OpenEdition freemium as a sustainable economic model for OA publications in humanities

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[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],“ 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.” “ I don’t understand at all Revues.org. Our main problem with this platform is that we can’t subscribe to it. Therefore, it is not interesting at all for us….. can we subscribe ? ”

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« It is a numbers game, so bust out your Excel spreadsheet. It’s all about finding things in the margins — lots of little things rather than one key thing. » D. Houston, Dropbox in « Case Studies in Freemium: Pandora, Dropbox, Evernote, Automattic and MailChimp », Gigaom, march 2010 An hybrid model

OpenEdition freemium is : Free access to content Premium services to generate income

Access to premium formats No DRM No quota Copy & paste Print, Save

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Training sessions for library trainers

Participation to governance through User committee

66% of income from libraries go to publishers . 33% to the platform to help develop new 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

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