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
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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

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> 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.
>
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> 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
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