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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial"><b><span lang="EN-GB">Business planning
required to achieve sustainable Open Access services</span></b><span lang="EN-US"><u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="Arial">Open Access is a key
feature of scholarly communication. The sustainability of the services that are
used around the world to underpin Open Access is critical. The Knowledge
Exchange (KE) partners today release </font></span><a href="http://www.knowledge-exchange.info/Default.aspx?ID=536" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="Arial">a report</font></span></a><span lang="EN-US"><font face="Arial"><font> that identifies the actions needed in
order to help achieve a robust Open Access service foundation. The report
examines relevant services, many that operate on short-term funding or even
goodwill, and finds that business development expertise should be embedded into
service development. The report recommends that universities, policy makers and
funders should consider how financial resources can be distributed to achieve
system-wide sustainability. It also highlights that governance and coordination
of the infrastructure underlying Open Access is also critical to long-term
viability. <u></u><u></u></font></font></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial"><font><i><span lang="EN-US">”Achieving
sustainbility of new services has always been a challenge but now with the
maturity of Open Access fully recognised it is incumbent on us to address this
challenge and have the difficult discussions to ensure this can be achieved.
Successful research is dependent on it. ” </span></i><span lang="EN-US">said Dr
David Prosser, member of the KE Open Access Working Group and Executive Director
of Research Libraries UK (RLUK).<i> <u></u><u></u></i></span></font></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="Arial"><font>The Knowledge
Exchange partners commissioned the report as part of a work programme to find
solutions to the sustainability problem. In this first report from the work
programme use cases have been developed in terms of the Open Access services
used by the research-related community. The key free-to-use services are
described as a series of value curves depicting the current and future value of
each service type. Use cases described include establishing and running a
repository, managing an academic profile and publishing an Open Access journal.
The services are analysed in the context of Open Access scenarios for the
future. The three scenarios used are <i>Gold Open Access</i>, <i>fully Green
Open Access</i> and <i>Green Open Access supplementing subscription access as
Gold OA grows. </i><u></u><u></u></font></font></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="Arial">Different
stakeholder groups – libraries, research and infrastructure funders, and service
providers – can play various roles in the future scenarios. Libraries are
already contributing directly to sustaining some services such as
</font></span><a href="http://arxiv.org/" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="Arial">arXiv</font></span></a><span lang="EN-US"><font face="Arial"> and the
</font></span><a href="http://www.doaj.org/" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="Arial">Directory of Open Access Journals</font></span></a><span lang="EN-US"><font face="Arial"> by financial donations, or in-kind by supporting the
development and offering of services, as in the case of </font></span><a href="http://www.base-search.net/?fullbrowser=1" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="Arial">BASE</font></span></a><span lang="EN-US"><font face="Arial"><font> (Bielefeld Academic Search Engine). Funders use many services, including
commercial ones, and in general acknowledge they have a role to play in helping
to sustain key components of the system. And of course some universities have
taken steps towards support for Open Access by committing funds to pay for Open
Access publication charges.<u></u><u></u></font></font></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="Arial"><font>Seven
recommendations are made, which fall into three strategic areas – as outlined
earlier - embedding business development expertise into service development;
consideration of how to move money around the system to enable the achievement
of Open Access; and governance and coordination of the infrastructural
foundation of Open Access. These recommendations will be further addressed
through the Knowledge Exchange work programme
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="Arial"><font>We recognise
that various issues arise here, notably: coordination between funders and
projects; the development of services from projects that were not originally
expected to produce an infrastructure component; and the business development
aspects of service building, which are not necessarily best done by those who
develop the service itself. We wish to work with others to address these and
related issues<u></u><u></u></font></font></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="Arial"><font>The report,
authored by Alma Swan from Key Perspectives for the Knowledge Exchange is the
first in a series of related work packages. These work packages will review
potential organisational and business models of individual projects and services
and review the conditions under which individual services and platforms can be
sustained. Finally this will be translated into practical outputs which can be
used by institutions and funders.<u></u><u></u></font></font></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><font face="Arial"><font>The report is
available at:<b> </b></font></font></span><a href="http://www.knowledge-exchange.info/Default.aspx?ID=536" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="Arial">http://www.knowledge-exchange.info/Default.aspx?ID=536</font></span></a><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="Arial"><font>The press
release is available <font color="#0000ff"><span><font color="#000000">through:</font> <a href="http://www.knowledge-exchange.info/Default.aspx?ID=62&M=News&PID=2379&NewsID=160" target="_blank">http://www.knowledge-exchange.info/Default.aspx?ID=62&M=News&PID=2379&NewsID=160</a> </span><span> </span></font><u></u><u></u></font></font></span></p>
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