Achieving Sustainability

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Outline

PKP OverviewCommunity Profile

FinancialOrganization & Governance

Proposal & Next Steps

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Public Knowledge Project• 13 years old in 2011• aims to improve the quality of scholarly

research and the public access to this research

• directed by Dr. John Willinsky at Stanford• Core team at SFU:

• 8 technical (3.5 fte)• 5 support (2 fte)

• Community & in-kind: plug-ins; translations, etc.

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PKP Software

established softwareOpen Journal Systems (OJS)Open Conference Systems (OCS)Open Harvester Systems (OHS)

software in developmentPKP Web Application Library (WAL)Open Monograph Press (OMP)

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Jan.2011: 8300 OJS Installations

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OJS Journal Survey: March 2009

http://pkp.sfu.ca/files/OJS%20Journal%20Survey.pdf

• 998 of 2748 OJS journals responded; i.e. 36%• Commercial publishers: 6%• Scholarly societies: 32%• Independent or scholar publisher: 62%

• Open Access policy: 83% (another 8% embargo OA)

• Average first copy cost: $188 (compare w.RLIN 2008 estimate of $1784) 7

Libraries & Journal Hosting

Hahn: 2008 survey w. 80 ARL library responses• 44% already hosting journals• 21% in the planning stages

Canadian OA group: 2010 survey w. 33 responses• 55% already hosting journals• 24% considering

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PKP Finances: Income

Synergies: $300,000Cost-recovery hosting/development: $140,000Research grants:$50,000Total cash: $490,000 SFU Library in-kind: $75,000Development partners in-kind: $50,000Total in-kind: $125,000

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PKP Finances: Expenses

Staff: $440,000 (5.5 fte)Hosting/Custom Dev.: $75,000Infrastructure & Overhead: $25,000Total: $540,000

The Challenge:

Synergies funding will be exhausted by March 2012

 

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PKP Finances: Long Term

• Grant funding• Cost-recovery• Community partners/support

• 3 potential sustainability tiers:• Minimum, i.e. basic survival $231,000

• Medium, i.e. current $537,000• Optimum $1,027,000

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PKP Organization & Governance

• Project, not an independent or formal entity

• John Willinsky’s affiliations w. UBC & Stanford

• SFU Library as Synergies node and “home” base

4 options:• Status quo• More formal relationship w. SFU Library• Find an umbrella organization• Independent legal entity

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Initial Consultation SessionMarch 2011

• Jim Fruchterman, President and CEO, Benetech• Carol Moore, University Librarian, University of Toronto

• Oya Reiger, AUL for Digital Scholarship Services, Cornell University

• Judith Russell, Dean of Libraries, University of Florida

• John Teskey, Director of Libraries, University of New Brunswick

• Plus key PKP and SFU Participants

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PKP Organization4 options:

• Status quo• More formal relationship w. SFU

Library• Find an umbrella organization• Independent legal entity

Administrative changes:Separate cost centreIntellectual property and trademarkingQuestion: Is this sufficient at this time? 14

PKP Organization• Formal consultation with community• But not on a “pay to play” basis• Advisory Committee• Technical Committee• Some questions:

• Terms of reference?• Composition?• Relation between the two?

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PKP Sustainability Campaign• Financial goal: $1,000,000 annually

• Grant funding: $200,000• Cost-recovery: $200,000• Community partners/support: $600,000

• Phase 1: April 2011 – September 2011• Develop campaign• Feedback/early adopters• Full launch at PKP 2011 Conference in Berlin

• Phase 2: October 2011 – March 2012• Full roll-out

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Grant Funding - $200,000• John Willinsky’s role• Sloan, IDRC, SSHRC, NSF, INKE• Focus on research and new development• Some cautionary notes:

• Granting agency requirements & timelines• Research vs. production software

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Cost Recovery - $200,000

• Strong support from March 2011 consultation

• Question: what additional services?

• Requirements:• ISP-like hosting environment• New pricing model for hosting• Optimize ratio bet. revenues and

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Community - $600,000

3 concurrent areas of activity• Overall marketing plan• Development agencies• Academic Institutions, primarily North

America

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Academic Institutions Campaign

• Test marketing/Early Adopters: 10-12 sites• 3 tier Duraspace model:

• Gold ($10K)• Silver ($5K)• Bronze ($2.5 K)

• Value proposition: support for scholarly communication services

• PKP Appliance and related services

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Thank You

http://pkp.sfu.ca

Questions, comments, suggestions on PKP sustainability? Send them to:

brian_owen@sfu.caThird International PKP Scholarly Publishing Conference

Sept. 26-28, 2011 Freie Universität Berlin, Germany

http://pkp.sfu.ca/ocs/pkp/index.php/pkp2011/pkp2011

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