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Achieving Sustainability: PKP's Proposal for Financial Organization and Governance

This document outlines the Public Knowledge Project's (PKP) proposal for achieving sustainability through financial organization and governance. It discusses PKP's history, community profile, and current financial situation, as well as the challenge of funding and potential sustainability tiers. The document also explores different options for PKP's organization and governance, including a consultation with the community. Finally, it outlines PKP's sustainability campaign, which includes grant funding, cost recovery, and community support.

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Achieving Sustainability: PKP's Proposal for Financial Organization and Governance

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  1. Achieving Sustainability • CNI Spring Meeting • San Diego, April 4, 2011

  2. Outline PKP Overview Community Profile Financial Organization & Governance Proposal & Next Steps

  3. 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.

  4. established software Open Journal Systems (OJS)‏ Open Conference Systems (OCS)‏ Open Harvester Systems (OHS)‏ software in development‏ PKP Web Application Library (WAL) Open Monograph Press (OMP)‏ PKP Software

  5. Jan.2011: 8300 OJS Installations

  6. 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

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

  9. PKP Finances: Expenses Staff: $440,000 (5.5 fte) Hosting/Custom Dev.: $75,000 Infrastructure & Overhead: $25,000 Total: $540,000 The Challenge: Synergies funding will be exhausted by March 2012

  10. 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

  11. 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

  12. Initial Consultation Session March 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

  13. PKP Organization 4 options: • Status quo • More formal relationship w. SFU Library • Find an umbrella organization • Independent legal entity • Administrative changes: • Separate cost centre • Intellectual property and trademarking • Question: 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?

  15. 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

  16. 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

  17. 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 expenses

  18. Community - $600,000 3 concurrent areas of activity • Overall marketing plan • Development agencies • Academic Institutions, primarily North America

  19. 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

  20. Thank You http://pkp.sfu.ca Questions, comments, suggestions on PKP sustainability? Send them to: brian_owen@sfu.ca Third 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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