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Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS)
École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS)
Université de Provence
Université d’Avignon
Freemium as a sustainable economic model for OA
publications in humanities and social sciences
Pierre MounierCenter for open electronic publishing (Cléo)
Pierre Mounier PKP scholarship publishing conference 2011
Who are we ?
A short presentation
Pierre Mounier
PKP scholarship publishing conference 2011 Who are we ?
A team supported by 4 major french research institutions
Pierre Mounier
PKP scholarship publishing conference 2011 Who are we ?
What do we do ?
Revues.org : an international platform with more than 300 open access and books collections in humanities
and social sciences in HTML, PDF and Epub
Pierre Mounier
PKP scholarship publishing conference 2011 Who are we ?
What do we do ?Calenda : a platform with 16000
conference announcementsHypotheses.org : a platform with
240 blogs
Pierre Mounier
PKP scholarship publishing conference 2011 Who are we ?
An ecosystem : OpenEdition
Pierre Mounier PKP scholarship publishing conference 2011
Our problem
And obviously not only ours
Pierre Mounier PKP scholarship publishing conference 2011
Green and Gold roads
And their economic models
Green road : support from institutions, libraries, governements
Gold road ? How to build a robust economic model for Open Access journals and books ?
PKP scholarship publishing conference 2011 Green and gold roads
Gold road : 2 models
100% grant/subsidies model Author-pay model
PKP scholarship publishing conference 2011 Green and gold roads
Golden : 2 problems
100% grant/subsidies model
Dependance on institutions, institution-centric model, weak economic model (monoculture)
A flawed model : access to publication biased by financial capacity, universities pay twice,
Author-pay model
Pierre Mounier PKP scholarship publishing conference 2011
The problem behind the problemWhere are the libraries ?
Pierre Mounier
PKP scholarship publishing conference 2011 The problem behind the problem
Some figures
Emma Bester study : Usages of open access resources in Research libraries. Revues.org case study
Pierre Mounier
PKP scholarship publishing conference 2011 The problem behind the problem
Some figures
Emma Bester study : Usages of open access resources in Research libraries. Revues.org case study
Pierre Mounier
PKP scholarship publishing conference 2011 The problem behind the problem
Some statements from librarians
Emma Bester study : Usages of open access resources in Research libraries. A case study on Revues.org
“Because we have shrinking budgets and paid resources are more and more expensive, we must justify the money we spend, so we are driven to focus more and more on what we pay.”
“Open access resources, right now are not very up-to-date in our tool (MetaLib). We concentrated our forces on paid resources because we have to justify the money (we spend)”
“We have stats on that (OA), but we don’t use them. We have to deal with paid databases at first ! It’s a huge work for us to answer to enquiries. The logic is return on investment because theses resources are extremely expensive. We have to justify subscriptions to the university, the scientific committee and the government.”
A triple disaster
• For OA publishers : they can’t be fully supported by libraries
• For readers : they are left alone to find open access resources (desintermediation scenario)
• For libraries : they can’t participate fully the new open access ecosystem
Pierre Mounier PKP scholarship publishing conference 2011
A proposal :OpenEdition
freemiumHow to develop a sound economic model for
OA journals and book publishers ?How to integrate libraries giving them the
possibility to « pay for free content » ?
Pierre Mounier
PKP scholarship publishing conference 2011A proposal
OpenEdition freemium
Freemium : an economic model coming from the web
Freemium
Open Access to full text articles and books in HTML– free –
Premium formats and services licensed to libraries - premium –
66% of income goes to publishers. 33% to the platform to help develop new
services
OE freemium : 6 exclusive services for libraries
• Access to premium formats (PDF and Epub files)
• Training and assistance• Data services• Standard stats• Documentation• Governance
Premium formats
No DRMNo quota
Copy & pastePrint, Save
Premium Services
OpenEdition freemium is a pragmatic AND a political proposition to academic
community…
… in order to build an alliance between scholars, publishers and librairies to support
open access & knowledge dissemination
Scholars and editors
78 journals so far
78 journals so far
Scholars and editors
78 journals so far
More than 20 university press for books
Scholars and editors
78 journals so far
More than 30 research libraries testing or subscribing
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