[GOAL] COVID budget cuts, big deals, faculty positions and salaries & bibliodiversity

[Paul THIRION]

Hi Heather

For example,  a slide I usually present to  researchers.

Very effective indeed

Best regards



Le 21/04/20 à 20:08, Heather Morrison a écrit :
> Many governments are, or will, need to divert funds from the usual 
> priorities to address the pandemic and issues arising such as economic 
> impact. No doubt this will impact many post-secondary institutions. 
> For example, yesterday we learned that post-secondary institutions in 
> Manitoba have been asked to decrease expenditures by 30%
> https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/manitoba-universities-budget-cuts-pandemic-1.5537883 
>
>
> Most faculty members are not involved in making decisions about 
> library budgets. They likely see the big deals of commercial 
> publishers as a service that they do not wish to lose, rather than 
> high-priced services that are paid for from the same pool of funds 
> that pay their salaries.
>
> One way to help faculty understand would be to prepare an explanation 
> of the cost of the big deals that puts the two together, i.e. if we 
> need to cut something, should be cut x number of faculty positions or 
> big deal y (or x% of faculty salaries v. big deal y), for presentation 
> to faculty associations and university administrators.
>
> Explaining the financial and academic-social benefits of an approach 
> prioritizing bibliodiversity would be a little bit more complicated, 
> but arguments that faculty would likely understand and support can be 
> made. For example, instead of 100% of savings from cancelling all big 
> deals to retain as many faculty as possible, perhaps using 80% of 
> savings for this purpose and using the remainder to provide salaries 
> for academics and support staff in local publishing (university press, 
> scholarly society or library-based).
>
> I suspect this is best done proactively, early on when discussions 
> about how to go about cuts are getting started.
>
> Is anyone doing anything like this? Thoughts?
>
> Dr. Heather Morrison
>
> Associate Professor, School of Information Studies, University of Ottawa
>
> Professeur Agrégé, École des Sciences de l'Information, Université 
> d'Ottawa
>
> Principal Investigator, Sustaining the Knowledge Commons, a SSHRC 
> Insight Project
>
> sustainingknowledgecommons.org
>
> Heather.Morrison at uottawa.ca
>
> https://uniweb.uottawa.ca/?lang=en#/members/706
>
> [On research sabbatical July 1, 2019 - June 30, 2020]
>
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