Not Another Damn OA Initiative?

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Subvention

Core Principles• Demonstrate positive impact on the scholarly communication ecosystem

• Saving to libraries• Increased access to research outputs• Life-long learning potential, etc.

• Include an academic or research library, scholarly society, or university press, or similar mission-driven organization.

• Disclose financial costs and workflow processes associated with the publishing operation.

• Include plan for archiving and preservation.

• Include plan for mutually agreed upon method to modify, amend or terminate.

Our Proposal

We ask for an annual institutional/library payment.

We encourage partnerships between libraries, scholarly societies, university presses, and others.

These mission-driven alliances develop infrastructure and best practices needed to support an open and dynamic scholarly information ecosystem.

Phased Approach

•Launch phase demonstrate broad support for collective approach through membership program and test assumptions

•Phase 1 demonstrate proof of concept by converting some humanities and social science (HSS) publications to OA and by providing sustainable funding to some born-digital projects

•Phase 2 expand practical implementation of our model to•demonstrate it can operate at scale

•Phase 3 (full implementation phase) expand funding and broaden application and review process for proposals to include all comers, from any discipline and from any publisher

Demonstrating broad support

Stakeholder Feedback• Funding formula based on student FTE seems to “penalize”

large public institutions.

• It is unclear how individuals and different types of organizations, such as library consortia, might contribute.

• Grant-funding review and distribution model is too centralized, putting too much control in the hands of a few (“Soviet politburo-style of decision-making”).

• Three to five year commitments, difficult for libraries, critical to publishers.

• Transparency is important, but only to a point.

Getting to Plan B

Annual Payment Formula

$0.50/student/years of study to highest degree awarded

AA = $1 | BA/BS = $2 | MA/MFA/MS = $3 | PhD/MD/JD = $5+

$5/full-time faculty (administration, staff, and adjuncts exempt)

Support for institutional OA initiatives

Distribution - Think: United Way

Annual payment goes toward institutional priorities:

• Geographic/regional

• Subject discipline

• Language (French, Spanish, Chinese, Slavic)

• Format type (OERs, journals, monographs, platforms)

$ 1,500,000

Thank you!

Journals

Cultural Anthropology publishes articles that represent anthropological research, critical analysis, and academic writing of the very highest order. Read more…

Partners:

Table of ExpensesEditorial | Hosting/Access | Preservation | Infrastructure | Growth

List of Contributing Supporters/Subscribers Institutions | Libraries | Consortia | Individuals | Foundations

90%

$Cultural Anthropology

support

Monographs

Profound political, economic, environmental, and technological changes now underway are shaping the prospects for peace and human well-being in the coming decades. Read more…

Partners:

Table of ExpensesEditorial | Hosting/Access | Preservation | Infrastructure | Growth

List of Contributing Supporters/Subscribers Institutions | Libraries | Consortia | Individuals | Foundations

30%

$

American Academy Studies in Global Security

support

Evolving Platforms

MLA's publicly available repository where members can archive, promote, and share their work. Read more…

Partners:

Table of ExpensesEditorial | Hosting/Access | Preservation | Infrastructure | Growth

List of Contributing Supporters/Subscribers Institutions | Libraries | Consortia | Individuals | Foundations

45%

$

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CORE!

OA Publishing Collectives

Érudit is the largest disseminator of French-language resources in North America. Through its research platform, Érudit offers a centralized access to the majority of francophone publications in the social sciences and humanities from North America. Read more…

Partners:

Table of ExpensesEditorial | Hosting/Access | Preservation | Infrastructure | Growth

List of Contributing Supporters/Subscribers Institutions | Libraries | Consortia | Individuals | Foundations

75%

$

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Next Steps• Continue to build support

• Continue to gather feedback and refine Plan B

• Put together a pilot that tests the model

• Build a prototype of the funding dissemination platform

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