Download - Sustainability - the funding model for DOAJ
Sustainability – the funding model of DOAJ
OpenAIRE workshop: Legal and Sustainability issues, November 5th 2013,
VilniusLars Bjørnshauge
Brief Background
• Founded 2003 at Lund University – launched May 2003 with 300 journals
• Initially funded by minor project grants from SPARC and Open Society Institute.
• Additional grants from among others SPARC Europe, INASP and OpenAccess.se.
• Membership and Sponsor funding model introduced 2006.
Higher expectations
• Situation 2010/2011:• Increasing expectations as OA gets momentum.• Difficulties in getting resources as expectations grow.• As OA matures demands from funders and libraries
increase and become more differentiated and advanced.
• Increasing backlog and lack of curation of the collection.
Improvements
• New platform launched• Facets search:– language– publication year– license– business model (APCs or not)
• Very good feedback!
Streamlining back office
• Journals added Jan-Oct 2013: 2007• (Journals added 2012): 1248
• We are removing journals as well:
• August 1st – October 31st 2013:• Journals added: 485• Journals removed: 481
Staffing
• Staff:• 5 part time – 3 FTE• Maintenance & development outsourced to
Sempertool (www.sempertool.dk)
• Working from Copenhagen, Malmö & Stockholm
• Memberships– Academic Libraries £ 400/year– Library Consortia £ 4000/year– Aggregators £ 5000/year
• Sponsors £ 1500-10000/year
• Donations (anything)
Current funding model
• Expected turnover 2013: £ 200.000
• Income: • Libraries & Library Consortia: 63%• Commercial aggregators: 10%• Sponsors: 25%• Various 2%
The funding model, works – more or less - so far, but….
There is much more work to be done!
• Implementation of new tighter criteria• Facilitating uptake of persistent identifiers• Facilitating archiving solutions• Facilitating contributions from the community
– ”associate editors”
Why thighter criteria?
• Better opportunities for funders, universities, libraries and authors to determine whether a journal lives up to standards – transparency!
• Enable the community to monitor compliance• Addressing the issue of fake publishers or
publishers not living up to reasonable standards both in terms of content and of business behavior.
• DOAJ SEAL – promote best practice
New criteria
• New tighter criteria will address:• “Quality”• “Openness”• “the delivery”• They will be more detailed• Publishers will have to do more to be included
The long tail
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Promoting DOIs
• Discussions with – OASPA– INASP– PKP– Redalyc
• as to how to work together on this and with CrossRef for efficient and affordable arrangements
The challenge related to archiving
• Many, many journals – lack the financial & technical resources to go
beyond just publishing the content.– haven´t adressed the archiving issue yet, but
would like to do so, provided smart and cheap solutions are available.
• Discussions with OASPA, INASP, PKP, Redalyc, CLOCKSS, Keepers Registry and approached by Portico
- more than a list!
• Going beyond being a list of OA-journals and a hub for article level metadata
• Engaging with the community to assist OA-journals to enter the mainstream– Archiving, persistent identifiers etc
• Opening up for crowd sourcing of the editorial work
Requires probably 50% increase in funding –
this should be possible during 2014
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• Would like to become part of a OA-infrastructure package
• But have to continue and develop the current funding while waiting for the global OA-infrastructure committee to emerge and generate results – we will contribute to this process
