services - Phase 3: The Collective Provision of Open Ac... more The report ‘Sustainability of Open Access Services - Phase 3: The Collective Provision of Open Access Resources’ discusses the economic and institutional issues faced by those sustaining free infrastructure services. It also identifies strategies to coordinate the collective provision of infrastructure services. These considerations are valuable input for the phases 4 and 5 of the project ‘Sustainability of Open Access Services’. This body of work will lead to practical recommendations for funders and project planners to consider when initiating an infrastructure service. The report was written by Raym Crow and funded by SPARC. Several key messages from the report are of interest. Providing infrastructure services as a public good imposes specific requirements on the design of the sustainability model. The challenge is to get enough institutions to reveal their demand for the service and support this. Arguments for an institution to support can be altruism or reciprocity or there be...
Campus-based publishing partnerships: A guide to critical issues Campus-based publishing partners... more Campus-based publishing partnerships: A guide to critical issues Campus-based publishing partnerships offer the academy greater control over the intellectual products that it helps create. To fully realize this potential, such partnerships will need to evolve from informal working alliances to long-term, programmatic collaborations. SPARC's Campus-based Publishing Partnerships: A Guide to Critical Issues addresses issues relevant to building sound and balanced partnerships, including: Establishing governance and administrative structures; Identifying funding models that accommodate the objectives of both libraries and presses; Defining a partnership's objectives to align the missions of the library and the press; Determining what services to provide; and Demonstrating the value of the collaboration.
• OA business models must be sustainable over the long term, and article processing charge paymen... more • OA business models must be sustainable over the long term, and article processing charge payments do not work for all; Subscribe to Open (S2O) is proposed, and being tested, as an alternative model. • The S2O model motivates subscribers to participate through economic self-interest, without reliance on institutional altruism or collective behaviour. • The S2O offer targets current subscribers, uses existing subscription systems, and recurs annually, allowing publishers to control risk and revert to conventional subscriptions if necessary. • An Annual Reviews pilot is currently testing the S2O model with five journals.
Institutional repositoriesdigital collections that capture and preserve the intellectual output ... more Institutional repositoriesdigital collections that capture and preserve the intellectual output of university communitiesrespond to two strategic issues facing academic institutions: 1) they provide a central component in reforming scholarly communication by stimulating ...
Abstract: Cornell's Internet First University Press (IFUP) seeks to explore the practical via... more Abstract: Cornell's Internet First University Press (IFUP) seeks to explore the practical viability of direct institutional funding for serial and monographic publication of an institution? s faculty research. To effect fundamental change, such an institutional funding model must ...
Over the past five years, libraries have begun to expand their role in the scholarly publishing v... more Over the past five years, libraries have begun to expand their role in the scholarly publishing value chain by offering a greater range of pre-publication and editorial support services. Given the rapid evolution of these services, there is a clear community need for practical guidance concerning the challenges and opportunities facing library-based publishing programs.Recognizing that library publishing services represent one part of a complex ecology of scholarly communication, Purdue University Libraries, in collaboration with the Libraries of Georgia Institute of Technology and the University of Utah, secured an IMLS National Leadership Grant under the title “Library Publishing Services: Strategies for Success.” The project, conducted between October 2010 and September 2011, seeks to advance the professionalism of library-based publishing by identifying successful library publishing strategies and services, highlighting best practices, and recommending priorities for building ca...
* Two responses received from these institutions. The responses were, however, incomplete so the ... more * Two responses received from these institutions. The responses were, however, incomplete so the effect on the analysis is minimal. Project Participants The case studies in this document are based, in part, on interviews and discussions with library and press managers and project staff at each of the participating institutions. The author of this report gratefully acknowledges their contributions of time, information, and insight.
Publishing cooperatives: An alternative for non-profit publishers
First Monday, 2006
Abstract Publishing cooperatives—owned, controlled, and benefiting non–profit publishers—would pr... more Abstract Publishing cooperatives—owned, controlled, and benefiting non–profit publishers—would provide an organizational and financial structure well suited to balancing society publishers' twin imperatives of financial sustainability and mission fulfillment. Market ...
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