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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. 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://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. When in doubt, email the TTS Service Desk at [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> or call them directly at 617-627-3376.