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Thanks Lena! Much appreciated. That OSF contract is great information to have. Michelle On Wed, Apr 19, 2023 at 12:00 PM Lena G. Bohman <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > I believe I have also talked to this company. What I told them remains > true: There would need to be something that was only available for > subscribers in order for us to justify it in the budget. I believe OSF has > the closest model to what you are describing. The info on their > institutional product is outlined at the bottom of this document: > https://osf.io/ju3ya. > > Lena > > Lena Bohman > Data and Research Impact Librarian > Long Island Jewish - Forest Hills Liaison > Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell > [cid:aa858966-20f6-45f9-8c79-f44ef4c33073] > ________________________________ > From: Code for Libraries <[log in to unmask]> on behalf of Michelle > Urberg <[log in to unmask]> > Sent: Wednesday, April 19, 2023 2:43 PM > To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]> > Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] [External] [CODE4LIB] Acquisitions and Collection > Development Expertise Requested > > EXTERNAL MESSAGE > > Dear Steve and List, > > Thanks for this reply! > > In this case, this platform would host a lot of digital surrogates of > physical content and des metadata, produced by living artists and gathered > by the parent non-profit group. Namely, this would be a repository of > content, where the depositors have already agreed that any image or other > information deposited will remain open for use. The size of the repository > is already over 10k images of artistic outputs, and will continue to grow. > As a researcher, I would consider this to be a primary and partially > ethnographic set of archival content. > > That being said, I think these questions are ones that many collection > development folks would need answered before committing to anything. > > I will be sure to pass this on to my clients. > > Thank you! > Michele > > On Fri, Apr 14, 2023 at 7:37 AM McDonald, Stephen < > [log in to unmask]> > wrote: > > > I am not involved in collection development, so I can't speak to the > > financial issue. But I would expect the answers to depend on a lot of > > information we don't have: > > * Is the OA content created by the organization or just collected by it? > > * How much content is there? How much more will be created/included? > > * What is the subject scope of the content? > > * What is the nature of the content? Original research? Subject matter > > review? Commentary? Book/article/media reviews? Technical information? > > News? Classroom materials? Subject trivia? > > > > With a complete lack of information on the nature of this project, I'm > not > > sure anyone could answer your questions. > > > > Steve McDonald > > [log in to unmask] > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Code for Libraries <[log in to unmask]> On Behalf Of Michelle > > Urberg > > Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2023 3:38 PM > > To: [log in to unmask] > > Subject: [External] [CODE4LIB] Acquisitions and Collection Development > > Expertise Requested > > > > Dear Code4Lib Community, > > > > I am hoping to get some feedback from experts in library acquisitions and > > those who do collection development. > > > > I am working on a project with a client who is interested in providing > > open access content to libraries and we are discussing potential business > > models to ensure that they can continue developing their content for the > > foreseeable future. They are a non-profit (501c3) organization. > > Understanding that open access content is not really "free", is there a > > circumstance in which libraries would pay a fee to support this > > organization? Any fee associated with a "subscription" would be largely > > directed back at developing the platform and enhancing content for the > > organization. The content would be area specific to the humanities and > > arts, directed to a particular segment of a university or college > > community, but its contents would be freely available to everyone. > > > > So questions I have are these: > > 1) If there was a fee for this content, how much would be acceptable? > > Would that fee be FTE dependent? > > 2) Would the online content space need to be enhanced from what is freely > > available on the internet to be of use to the university to be worth a > > "subscription"? (e.g. a robust database search with particular metadata > or > > some sort of visualization or knowledge graph) > > 3) Would a given university or college want to have the option to > > contribute to this content hub (this is not unlike Science Open, but the > > content scope is more specialized and with particular arts and humanities > > content)? > > > > Happy to field further questions about this project if you email me! > > > > Thanks for your time! I am very excited about this organization I am > > working with and would love to see this content space a reality for > > university use. > > > > Best, > > Michelle Urberg > > > > -- > > Michelle Urberg, PhD, MSLIS > > Independent Consultant > > Data Solve LLC > > Find me on LinkedIn < > https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fin%2Fmichelleurberg%2F&data=05%7C01%7Clena.g.bohman%40HOFSTRA.EDU%7Ceb06d5e592f843a605a908db4106219c%7Ce32fc43d7c6246d9b49fcd53ba8d9424%7C0%7C0%7C638175266823011883%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=d3gacaJPsYIet9iiV5vKuRstfCGpxsPIJ1bVMm6NS4Y%3D&reserved=0 > <https://www.linkedin.com/in/michelleurberg/>>! > > > > Caution: This message originated from outside of the Tufts University > > organization. Please exercise caution when clicking links or opening > > attachments. 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