期刊名称:LIBER Quarterly - Journal of European Research Libraries
印刷版ISSN:2213-056X
出版年度:2020
卷号:30
期号:1
页码:1-18
DOI:10.18352/lq.10327
出版社:Utrecht University Library Open Access Journals
摘要:The Open Library of Humanities was launched almost half a decade ago
with funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. In this article, we
outline the problems we set out to address and the lessons we learned.
Specifically, we note that, as we hypothesized, academic libraries are not
necessarily classical economic actors; that implementing consortial funding
models requires much marketing labour; that there are substantial governance and administrative overheads in our model; that there are complex
tax and VAT considerations for consortial arrangements; and that diverse
revenue sources remain critical to our success.
关键词:open access; publishing; business models; humanities; sustainability