4th OpenAIRE Workshop - Legal and Sustainability Issues for Open Access Infrastructures Nov. Vilnius Perspectives, Ideas, success and challenges of sustainability models DOAJ - Lars Björnshauge, Director SPARC Europe & Managing Director, DOAJ

1. Sustainability – the funding
model of DOAJ
OpenAIRE workshop: Legal and
Sustainability issues, November 5th 2013,
Vilnius
Lars Bjørnshauge
lars@doaj.org

2. Brief Background
• Founded 2003 at Lund University – launched May
2003 with 300 journals
• Initially funded by minor project grants from SPARC
and Open Society Institute.
• Additional grants from among others SPARC Europe,
INASP and OpenAccess.se.
• Membership and Sponsor funding model introduced
2006.

3. Higher expectations
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Situation 2010/2011:
Increasing expectations as OA gets momentum.
Difficulties in getting resources as expectations grow.
As OA matures demands from funders and libraries
increase and become more differentiated and
advanced.
• Increasing backlog and
lack of curation of the collection.

4. www.is4oa.org
Founded by
Caroline Sutton,
Alma Swan &
Lars Bjørnshauge

5. Improvements
• New platform launched
• Facets search:
– language
– publication year
– license
– business model (APCs or not)
• Very good feedback!

6. Streamlining back office
• Journals added Jan-Oct 2013:
• (Journals added 2012):
2007
1248
• We are removing journals as well:
• August 1st – October 31st 2013:
• Journals added:
• Journals removed:
485
481

7. Staffing
• Staff:
• 5 part time – 3 FTE
• Maintenance & development outsourced to
Sempertool (www.sempertool.dk)
• Working from Copenhagen, Malmö &
Stockholm

8. Current funding
model
• Memberships
– Academic Libraries
– Library Consortia
– Aggregators
£ 400/year
£ 4000/year
£ 5000/year
• Sponsors
£ 1500-10000/year
• Donations
(anything)

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Expected turnover 2013:
Income:
Libraries & Library Consortia:
Commercial aggregators:
Sponsors:
Various
£ 200.000
63%
10%
25%
2%

10. The funding model, works –
more or less - so far, but….

11. There is much more
work to be done!
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Implementation of new tighter criteria
Facilitating uptake of persistent identifiers
Facilitating archiving solutions
Facilitating contributions from the community
– ”associate editors”

12. Why thighter
criteria?
• Better opportunities for funders, universities,
libraries and authors to determine whether a
journal lives up to standards – transparency!
• Enable the community to monitor compliance
• Addressing the issue of fake publishers or
publishers not living up to reasonable standards
both in terms of content and of business
behavior.
• DOAJ SEAL – promote best practice

13. New criteria
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New tighter criteria will address:
“Quality”
“Openness”
“the delivery”
They will be more detailed
Publishers will have to do more to be included

14. The long tail
800
700
600
500
Number of journals
400
Responses
300
200
100
0
1
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5
7
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11 13 15 17 19 21 23 25 27 29 31 33 35 37 39 41 43

15. Promoting DOIs
• Discussions with
– OASPA
– INASP
– PKP
– Redalyc
• as to how to work together on this and with
CrossRef for efficient and affordable
arrangements

16. The challenge
related to archiving
• Many, many journals
– lack the financial & technical resources to go
beyond just publishing the content.
– haven´t adressed the archiving issue yet, but
would like to do so, provided smart and cheap
solutions are available.
• Discussions with OASPA, INASP, PKP, Redalyc,
CLOCKSS, Keepers Registry and approached by
Portico

17. - more than a list!
• Going beyond being a list of OA-journals and a
hub for article level metadata
• Engaging with the community to assist OAjournals to enter the mainstream
– Archiving, persistent identifiers etc
• Opening up for crowd sourcing of the editorial
work

18. Requires probably 50%
increase in funding –
this should be possible
during 2014

19. • Would like to become part of a OAinfrastructure package
• But have to continue and develop the current
funding while waiting for the global OAinfrastructure committee to emerge and
generate results – we will contribute to this
process

20. Thank you for your attention!
lars@doaj.org