Workshop onSustainable Modelsfor University-basedScholarly Publishing

Workshop onSustainable Modelsfor University-basedScholarly Publishing

523 ButlerJune 1, 2004523 Butler

June 1, 2004

Purpose

to explore financially sustainable and effective approaches to scholarly communications for and by higher education

to identify shared interests

to facilitate multi-campus collaborations

Atkinson, Ross. “Library Functions, Scholarly Communication, and the Foundation of the Digital Library: Laying Claim to the Control Zone,” Library Quarterly 66 (July 1996), 239-65

A Penetrating Observation

Who is the Decision Maker?

Whose objectives are not being met?

What are the actual and potential resources?

What is the environment (political, technical, legal, etc. in which the solution must operate?

Criteria

Define the Problem

Sum of ARL Libraries Operating Expenditures(107 to114 universities)

$0

$500,000,000

$1,000,000,000

$1,500,000,000

$2,000,000,000

$2,500,000,000

1,989 199019911,992 1993199419951996199719981999200020012002

Year

Dollars, nominal

Total Expenditures Total Salaries Total Materials Expenditures

Higher education has a compelling need to reassert its control

over scholarly publishing and also has the technical

means for doing so.

We need to work on the financial, cultural and political issues.

That’s our task today!

We’ve assembled some of the best and

brightest for this Workshop to tackle

these issues!