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1 Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy By Nol Verhagen for ICOLC 2009 Paris Acknowledgement: Tom Sanville

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2 About SEP Free Encyclopedia of Philosophy http://plato.stanford.edu/http://plato.stanford.edu/ Hosted and supported by Stanford University Business model: annual budget comes from an endowment that is being formed out of grants and one time membership dues from libraries http://plato.stanford.edu/support/sepi a.html http://plato.stanford.edu/support/sepi a.html

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3 About Money Needed: M$ 4.125 Until now received: M$ 3.325 Missing: M$ 0.75; but because library suppport has come slower than expected, the actual gap is M$ 1 Payment Scheme for European Libraries: - English-speaking: $ 3,150 one-time membership dues: United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand - Western Europe, Israel: $ 1,575 one-time membership dues -Eastern Europe: $ 630 one-time membership dues More details on http://www.libraries.iub.edu/index.php?pageId=4189 # http://www.libraries.iub.edu/index.php?pageId=4189 #

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4 About Participation Full participation in Europe: UK, Denmark, Finland, The Netherlands No Participation at all: Belgium, Czech Republic, France, Israel, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine (Very) partial participation: Germany, Austria (2 libraries), Sweden (2 libraries); Still missing -50 German institutions + Max Planck Institutes -7 Austrian institutions -?? Swedish institutions

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5 About Usage Between September 2008 September 2009 Austria 2225 Belgium 2365 Czech Rep 5465 France 4903 Germany 55822 Max Planck 5594 Israel 9613 Italy 9819 Japan14266 Norway 19079 Portugal 2516 Spain12574 Sweden 7323 Switzerland11874

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6 The Risk If the SEP is not able to make its endowment whole, it runs the risk of losing support from Stanford administration Under a reduced budget, the SEP would be forced to shrink operations, making it less useful as an ongoing resource

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7 How to Contribute? We hope you will be convinced and that you will register at http://www.pdcnet.org/sepia.ht ml. http://www.pdcnet.org/sepia.ht ml Alternatively, you may register your commitment by sending email to: editors@plato.stanford.edu