TY - JOUR
T1 - Using Library Funds to Support Open Access Publishing through Crowdfunding
T2 - Going Beyond Article Processing Charges
AU - Reinsfelder, Thomas L.
AU - Pike, Caitlin A.
N1 - Funding Information:
The Open Library of the Humanities (OLH) began in 2013 and publishes fourteen peer-reviewed journals, with preliminary plans to begin publishing open access books as well. The OLH is a not-for-profit UK organization and is funded through “library partnership subsidies” and is supported by an international consortium of libraries along with two grants from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. A base cost covers ongoing technological costs, staff costs, digital preservation, typesetting, and other costs. When this is spread across institutions, the cost to each institution is just several dollars per open-access article. The economy of scale improves as more institutions join. Cost to Support:
Funding Information:
This is one of the longest running and most popular repositories of open access literature with approximately 1.3 million documents collected since 1991. arXiv continues to grow and contains articles and preprints primarily in the areas of physics, mathematics, computer science, quantitative biology, quantitative finance and statistics. Hosted by the Cornell University Library, arXiv receives base funding from Cornell University and the Simons Foundation, with member institutions pledging additional financial support. Each member institution pledges a five-year funding commitment to support arXiv. Cornell’s goal is to raise at least $300,000 per year through membership fees generated by approximately 208 institutions. Cost to Support: Based on institutional usage ranking, the annual fees are set in four tiers from $1,500–$3,000.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2018, Published with license by Taylor & Francis © 2018, © Thomas L. Reinsfelder and Caitlin A. Pike.
PY - 2018/4/3
Y1 - 2018/4/3
N2 - Publishers commonly use Article Processing Charges (APCs) to fund open access publications, and some libraries and institutions help local authors pay these costs. However, this strategy is expensive and can usually only address one article at a time. A number of relatively new publishing initiatives rely on a crowdfunding model and allow many libraries to share the cost of open access, often at a fraction of the cost of APCs. This article highlights several alternative publishing projects to help librarians think further about how library funds could be used to support open access.
AB - Publishers commonly use Article Processing Charges (APCs) to fund open access publications, and some libraries and institutions help local authors pay these costs. However, this strategy is expensive and can usually only address one article at a time. A number of relatively new publishing initiatives rely on a crowdfunding model and allow many libraries to share the cost of open access, often at a fraction of the cost of APCs. This article highlights several alternative publishing projects to help librarians think further about how library funds could be used to support open access.
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U2 - 10.1080/01462679.2017.1415826
DO - 10.1080/01462679.2017.1415826
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85040977072
SN - 0146-2679
VL - 43
SP - 138
EP - 149
JO - Collection Management
JF - Collection Management
IS - 2
ER -