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
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> ________________________________
> From: Code for Libraries <[log in to unmask]> on behalf of Michelle
> Urberg <[log in to unmask]>
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> 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 <
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> 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]
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> >
> > -----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
> >
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> > Independent Consultant
> > Data Solve LLC
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